The Yoga of Love offers a new translation of the dramatic love poem the R?sa L?l?, which is the ultimate focal point of one of the most treasured Sanskrit texts of India, the Bh?gavata Pur??a. Judged a literary masterpiece by Indian and Western scholars alike, this work of poetic genius and soaring religious vision is one of the world's greatest sacred love stories and, as Graham M.
The contributors to this volume offer new insights on Aristotelian perspectives of courage, as well as Stoic, Confucian, Christian or Thomist, Jewish, and African perspectives of the virtue. They offer important observations about the communal, ethnic, and religious elements of courage.
The Way of the Bodhisattva, composed by the monk and scholar Śāntideva in eighth-century India, is a Buddhist treatise in verse that beautifully and succinctly lays out the theory and practice of the Mahayana path of a bodhisattva.