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The Lotus and The Lion
Buddhism is indisputably gaining prominence in the West, as is evidenced by the growth of Buddhist practice within many traditions and keen interest in meditation and mindfulness. In The Lotus and the Lion, the author traces the historical and cultural origins of Western Buddhism, showing that the British Empire was a primary engine for curiosity about and then engagement with the Buddhisms that the British encountered in India and elsewhere in Asia.
Bana’s Kadambari(Purvabhaga Complete)
Edited with New Sanskrit Commentary 'Tattvaprakasika' Introduction, Notes and a literal English Translation. Bana's Kadambari is often appointed as a text book in the Indian Universities, and owing to the peculiar characteristics of its style, the students often find it a hard task to translate the intricate passages in it, in spite of the help they receive in the class-room from their professors.
Hindustani Music
The book makes complex musicological concepts accessible to non-academic readers, and contributes significantly to widening the understanding of contemporary trends in Hindustani music. Written by an author of impeccable credentials as a musician, researcher, and author, this book is a very significant addition to the body of authoritative writing on 20th century Hindustani music.
Sacred Art in East and West
Tantric Mantras Studies on Mantrasastra
India from Within A Guide to India’s History, Religion, Arts, Culture and Society
Indian society is manifold and extremely complex. The richness of the Indian subcontinent defies and exceeds all facile explanations or generalizations, and cannot be adequately interpreted through western concepts.
This book tries to clear a path towards an understanding of this immense country, home to a civilization that has endured without interruption for millennia. In this small encyclopaedia of India, the author explains the roots and foundations of Indian civilization, covering almost every aspect of Indian culture; its broad topics include History, Religion, Society, Arts, The State, and travel. Offering an illuminating selection of information concerning many aspects of India, this is surely among the most complete cultural guides about this country and its varied cultures.
The Ganga Trail Foreign Accounts and Sketches of the River Scene
Indian Art
Sakti and Sakta
The Sakta Tantra is a Sadhana Sastra of Monistic (Advaitavada) Vedanta. It is to me a profound and powerful system, and its doctrine of Sakti or Divine Power is one the greatest evolved, through spiritual intuition, by the human mind which, according to its teaching, is a manifestation of the Divine Consciousness Itself. (Siva)
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Trika Saivism
The aim of this book is basically to introduce the reader to the fundamental principles that Trika philosophers have enunciated in their philosophical-cum-theological treatises. Such an approach has been adopted deliberately on account of the fact that Trika system of thought, which is very rich in philosophical vocabulary, is hardly known to general public in the manner of Advaita Vedanta of Samkara.
From Vasubandhu to Caitanya
The chapters in this volume are a selection of papers presented in the general Philosophy Section at the 12th World Sanskrit Conference in Helsinki, Finland. The first part of the book, Studies in Indian Philosophy, contains nine studies on individual topics and concepts in Indian philosophy from various perspectives: historical-philological, philosophical and comparative.
The Aphorisms of Siva
The Siva Sutra was revealed to Vasugupta by Siva in order to counter the effects of dualism. This revelation initiated the hermeneutics of synthesis