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Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood

A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing Empire

By: Matthew W. King

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Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood

A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing Empire

By: Matthew W. King

After the fall of the Qing empire, amid nationalist and socialist upheaval, Buddhist monks in the Mongolian frontiers of the Soviet Union and Republican China faced a chaotic and increasingly uncertain world. In this book, Matthew W. King tells the story of one Mongolian monk’s efforts to defend Buddhist monasticism in revolutionary times, revealing an unexplored landscape of countermodern Buddhisms beyond old imperial formations and the newly invented national subject. Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood takes up the perspective of the polymath Zava Damdin (1867–1937): a historian, mystic, logician, and pilgrim whose life and works straddled the Qing and its socialist aftermath, between the monastery and the party scientific academy. Drawing on contacts with figures as diverse as the Dalai Lama, mystic monks in China, European scholars inventing the field of Buddhist studies, and a member of the Bakhtin Circle, Zava Damdin labored for thirty years to protect Buddhist tradition against what he called the “bloody tides” of science, social mobility, and socialist party antagonism. Through a rich reading of his works, King reveals that modernity in Asia was not always shaped by epochal contact with Europe and that new models of Buddhist life, neither imperial nor national, unfolded in the post-Qing ruins. The first book to explore countermodern Buddhist monastic thought and practice along the Inner Asian frontiers during these tumultuous years, Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood illuminates previously unknown religious and intellectual legacies of the Qing and offers an unparalleled view of Buddhist life in the revolutionary period.

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Columbia University Press

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0231549229

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9780231549226

Treasures of the Thunder Dragon

A Portrait of Bhutan

By: Queen Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck (Consort of Jigme Singye Wangchuck, King of Bhutan)

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Treasures of the Thunder Dragon

A Portrait of Bhutan

By: Queen Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck (Consort of Jigme Singye Wangchuck, King of Bhutan)

Author's personal memoirs, travelogue, history and folklore of Bhutan.

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Penguin Books India

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0670999016

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9780670999019

A Trilogy of Magical Tales

By: R. O. N. S. KING

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A Trilogy of Magical Tales

By: R. O. N. S. KING

A beautiful and original children's book that contains three stories of weird and wonderful characters. It is a classic and will be read over and over again, by children and parents alike...A must for a good read and laughter!

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Lulu.com

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1446140164

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9781446140161

The Soul-pearl

By: R. O. N. S. KING

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The Soul-pearl

By: R. O. N. S. KING

This is a fun book, a children's fairy-story with a difference. Three friends, Crab, Scorpion and Fish, set out to find the Soul-Pearl, which will gie magic to the world. There are also pages to colour in, a magical book!

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1445755424

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9781445755427

The Handbook of Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence

By: Eugene C. Roehlkepartain,Pamela Ebstyne King,Linda Wagener,Peter L. Benson

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The Handbook of Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence

By: Eugene C. Roehlkepartain,Pamela Ebstyne King,Linda Wagener,Peter L. Benson

The Handbook of Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence breaks new ground by articulating the state of knowledge in the area of childhood and adolescent spiritual development. Featuring a rich array of theory and research from an international assortment of leading social scientists in multiple disciplines, this book represents work from diverse traditions and approaches – making it an invaluable resource for scholars across a variety of disciplines and organizations.

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SAGE Publications

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1452261695

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9781452261690

Be More Keanu

By: James King

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Be More Keanu

By: James King

Keanu Reeves: actor, musician, dog lover. He's the internet's boyfriend. The poetic petrolhead. The guru on a surfboard. Part samurai, part samaritan. He is, very simply, 'The One'. 'James has been my movie guru for years and now he's my spiritual guru too! From now on I'm going to ask myself: 'What would Keanu do?' Jo Whiley In this hilarious book of pocket philosophy, film critic and Keanu fan James King reveals what makes Mr Reeves so special. He unpacks iconic films from the Bill & Teds to the John Wicks, as well as the star's own free-spirited life, showing us why the great man with the great hair has all the answers. And how everyone can #bemorekeanu. 'A handsome, cool, enigmatic Gen X'er who never seems to age, James King is the perfect man to write about Keanu Reeves.' Stephen Merchant

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128

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Random House

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147358096X

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9781473580961

Speed Up Your Site

Web Site Optimization

By: Andrew B. King

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Speed Up Your Site

Web Site Optimization

By: Andrew B. King

Discover how to use a variety of techniques to shrink the size of a Web page, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, XHTML, graphics, multimedia, and server-based techniques. Learn from real-life case studies of existing Web sites, practical examples, and code listings throughout the book.

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New Riders

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0735713243

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9780735713246

The Dreams of Neptune

By: R. O. N. S. KING

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The Dreams of Neptune

By: R. O. N. S. KING

This book is a continuation from the third book in this series, the last being entitled...'The Psychology of Uranus.This is about our two heroes, Alex and Richard, having had to escape from a maddened crowd, make their way to a Hippy Commune in Wales, where they get up to their old mad tricks... It's an astrological madhouse!

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Lulu.com

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1446657345

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9781446657348

Rajneeshpuram

Inside the Cult of Bhagwan and Its Failed American Utopia

By: Russell King

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Rajneeshpuram

Inside the Cult of Bhagwan and Its Failed American Utopia

By: Russell King

Russell King has written the most definitive account of this grand American saga. Rajneeshpuram is rich storytelling." —Chapman and Maclain Way, directors of Wild Wild Country In 1981, ambitious young Ma Anand Sheela transported the Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh to the United States to fulfill his dream of creating a utopia for his thousands of disciples. Four years later, the incendiary Rajneeshpuram commune in Oregon collapsed under the weight of audacious criminal conspiracies hatched in its inner sanctum, including the largest bioterrorism attack in US history, an unprecedented election fraud scheme, and multiple attempted murders. Rajneeshpuram explores how this extraordinary spiritual community, featured in the Netflix docuseries Wild Wild Country, went so wrong. Drawing from extensive interviews with former disciples and an exhaustive review of commune records, government and police files, and archival materials, author Russell King probes the charismatic power that Bhagwan (later known as Osho) and Sheela exercised over the community and the turbulent legal and political environment that left commune leaders ready to deceive, poison, and even murder to preserve their home and their master. Rajneeshpuram is a fresh examination of the Rajneesh story, using newly available information and interviews with high-ranking disciples who have never before shared their stories.

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Chicago Review Press

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1641604751

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9781641604758

Secularism

The Hidden Origins of Disbelief

By: Mike King

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Secularism

The Hidden Origins of Disbelief

By: Mike King

Spirituality is a difficult subject in the modern world. Everywhere, from popular media to the university, from the bookshelf to the dinner table, religions are derided or marginalised and public figures, such as Richard Dawkins, set upon anyone who admits to a belief in God. It seems that science and religion are fundamentally at odds and that a mutual respect is unacceptable to either in their parallel pursuit of 'truth'. Yet the majority of Enlightenment authors engaged with both science and spirituality and did not lose their faith. Today we tend to see these authors as not having applied full scientific rigour to their religious beliefs, but are we correct in dismissing this aspect of their lives so easily? In Secularism, Mike King examines the elements of religion, philosophy and science which have contributed to an almost total disavowal of spirituality by contemporary western intellectuals. He engages with a wide range of thinkers, including Pythagoras, Marx, Spinoza, Darwin and Nietzsche, and incorporates detailed studies of a variety of 'spiritual' leaders, some of whom readers are unlikely to have considered in this way before, to uncover why the western world no longer has any interest in devotion or accords it any respect.

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James Clarke & Company

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0227900030

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9780227900031

Early Advaita Vedānta and Buddhism

The Mahāyāna Context of the Gauḍapādīya-Kārikā

By: Richard King

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Early Advaita Vedānta and Buddhism

The Mahāyāna Context of the Gauḍapādīya-Kārikā

By: Richard King

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the doctrines of early Advaita and Buddhism that has important implications for the question of the relationship between Hindu and Buddhist thought. The author examines the central doctrines of the Gaudapadiya-karikain a series of chapters that discuss early Advaita in relation to the Abhidharma, Madhyamaka, and Yogacara schools of Buddhism. The question of the doctrinal diversity of Indian Buddhism is also discussed through an analysis of the concept of 'Buddha-Nature' and its relationship with Vedantic thought.

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State University of New York Press

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1438409044

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Of Rainbows and Clouds

The Life of Yab Ugyen Dorji as Told to His Daughter

By: Yab Ugyen Dorji,Queen Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck (Consort of Jigme Singye Wangchuck, King of Bhutan)

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Of Rainbows and Clouds

The Life of Yab Ugyen Dorji as Told to His Daughter

By: Yab Ugyen Dorji,Queen Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck (Consort of Jigme Singye Wangchuck, King of Bhutan)

Memoirs of Yab Ugyen Dorji on his ancestors and decendants, a merchant family from Bhutan.

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Serindia Publications, Inc.

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0906026490

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9780906026496

Raging Hormones.

By: Ron S. King

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Raging Hormones.

By: Ron S. King

The story, told in the First Person, about a boy and his thirst for the secret andidote to the 'Raging Hormones', a disease brought on by puberty.

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Lulu.com

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184753211X

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9781847532114

The Romantic Misfit

By: RON S KING

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The Romantic Misfit

By: RON S KING

A misfit meets a Guru who teaches him about life and his potential for poetry. He then meets a woman who teaches him to love.

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606

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0244525161

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9780244525163

Back to the Garden

A Novel

By: Laurie R. King

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Back to the Garden

A Novel

By: Laurie R. King

A fifty-year-old cold case involving California royalty comes back to life—with potentially fatal consequences—in this gripping standalone novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: PopSugar A magnificent house, vast formal gardens, a golden family that shaped California, and a colorful past filled with now-famous artists: the Gardener Estate was a twentieth-century Eden. And now, just as the Estate is preparing to move into a new future, restoration work on some of its art digs up a grim relic of the home’s past: a human skull, hidden away for decades. Inspector Raquel Laing has her work cut out for her. Fifty years ago, the Estate’s young heir, Rob Gardener, turned his palatial home into a counterculture commune of peace, love, and equality. But that was also a time when serial killers preyed on innocents—monsters like The Highwayman, whose case has just surged back into the public eye. Could the skull belong to one of his victims? To Raquel—a woman who knows all about colorful pasts—the bones clearly seem linked to The Highwayman. But as she dives into the Estate’s archives to look for signs of his presence, what she unearths begins to take on a dark reality all of its own. Everything she finds keeps bringing her back to Rob Gardener himself. While he might be a gray-haired recluse now, back then he was a troubled young Vietnam vet whose girlfriend vanished after a midsummer festival at the Estate. But a lot of people seem to have disappeared from the Gardener Estate that summer when the commune mysteriously fell apart: a young woman, her child, and Rob’s brother, Fort. The pressure is on, and Raquel needs to solve this case—before The Highwayman slips away, or another Gardener vanishes.

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337

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Bantam

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0593496582

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9780593496589

In the Forest of the Blind

The Eurasian Journey of Faxian's Record of Buddhist Kingdoms

By: Matthew W. King

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In the Forest of the Blind

The Eurasian Journey of Faxian's Record of Buddhist Kingdoms

By: Matthew W. King

The Record of Buddhist Kingdoms is a classic travelogue that records the Chinese monk Faxian’s journey in the early fifth century CE to Buddhist sites in Central and South Asia in search of sacred texts. In the nineteenth century, it traveled west to France, becoming in translation the first scholarly book about “Buddhist Asia,” a recent invention of Europe. This text fascinated European academic Orientalists and was avidly studied by Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche. The book went on to make a return journey east: it was reintroduced to Inner Asia in an 1850s translation into Mongolian, after which it was rendered into Tibetan in 1917. Amid decades of upheaval, the text was read and reinterpreted by Siberian, Mongolian, and Tibetan scholars and Buddhist monks. Matthew W. King offers a groundbreaking account of the transnational literary, social, and political history of the circulation, translation, and interpretation of Faxian’s Record. He reads its many journeys at multiple levels, contrasting the textual and interpretative traditions of the European academy and the Inner Asian monastery. King shows how the text provided Inner Asian readers with new historical resources to make sense of their histories as well as their own times, in the process developing an Asian historiography independently of Western influence. Reconstructing this circulatory history and featuring annotated translations, In the Forest of the Blind models decolonizing methods and approaches for Buddhist studies and Asian humanities.

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Columbia University Press

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0231555148

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9780231555142

Memory's Walk

By: Ron S. King

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Memory's Walk

By: Ron S. King

This book contains a compilation of poetry, spiritual, nature and general. It is a light read for gentle evenings.

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168

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Lulu.com

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1847531679

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9781847531674

A shade of Shakespeare (A book of Sonnets)

By: RON S KING

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A shade of Shakespeare (A book of Sonnets)

By: RON S KING

I have entitled this book of some 300 Sonnets... 'A SHADE OF SHAKESPEARE'. This stems from my admiration for the 'Bard' and his works. If it's said that I have tried to imitate his style then, of course I have. It is soon noticed that, while each sonnet does have three quatrains and an ending couplet, while each line has ten syllables to each, I do not borrow the need of any iambic pentameters. In this light I would call my sonnets 'Contemporary Sonnets.' This work covers the three small books of 100 sonnets in each which are already out there in public domain. I trust that you read and enjoy this book and find it a delicate company during an evening's read. Ron S King.

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1291152415

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9781291152418

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