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Born in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, on January the 5th, 1893, Sri Sri
Paramahansa Yogananda devoted his life to helping people of all
races and creeds to realize and express more fully in their lives
the beauty, nobility and true divinity of the human spirit. After
graduating from Calcutta University in 1915, Sri Yogananda was
initiated into "sannyas" by his guru Sri Sri Swami Sri Yukteswar
Giri. Sri Yukteswar had foretold that his life's mission was to
spread throughout the world India's ancient meditation technique of
"Kriya Yoga". Sri Yogananda accepted an invitation in 1920 to serve
as India's delegate to an International Congress of Religious
Liberals in Boston, USA. Paramahansa Yoganda founded Yogoda
Satsanga Society of India/Self-Realization Fellowship as the
channel for the dissemination of his teachings. Through his
writings and extensive lecture tours in India, America and Europe
he introduced thousands of truth-seekers to the ancient science and
philosophy of yoga and its universally applicable methods of
meditation. Paramahansaji entered "mahasamadhi" on March the 7th,
1952 in Los Angeles. This autobiography offers a look at the
ultimate mysteries of human existence and a portrait of one of the
great spiritual figures of the 20th century.
This classic study of traditional Celtic spirituality ties ancient
Paganism, medieval myth, and traditional Fairy beliefs into a
powerful celebration of Celtic wisdom and magic. This magnificent
book is a collection of stories, anecdotes, and legends from all
six of the regions where Celtic ways have persisted in the modern
world: Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, Brittany, and the Isle
of Man. It examines how Fairy spirituality survived in the face of
hostility caused by modern science and religion. It celebrates how
beliefs (which only a century ago were dismissed as quaint and
superstitious) were, in fact, powerful principles of ancient Pagan
magic that remained essential features of the Celtic world for
generation after generation. The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries
offers plenty of speculation and theories regarding who or what
fairies are and where they come from. But it is also an
anthropological study of fairy faith which involved interviews with
hundreds of people.
First published in 1911, The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries has
become a classic on the subject, even though it is less well-known
that his Tibetan Book of the Dead, Tibetan Yoga and Secret
Doctrines, and The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation, for
example. This has been largely due to its having been out of print
for so long. The appearance of this edition in 1977 was therefore
extremely timely. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries was Walter
Yeeling Evans Wentz's first book. It is dedicated to two people who
had greatly influenced him: the poet W.B.Yeats and G.W.Russell -
'AE' - who was perhaps the greatest mystic and visionary of this
century (and is the anonymous mystic whose interview is printed on
pages 59-66 of this book).
This book includes seven authentic Tibetan yoga texts that were first published in English in 1935. A companion to The Tibetan Book of the Dead, it is illustrated with photographs, yoga paintings and manuscripts, and contains some of the principal meditations used by Hindu and Tibetan gurus and philosophers in attaining Right knowledge and enlightenment. Special commentaries precede each translated text and a preface contrasts Buddhism with European concepts of religion, philosophy and science. For this new reissue, Donald S Lopez Jr writes a critical foreword, to update and contextualize the work as historical artifact contributing to the introduction of Tibetan Buddhism to the West.
This collection of reports of elfin creatures in Wales, Ireland, Scotland, and Brittany ranks among the most scholarly works ever published on the subject. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries begins with the author's account of firsthand testimony from living sources, classified under individual countries and introduced by leading authorities on anthropology and folklore. The next section concerns the recorded traditions of Celtic literature and mythology, followed by an examination of a variety of theories and their religious aspects. The book concludes with a remarkably rational case for the reality of fairy life. Narrated with an engaging sense of wonder, this volume offers a valuable resource for students of anthropology and Celtic lore, as well as hours of delightful reading for fairy enthusiasts. Unabridged republication of the classic 1911 edition.
This volume contains teachings from gurus of Tibet and India that were unkown to the Western world until its first publication in 1954. The book interprets the quintessence of the Supreme Path, the Mahayana, and reveals the yogic method of attaining Enlightenment. The original text of this yoga belongs to the Bardo Thodol series of treatises concerning various methods of attaining transcendence. The whole series is part of the Tantric school of Mahayana, and this particular work is attributed to the legendary Padmasambhava. An account of the great guru's life and doctrines precedes the text itself. Carl Jung's psychological commentary discusses the differences in Eastern and Western modes of thought. For the new reissue, Donald S. Lopez Jr writes a critical foreword to update and contextualize Evans-Wentz's work as an historical artefact contributing to the introduction of Tibetan Buddhism in the West.
The Tibetan Book of the Dead was traditionally used as a mortuary text, read or recited in the presence of a dying or dead person. As a contribution to the science of death and of rebirth, it is unique among the sacred books of the world. The texts have been discovered and rediscovered in the West during the course of almost the entire 20th century, starting with Oxford's edition by W Y Evans-Wentz in 1927. The new edition includes a new foreword, afterword and suggested further reading list by Donald S Lopez Jr to update and contextualize this pioneering work. Lopez examines the historical background of OUP's publication, the translation against current scholarship, and its profound importance in engendering both scholarly and popular interest in Tibetan religion and culture.
Despite the many differences between the numerous sects of Tibetan Buddhism, they all unite in holding the Great Yogi Milarepa, a Tibetan religious leader who lived over 800 years ago, in the highest reverence and esteem. Evans-Wentz points to similiarities between the life and teachings of Milarepa and the greatest of modern India's spiritual leaders, Mahatma Gandhi. In translating from the original Tibetan, the late Lama Kazi Dawa Samdup, Evans-Wentz's Tibetan guru for many years, wishes to show Western readers one of our great teachers as he actually lived in a biography of him, much of which is couched in the words of his own mouth, and the remainder in the words of his disciple Rechung, who knew him in the flesh. In this new reissue, Lopez contributes a critical foreword to update and contextualize the historical significance of this volume in Evans-Wentz's Tibetan series.
The Tibetan Book of the Dead was traditionally used as a mortuary text, read or recited in the presence of a dying or dead person. As a contribution to the science of death and of rebirth, it is unique among the sacred books of the world. The texts have been discovered and rediscovered in the West during the course of almost the entire 20th century, starting with Oxford's edition by W Y Evans-Wentz in 1927. The new edition includes a new foreword, afterword and suggested further reading list by Donald S Lopez Jr to update and contextualize this pioneering work. Lopez examines the historical background of OUP's publication, the translation against current scholarship, and its profound importance in engendering both scholarly and popular interest in Tibetan religion and culture.
This is a new release of the original 1946 edition.
This book depends chiefly upon the oral and written testimony so
freely contributed by its many Celtic authors, The Peasant and the
Scholar, the Priest and the Scientist, The Poet and the Business
Man, the Seer and the Non Seer, and in honour of them I dedicate it
to two of the Brethren in Ireland A.E. whose unwavering loyalty to
the Fairy-Faith has inspired much that I have herein written, whose
friendly guidance in my study of Irish mysticism I most gratefully
acknowledge; and William Butler Yeats, who brought me at my own
Alma Mater in California the first message from Fairyland, and who
afterwards in his own country led me through the haunts of Fairy
Kings and Queens.
"The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries" is the broadest, most
scholarly, yet open-minded exploration of the whole concept of this
place and these beings we usually cannot even see. Evans-Wentz was
catching the last of the lore as it was seen and believed in by the
old people who would've come of age in the 19th century, since he
was recording their stories about 1910, in out of the way places
where the inroads of the Industrial Age had not made a permanent
home in the mind sets of the country people. There is so much in
this one book, it would tax me to list it all; so dive in for
yourself and see, and hear the words of the people as Evan-Wentz
recorded them. He does it in an admirable way, though he, as an
American, was an outsider coming into this lore, the respect he
feels for the knowledge and insights, the values and views of the
informants is evident in every line.
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