Grains of Gold, Or Select Thoughts on Sacred Themes (Classic Reprint)

Grains of Gold, Or Select Thoughts on Sacred Themes (Classic Reprint)
Author: Cyrus Augustus Bartol
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2018-01-13
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9780483035249

Excerpt from Grains of Gold, or Select Thoughts on Sacred Themes It is in the hope that the striking illus trations and choicely - expressed sentences, with which these sermons abound, may, through divine grace, unseal the fountains of a spiritual life in many hearts, that this little volume has been prepared. Taken up in the house, or by the way, in the spare moment of business, or the calm hour of retirement, it may whisper a thought which shall be like an angel-visit to the soul. As a present from parents and teachers to the young, or from friend to friend, it may add, to an endeared token of affection, the aroma of a gifted and de vout mind. Those familiar with the ser mons will find here, we doubt not, some of the passages which they had marked; while we shall expect that these Grains of Gold will lead many to the mine from which they have been gathered. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Grains of Gold

Grains of Gold
Author: Gendun Chopel
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2014-01-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 022609202X

“Translated with grace and precision . . . gives us a rare glimpse of how Asian religion and life appeared from the perspective of the Tibetan plateau.” —Janet Gyatso, Harvard University In 1941, philosopher and poet Gendun Chopel sent a manuscript by ship, train, and yak across mountains and deserts to his homeland in Tibet. He would follow it five years later, returning to his native land after twelve years in India and Sri Lanka. But he did not receive the welcome he imagined: he was arrested by the government of the regent of the young Dalai Lama on trumped-up charges of treason. He emerged from prison three years later a broken man and died soon after. Gendun Chopel was a prolific writer, yet he considered that manuscript, to be his life’s work, one to delight his compatriots with tales of an ancient Indian and Tibetan past, Now available for the first time in English, Grains of Gold is a unique compendium of South Asian and Tibetan culture that combines travelogue, drawings, history, and ethnography. Chopel describes the world he discovered in South Asia, from the ruins of the sacred sites of Buddhism to the Sanskrit classics he learned to read in the original. He is also sharply, often humorously critical of the Tibetan love of the fantastic, bursting one myth after another and finding fault with the accounts of earlier Tibetan pilgrims. The work of an extraordinary scholar, Grains of Gold is a compelling work animated by a sense of discovery of both a distant past and a strange present. “The magnum opus of arguably the single most brilliant Tibetan scholar of the twentieth century.” —Lauran Hartley, Columbia University

The Popol Vuh

The Popol Vuh
Author: Lewis Spence
Publisher: New York : AMS Press
Total Pages: 80
Release: 1908
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

A Source Book for Mediæval History

A Source Book for Mediæval History
Author: Oliver J. Thatcher
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2019-11-22
Genre: History
ISBN:

A Source Book for Mediæval History is a scholarly piece by Oliver J. Thatcher. It covers all major historical events and leaders from the Germania of Tacitus in the 1st century to the decrees of the Hanseatic League in the 13th century.

Uncivilisation

Uncivilisation
Author: Paul Kingsnorth
Publisher:
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2019
Genre: Civilization
ISBN: 9780995540262

The Collapse of Complex Societies

The Collapse of Complex Societies
Author: Joseph Tainter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1988
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780521386739

Dr Tainter describes nearly two dozen cases of collapse and reviews more than 2000 years of explanations. He then develops a new and far-reaching theory.