Eastern Models of Consciousness

Hinduism   Buddhism    Avatars     Gurus & Discipleship   Sufism   Zen   Taoism   Integration of Eastern/Western Models   Modern Contributions

Hinduism

Swami Prabhavananda & Christopher Isherwood
        Bhaghavad-Gita (1972) (1944)
        How to Know God: The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali (1953)
        Shankara's Crest-Jewel of Discrimination (1953)

William Buck
        Ramayana (1976)
        Mahabharata (1973)

Clive Johnson (Ed.)
        Vedanta: An Anthology of Hindu Scripture, Commentary, and Poetry (29 articles) (1971)

Pravrajika Vrajaprana (Ed.)
        Living Wisdom: Vedanta in the West (43 articles) (1994)

Swami Prabhavananda & Frederick Manchester
        The Upanishads (1957) (1948)

Patrick Olivelle
        The Upanishads (1996)

Amal Bhakta
        Mystical Stories from the Bhagavatam (1999)

Buddhism

Lama Anagarika Govinda
        The Psychological Attitude of Early Buddhist Philosophy (1974) (1961)
        Foundations of Tibetan Buddhism (1978) (1960)
        A Living Buddhism for the West (1990)
        Insights of a Himalayan Pilgrim (1991)

Christmas Humphreys
        Studies in the Middle Way (1940)
        Karma and Rebirth (1943) (1983)

Edwin A. Burtt
        Teachings of the Compassionate Buddha (1955) (1982)

Juan Mascaró
        The Dhammapada (1973)

Avatars

Ramakrishna

Christopher Isherwood
        Ramakrishna and His Disciples (1965) (1980)

Swami Chetanananda
        Ramakrishna: As We Saw Him (1990)

Swami Nikhilananda
        The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (19xx)

Swami Gambirananda
        The Apostles of Ramakrishna

Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda
        Hinduism
        Karma-Yoga and Bhakti Yoga (1955)
        Jnana-Yoga (1955) (1982)
        Realization and Its Methods
        The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda (7 Vols.) (1847) (1989)

Shivananda

Swami Vividishananda & Swami Gambhirananda
        For Seekers of God: Spiritual Talks of Swami Shivananda

Swami Lokeswarananda
        Letters for Spiritual Seekers: Letters of Swami Shivananda

Bramananda

Swami Prabhavananda
        Eternal Companion: Bramananda: His Life and Teachings (1944) (1970)

Yogananda

Yogananda
        Autobiography of a Yogi
        Sermon on the Mount
        Man's Eternal Quest

Sri Aurobindo

Robert McDermott
        The Essential Aurobindo

Ramana Maharshi

David Godman
        Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi

Ramana Maharshi
        Talks With Ramana Maharshi (2000) (2001)

Arthur Osborne
        Collected Works of Ramana Maharshi

Mahatma Ghandi

Mahatma Ghandi
        The Way to God
        Ghandi: An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

Erik A. Erickson
        Ghandi's Truth

H.H. The Dalai Lama

H.H. The Dalai Lama
        The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living (1998)
        Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama (1990) (1998)
        The Dalai Lama at Harvard (1988)

Gurus & Discipleship

Lama Anagarika Govinda
        The Way of the White Clouds (1984) (1966)

Christopher Isherwood
        My Guru and His Disciple (1980)

Ram Dass
        Miracle of Love (1991)

Sufism

Idries Shah
        The Sufis (1964)
        Nasrudin

Zen

D. T. Suzuki
        Manual of Zen Buddhism (1935) (1997)

Philip Kapleau
        The Three Pillars of Zen (1965) (1989)

Christmas Humphreys
        Zen Buddhism (1949) (1988)
        A Western Approach to Zen (1971)

Alan Watts
        The Way of Zen (1957) (1989)
        The Spirit of Zen
        Zen
        The Way of Liberation in Zen Buddhism

Taoism

John C. H. Wu
        Tao Teh Ching: Lao Tzu (1961) (1989)

Gia-Fu Feng & Jane English
        Tao Teh Ching: Lao Tzu (1972) (1989)

Alan Watts
        Tao: The Watercourse Way (1975)

 Thomas Cleary
        The Inner Teachings of Taoism (1988)

Integration of Eastern/Western Models

C.G. Jung
        Psychology and the East (1978)
        Psychology and the Occult (1977)

Harold Coward
        Jung and Eastern Thought (1985)

Alan Watts
        The Wisdom of Insecurity (1951)
        Behold the Spirit: A Study in the Necessity of Mystical Religion (1947) (1971)
        The Book
        This Is It
        Nature, Man, and Woman
        Psychotherapy East and West
        The Two Hands of God (1963)
        Beyond Theology: The Art of Godmanship (1964) (1973)
        The Culture of Counterculture: The Edited Transcripts (1998)

Modern Contributions

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
        The Science of Being and Art of Living (1963)

Christmas Humphreys
        Buddhism: An Introduction and Guide (1951) (1988)
        The Buddhist Way of Life (1972) (1990)
        The Buddhist Way of Action (1960) (1989)

Philip Kapleau
        The Wheel of Life and Death (1989)

Chogyam Trungpa
        Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism (1973)
        The Myth of Freedom (1988)
        The Heart of the Buddha (1991)
        Orderly Chaos (1991)

Francesca Freemantle & Chogyam Trungpa
        The Tibetan Book of the Dead: The Great Liberation Through Hearing in the Bardo (1987)

W.Y. Evans-Wentz (Ed.)
        The Tibetan Book of the Dead (3rd Ed.) (1927) (1960)

John Blofeld
        The Wheel of Life (1959) (1988)
        The Tantric Mysticism of Tibet (1970)

Jack Kornfeld
        A Path With Heart (1993)
        Teachings of the Buddha (1993)

Lenore Friedman
        Meetings With Remarkable Women: Buddhist Teachers in America (1987)

Joseph Goldstein
        One Dharma: The Emerging Western Buddhism (2002)

Jonathan Landaw & Andy Weber
        Images of Enlightenment: Tibetan Art in Practice (1993)

Eva Rudy Jansen
        The Book of Hindu Imagery (1993)

V. Hanson, R. Stewart, & S. Nicholson (Eds.)
        Karma: Rhythmic Return to Harmony (25 articles) (1975) (1990)