主编简介： 罗新，北京大学中国古代史研究中心暨历史学系教授，专业研究方向为魏晋南北朝史和中国古代民族史。专业代表作有《中古北族名号研究》（2009）、《黑毡上的北魏皇帝》（2014）、《漫长的余生：一个北魏宫女和她的时代》（2022），著有旅行文学作品《从大都到上都：在古道上重新发现中国》（2018）、《月亮照在阿姆河上》（2022）和学术随笔集《有所不为的反叛者：批判、怀疑与想象力》（2019）。 作者简介： 约翰·吉姆雷特（John Gimlette，1963— ），英国获奖旅行作家，足迹已遍布六十多个国家，他还是伦敦的执业律师。他的第一本书《充气公仔猪的坟墓》（获希瓦·奈保尔纪念奖）和第二本书《鱼的剧场》被《纽约时报》列入“年度最受关注的100本书”。他定期为《卫报》《泰晤士报》《每日电讯报》的旅行专栏供稿。 译者简介： 赵美园，北京大学在读博...(展开全部)

No one sees the world quite like John Gimlette. In Elephant Complex, he ventures into Sri Lanka, a country only now emerging from twenty-six years of civil war. Beginning in the exuberant capital, Colombo, Gimlette ventures out in all directions: to the dry zones where the island’s 5,800 wild elephants congregate around ancient reservoirs; through cinnamon country with its Port...(展开全部)

沙吉难陀大师，一九一四年，沙吉难陀大师(SRISWAMI SATCHI—DANANDA)出生于印度南部。 沙吉难陀大师，是全球“整体瑜伽”(Integral Yoga)协会创始人，更是一位人人尊敬的瑜伽大师、精冲领袖与和平使者，也被尊封为乌思塔克大师。 曾获得人道主义慈善家奖、反破坏联盟慈善家奖、朱丽叶郝立兹信仰交流奖和两个荣誉博士。此外，更曾担任朱丽叶郝立兹信仰交流奖的荣誉主席。 大师著有：《Intergral Yoga Hatha》、《To Know Yourself》、《Beyond Words》等书；也是两本传记的主角：《Apostle of Peace》和《Portrait of a ModernSage》。 大师为和平奉献一生，无论是个人的和平或全宇宙的和平，并致力于全人类的宗教和谐，是一位人人敬爱...(展开全部)

Ramana Maharshi was one of the most significant spiritual teachers to emerge from India during the first half of the century, and remains widely admired. This recent collection of conversations between him and the many seekers who came to his ashram for guidance contains the essence of his teaching. His concern throughout his long life of imparting his experience to others was ...(展开全部)

Rewriting Buddhism is the first intellectual history of premodern Sri Lanka’s most culturally productive period. This era of reform (1157–1270) shaped the nature of Theravada Buddhism both in Sri Lanka and also Southeast Asia and even today continues to define monastic intellectual life in the region. Alastair Gornall argues that the long century’s literary productivity was not...(展开全部)

This book is a serious study of relic veneration among South Asian Buddhists. Drawing on textual sources and archaeological evidence from India and Sri Lanka, including material rarely examined in the West, it looks specifically at the practice of relic veneration in the Sri Lankan Theravada Buddhist tradition. The author portrays relic veneration as a technology of remembrance...(展开全部)

Among world religions, only Buddhism and Christianity attach a central significance to the role of relics. These two traditions, however, are different in both conceptual and material terms. In Buddhism, the most sacred relics are those considered parts of the cremated remains of the Buddha – a hair, a tooth, a small fragment of bone – or the tiny bead-like relics generated by ...(展开全部)

AN UNPRECEDENTED PORTRAIT OF A GREAT YOGA TEACHER AND THE WAYS IN WHICH TEACHINGS AND TRADITIONS ARE PASSED ON It is a rare and remarkable soul who becomes legendary during the course of his life by virtue of great service to others. Sri K. Pattabhi Jois was such a soul, and through his teaching of yoga, he transformed the lives of countless people. The school in Mysore that he...(展开全部)