Weak and sickly, I have a boyfriend, but he's been acting weird lately. I went to find the Goddess to heal my body and invited the Snake Immortal to protect me, but I didn't expect to discover my boyfriend's shocking secret!

Time is running out for Dado, the Cursed One, who has to pass on all her powers to her great-granddaughter, Nandi, who is fascinated by the inhabitants of the Big Old House, including Local Einstein, The Philosopher, The Alcoholic, The Exorcist as well as the Spirits who reside there. As Nandi finds out more about her family?s turbulent past, her own life experiences take her to places she never knew existed. This is the story of an Indian family making an incredible journey, like millions of people all over the world, to settle on the island of Mauritius, a Paradise at first glance. The story combines depth of feeling with great imagination. Here, there is realism and magic at work.

When Red Guards arrived in Tibet in 1966, intent on creating a classless society, they unleashed a decade of revolutionary violence, political rallies, and factional warfare marked by the ransacking of temples, the destruction of religious artifacts, the burning of books, and the public humiliation of Tibet's remaining lamas and scholars. Within Tibet, discussion of those events has long been banned, and no visual records of this history were known to have survived. In Forbidden Memory the leading Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser presents three hundred previously unseen photographs taken by her father, then an officer in the People's Liberation Army, that show for the first time the frenzy and violence of the Cultural Revolution in Tibet. Found only after his death, Woeser's annotations and reflections on the photographs, edited and introduced by the Tibet historian Robert Barnett, are based on scores of interviews she conducted privately in Tibet with survivors. Her book explores the motives and thinking of those who participated in the extraordinary rituals of public degradation and destruction that took place, carried out by Tibetans as much as Chinese on the former leaders of their culture. Heartbreaking and revelatory, Forbidden Memory offers a personal, literary discussion of the nature of memory, violence, and responsibility, while giving insight into the condition of a people whose violently truncated history they are still unable to discuss today. Access the glossary.

"Nothing can escape these eyes!" Apparition Vision - the power capable of deciphering people's souls. Female sleuth Florian Lilly Cobblestone is meticulously mastering this supernatural power. Act 3: Chapters 21-30 Florian Lilly Cobblestone and Dr. Ronaldo Von Nirvanas tail masterful criminals to their hideout. A mouse wearing a snake outfit, an angler gorilla frog, a drooling lizard, a steaming cheetah, an embedded centipede, and a mimic octopus, all intertwined with their leader, the devil.

This autobiography describes a woman's attainment of enlightenment in modern Japan. Satomi Myōdō rejected the traditional roles of good wife and wise mother, broke with her unhappy past, and followed her spiritual path beginning as the disciple of a Shinto priest. At midlife she turned to Zen Buddhism encouraged by a female dharma friend and by various teachers. Under the guidance of Yasutani Rōshi she attained Kenshō, the goal of her lifetime's search.

A snake spirit transforms into a boy and hides his true identity after falling for a headstrong prince. Sher Lee's Legend of the White Snake, is a lush, queer romantasy retelling of the traditional Chinese folktale. Gorgeous cover design by Kuri Huang. When Prince Xian was a boy, a white snake bit his mother and condemned her to a slow, painful death. The only known cure is an antidote created from the rare white snake itself. Desperate, Xian is determined to capture one and cure his mother. Soon, Xian encounters an enigmatic but beautiful stable boy named Zhen, and the two are immediately drawn to each other. But Zhen might just be the human embodiment of the white snake Xian is hunting, and as their feelings grow deeper, will the truth about Zhen’s identity tear them apart? 'Deeply romantic and utterly captivating ...' - Sarah Underwood, New York Times-bestselling author of Lies We Sing to the Sea

Papers presented at the three day International Conference on "Changing Global Profile of Japanese Studies : Trends and Prospects", held at New Delhi during 6-8 March 2009.

Looking at the strange, weird, and Sun Wukong and the zombie love affair.This kiss was destined to last for three lifetimes.This staff strike was to prop up the heavens and prop up the earth! The gods and spirits were shocked!That night, it was a stormy night that warmed the hearts of the people ...Sun Wukong once again trespassed into the Underworld, causing chaos in the Heavenly Palace, and overthrowing the rule of the Xuanhe Heavenly Court.

A comprehensive autobiographical account of the transforming experiences possible with ayahuasca • Reveals the protocols of a traditional ayahuasca retreat and the importance of its ritual diet, isolation, and sacred songs • Relates an extensive personal account of the traditional indigenous use of ayahuasca for healing and revelation Ayahuasca: The Visionary and Healing Powers of the Vine of the Soul is an autobiographical account of the author’s work with ayahuasca, a potent and sacred plant brew of the Amazon region that is known for its extraordinary visionary and healing powers. As she learned from her experience, with the help of ayahuasca we are able to grasp our paradoxical nature, the first step to acceptance of ourselves in both our glorious and dark aspects. Ayahuasca teaches us how to release the illusions we hold about ourselves and makes it possible to integrate our many diverse aspects to acquire our true power. This book reveals the ritual protocols that must be followed prior to partaking of ayahuasca, including the traditional preparatory “diet”--which requires enduring austere conditions, isolation, and only small amounts of bland food before receiving the powers of the plant spirit from an ayahuasquero, a healing master--and the sacred songs, icaros, that are sung when imbibing the substance. Although the use of ayahuasca is growing among “underground” spiritual seekers and through the burgeoning ayahuasca tourism trade in South America, few of its seekers understand how it is used traditionally and the importance of the rituals the indigenous people follow. With this book, the author hopes to restore the importance of these indigenous practices so that we may truly understand all the gifts of ayahuasca.