Madhyamaka, or "Middle Way," philosophy came to Tibet from India and became the basis of all of Tibetan Buddhism. The Tibetans, however, differentiated two streams of Madhyamaka philosophy--Svatantrika and Prasangika. In this collection, leading scholars in the field address the distinction on various levels, including the philosophical import for both Indian and Tibetan Madhyamaka and the historical development of the distinction itself.

This book provides an account of the organisation, practices and history of the Daśanāmī-Saṃnyāsīs, one of the largest sects of sādhu-s (‘holy men’) in South Asia, founded, according to tradtion, by the legendary philosopher Śaṅkarācārya.

Sri Vishnu Sahasranamam is one of the most popular texts among the Hindus. It at once appeals to the heart and the mind of the devotee. The Sahasranamam brings out the universality of the Divine and is therefore fit to be chanted by all. This book contains original verses in Sanskrit, their transliterations and translations. The translation into English has been done by Swami Tapasyananda on the lines of Sri Shankaracharya’s commentary. The mode of presentation is just like a lexicon which at once helps a person to look out for any needed term and contemplate on it. The namavali at the end would be useful for chanting purposes. This work would be useful to anyone who would like to purify his mind by contemplating the names and their meanings. Swami Tapasyananda was a scholar-monk of great repute and one of the vice-presidents of the Ramakrishna Order.

This second half of Bhishma describes the events from the beginning of the fifth day till the end of the tenth of the great battle between the Káuravas and the Pándavas. Despite grandfather Bhishma’s appeal to conclude peace with the Pándavas, Duryódhana continues the bloody battle. The key strategist is general Bhishma, commander of the Káurava forces. Even though he is compelled to fight on the side of the Káuravas, Bhishma’s sympathies are with the Pándavas. After the ninth day of war, when Bhishma has wreaked havoc with their troops, the Pándavas realise that they will be unable to win as long as invincible Bhishma is alive. Bhishma willingly reveals to them how he can be destroyed. Strictly observing the warrior code, he will never fight with Shikhándin, because he was originally born a woman. Bhishma advises the Pándava brothers that Árjuna should strike him from behind Shikhándin’s back, and they follow the grandfather’s advice.

The book titled Hidden Secrets in Vishnu Sahasranama will be useful for the researchers and the devotees Sahasranama contains thousand names of the God, in fact thousand attributes of God. Sahasra in Sanskrit is thousand and Naama is name. English word name is derived from Sanskrit naama. Though many gods of Hindus such as Vishnu, Siva, Lalitha got Sahasranamas, Vishnu Sahasranama (VS) is the oldest of all Sahasranamas. It is part of 5000-year-old Mahabharata. Moreover, Adi Shankara has written a commentary on it. Following him many scholars have written commentaries on it. The internal evidence itself shows that this is the most ancient one. Vedic gods’ names are found init. They are not used anywhere else nowadays.

The Viyahapannatti (Vyakhyaprajnapati) or Bhagavai (Bhagavati) is the fifth Anga of the Jaina Svetambara Canon. It is as the title says a Proclamation of Explanations` viz. of explanations given as a rule by Mahavira the founder of Jainism, in answer to questions raised by his disciples in most cases Goyama Indabhui. Experts have described this monumental work as an omnium gatherum, a tohu bohu etc.: its questions and answers, as a matter of fact, deal with a bewildering variety of topics, embracing all the important domains of the Jaina doctrine; moreover its teachings are presented in many different forms.

Serpent Rising: The Kundalini Compendium je končni rezultat mojega 17-letnega potovanja po transformaciji Kundalini, po popolnem in trajnem prebujenju leta 2004, ki je za vedno razširilo mojo zavest. Potem ko sem doživel popolno vizualno nadgradnjo, ki mi omogoča, da sem vsak dan priča Holografski naravi sveta, sem vedel, da je to, kar se mi je zgodilo, edinstveno. Zato sem se odločil, da bom v naslednjem delu svojega življenja uporabil ta dar in se posvetila učenju znanosti o nevidnem svetu Energije, s katerim sem tesno povezana, hkrati pa razvijal prave jezikovne spretnosti, da bom lahko svoja odkritja celovito posredovala. Prebujanje Kundalinija je del poslanstva vaše Duše na Zemlji. Njegov končni namen je optimizirati vaše toroidno Energijsko Polje (Merkaba) in vas spremeniti v Bitje Luči, ki omogoča Meddimenzionalno potovanje skozi Zavest. Z ustreznim znanjem na tem področju lahko prevzamete nadzor nad svojim Duhovnim razvojem in izpolnite svojo usodo, da boste lahko v naslednjem življenju nadaljevali svoje potovanje skozi zvezde. Zato sem napisal to knjigo. Serpent Rising: The Kundalini Compendium vsebuje vse, kar morate vedeti o Kundaliniju, vključno z vplivom procesa Vnebovzetja na človeško anatomijo in vlogo, ki jo ima živčni sistem, kako sprostiti celoten potencial svojih možganov in prebuditi moč svojega srca ter kako uporabiti načine Duhovnega Zdravljenja, kot so Kristali, Uglaševalne Vilice, Aromaterapija in Tattve, da dvignete vibracije svojih Čaker. Velik del knjige je posvečen filozofiji in praksi Joge (z Ajurvedo), vključno s seznamom Asan, Pranajam, Muder, Manter in Meditacij ter navodili za njihovo uporabo. Podrobno obravnavam tudi proces Prebujanja in preobrazbe Kundalinija, vključno s trajnimi in delnimi prebujanji, Lucidnimi Sanjami, Siddhi (Psihičnimi Močmi), Izkušnjami Zunaj Telesa, vlogo hrane, vode, hranilnih snovi in Spolne Energije med integracijo ter vrhunskimi dogodki v celotnem procesu preobrazbe. Ker sem bil znanstvenik in laboratorij v enem, ta knjiga vsebuje vse moje znanje in izkušnje, pridobljene na Duhovnem potovanju, vključno z bistvenimi Meditacijami, ki sem jih razvil med srečevanjem z zastoji in blokadami Energije Kundalini. Ker sem v preteklih letih pomagal številnim prebuditeljem Kundalinija, ki so "tavali v temi" in iskali odgovore, sem vključil tudi njihova najpogostejša vprašanja in skrbi. Serpent Rising: The Kundalini Compendium je temeljita in napredna razlaga Kundalinija, ki jo mora prebrati vsakdo, ki ga zanima ta tema in njegova Duhovna rast.

"The Taming of the Demons" examines mythic and ritual themes of violence, demon taming, and blood sacrifice in Tibetan Buddhism. Taking as its starting point Tibet's so-called age of fragmentation (842 to 986 C.E.), the book draws on previously unstudied manuscripts discovered in the "library cave" near Dunhuang, on the old Silk Road. These ancient documents, it argues, demonstrate how this purportedly inactive period in Tibetan history was in fact crucial to the Tibetan assimilation of Buddhism, and particularly to the spread of violent themes from tantric Buddhism into Tibet at the local and the popular levels. Having shed light on this "dark age" of Tibetan history, the second half of the book turns to how, from the late tenth century onward, the period came to play a vital symbolic role in Tibet, as a violent historical "other" against which the Tibetan Buddhist tradition defined itself.

The doctrine of karman, the law of action and its results that is central to Jainism, Hinduism, and Buddhism, is uniquely formulated in Jain philosophy. Simply stated, karman is here considered to take the form of material particles, which inhere in the soul, thus causing bondage. This process and its rationale, how it occurs and how one stops it, are minutely detailed in the Jain Karma-granthas. They also describe how one rids oneself of the karmic particles already accumulated, thus attaining liberation. The Karma-granthas form the basis of the present book, the only book in English on this subject of fundamental importance.