Product Description: Buddhism originated in India more than 2,500 years ago, yet it speaks to the needs of our busy modern lives as if it were created yesterday. Featuring 70 color photos, this celebration of Buddhism presents a fascinating kaleidoscope of the religion's many aspects, including Tantra, Zen, and the Pure Land beliefs of Japan...read more

The third volume in a series on Point Hope, Alaska, Ultimate Americans examines the first encounters between the native Tikigaq people and Anglo-Americans during the nineteenth century. Tom Lowenstein investigates the interactions between Native Alaskans, commercial whalemen, and missionaries in Point Hope, charting the destabilizing elements of alcohol and disease among Native populations, as well as cultural collisions and the eventual mutual assimilation of the groups. An in-depth historical chronicle, Ultimate Americans will be invaluable reading for historians, ethnographers, and anthropologists alike. 

Product Description: Artfully exploring Buddhist beliefs, practices, and art, this comprehensive guide to Buddhism examines all aspects of the religion, including tantra, Zen, and the pure land beliefs of Japan. Challenging secular lifestyles, this book places particular importance on Buddhist wisdom and healing power as an alternative to superficiality and consumerism...read more

Product Description: A beautifully illustrated compendium of places, people, cultures, festivals, and beliefs, this is an homage to an often admired poetic form: the haiku. Embodying the spirit of ancient Japan, this volume includes translations of more than 50 haikus accompanied by photographs, lithographs, and prints of breathtaking landscapes...read more

Product Description: Poetry aficionados will appreciate this beautifully designed and illustrated collection of 200 haiku by the four most celebrated Japanese poets of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries: Basho, Buson, Issa, and Shiki, who modernized the form and coined the very term haiku...read more

Product Description: Here is a photographic celebration of the greatest Buddhist art and monuments—all placed in a rich historical and cultural context. These beautifully presented sacred treasures and relics paint a vivid portrait of this venerable religion, from its point of origin in northern India and outward, through the different kingdoms and empires of central, southern, and eastern Asia...read more

Product Description: Brimming with insights, and featuring sparkling new translations of 50 of the most superb haikus ever written, this opulent collection captures the spirit of the form and opens up its beauty to a whole new audience. Haiku emerged within a great flowering of Japanese arts a thousand years ago, including calligraphy and ink painting, and haiku blended with them to create poetry that is as close to the visual image as language can come...read more

Product Description: Tom Lowenstein's work as poet and as ethnographer (specialising, above all, in the Inuit of Alaska) has always been interpenetrative, the poetic work deeply informed by the scholarly. This volume selects poetry from his whole career to date, concentrating on the faultline where his ethnographic concerns meet his poetic concerns...read more

A richly illustrated guide to the history and mythology of Buddhism introduces the range of beliefs and customs that have spread through Asia under the umbrella of this great religion. Original.

Product Description: A richly illustrated, wide-ranging exploration of one of the world's great religions, this book traces the course of Buddhism--from its earliest days in ancient India to its place in Western society today--explaining its main themes and beliefs...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Reverence for animals and the earth is a common theme that runs through the myths of Native Americans. Many creation myths, for instance, attribute the earth's beginning to varied animals as the turtle, the waterbeetle, and the muskrat...read more

A vivid guide to the history and legends of Buddhism traces its development and growth while explaining how the Buddha's ethical and spiritual teachings have influenced Western thought. Original.

Product Description: For the Tikigaq people of Point Hope, Alaska - the oldest continuously settled Native American site on the continent - the annual cycle culminating in the spring whale hunt shaped every aspect of life for more than fifteen hundred years...read more

Product Description: In this first English-language collection of Tikigaq myths and oral histories, storyteller Asatchaq Jimmie Killigivuk recounts twenty-four tales of legendary and historic shamans.When poet-anthropologist Tom Lowenstein began recording his stories in 1975, Asatchaq was the oldest Tikigaq resident and the community's most authoritative storyteller...read more