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  • Asian Medical Industries

    Contemporary Perspectives on Traditional Pharmaceuticals

    Edited by Stephan Kloos, Calum Blaikie ...
    Series series Needham Research Institute Series
    This book develops the concept of Asian Medical Industries as a novel perspective on traditional Asian medicines.Complementing and updating existing work in this field, the book provides a critical and comparative analytic framework for understanding Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda, Sowa Rigpa, and Japanese Kampo in the 21st century. No longer subaltern health resources or conservative systems of ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Healing at the Periphery

    Ethnographies of Tibetan Medicine in India

    Edited by Laurent Pordié, Stephan Kloos ...
    India has long occupied an important place in Tibetan medicine's history and development. However, Indian Himalayan practitioners of Tibetan medicine, or amchi, have largely remained overlooked at the Tibetan medical periphery, despite playing a central social and medical role in their communities. Power and legitimacy, religion and economic development, biomedical encounters and Indian ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

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    The Origins of Modern Posture Practice

    by Mark Singleton ...
    Yoga is so prevalent in the modern world--practiced by pop stars, taught in schools, and offered in yoga centers, health clubs, and even shopping malls--that we take its presence, and its meaning, for granted. But how did the current yoga boom happen? And is it really rooted in ancient Indian practices, as many of its adherents claim? In this groundbreaking book, Mark Singleton calls into question ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Embrace Yoga's Roots

    by Susanna Barkataki ...
    Do you want to be on the cutting edge of the future of yoga?If you desire an authentic yoga practice embracing ancient yogic philosophy and traditions but don't know how to embody that knowledge with integrity in today's modern yoga culture, Embrace Yoga's Roots is your guide to honor and not appropriate yoga."When we mistake yoga for a workout routine, reduce it to physical fitness or even do ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Buddhism and Bioethics

    by Damien Keown ...
    Buddhism and Bioethics is the first book to discuss contemporary issues in bioethics from a Buddhist perspective. Written in a clear and accessible style by a leading expert in field, and drawing on both ancient and modern sources, it shows how Buddhist ethical teachings can be applied to a range of controversial issues like abortion and euthanasia. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Engaged Buddhism in the West

    Edited by Christopher S. Queen ...
    Engaged Buddhism is founded on the belief that genuine spiritual practice requires an active involvement in society. Engaged Buddhism in the West illuminates the evolution of this new chapter in the Buddhist tradition - including its history, leadership, and teachings - and addresses issues such as violence and peace, race and gender, homelessness, prisons, and the environment.Eighteen new studies ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Buddhism beyond Gender

    Liberation from Attachment to Identity

    by Rita M. Gross ...
    A bold and provocative work from the late preeminent feminist scholar, which challenges men and women alike to free themselves from attachment to gender.At the heart of Buddhism is the notion of egolessness—“forgetting the self”—as the path to awakening. In fact, attachment to views of any kind only leads to more suffering for ourselves and others. And what has a greater hold on people’s ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Origins of Yoga and Tantra

    Indic Religions to the Thirteenth Century

    by Geoffrey Samuel ...
    Yoga, tantra and other forms of Asian meditation are practised in modernized forms throughout the world today, but most introductions to Hinduism or Buddhism tell only part of the story of how they developed. This book is an interpretation of the history of Indic religions up to around 1200 CE, with particular focus on the development of yogic and tantric traditions. It assesses how much we really ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Playing With Fire

    Feminist Thought And Activism Through Seven Lives In India

    by Sangtin Writers, Richa Nagar ...
    Seven voices contribute to this rare glimpse of the work being done on the front lines of the fight for social change in India. Playing with Fire is written in the collective voice of women employed by a large NGO as activists in their communities and is based on diaries, interviews, and conversations among them. Together their personal stories reveal larger themes and questions of sexism, ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Affliction

    Health, Disease, Poverty

    by Veena Das ...
    Series series Forms of Living
    Affliction inaugurates a novel way of understanding the trajectories of health and disease in the context of poverty. Focusing on low-income neighborhoods in Delhi, it stitches together three different sets of issues.First, it examines the different trajectories of illness: What are the circumstances under which illness is absorbed within the normal and when does it exceed the normal—putting ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Buddhism in the Modern World

    by David L. McMahan ...
    Series series Religions in the Modern World
    Buddhism in the Modern World explores the challenges faced by Buddhism today, the distinctive forms that it has taken and the individuals and movements that have shaped it. Part One discusses the modern history of Buddhism in different geographical regions, from Southeast Asia to North America. Part Two examines key themes including globalization, gender issues, and the ways in which Buddhism has ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Black Buddhists and the Black Radical Tradition

    The Practice of Stillness in the Movement for Liberation

    by Rima Vesely-Flad ...
    An exploration of how Black Buddhist teachers and practitioners interpret Western Buddhism in unique spiritual and communal ways.In Black Buddhists and the Black Radical Tradition, Rima Vesely-Flad examines the distinctive features of Black-identifying Buddhist practitioners, arguing that Black Buddhists interpret Buddhist teachings in ways that are congruent with Black radical thought. Indeed, ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus