AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL TRADITIONS

Warlpiri  Dreamings and Histories: Yimikirli
Newly recorded stories from the Aboriginal Elders of Central Australia
Fifteen stories from Warlpiri elders, recorded and translated for the first time. These compelling tales confront the perennial issues of human life - origins, adolescence, love, family, incestual conflict, rape, retribution, war, peace, old age and death - with wisdom and eloquence. They reveal the integral spirituality, deeply rooted in the landscape, of the first Australian people. Includes maps and colour plates of traditional art illustrating the stories.
1995  232 pages  $32.95/£17.99 hardback  (isbn: 0-7619-8991-9)

BUDDHISM

The Words of My Perfect Teacher
A complete translation of a classic introduction to Tibetan Buddhism
by Patrul Rinpoche, translated by the Padmakara Translation Group, with a foreword by the Dalai Lama. A practical, witty and anecdotal guide to inner transformation, written by a great lama of the 19th century.
"The Words of My Perfect Teacher offers a solid foundation for the practice of Mahayana, Vajrayana, and Dzogchen... This current translation contains, in addition to the basic text, an informative introduction, copious notes, and a useful glossary of important terms." Steven D Goodman, Graduate
Theological Union, Berkeley, and California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco.
1994  512 pages  $34.95/£21 hardback  (isbn: 0-7619-8995-1)

The Recorded Sayings of Zen Master Joshu
This first full English translation, by James Green, gives the illuminating, stimulating and often provocative replies of this founding Zen (Ch'an) master from North China to the questions of the 8th and 9th century Buddhist monks. His teachings are a vital ingredient in the official koan of Zen and this volume is a key text for any student of Zen Buddhism or comparative religion.
1998  208 pages  $42.00/£17.99 hardback  (isbn: 0-7619-8985-4)
                              $19.95/£          paperback  (isbn: 0-7619-8986-2)

CHRISTIANITY

On the Life of Christ: Kontakia of St Romanos
Chanted Sermons by the great sixth -century Christian poet and singer
Translated with an introduction by Ephrem Lash, with a forward by HH The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I
St Romanos, one of the greatest poets of the Middle Ages, established the kontakion, or chanted
sermon, as the poetic voice of the Byzantine or Eastern Orthodox Church
"The richness of Romanos' metaphor and imagery, the vividness of his dramatic dialogues, the human complexity of his characters, the depth and all-embracing breadth of divine compassion which he puts across - all these will move and delight readers from a wide range of religious backgrounds." Sobornost
1995  304 pages  $23.95/£11.99 paperback  (isbn: 0-7619-8988-9)

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