Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
One of the most recognizable but misunderstood Greek gods, Hades plays a valuable role that has not garnered much adoration. Using myth, storytelling, and practical exercises, author Jamie Waggoner shows how Hades is more than the keeper of souls and the land of the dead. She reveals his true nature and provides everything you need to build your own rich devotional practice.
Discover Hades's real story with passages written in his own words, excerpts...
Author
Language
English
Description
The Noble Eightfold Path is one of the most important teachings in Buddhism. In this series of eight lectures, given originally in 1965, Urgyen Sangharakshita introduces each stage, from right understanding to right meditation, explaining the deeper implications involved.
Sangharakshita, the London-born Buddhist teacher, is one of the most influential figures in the development of Buddhism in the West. The founder of the Triratna Buddhist Order(originally...
Author
Language
English
Description
This is not an ordinary biography of the Buddha. In his characteristically individual manner, Urgyen Sangharakshita - the leading English-born Buddhist teacher and founder of the Triratana Buddhist Community - recounts the known details of the Buddha's life but enriches the story with contemporary relevance.
Unpicking the threads of historical and mythical information, he considers the underlying meaning in terms of 21st-century life - and its effect...
Author
Language
English
Description
What is the Dharma? To walk in the footsteps of the Buddha, we need a clear and thorough guide to the essential principles of Buddhism. Whether we have just begun our journey or are a practitioner with more experience, What is the Dharma? is an indispensable exploration of the Buddha's teachings as found in the main Buddhist traditions.
Constantly returning to the question "how can this help me?", Sangharakshita examines a variety of fundamental...
Author
Language
English
Description
Having realized, as a 16 year old in pre-WWII London, that he was a Buddhist, the early life of Dennis Lingwood and his path to becoming a bhikkhu named Sangharakshita is a most extraordinary personal story. He was serving as a signals officer in India when, at the conclusion of the war, he threw away his official identity cards, took off his uniform, donned yellow robes and set off, barefooted, along the dusty paths of India as a spiritual seeker,...
Author
Language
English
Description
The Vimalakirti Sutra is one of the most popular of all Mahayana sutras, being especially loved and revered in the Far East. One of the reasons for the sutra's popularity is that its principal character, Vimalakirti, is not a Buddha or a Bodhisattva or even a monk, but a layman with a family living in Vaishali in India, leading - apparently - a secular life.
This does not hinder his ability, the Sutra proclaims to be a man of remarkable spiritual...
Author
Language
English
Description
Upanishads are mankind's oldest works of philosophy, predating the earliest Greek philosophy. They are the concluding part of the Vedas, the ancient Indian sacred literature, and mark the culmination of a tradition of speculative thought first expressed in the Rig-Veda more than 4,000 years ago.
Remarkable for their meditative depth, spirit of doubt and intellectual honesty, the Upanishads are concerned with the knowledge of the Brahman, the Ultimate...
Author
Language
English
Description
Wayne Alcorn:
Son, father and grandfather.
Pastor and storyteller.
Wayne Alcorn has seen the radical life-change that happens in men as they embrace the love of God the Father. And he has seen that love heal and transform men's lives-his father's, his own and the countless men across Australia he has talked to and helped heal.
This is his-and their-story.
And the story of how God's love transforms generations.
A story that just might change...
Author
Language
English
Description
The journey of the Dark Goddess is a natural part of any difficult rite of passage. These transitions are often thought of as negative-death of a loved one, job loss, home loss, chronic illness, divorce-but even so-called "happy" transitions, such as marriage, the birth of a child, or retirement, can come with unexpected instability, grief, and a need for integration. In our culture, we may often feel like we should "move on" or "get back to normal."...
Author
Language
English
Description
These three sutras are the most important texts for the Chan (Chinese) and Zen (Japanese) Buddhist traditions, though they are very different in character and provenance. The Diamond Sutra (Vajracheddika Prajña Paramita Sutra in Sanskrit) has the distinction of being 'the earliest complete survival of a dated (11 May 868) printed book'. It was found in the Dunhuang Caves in China in 1900.
The title, Diamond Cutter, outlines its purpose, which is...
Author
Language
English
Description
The Lotus Sutra is one of the most important Mahayana texts and the most widely read, chanted and revered, particularly in Asian Buddhist countries, notably China and Japan. It is certainly a remarkable document, replete with the Mahayana characteristics of fantastical images, extraordinary appearances, magical happenings, views of time and space which are galactic in size; and pronouncements which are definite, unequivocal, practical in some areas...
Author
Language
English
Description
Attract good fortune and joy to every aspect of your life. Pamela Chen and Samantha Blossom teach you how to use ancient, Far Eastern magic in a modernized way, no matter your background or experience level. With their help, you can create your unique revolution through sacred devotional practices that anyone can tap into immediately.
The Mandarin Tree shares the wisdom of Asia in an accessible way, presenting insights on mystical beings and animal...
Author
Language
English
Description
As the descendant of Martha Carrier, an accused woman executed at Salem, Alice Markham-Cantor presents a riveting story that spans centuries and brings the historical significance of the witch trials into modern times.
Extensively researched and told through alternating fiction and nonfiction chapters, this book illuminates a shocking truth: contrary to popular opinion, the witch hunts never ended. Alice shares research that suggests tens of thousands...
Author
Language
Español
Description
El propósito de este libro es el estudio, con espíritu crítico, de las principales ideas que constituyen los fundamentos del islam. Espíritu crítico no significa humor acrimonioso ni ánimo despreciativo, sino, como Kant lo enseña, disposición al análisis libre de prejuicios y de tabúes. En tal perspectiva Francisco Bucio Palomino visita las concepciones y los valores que nutren los fundamentos del islam. Así, advierte de inmediato que,...
Author
Language
English
Description
COULD GOD RAISE UP A MAN TODAY, as He did in the days of Noah, to warn the world that the Wrath of God is soon going to come upon the Earth?
In a world full of lies and propaganda, has God called a man to be a voice of truth for Him in these last days; a Prophet that is actually hearing from God? That has actually seen Jesus?
Is the end now coming? Is this the end of the world as we currently know it?
Does God still do supernatural signs, wonders,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Leadership can be a blessing or a curse. It can help people rise up to a better life, or it can cause people to fall into despair. Become part of the solution by becoming a high-road leader.
The world's most influential leadership expert, John C. Maxwell, tackles the problem of our divided world in his latest book High Road Leadership. "Everything rises and falls on leadership," says Maxwell. "Today it is causing people to fall-into disputes, frustration,...
Author
Language
Español
Description
El origen de este libro es un importante acontecimiento en el cual el entonces cardenal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, hoy papa Francisco, tuvo un rol fundamental: la V Conferencia General del Episcopado Latinoamericano que se llevó a cabo en el santuario de Aparecida, Brasil, en mayo de 2007. No resulta aventurado afirmar que precisamente en Aparecida se oculta en parte el secreto de la elección de Bergoglio al solio pontificio. El filósofo uruguayo Alberto...
Author
Language
Español
Description
Una novela que habla de la Inquisición española con rigor, lejos de mitos y tópicos, y que descubre una faceta desconocida de la vida de Teresa de Jesús a la que el autor, como jurista y teólogo, ha tenido acceso.
En pleno siglo XVI, durante el reinado de Felipe II, la Inquisición se lanza con denuedo y auténtica obsesión a controlar la sociedad española. Nadie está libre de sospecha.
Don Rodrigo de Castro es un inquisidor implacable, ambicioso...
Author
Language
English
Description
The Vatican introduces HolyPhones into confessionals in Europe and the Americas. These smartphones connect those seeking confession to the Vatican Confessional Call Centre, part of a Church initiative to reduce the workload of its priests and generate new income.An alliance - of a female Spanish member of Opus Dei, an American lady whose father runs a southern fundamentalist church, an Israeli pro-Settler technology genius and an ex-banker-turned-...
In ILL (Inter-Library Loan) Services
Didn't find what you needed? Items not owned by the member libraries of the Westchester Library System can be requested via Inter-library Loan from other libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.