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Title: The Best Guide to Eastern Philosophy and Religion by Diane Morgan, Arthur Morey ISBN: 1-55927-633-9 Publisher: Audio Renaissance Pub. Date: 15 September, 2001 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 2 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent introduction on this vast subject
Comment: This is an excellent introductory book on this vast subject. It gives an excellent introduction to Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism. It then goes on describing less well known spiritual disciplines, such as: Jainism, Tantra, Zoroastrianism, Sikhism, and Shinto.
The structure of the book, and its overall user friendliness reminds me of the "Dummies" series. This is if you want the Eastern Philosophy for Dummies. In my mind, this is the greatest compliment. Just like the Dummies series, this book invites you to read more on the subject covered, but gives you an excellent foundation.
Rating: 1
Summary: Hurried job?
Comment: The authoress rather betrays her ignorance of several aspects of living cultures, despite perhaps good intentions. Particularly disappointing is her treatment of Hinduism.
To start with, anyone with serious intentions to explore the origins of what is known today as Hinduism should have known that the Aryan Invasion Theory (AIT) stands totally debunked. Besides, though the name Hinduism is relatively modern, ancient Hindus did have a name for what goes by that apellation today - they called it the Sanatana Dharma or The Eternal Religion, loosely translated. The authoress fails to mention that.
Clearly, an irrevocable corollary of the claim to an eternal nature is one to universality. Thus, Hindus of Vedic and Upanishadic times were fully aware that the infinite variation in human temperaments would have to be accmmodated in any system that lay claim to universality in this sense. Several mantras in the Vedas and later texts stress the underlying unity of mankind presaging the modern ideal of universal brotherhood by thousands of years. An essential instrument in the underlying philosophical framework enabling truth-claims to be made for such assertions are the notions of Atman and Paramatman.
There are sophisticated systems of thought and philosophy on the nature of this apparent dichotomy which again vanishes through systems of spiritual discipline roughly collected together under the broad name of Yoga. Surely the literally hundreds of manuscripts of thess genres should have merited greater respect, or at least a deeper, detailed and more serious scholarship? The writer is thus far off in failing to gauge the depths of Hinduism and presenting the entire gamut of important milestones in the spiritual history of man in a somewhat shallow manner.
Rating: 5
Summary: This Author Knows Her Stuff!
Comment: Though I have not yet completed this book, I am always impressed by Morgan's grasp of her subject matter and her wry delivery. This is not your average dry text. If you've got a hankering for excellent commentary on Eastern Religions, buy it. Morgan doesn't disappoint!
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Title: Taking the Quantum Leap : The New Physics for Nonscientists by Fred A. Wolf ISBN: 0060963107 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 25 January, 1989 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The Future of an Illusion by Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Peter Gay ISBN: 0393008312 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: August, 1989 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Encyclopedia of Eastern Philosophy and Religion by Shambhala ISBN: 0877739803 Publisher: Shambhala Pub. Date: 10 May, 1994 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman by Malidoma Patrice Some, Malidoma Patrice Some' ISBN: 0140194967 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: May, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Way of Man: According to the Teaching of Hasidism by Martin Buber ISBN: 0806500247 Publisher: Lyle Stuart Hardcover Pub. Date: May, 1995 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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