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  • Cover of: ITIHASMALA

    ITIHASMALA

    by Amitava Maity
    1 item Last modified October 15, 2011

    The first collection of Bengali stories of folk culture in Modern India. This book was originally written in Bengali language. This is the first book of prose in Bengali Literature. In 1977 author Sukumar Sen translated this book into English which was published by Eastern Publishers.

  • Cover of: HINDU DHARMER GOPAN KATHA

    HINDU DHARMER GOPAN KATHA

    by Amitava Maity
    1 item Last modified August 31, 2011

    HINDU DHARMER GOPAN KATHA

  • Cover of: Famous Ancient Stories

    Famous Ancient Stories

    by Amitava Maity
    1 item Last modified August 31, 2011

    Famous Ancient Stories

  • Cover of: Becoming Buddha : Wisdom Culture For A Meaningful Life

    Becoming Buddha : Wisdom Culture For A Meaningful Life

    by Amitava Maity
    1 item Last modified August 31, 2011

    Becoming Buddha : Wisdom Culture For A Meaningful Life

  • Cover of: I Bought The Monk's Ferrari

    I Bought The Monk's Ferrari

    by Amitava Maity
    2 items Last modified August 31, 2011

    I Bought The Monk's Ferrari

  • Cover of: The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

    The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

    by Amitava Maity
    1 item Last modified August 31, 2011

    Wisdom to Create a Life of Passion, Purpose, and Peace

  • Cover of: The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari (Bengali)

    The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari (Bengali)

    by Amitava Maity
    1 item Last modified August 31, 2011

    Wisdom to Create a Life of Passion, Purpose, and Peace

  • Cover of: Nawa yogini tantra (1977)

    Nawa yogini tantra (1977)

    by Amitava Maity
    1 item Last modified August 30, 2011
  • Cover of: Nawa Yogini Tantra

    Nawa Yogini Tantra

    by Amitava Maity
    1 item Last modified August 30, 2011
  • Cover of: Path to enlightenment

    Path to enlightenment

    by Amitava Maity
    1 item Last modified August 30, 2011
  • Cover of: The Path of the Mystic Lover

    The Path of the Mystic Lover

    by Amitava Maity
    1 item Last modified August 30, 2011
  • Cover of: Japuji

    Japuji

    by Amitava Maity
    1 item Last modified August 30, 2011
  • Cover of: Mysteries of Baul

    Mysteries of Baul

    by Amitava Maity
    1 item Last modified August 30, 2011

    The book is about Baul philosophy...

  • Cover of: Naturality and Love

    Naturality and Love

    by Amitava Maity
    1 item Last modified August 30, 2011

    The book is about universal...

  • Cover of: THE BAMIYAN BUDDHAS

    THE BAMIYAN BUDDHAS

    by Amitava Maity
    1 item Last modified August 30, 2011

    This book is about the Bamiyan Buddhas.

  • Cover of: Chainik Dharmapad: Snyojita Gathasmuha (Additional Verses In The Chinese Dhammapada)

    Chainik Dharmapad: Snyojita Gathasmuha (Additional Verses In The Chinese Dhammapada)

    by Amitava Maity
    2 items Last modified August 30, 2011

    Verses of the Chinese Dhammapada in Bengali.

  • Cover of: SRIMAD BHAGAVAD GITA OF BHAGAVAN SRI KRISHNA (26 Adhyayas or Chapters & 745 Slokas or Verses)

    SRIMAD BHAGAVAD GITA OF BHAGAVAN SRI KRISHNA (26 Adhyayas or Chapters & 745 Slokas or Verses)

    by Amitava Maity
    1 item Last modified August 29, 2011

    Bhagavad Gita in 26 chapters and 745 verses.

  • Cover of: THE ESSENCE OF QURAN

    THE ESSENCE OF QURAN

    by Amitava Maity
    1 item Last modified August 29, 2011

    About the philosophy of Qur'an.

  • Cover of: THE ESSENTIAL KORAN The Heart Of Islam

    THE ESSENTIAL KORAN The Heart Of Islam

    by Amitava Maity
    1 item Last modified August 29, 2011

    An Introductory Selection of Readings from the Qur'an Translated and Presented

  • Cover of: THEORY OF ATOM IN THE JAINA PHILOSOPHY

    THEORY OF ATOM IN THE JAINA PHILOSOPHY

    by Amitava Maity
    1 item Last modified August 29, 2011

    A Critical Study of the Jaina Theory of PARAMANU PUDGALA in Light of Modern Scientific Theory

  • Cover of: Sarmad The Saint: Life and Works

    Sarmad The Saint: Life and Works

    by Amitava Maity
    1 item Last modified August 29, 2011

    This book is the first definitive study of Sarmad's life and an English translation of original Persian text of all the 341 quatrains by author Dr M.G. Gupta... (He) traces Sarmad's life with a wealth of authentic reference...

  • Cover of: Diwan-i-Hafiz

    Diwan-i-Hafiz

    by Amitava Maity
    1 item Last modified August 29, 2011

    The poetry of the 14th century Persian poet, Shamsuddin Mohammed Hafiz has been brought home to English readers by the author Dr M.G. Gupta... For the benefit of readers, he has explained the abstruse terms and concepts used in the Diwan-i-Hafiz. (the) volume runes into some 600 pages of scholarly material...

  • Cover of: Maulana Rum's Masnawi (Verses 1 - 29126 in 6 volumes) English Translation and Commentary

    Maulana Rum's Masnawi (Verses 1 - 29126 in 6 volumes) English Translation and Commentary

    by Amitava Maity
    1 item Last modified August 29, 2011

    This is the English translation of the legendary Rumi's classic work, the MATHNAWI.

  • Cover of: ESSENTIALS OF YOGA: Aspects Of Indian Mysticism

    ESSENTIALS OF YOGA: Aspects Of Indian Mysticism

    by Amitava Maity
    1 item Last modified August 29, 2011

    The book is about the 36 different types of yoga and meditation from ancient yoga system to modern practice.

  • Cover of: Life Is What You Make It

    Life Is What You Make It

    by Amitava Maity
    1 item Last modified August 28, 2011

    What would you do if destiny twisted the road you took? What if it threw you to a place you did not want to go? Would you fight, would you run or would you accept? Set across two cities in India in the early eighties, 'Life is what you make it' is a gripping account of a few significant years of Ankita's life.

    Ankita Sharma has the world at her feet. She is young, good-looking, smart and has tonnes of friends and boys swooning over her. College life is what every youngster dreams of and she also manages to get into a premier management school for her MBA. Six months later, she is a patient in a mental health hospital. How did Ankita get here? What were the events that led to this? Will she ever get back her life again?

    Life has cruelly and coldly snatched that which meant the most to her and she must now fight to get it all back.

    It is a deeply moving and inspiring account of growing up, of the power of faith and how determination and an indomitable spirit can overcome even what destiny throws at you.

    A tale, at its core a love-story that makes us question our beliefs about ourselves and our concept of sanity and forces us to believe that life is truly what one makes it.

  • Cover of: The Path Of Freedom: Vimuttimagga

    The Path Of Freedom: Vimuttimagga

    by Amitava Maity
    1 item Last modified August 28, 2011

    The Vimuttimagga is a manual of meditation, evidently based on the experience of Buddhist monks in ancient times and compiled for the guidance of those intent on a contemplative life. The work is compiled in accordance with the classical Buddhist division of the path into the three stages of virtue, concentration, and wisdom, culminating in the goal of liberation. It is widely believed that the Vimuttimagga may have been the model used by Acariya Buddhaghosa to compose his magnum opus, the Visuddhimagga, several centuries later. The older work is marked by a leaner style and a more lively sense of urgency stemming from its primarily practical orientation.

  • Cover of: The Path Of Purification (The Visuddhimagga)

    The Path Of Purification (The Visuddhimagga)

    by Amitava Maity
    1 item Last modified August 28, 2011

    The most esteemed commentary in all of Pali literature, The Path of Purification, or Visuddhimagga is a systematic examination and condensation of Buddhist doctrine and meditation technique. The various teachings of the Buddha, found throughout the Pali Canon, are organized in a clear, comprehensive path leading to the final goal, nibbana, the state of complete purification. In the course of his treatise Buddhaghosa gives full and detailed instructions on the forty subjects of meditation aimed at concentration, an elaborate account of the Buddhist Abhidhamma philosophy, and explicit descriptions of the stages of insight culminating in final liberation.

  • Cover of: Mindfulness of Breathing (Anapanasati)

    Mindfulness of Breathing (Anapanasati)

    by Amitava Maity
    1 item Last modified August 28, 2011

    Anapanasati or “mindfulness of breathing” was the method of meditation that the Buddha himself used to attain enlightenment, and during his long teaching career he often stressed its importance to his disciples. In the living Buddhist tradition mindfulness of breathing is regarded as the “root” meditation subject, the basis for all other approaches to meditation as well as a self-sufficient system that covers the entire range of practice for gaining calm and insight.
    The present book is an anthology of all the important source material from the Pali Canon and Commentaries on this core system of meditation. The book includes the famous Anapanasati Sutta, the Discourse on Mindfulness of Breathing (Majjhima Nikaya Sutta 118); the commentary on this sutta (including a substantial passage from the Visuddhimagga); an analytical treatise from the canonical Patisambhidamagga; and a selection of suttas from the Pali Canon. All this material has been rendered into lucid English by Bhikkhu Nyanamoli, one of the foremost translators of Pali Buddhist texts in our age.

  • Cover of: SATIPATTHANA THE DIRECT PATH TO REALIZATION

    SATIPATTHANA THE DIRECT PATH TO REALIZATION

    by Amitava Maity
    1 item Last modified August 28, 2011

    “This book helps to fill what has long been a glaring gap in the scholarship on Early Buddhism, offering us a detailed textual study of the Satipatthana Sutta, the foundational Buddhist discourse on meditation practice. With painstaking thoroughness, Ven. Analayo marshals the suttas of the Pali canon, works of modern scholarship, and the teachings of present-day meditation masters to make the rich implications of this text, so concise in the original, clear to contemporary students of the Dharma. Unlike more popular books on the subject, he is not out to establish the exclusive validity of one particular system of meditation as against others; his aim, rather, is to explore the sutta as a wide-ranging and multi-faceted source of guidance which allows for alternative interpretations and approaches to practice. His analysis combines the detached objectivity of the academic scholar with the engaged concern of the practitioner for whom meditation is a way of life rather than just a subject of study. The book should prove to be of value both to scholars of Early Buddhism and to serious meditators alike. Ideally, it will encourage in both types of reader the same wholesome synthesis of scholarship and practice that underlies the author's own treatment of his subject.”

  • Cover of: REVEALED MYSTERIES  OF THE WORLD DIVINE

    REVEALED MYSTERIES OF THE WORLD DIVINE

    by Amitava Maity
    1 item Last modified August 27, 2011

    This book is a critical evaluation of practical experiences of the author in yoga with reference to modern science

  • Cover of: ABHINAVAGUPTA'S Commentary on the Bhagavad Gita Gitartha Samgraha

    ABHINAVAGUPTA'S Commentary on the Bhagavad Gita Gitartha Samgraha

    by Amitava Maity
    1 item Last modified August 27, 2011

    English translation from Sanskrit with introduction and notes on the ABHINAVAGUPTA'S Commentary on the Bhagavad Gita Gitartha Samgraha which is the Kashmiri Recension of the Bhagavad Gita

  • Cover of: Srimad Bhagavad Gita Bhojapatri Gita

    Srimad Bhagavad Gita Bhojapatri Gita

    by Amitava Maity
    1 item Last modified August 27, 2011

    Lost 745 verses of Gita which was found in a ancient Bhojpatri Manuscript

  • Cover of: Ancient Bhagavad Gita

    Ancient Bhagavad Gita

    by Amitava Maity
    1 item Last modified August 27, 2011

    Lost 745 verses of Gita which was found in a Birch-Bark Manuscript in Sarada characters in the British Museum Library as Oriental Ms. No. 6763 D.

  • Cover of: The Hidden Treasure Of Al-Qur'an

    The Hidden Treasure Of Al-Qur'an

    by Amitava Maity
    1 item Last modified August 27, 2011

    Compatative study on Al-Qur'an and ancient Hindu scriptures

  • Cover of: The Mysteries Of The Bible

    The Mysteries Of The Bible

    by Amitava Maity
    1 item Last modified August 27, 2011

    Study on Bible with Hindu scriptures

  • Cover of: The Unknown KamaSutras

    The Unknown KamaSutras

    by Amitava Maity
    1 item Last modified August 27, 2011

    Study on KamaSutras by the sage-teacher Vatsyayana

  • Cover of: Sexuality In Ancient India

    Sexuality In Ancient India

    by Amitava Maity
    1 item Last modified August 27, 2011

    Study of sexuality in ancient India

  • Cover of: The Chinese version of Dharmapada

    The Chinese version of Dharmapada

    by Amitava Maity
    1 item Last modified August 27, 2011

    English translation of Fa Jyu Jing, the earliest Chinese version of the Dharmapada.

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