Light from the East Eastern Wisdom for the Modern West

by Oldmeadow, Harry

• ISBN13: 9781933316222
• ISBN10: 1933316225
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-17
• Publisher: World Wisdom

Summary

This is a collection of writings about the spiritual meeting of East and West in the modern world including articles by the Dalai Lama, Huston Smith, Frithjof Schuon, Thomas Merton, Titus Burckhardt, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Diana Eck, Gary Snyder and Aldous Huxley. Highlighting aspects of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism that have proved most attractive to Western seekers, it explores the similarities and differences between Eastern and Western traditions while emphasizing respect amongst the adherents of different faiths.

Table of Contents

What can the East offer to the West?	p. 3
Oriental metaphysics	p. 8
The Vedanta and Western tradition	p. 23
A wish for harmony	p. 44
Anti-theology and the riddles of Alcyone	p. 50
The Tibetan tradition : its presiding idea	p. 69
Taoism	p. 95
The private encounter with the master	p. 118
An introduction to Jainism	p. 139
Sannyasa	p. 165
The absolute in the Mahayana and the pure land way	p. 174
Hindu art	p. 193
The Buddha figures at Polonnaruwa	p. 199
Tibetan sacred music	p. 201
The symbolism of the Taoist garden	p. 205
The substance of the teaching	p. 217
Sacredness	p. 220
Sri Ramakrishna and religious tolerance	p. 229
Who speaks for the East?	p. 238
Reflections on time	p. 245
Gandhi and the one-eyed giant	p. 249
Hindu cosmology and modern science	p. 272
On the path, off the trail	p. 277
The imagined community	p. 286
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