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Are you satisfied that your children's current educational environment is bringing out their best potential?
In a world where traditional education systems make little or no accommodation for individual learning styles (such as auditory or visual learning), and they're failing to teach even the basics, it's time for parents to take charge of their children's education.
In Reclaiming Education, parents are equipped with practical and immediately...
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Disillusioned by narrow theologies, church dysfunction, and constricted readings of Scripture, people are leaving Christianity in droves. But Jesus describes the reign of God as a house with many rooms, writes Debie Thomas, one of the most auspicious voices in religious writing today. In this work of sprawling spiritual and literary imagination, Thomas claims that wherever God dwells, there is expansiveness and belonging.
Thomas knows what a cramped...
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An ideal introduction to the history of Buddhism.
Andrew Skilton - Senior Research Fellow in Buddhist Studies, Kings College, London - explains the development of the basic concepts of Buddhism and its spread across the continents during its 2,500 years of history.
He begins with a close look at Buddhism in India, where it flourished until the 12th/13th century CE, charting the growth of different schools and practices. By the time it disappeared...
4) Born to Fly
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Human beings are not born to creep and craw on Earth like caterpillars. They are born to transform into butterflies and become free. Through intention, learning, and wisdom, this freedom is possible for each one of us.
Throughout history, the wisdom of Zarathustra has spread and impacted a variety of different belief systems. His wisdom has inspired and guided Greeks, Romans, Jews, Muslims, and Christians. Before the time of Zarathustra, people worshiped...
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The book Kathasaritsagara has been created by Soma Deva. It consists of 21,500 shlokas.
This book Kathasaritsagara has been divided into 18 lambakaas, and those 18 lambakaas are still more divided into 125 Tharanga's.
Some lambakaas are very big, while some are very small.
If there are 115 Shlokas in the 11th Lambaka, there are around 4925 Shlokas in 12th Lambaka.
During ancient times from the mouth of Lord Shiva, this story got birth. Those who...
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This classic memoir by the remarkable French explorer and Buddhist Alexandra David-Néel is the one of the greatest Buddhist travelogues of the 20th century. She was the first European woman to meet the Dalai Lama (in the 1920s) and in 1924 became the first to enter the forbidden Tibetan capital, Lhasa.
She had already spent a decade travelling through China and Sikkim, India; lived and meditated in a cave on the Tibetan border; and everywhere learned...
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Descubra la magia de los egúns a través de la veneración ancestral, los guías espirituales, Odun Egungún, la reencarnación y otros elementos de la espiritualidad yoruba.
¿Le interesa la tradición de los egún?
¿Desea encontrar formas de honrar a sus antepasados como los yoruba?
¿Quiere adentrarse en el mundo de la espiritualidad yoruba?
Egún es el espíritu de los antepasados difuntos y tiene un papel
undamental en las prácticas espirituales...
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This book offers a complete translation of the Majjhima Nikaya, or Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, one of the major collections of texts in the Pali Canon, the authorised scriptures of Theravada Buddhism. This collection - among the oldest records of the historical Buddha's original teachings - consists of 152 suttas or discourses of middle length, distinguished as such from the longer and shorter suttas of the other collections.
The Majjhima...
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It is widely accepted that the Sutta Nipata contains the earliest recorded version of the Buddha's teaching. It is an anthology of poetry and prose - 70 titled suttas of varied instruction and temperament arranged in five chapters.
At the start are two of its most famous suttas: The Snake, in which the actions of the practising bhikkhu approaching liberation is likened to a snake that 'leaves its old, worn-out skin'; and The Rhinoceros Horn, which...
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This rich selection of the Buddha's teaching, taken from the Pali canon, remains one of the finest of the classic Buddhist anthologies in English.
F. L. Woodward, a key translator of the first half of the 20th century was a committed Buddhist as well as a scholar, and in Some Sayings of the Buddha, he created a handbook for succeeding generations, incorporating the main elements of the Buddha's life, views and recommendations.
For this recording...
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Religion is the lowest stage in the development of knowledge, and is therefore the result of the mental rectitude, fear and awe that primitive man experienced when viewing the wonders of nature. Auguste Comte (1798 - 1857).
The book The Satanic Kerygma contains a godless, satanic doctrine, a theology of godlessness - the biblical mystery of godlessness.
It constitutes a study of theistic delusional truths and the path of man's transformation to...
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What is the purpose of studying history? How do we reflect on contemporary life from a historical perspective, and can such reflection help us better understand ourselves, the world around us, and the God we worship and serve?
Written by an accomplished historian, award-winning author, public evangelical spokesman, and respected teacher, this introductory textbook shows why Christians should study history, how faith is brought to bear on our understanding...
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This remarkable collection of 73 verses contained in the 'Khuddaka Nikaya' section of the Pali Canon dates from the BC 6th century. It is said to be the earliest voices of women in recorded history. The verses, some brief, some more extended, are the utterances of the bhikkhunis, the nuns at the time of the Buddha, concerning their life and their 'awakening'.
Often they give a penetrating insight to the life of women in ancient India: high-ranking...
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This unique biography, told in a lively manner through six 'voices', presents the Buddha's revolutionary solution for humanity that lends to the end of ill will, craving and delusion.
It goes back to the earliest sources of the Buddha's life and teachings, drawing as it does from the Pali Canon which was said to record the words that the Buddha spoke, the events that happened, and his specific teachings on which the world-wide religion was based.
It...
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The book Kathasaritsagara has been created by Soma Deva. It consists of 21,500 shlokas.
This book Kathasaritsagara has been divided into 18 lambakaas, and those 18 lambakaas are still more divided into 125 Tharanga's.
Some lambakaas are very big, while some are very small.
If there are 115 Shlokas in the 11th Lambaka, there are around 4925 Shlokas in 12th Lambaka.
During ancient times from the mouth of Lord Shiva, this story got birth. Those who...
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The Numbered Discourses (A?guttara Nikaya) is the last and longest of the four primary divisions of the Sutta Pi?aka, (Baskets of Discourses) that make up the main original teachings of the Buddha.
The word a?guttara literally means 'up by one factor', i.e. 'incremental'. It refers to the fact that the discourses are arranged by numbered sets, with the numbers increasing by one. It is divided into 11 Books (nipata), each arranged in varying number...
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Beginning in the 2nd century C.E., anonymous Christian authors wrote more than twenty books called 'Acts'. They contained stories about the adventures of the first Christian heroes and the first Christian sects.These books pretended to be history books, but the faithful transmission of historical facts was never their aim. The historical background in them was to convey religious propaganda to the readers. These writings were created in such a way...
18) El Noble Corán
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El Corán fue revelado al profeta Mahoma hace 1400 años. Es la autoridad suprema del Islam y la fuente de toda la enseñanza islámica; es un texto sagrado y un libro de orientación que establece el credo, los rituales, la ética y las leyes de la religión islámica. Ha sido uno de los libros más influyentes de la historia de la literatura.
Esta producción incluye la recitación en árabe seguida de la traducción al español.
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The classic spiritual travelogue by one of Tibet's best-known explorers, The Way of the White Clouds is the remarkable narrative of a pilgrimage which could not be made today.
In 1948, Lama Anagarika Govinda made an unforgettable journey into Tibet before its invasion by the Chinese. His unique account is not only a spectacular and gloriously poetic story of exploration and discovery; it is also invaluable for its sensitivity and clearly presented...
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Do you believe that spirits do exist? Do you believe that the Spirit of God and his angels could really save us in times of distress?
Larna Woods as a child had already been communicating with the spirits and even played with them. Her family, however, didn't believe she could interact with these beings, thinking these were just all in her mind. As she grew up, she wasn't aware that this was a "gift" until she met a nun who was visiting her mother's...