Wednesday, February 1, 2012

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Death of Andre Alexander



Dear Friends and Colleagues,
 
For those who have not already heard the sad news, it is with profound regret that I announce the death, on 21 January, of Andre Alexander.

Accompanying this message is a notice by Per Sørensen, with an addendum by Janet Gyatso. More extensive obituaries will be published in due course.
 
The funeral will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday 9 February at:
Friedhof Mehringdamm 21, in the chapel opposite Finanzamt, Berlin. For directions see: http://goo.gl/Kc7hb
 
Andre's contribution to the documentation and conservation of traditional Tibetan architecture is inestimable.

You can also view the obituaries online at http://bit.ly/zz9ERT
 
Charles Ramble

 

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Dr Andre Alexander
17 January 1965 – 21 January 2012


We are all workmen: prentice, journeyman, or master, building you – you towering nave.


And sometimes there will come to us a grave wayfarer, who like a radiance thrills
 the souls of all our hundred artisans, trembling as he shows us a new skill.

                                                                               Rainer-Maria Rilke
 

Andre – A True Heritage Hero


It is with profound regret and in deepest sorrow that we announce the death of Dr Andre Alexander at the age of 47 in Berlin.
 
Andre had just turned 47 this very week, and was full of enthusiasm and commitment. Over 10 years ago, he co-founded the successful, widely acclaimed and much respected Tibet Heritage Fund (THF) committed to the preservation and documentation of the unique Tibetan architectural monuments and heritage. The organization has launched a large number of rehabilitation projects throughout Central Asia intended to benefit and assist the local residents.
 
His organization has been involved in assisting local communities in the wake of natural disasters, earthquakes (Yushu) and flashfloods (Ladakh and Sikkim), and initiated countless conservation and restoration projects of sanctuaries and monasteries in India, Tibet, China and Mongolia.This year he was also embarking on a project in Bhutan.
 
His enthusiasm ensured that the THF won a steadily larger number of supporters who all shared Andre's quest and vision of preserving the wonderful Tibetan architectural heritage.
 
A number of still unpublished books now await publication. A large study on vernacular housing and architecture in Lhasa (originally submitted as doctoral thesis in Berlin), the second volume of the Tibet Heritage Fund's conservation inventory is due to appear in 2012 with Serindia Publications and another large study on Tibetan imperial architecture was under way.  We hope that this work too will soon be completed.
 
Andre was a passionate and colourful person, totally committed to his vision of documenting and preserving, against all odds, the unique Tibetan architecture.
 
He and his most dedicated friends at THF received numerous awards for their commitment: they twice received the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards and the Global Vision Award for a number of their cultural heritage projects, and they were featured on BBC's series on Heritage Heroes 2011. 
 
Andre – You will be sorely missed. RIP.

                                                                                        Per Sørensen


 
Andre Alexander also led the Tibet Heritage Fund in heroic and inspired efforts to protect and restore the massively important old quarter in the Tibetan capital at Lhasa, especially around the Barkor. During his years working in Lhasa he was able to secure permission and mobilize the resources to tear up (and then replace) the main circumambulatory street in the Barkor and lay down sewage and plumbing pipes, in order to improve the sanitation and living conditions for the people who are still occupying many of the old houses in this quarter. He also led efforts to restore many historically significant buildings in the area using a combination of traditional materials and techniques with modern ecologically-sound methods. This included extended initiatives to work with traditional Tibetan builders, painters and carpenters whom Alexander identified and brought to Lhasa to work with him, many of them in their 70s and 80s.   Among the temples and old governmental buildings from the Ganden Phodrang period that he worked on with his team and restored is the magnificent Meru Nyingpa temple behind the Jokhang.
 

                                                                                          Janet Gyatso

 

 


 






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Monday, January 30, 2012

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Saturday, January 21, 2012

The Teachings of the Odd-Eyed One- A Study and Translation of the Virupaksapancasika, with the Commentary of Vidyacakravartin/ David Peter Lawrence . Rs. 600

The teachings of the odd-eyed one:

a study and translation of the Virūpākṣapañcāśikā, with the commentary of Vidyācakravartin
Front Cover
David Peter Lawrence Virūpākṣanāthapāda Vidyācakravartin
 
The Teachings of the Odd-Eyed One- A Study and Translation of the Virupaksapancasika, with the Commentary of Vidyacakravartin/ David Peter Lawrence . Divine Books.Delhi India.(Sale in India only) Rs. 600   (Lala Murari Lal Chharia Oriental series)
 
 
"This book offers the first published translation of the contemplative manual Virupaksapancasika, written circa the twelfth century CE, and the commentary on it, Vivrti by Vidyacakravartin. These late works from the Pratyabhijna tradition of monistic and tantric Kashmiri Saiva philosophy focus on means to deindividualize and disclose the primordial, divine essential natures of the human ego and body-sense." "David Peter Lawrence situates these writings in their medieval, South Asian religious and intellectual contexts. He goes on to engage Pratyabhijna philosophical psychology in dialogue with Western religious and psychoanalytic conceptions of identity and. "narcissism," and also demonstrates the Saiva tradition's strong concern with ethics. The richly annotated translation and glossary illuminate the texts for all readers."
 
 
 
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Nagarjuna and the Philosophy of Openness/ Nancy McCagney. ,Divine Books.Delhi.India Rs. 400 (Divine Buddhist Texts and Studies Series)

Nāgārjuna and the philosophy of openness

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Nancy McCagney   Nāgārjuna
 -  Nagarjuna and the Philosophy of Openness/ Nancy McCagney. ,Divine Books.Delhi.India Rs. 400 (Limited Sales Area.)
 
Divine Buddhist Texts and Studies Series
     234 pages
In this innovative study of the philosopher Nagarjuna, Nancy McCagney demonstrates that the concept of space ('akasa') in early Indian Mahayana Buddhism is the root metaphor for Nagarjuna's understanding of 'sunyata', or openness. Nagarjuna's use of the term 'sunyata' was new, and contrasted with the word's use in Pali Buddhist literature. By using the word to mean 'openness,' Nagarjuna was able to elucidate, through a deeper analysis of impermanence, a consistent philosophical foundation for the truth and efficacy of Gautama's Middle Way. McCagney's book will be important for those studying Indian philosophy, Buddhism, and the philosophy of religion.
 
 
 
 
 
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Hindu Bioethics for the Twenty First Century/ S. Cromwell Crawford. ,Divine Books.Delhi

Hindu bioethics for the twenty-first century

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S. Cromwell Crawford
Hindu Bioethics for the Twenty First Century/ S. Cromwell Crawford.    -.Divine Books .Delhi.India (Sri Garib Dass Ayurveda Series)
 - 226 pages  (For Sale in India only)  Rs.600-00
Explores contemporary controversies in bioethics from a Hindu perspective. S. Cromwell Crawford breaks new ground in this provocative study of Hindu bioethics in a Western setting. He provides a new moral and philosophical perspective on fascinating and controversial bioethical issues that are routinely in the news: cloning, genetic engineering, the human genome project, reproductive technologies, the end of life, and many more. This Hindu perspective is particularly noteworthy because of India's own indigenous medical system, which is stronger than ever and drawing continued interest from the West. The Hindu bioethics presented in this book are philosophically pluralistic and ethically contextual, giving them that conceptual flexibility which is often missing in Western religions, but which is demanded by the twenty-first century's complex moral problems. Comprehensive in scope and passionate in nature, Crawford's study is an important resource for analyses of practical ethics, bioethics, and health care.
 
 
 
 
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The Advaita Worldview- God, World, and Humanity/ Anantanand Rambachan,Divine Books.Delhi.

The Advaita Worldview-  God, World, and Humanity/  Anantanand Rambachan
 
 

The Advaita worldview:

God, world, and humanity
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Anantanand Rambachan 

The Advaita Worldview- God, World, and Humanity/ Anantanand Rambachan,Divine Books.Delhi. Rs.400-00

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(Lala Murari Lal Chharia Oriental series.)

145 pages
 
 
In this book, Anantanand Rambachan offers a fresh and detailedperspective on Advaita Vedania, Hinduism's most influential and revered religious tradition. Rambachan, who is both a scholar and an Advaitin, attends closely to the Upanisads and authentic commentaries of Sankara to challenge the tradition and to reconsider central aspects of its current teachings. His reconstruction and reinterpretation of Advaita focuses in particular on the nature of
 
 
 
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India
 
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New Released for Sale In India.

New Released for Sale In India.
 

1)The Teachings of the Odd-Eyed One- A Study and Translation of the Virupaksapancasika, with the Commentary of Vidyacakravartin/ David Peter Lawrence . Rs. 600
 
2) The Advaita Worldview-  God, World, and Humanity/  Anantanand Rambachan. Rs. 400
 
3)Hindu Bioethics for the Twenty First Century/ S. Cromwell Crawford. Rs. 600
 
4)Nagarjuna and the Philosophy of Openness/ Nancy McCagney. Rs. 400
 
Varun Gupta
 
Divine Books
40/5, Shakti Nagar,
Delhi 110007
India
 
Ph. No. 011 42351 493
divinebooksindia@gmail.com
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