by Mahatma Gandhi (1909)
Gandhi central political manifesto, Hind Swaraj (Indian Home Rule), written in 1909. In it, Gandhi critiques modern Western civilization, lays out the doctrine of satyagraha, and articulates a vision for decentralized, self-reliant human communities.
Mahatma Gandhi
The autobiography of Mohandas K. Gandhi, covering his life from early childhood through to 1921. It recounts his experiments with satyagraha (non-violent resistance), vegetarianism, brahmacharya, and his spiritual and political evolution fighting for human rights in South Africa and independence in India.
Plato, G.M.A. Grube, C.D.C. Reeve
Plato’s crowning dialogue on the nature of justice, the ideal state ruled by philosopher-kings, the theory of Forms, and the famous Allegory of the Cave.
Mark T. Hoyer
How did an Illinois Methodist homesteader in the West come to create one of the most significant cosmological syntheses in American literature? In this study, Hoyer draws on his own knowledge of biblical religion and Native American cultures to explore Austin's creation of the "mythology of the American continent" she so valued. Austin lived in and wrote about "the land of little rain," semiarid and arid parts of California and Nevada that were home to the Northern Paiute, Shoshone, Interior Chumash, and Yokut peoples. Hoyer makes new and provocative connections between Austin and spiritual figures like Wovoka, the prophet of the Ghost Dance religion, and writers like Zitkala-sa and Mourning Dove, and he provides a particularly fine reading of Cogowea.
Hirakawa Akira
This comprehensive and detailed survey of the first six centuries of Indian Buddhism sums up the results of a lifetime of research and reflection by one of Japan's most renowned scholars of Buddhism. Relying on Pali and Sanskrit sources and on inscriptions from archaeological sites and Chinese translations of Indian texts, Hirakawa balances his review of early Buddhist doctrinal development with extensive discussion of historical background and the evolution of Buddhist institutions. The inclusion of Japanese and Western language bibliographies together with an extensive bibliographic essay by the translator should make this volume especially useful as an introduction to a large corpus of Japanese scholarship on Buddhism which is still not widely known in the West.