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Waddell, L. Austine: Buddhism & Lamaism Of Tibet With its Mystic Cults, Symbolism and Mythology and in its Reltion to Indian Buddhism (Preface; Note on Pronunciation; List of Abbreviation; Introduction; Historical; Doctrinal; Monastic; Buildings; Mythology and Gods; Ritual and Sorcery; Festivals and Plays; Popular Lamaism; Appendices). Facsimile Reprint of the London 1895 edition. Fine HC cloth/DJ vg/g. Clean fine condition. Heritage,Dehli 1974.
L. Austine Waddell filled a minor colonial post in Sikkim between 1885 and 1895 during which time he made a close study of "lamaism"i.e., the religious beliefs and practices of a distinctively Tibetan variant of Buddhism mixed with the potent remnants of the shamanistic Bönpo indigenous to the Tibeto-Himalayan regions. The monks of Sikkim apparently believed that Waddell was an incarnation of the Buddha Amitabha whose coming was prophesied in their Scriptures. "This recurrent trope of the colonial conqueror, reminiscent of Cortes and Captain Cook, allowed Waddell a double claim to superiority: on the one hand, he was an emanation of the Buddha of Infinite light; on the other, he understood, better than the credulous monks and lamas, that he was not". This, says Lopez, allowed Waddell "a posture of control over and contempt for his informants" which characterized many Victorian Orientalists. - Waddell unsuccessfully adopted the time-honoured stratagem of trying to enter forbidden Tibetan territory in the disguise of a pilgrim but finally reached Lhasa as a medical officer on the Youghusband expeditionary force of 1904, sent to secure a trading agreement between Britain and Tibet. Waddell's account of the expedition in Lhasa and Its Mysteries captures something of the romantic mystique which had accumulated around Tibet and exposes an ideologically-governed mythology of imperial conquest. Wreathed in the romance of centuries, Lhasa, the secret citadel of the "undying" Grand Lama, has stood shrouded in impenetrable mystery on the Roof-of-the-World, alluring yet defying our most adventurous travelers to enter her closed gates. With all the fascination of an unsolved enigma, this mysterious city has held the imagination captive, as one of the last secret places of the earth, as the Mecca of East Asia, the sacerdotal city where the "Living Buddha", enthroned as a god, reigns eternally over his empire of tonsured monks, weaving ropes of sand like the schoolmen of old, or placidly twirling their prayer-wheels, droning their mystic spells and exorcising devils in the intervals of their dreamy meditations. But now... the fairy Prince of "Civilisation" has roused her from her slumbers, her closed doors are broken down, her dark veil of mystery is lifted up, and the long-sealed shrine, with its grotesque cults and its idolised Grand Lama, shorn of his sham nimbus, have yielded up their secrets and lie disenchanted before our Western eyes. - The sexual imagery of penetration and conquest, and its association with a civilising mission, attest to some of the highly charged, subterranean currents in the Orientalist discourse of the era. - On his return to London he founded the World Congress of Faiths, dedicated to the promotion of inter-faith understanding.The special characteristics of the book are its detailed accounts of the external facts and curious symbolisms of Buddhism, and its analyses of the internal movements leading to Lamaism and its sects and cults. It provides material culled from hoary Tibetan tradition and explained by Lamas for elucidating many obscure parts in primitive Indian Buddhism and its later symbolism. Thus a clue is supplied to several dispute doctrinal points of fundamental importance, as for example the formula of the casual nexus. "With this view the nabulous Tibetan "history" so called of the earlier periods has been somewhat critically examined in the light afforded by some scholarly Lamas and contemporary history and all fictitious chronicles, hitherto treated usually as historical and rejected as authoritative for events which happened a thousand years before they were written and for a time when writing was admittedly unknown in Tibet.

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MOSHE AMIRAV.. Jerusalem Syndrome. Sussex Academic Press (UK). 2009.. Sussex Academic Press (UK), 2009. ; fester Einband / hard cover ISBN: 9781845193478
Hardback, 230pp., This listing is a new book, a title currently in-print which we order directly and immediately from the publisher. Moshe Amirav, world expert on the conflict in Jerusalem, presents previously unrevealed facts and creative solutions for resolving the conflict. As a participant in political negotiations and national decision making, his book addresses disturbing questions: "How is it that after 40 years of Israeli efforts to unify Jerusalem it is still one of the most divided cities in the world?"; "Why is it that no country, including the US, has recognised Jerusalem as the capital of Israel?"; "Why has Israel failed in its efforts to curb the rapid growth of Jerusalem's Palestinian population, an increase that will lead to a Palestinian majority in Jerusalem in the next decade?" Israel's policies have failed to 'unite' Jerusalem. Israeli and Palestinian strategies to gain control over East Jerusalem are analysed, but neither side has proved victorious, and the battle rages on locally and internationally, with serious implications for stability in the Middle East. Amirav reveals the deep historical divisions within the Arab-Muslim camp over guardianship of Muslim holy places, and provides a gripping account of the Camp David negotiations in 2000 which failed in part due to disagreement about sovereignty over Jerusalem's Holy Places. When interviewed at the time of the book's publication in Hebrew, Amirav stated: "We have to divide Jerusalem. We have to get rid of some of our syndromes, some of our dreams". Newsweek magazine (The Holy City Loses Faith, 4 June 2007)..

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MOSHE AMIRAV.. Jerusalem Syndrome. Sussex Academic Press (UK). 2009.. Sussex Academic Press (UK), 2009. ; weicher Einband / soft cover ISBN: 9781845193485
Paperback, 230pp., This listing is a new book, a title currently in-print which we order directly and immediately from the publisher. Moshe Amirav, world expert on the conflict in Jerusalem, presents previously unrevealed facts and creative solutions for resolving the conflict. As a participant in political negotiations and national decision making, his book addresses disturbing questions: "How is it that after 40 years of Israeli efforts to unify Jerusalem it is still one of the most divided cities in the world?"; "Why is it that no country, including the US, has recognised Jerusalem as the capital of Israel?"; "Why has Israel failed in its efforts to curb the rapid growth of Jerusalem's Palestinian population, an increase that will lead to a Palestinian majority in Jerusalem in the next decade?" Israel's policies have failed to 'unite' Jerusalem. Israeli and Palestinian strategies to gain control over East Jerusalem are analysed, but neither side has proved victorious, and the battle rages on locally and internationally, with serious implications for stability in the Middle East. Amirav reveals the deep historical divisions within the Arab-Muslim camp over guardianship of Muslim holy places, and provides a gripping account of the Camp David negotiations in 2000 which failed in part due to disagreement about sovereignty over Jerusalem's Holy Places. When interviewed at the time of the book's publication in Hebrew, Amirav stated: "We have to divide Jerusalem. We have to get rid of some of our syndromes, some of our dreams". Newsweek magazine (The Holy City Loses Faith, 4 June 2007)..

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J.P. Vaswani Illustrator: NA: Snacks for the Soul: Over 150 Inspiring Stories for Mind, Body & Spirit, Jaico Publishing House 2008 ISBN: 9788179927915

New Paperback NA Snacks for The Soul is a collection of stories that offer emotional, intellectual and spiritual nourishment. The 'snacks' come in a variety' of flavors-the sweet, the bitter, the sad, the joyous, the spicy and the pungent! There are tastes to suit every palate, tastes that will linger long in your mind! This collection is not to be read at one sitting; nor is it for idle page-turning; read these stories for inspiration and guidance; read them to have your mind and spirit uplifted. They are slices of life and they strike a chord that is rarely heard in your heart; they make you feel instinctively "this might have happened to me!" Contents:- 1. The Value of a Sigh 2. Lest ye be Judged 3. The Unstrung Bow 4. Do Your Duty and a Little More! 5. I Need no Longer be! 6. Anyone for Heaven? 7. The Unknown Helper 8. You Just have to be Willing! 9. The Elixir of Love 10. My Door is Always Open for you! 11. The Test of Faith 12. God Works Through a Crocodile 13. Pride Goes Before a Fall 14. I am not Educated! 15. What the Thieves can Never Steal 16. A Civilized Cannibal 17. For the Love of Krishna 18. Learning to be a Disciple 19. Both are Equal to me 20. Attitudes are More Important than Facts 21. The Heart of a Mother 22. The Cure's Answer 23. What the Rabbi's Wife Said to the Rabbi 24. Let me Carry your Load! 25. Forget what God Hath Forgotten 26. The Portals of Paradise 27. An Artist is Born 28. The Door Without a Handle 29. Is not God, Our Father? 30. Nothing for Myself! 31. It was me! 32. The Only Blunder 33. Secret of the Marquis 34. An Elephant Amongst Men 35. Attention, Parents! 36. Thirst Knows no Creed 37. The Secret of Renunciation 38. Garden or Garbage? 39. It will not Let me Go! 40. Through the Forest of Life 41. Shut the Gate Behind you! 42. Let Roland Perish 43. What is God? 44. Three Questions 45. The Story of a Needle 46. Except the Lover Become One with the Beloved 47. Never Trouble Trouble Until Trouble Troubles you 48. The Hermit 49. Too Many Cooks 50. The Victory of Purity 51. From Sinner to Saint 52. The True Pilgrimage 53. Where do you Seek me? 54. The Truly Happy Man 55. Tahir Becomes a Dervish 56. Rabia is Set Free! 57. A Travellers' Inn 58. The Vanquished King 59. Mahatma Gandhi and the Professor 60. Are you Undergoing Surgery? 61. Beyond the Senses and the Mind 62. Is God Dead? 63. The Difference between the Two 64. The Witness of Abu Usman 65. Exquisite Joy 66. Washing Away Our Sins 67. Now you Know! 68. Give, Give, Give! 69. Tola's Transformation 70. To Whom Shall I Turn, if not to thee? 71. Thank you, God! 72. Saints Never Lose their Temper 73. Who was the True Renunciate? 74. Trust me All in All or not at All! 75. One Essential Thing 76. Man's Word is God's Word 77. Integrity 78. May My Name Be Forgotten! 79. The Treasure Within 80. Let Go of Your Worries 81. Challenge to God 82. True Worship of God 83. The Most Difficult Task 84. The Most Precious Gift 85. The Homecoming 86. Your Need Is Greater than Mine! 87. Let not the Child Fall off! 88. The Key to Heaven 89. "Do Your Duty, O Arjuna!" 90. Never Give Up Hope! 91. Who is Richer of the Two? 92. The Decline and Fall of the Babylonian Empire 93. The Story of the Amarphal 94. The Mother of Seven Sons 95. An Idle Mind is the Devil's Workshop 96. "See That You Come Alone!" 97. I am a Prince! 98. Let the Left Hand not Know what the Right Giveth 99. Samadrishti 100. Child is Father of Man 101. The Unaccepted Gift 102. Keep the Window Clean 103. Where are the Idiots? 104. The Way to Pray 105. Believe it or not 106. I am Nothing! 107. The Lost Key 108. Are We Any Different? 109. Black or White? 110. Enslaved by Lust 111. A Prime Minister is Saved 112. One Tick at a Time 113. All Glory to God! 114. Walking Over the Waters 115 Printed Pages: 340. First edition

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