The Kama Sutra (Sanskrit: कामसूत्र), (alternative spellings: Kamasutraṃ or simply Kamasutra), is an ancient Indian Hindu text widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behavior in Sanskrit literature written by Mallanāga Vātsyāyana. A portion of the work consists of practical advice on sexual intercourse. The Kama Sutra is the oldest and most notable of a group ...(展开全部)

Bodhisattvas of the Forest delves into the socioreligious milieu of the authors, editors, and propagators of the Rastrapalapariprccha-sutra (Questions of Rastrapala), a Buddhist text circulating in India during the first half of the first millennium C.E. In this meticulously researched study, Daniel Boucher first reflects upon the problems that plague historians of Mahayana Bud...(展开全部)

Bodhisattvas of the Forest delves into the socioreligious milieu of the authors, editors, and propagators of the Rastrapalapariprccha-sutra (Questions of Rastrapala), a Buddhist text circulating in India during the first half of the first millennium C.E. In this meticulously researched study, Daniel Boucher first reflects upon the problems that plague historians of Mahayana Bud...(展开全部)

M. H. Abrams AKA Meyer Howard Abrams Born: 23-Jul-1912 Birthplace: Long Branch, NJ Gender: Male Religion: Jewish Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Author Nationality: United States Executive summary: The Mirror and the Lamp Military service: Psycho-Acoustics Laboratory, Harvard (WWII, classified research) Wife: Ruth Claire Gaynes (married 62+ yea...(展开全部)

M. H. Abrams AKA Meyer Howard Abrams Born: 23-Jul-1912 Birthplace: Long Branch, NJ Gender: Male Religion: Jewish Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Author Nationality: United States Executive summary: The Mirror and the Lamp Military service: Psycho-Acoustics Laboratory, Harvard (WWII, classified research) Wife: Ruth Claire Gaynes (married 62+ yea...(展开全部)

The Platform Sutra comprises a wide range of important Chan/Zen Buddhist teachings. Purported to contain the autobiography and sermons of Huineng (638--713), the legendary Sixth Patriarch of Chan, the sutra has been popular among monastics and the educated elite for centuries. The first study of its kind in English, this volume offers essays that introduce the history and idea...(展开全部)

The Platform Sutra comprises a wide range of important Chan/Zen Buddhist teachings. Purported to contain the autobiography and sermons of Huineng (638--713), the legendary Sixth Patriarch of Chan, the sutra has been popular among monastics and the educated elite for centuries. The first study of its kind in English, this volume offers essays that introduce the history and idea...(展开全部)

The field of semiotics seems like a tower of Babel fraught with newly coined words and exotic uses of ordinary words. This compact resource provides an indispensable key to the specialized vocabulary of a growing international community of scholars in literature, cultural studies, philosophy, anthropology, cinema and women's studies. 487 clear, straightforward definitions shed ...(展开全部)