Atisa and Tibet Motilal Banarsidass The purpose of the practice

The purpose of the practice of Yoga is to give your life a boost and to put your spiritual progress in first gear

There is also no inconsistency in holding that although the self is a spiritual substance

He was awarded Padma Bhushan by the Government of India in 1974

I have provided the original text in the endnotes in the case of shorter passages

Preface to Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition v   Preface vii   Introduction xvii   Part I: Greek and Medieval Philosophy   Chapter 1: The Nature of Greek Philosophy Jan-30 Chapter 2: Greek System 31-113 Chapter 3: Semi-Socratic and Greco-Roman Ethics 114-140 Chapter 4: Medieval Philosophy 141-178 Chapter 5: Summary of Some Important Topics in Greek and Medieval Philosophy 179-190   Part II: Greek and Medieval Philosophy   Chapter 1: Francis Bacon (1561-1626) 193-198 Chapter 2: Rene Descartes (1596-1650) 199-218 Chapter 3: Benedict de Spinoza (1632-1677) 219-244 Chapter 4: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz (1646-1716) 219-264 Chapter 5: John Locke (1632-1704) 265-289 Chapter 6: George Berkeley (1685-1753) 290-313 Chapter 7: David Hume (1711-1776) 314-329 Chapter 8: Immanuel Kant (1711-1804) 330-399 Chapter 9: George Wilhelm Eriedrich hegel (1770-1831) 400-452 Chapter 10: Francis Herbart Bradley (1846-1924) 453-538   Questions for Exercise 539-560   Index 561

Atisa and Tibet Motilal Banarsidass The purpose of the practiceThe book opens with a full account of the baffling personality of the great Bengali Pandit Atisa or Dipamkara Srijnana, the greatest of the teacher reformers of Tibetan Buddhism. The author proceeds to portray the Tibetan background of early Buddhism and gives an account of the early history of Tibet and Indo Tibetan connections, together with a study of Buddhism in Tibet from the seventh century onwards right down to the time of Atisa in the eleventh