America the Beautiful

Drago, Ross

Asian Humanities Press

The ORIGINAL BLUE DANUBE COOKBOOK, offered in response to an extraordinary demand, is the published version of a handwritten lined notebook that contained blank sheets when it was bought in 1900 in Vienna, Austria. For the next 60 years, Mrs. Margaret Kühnel, a superb cook of the old-fashioned Austrian Empire kind, recorded in that notebook the most popular recipes in her repertory. She never tired sharing her skill with friends, usually in lengthy telephone conversations. When her 80th birthday approached, her son, a professional editor, transcribed her notes, translated them into English, and had them privately printed to surprise her with seeing her own notes as a book along with copies to give away to friends who asked her for her recipes. It was strictly a family affair. Or so they thought. The local newspapers got wind of the story and the persona who had the book tried the recipes and discovered their value. Word got around, and within a few weeks all 1,000 copies that had been printed were gone. A hurriedly printed second run of another thousand went equally fast. At this point, the publishers decided to publish the small book "officially", illustrate it, and share it with a wider public. The book contains the favorites of the famous Viennese cuisine and also the finest dishes customarily served in Vienna but originating in the countries that made up the Austrian Empire before WWI, especially Hungary and Bohemia. None of the recipes are copied from other books, all of them have their own, highly personal slant. Frau Kühnel lived to age 90 but her authentic recipes live on happily preserved in that labor-of-love first privately printed account.

The Original Blue Danube Cookbook: Fine Recipes of the Old Austrian Empire

Margarethe. KUhnel

Five Thousand Years of Korean Art

Ki-Back, Yi and Kim Wong-Young

Neo-Confucianism in Korea (English and Japanese Edition)

Chai-Shin Yu

Catholicism in Korea has a history of two hundred years. The role it has played in Korea is unique in that many of its initiatives have come from the laity, rather than the clergy or the church administration. After a prolonged period of cultural conflict, the number of Catholics has grown substantially over the years and numbers around eight percent of the total population. It is a bit odd then, to find such a paucity of English language materials dealing with the faith within the Korean context. This volume tries to fill the gap.

The Founding of Catholic Tradition in Korea (Studies in Korean Religions and Culture, V. 7)

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

The Mahavamsa is the epic tale of Sri Lanka's founding and early history. It is the least known of all the world's great chronicles, and much less familiar than its Subcontinent forebears, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.The Mahavamsa or "Great Chronicle" describes the founding era of Theravada Buddhism in Sri Lanka. Its sweeping relation of the period from 500 BC through 300 AD details the origins of virtually every religious practice and social institution in Sri Lanka and South India today. Some of these are:The commonwealth that developed between ruler, religion and populace Popular Buddhism's fusion with local shamanistic beliefs and practices The dilution of the caste system after removing its religious proscriptions The great reservoir based irrigation system which made a complex civilization on the island possible The culture which developed from the cultivator mentality of the rice paddy and moral principles of Buddhism The Mahavamsa's literary qualities place it alongside the best of the literature emanating from Subcontinent traditions. While the palace literature of the time was sparse and stilted, and monastic literature was confined to edifying stories about the Buddha, the popular oral storytelling tradition which was the ultimate origin of the Mahavamsa was a very rich brew of fables, folk stories, hearth and fireside songs, incantations worship, animism and the lore of paddy culture. All this life and liveliness found its way into the pages of Mahavamsa.This edition contains the text of the Mahavamsa, plus numerous explanatory notes and commentaries that paint a broad picture of the era in which Mahavamsa was written.

Mahavamsa: The Great Chronicle of Sri Lanka

Douglas Bullis

Thera Mahanama-sthavira

Text: English (translation) 
Original Language: Japanese

Toward a Superconsciousness: Meditational Theory and Practice

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Hiroshi Motoyama

Exercise & Fitness

Origins of Indian Psychology

A brilliant study examining the development of the ancient theoretical psychological thought in India, starting from the pre-Vedic period and its maturation up to the early Buddhist period. It outlines the concept of monism in the Vedas, the Vedic concept of afterlife, the Vedic concept of the human being, in terms of individual identity, vital faculties and the mental organs. It should be of enormous interest to the students of religious as well as modern psychology. "Appropriate for undergraduate and graduate libraries" Choice

N. Ross Reat

Psychology & Counseling

Once upon a Future Time: Studies in a Buddhist Prophecy of Decline (Nanzan Studies in Asian Religions)

An in-depth study of Buddhist theories of the decline and disappearance of their own religion. Nattier's work challenges previous assumptions on this topic and focuses on the critical study of the "Kausambi Story," a Buddhist prophecy of decline, in its Tibetan, Central Asian, and Chinese variants.

Jan Nattier

Buddhism

New Wine: The Cultural Shaping of Japanese Christianity (Nanzan Studies in Asian Religions)

A ground breaking work, this book begins with a chronology of Japanese Socioreligious history, Japanese religions, Japanese Christians and their ancestors. It then looks into the relationship between religion and politics in contemporary Japan and the current state of Christianity in Japan. Lucidly written and generously illustrated.

New wine: The cultural shaping of Japanese Christianity (Nanzan studies in Asian religions)

Reid, David

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