Inspiring people to search for their own life path. With

this purpose in mind, Hans Kloosterman decided to write

From snob to Monk. He describes his career in the

corporate world, his entrepreneurship in the area recruitment,

his luxurious life style, several relationships and the

great turnaround. A car accident pointed him towards

his real life path: Buddhism and detachment.

Hans Kloosterman is a Tibetan Buddhist and studies at

the Tibetan Kagyu Vasjrayana Institute in the Belgian

town of H...

Three years after I floated like a question mark around the Vondelpark in my embroidered Moroccan shirt, I zoomed through The Netherlands in a Van Gils suit and a Triumph 2000 Overdrive, with lease contracts, appointment notes, cashbooks and tax correspondence on the seat next to me. Somewhere along the way, the quest for enlightenment had taken an unexpected turn.

Traveling through the Unites States, Jos Lammers reminisces in ’Abandoned Roads’ his five years of devotion to the ‘perfect...

Chanting the Bhagavad Gita is reciting the song of the Lord. This book is specifically for that purpose.

The Bhagavad Gita is presented only in Sanskrit transliteration. The verses are divided into four quarters. While chanting, a short pause may be taken after each quarter. To assist this, words have been appropriately split where needed, conforming to Sanskrit grammar rules.

Chanting the Bhagavad Gita is reciting the song of the Lord. This book is specifically for that purpose.

The Bhagavad Gita is presented only in the Devanāgarī script. The verses are divided into four quarters. While chanting, a short pause may be taken after each quarter. To assist this, words have been appropriately split where needed, conforming to Sanskrit grammar rules.

How were the Ni‘matullāhī masters successful in reviving Ni‘matullāhī Sufism in Shi‘ite Persia? This book investigates the revival of Ni‘matullāhī Sufi order after the death of the last Indian Ni‘matullāhī master, Riḍā ‘Alī Shāh (d. 1214/1799) in the Deccan.

After the fall of Safavids, the revival movement of the Ni‘matullāhī order began with the arrival in Persia of the enthusiastic Indian Sufi master, Ma‘ṣūm ‘Alī Shāh, during the last quarter of the eigh...