Tag search:biography

George Fox, a Christian mystic : texts that reveal his personality

by George Fox
Paperback, 2008
Tags
biography, Christianity, Christianity - Protestant, 17th century, intended audience - adult
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Your library, Adult Materials, The Great Traditions
Barcode
BK-06646
Call number
GT-C-P / Fox

Physician of the soul, healer of the cosmos : Isaac Luria and his kabbalistic fellowship

by Lawrence Fine
Paperback, 2003
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commentary, biography, Judaism, Judaism - Kabbalah, history, history of religion, 16th century, intended audience - adult
Collections
Your library, Adult Materials, Religious Studies
Series
Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
Barcode
BK-08108
Call number
Commentary / Fine

Sufis of Andalusia: The Ruh Al-quds and Al-Durrat al-fakhirah of Ibn 'Arabi

by Ibn Arabi
Hardcover, 1977
Tags
Islam, women mystics, biography, timeline ce 500-1499, Spain, anthology, Islam - Sufism, intended audience - adult
Collections
Your library, Adult Materials, Accounts of the Path, Anthologies
Barcode
BK-03249
Call number
B-A / Arabi

Women of the way : discovering 2,500 years of Buddhist wisdom

by Sallie Tisdale
Paperback, 2006
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Buddhism, women mystics, biography, anthology, intended audience - adult
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Your library, Adult Materials, Accounts of the Path, Anthologies
Barcode
BK-06791
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B-A / Tisda

Holy mothers of Orthodoxy : women and the Church

by Eva C. Topping
Paperback, 1987
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women mystics, biography, anthology, Christianity, Christianity - Eastern Orthodox, intended audience - adult
Collections
Your library, Adult Materials, Accounts of the Path, Anthologies
Barcode
BK-02825
Call number
B-A / Toppi

Jewish tales of holy women

by Yitzhak Buxbaum
Hardcover, 2002
Tags
women mystics, Judaism, biography, anthology, intended audience - adult
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Your library, Adult Materials, Accounts of the Path, Anthologies
Barcode
BK-05211
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B-A / Buxba

Sufi women

by Javād Nūrbakhsh
Paperback, 1990
Tags
women mystics, Islam, biography, timeline ce 500-1499, timeline ce 1500-1900, anthology, Islam - Sufism, intended audience - adult
Collections
Your library, Adult Materials, Accounts of the Path, Anthologies
Barcode
BK-02837
Call number
B-A / Nurba

Christian mystics : their lives and legacies throughout the ages

by Ursula King
Paperback, 2001
Tags
women mystics, biography, anthology, Christianity, intended audience - adult
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Your library, Adult Materials, Accounts of the Path, Anthologies
Barcode
BK-05926
Call number
B-A / King

Spiritual innovators : seventy-five extraordinary people who changed the world in the past century

by Ira Rifkin
Paperback, 2002
Tags
women mystics, biography, anthology, interfaith, interspiritual, intended audience - adult
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Your library, Adult Materials, Accounts of the Path, Anthologies
Barcode
BK-06713
Call number
B-A / Rifki

The keeper : the legend of Omar Khayyam [video recording]

by Kayvan Mashayekh Director
DVD, 2006
Tags
Islam, Islam - Sufism, biography, feature film, Persia, 11th century, intended audience - adult
Collections
Your library, Adult Materials, video recordings
Barcode
DVD-0631
Call number
DVD / Front Desk

The way of the heart the life and legacy of Hazrat Inayat Khan, 1882-1927 [video recording]

by Mischa Scorer Director
DVD, 2010
Tags
Islam, Islam - Sufism, biography, documentary, intended audience - adult
Collections
Your library, Adult Materials, video recordings
Barcode
DVD-0610
Call number
DVD / Front Desk

Lives lived, lives imagined : biography in the Buddhist traditions

by Linda Covill Editor
Paperback, 2010
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Buddhism, biography, commentary, history, history of religion, intended audience - adult
Collections
Your library, Adult Materials, Religious Studies
Barcode
BK-08130
Call number
Commentary / Covill

Making Zen your own : giving life to Zen's golden age ancestors

by Janet Jiryu Abels
Paperback, 2012
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Buddhism, Buddhism - Zen and Chan, biography, China, intended audience - adult
Collections
Your library, Adult Materials, The Great Traditions
Barcode
BK-08129
Call number
GT-B-Z / Abels

Sitting with Sufis : a Christian experience of learning Sufism

by Mary Blye Howe
Paperback, 2005
Tags
biography, women mystics, interfaith, Christianity, Islam - Sufism, interspiritual, intended audience - adult
Collections
Your library, Adult Materials, Accounts of the Path
Series
Many mansions
Barcode
BK-05825
Call number
Biography / Howe

Everyday Enlightenment: Seven Stories of Awakening

by Sally Bongers
Paperback, 2008
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biography, women mystics, anthology, interspiritual, unaffiliated and eclectic teachings, comparative mysticism, nonduality, intended audience - adult
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Your library, Adult Materials, Accounts of the Path, Anthologies
Barcode
BK-06217
Call number
B-A / Bonge

Wisdom comes dancing : selected writings of Ruth St. Denis on dance, spirituality, and the body

by Ruth St. Denis
Paperback, 1997
Tags
biography, women mystics, dance, performing arts, spiritual practice, movement - dance, practice - movement and subtle body, intended audience - adult
Collections
Your library, Adult Materials, Accounts of the Path
Barcode
BK-07018
Call number
Biography / St.Den

The forgotten woman : the untold story of Kastur Gandhi, wife of Mahatma Gandhi

by Arun Gandhi
Paperback, 1998
Tags
Hinduism, biography, women mystics, intended audience - adult
Collections
Your library, Adult Materials, Accounts of the Path
Barcode
BK-07017
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Biography / Gandh

Saint Francis of Assisi : a biography

by Omer Englebert
Paperback, 1965
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biography, Italy, 12th century, 13th century, Christianity, Christianity - Catholic, intended audience - adult
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Your library, Adult Materials, Accounts of the Path
Barcode
BK-06956
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Biography / Franc

The goddess pose : the audacious life of Indra Devi, the woman who helped bring yoga to the West

by Michelle Goldberg
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
Hinduism, biography, India, Russia, United States, Hinduism - Yoga Philosophy, women and religion, practice - yoga asana and pranayama, spiritual practice, 20th century, history — 2 more, history of religion, intended audience - adult
Collections
Your library, Adult Materials, Accounts of the Path
Barcode
BK-06918
Call number
Biography / Devi

The Dalai Lama : a biography of the Tibetan spiritual and political leader

by Demi
Hardcover, 1998
Tags
storybook - biography, Buddhism, biography, Tibet, Buddhism - Tibetan, 20th century, history, intended audience - juvenile
Collections
Your library, Children's Materials
Barcode
BK-06908
Call number
Juv-Bio / Dalai

Conversations with modern yogis : transforming yoga for the 21st century

by Zubin Shroff
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
Hinduism, biography, United States, anthology, Hinduism - Yoga Philosophy, practice - yoga asana and pranayama, spiritual practice, 21st century, intended audience - adult
Collections
Your library, Adult Materials, Accounts of the Path, Anthologies
Barcode
BK-06907
Call number
B-A / Shrof

Buddha volume 2 : The four encounters

by Osamu Tezuka
Paperback, 2006
Tags
Buddhism, biography, literature - graphic novel, intended audience - adult, intended audience - ya
Collections
Your library, Adult Materials, Young Adult Materials, Arts and Letters
Series
Buddha (2, english edition)
Barcode
BK-06895
Call number
Graphic / Tezuk

Visions of a better world : Howard Thurman's pilgrimage to India and the origins of African American nonviolence

by Quinton Hosford Dixie
Hardcover, 2011
Tags
biography, United States, Christianity, Christianity - Protestant, practice - nonviolence, practice - social action, racism, equality, spiritual practice, 20th century, intended audience - adult
Collections
Your library, Adult Materials, Accounts of the Path, Religious Studies
Barcode
BK-06882
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Biography / Thurm

Illusion's game : the life and teaching of Naropa

by Chogyam Trungpa
Paperback, 1994
Tags
Buddhism, biography, 11th century, India, Buddhism - Tibetan, practice - meditation, spiritual practice, meditation - choiceless awareness, meditation - Mahamudra - great seal, intended audience - adult
Collections
Your library, Adult Materials, The Great Traditions
Barcode
BK-06871
Call number
GT-B-Tb / Trung

The receiving : reclaiming Jewish women's wisdom

by Tirzah Firestone
Hardcover, 2003
Tags
Judaism, women mystics, biography, timeline ce 500-1499, timeline ce 1500-1900, Russia, Germany, Poland, anthology, women and religion, intended audience - adult
Collections
Your library, Adult Materials, The Great Traditions, Anthologies
Barcode
BK-06786
Call number
GT-J / Fires

Dakini power : twelve extraordinary women shaping the transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in the West

by Michaela Haas
Paperback, 2013
Tags
Buddhism, women mystics, biography, Tibet, United States, anthology, Buddhism - Tibetan, 21st century, intended audience - adult
Collections
Your library, Adult Materials, Accounts of the Path, Anthologies
Barcode
BK-06863
Call number
B-A / Haas

Mary Magdalen : myth and metaphor

by Susan Haskins
Hardcover, 1993
Tags
commentary, biography, Christianity, women and religion, history, history of religion, intended audience - adult
Collections
Your library, Adult Materials, Religious Studies
Barcode
BK-03800
Call number
Commentary / Haski

Daughters of emptiness : poems of Chinese Buddhist nuns

by Beata Grant
Paperback, 2003
Tags
Buddhism, women mystics, biography, China, anthology, literature - poetry, intended audience - adult
Collections
Your library, Adult Materials, Accounts of the Path, Anthologies
Barcode
BK-05811
Call number
B-A / Grant

Face to face : women writers on faith, mysticism, and awakening

by Linda Hogan Editor
Paperback, 2004
Tags
autobiography, anthology, United States, Canada, biography, women and religion, feminine principle, divine feminine, interspiritual, interfaith, 20th century — 1 more, intended audience - adult
Collections
Your library, Adult Materials, Accounts of the Path, Anthologies
Barcode
BK-06926
Call number
B-A / Hogan

Howard Thurman : the mystic as prophet

by Luther E. Smith
Paperback, 1991
Tags
biography, United States, Christianity, Christianity - Protestant, 20th century, intended audience - adult
Collections
Your library, Adult Materials, Accounts of the Path
Barcode
BK-06833
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Biography / Thurm

The Paradise or garden of the holy fathers : being histories of the Anchorites, recluses monks, Coenobites and ascetic fathers of the deserts of Egypt between A.D. CCL and A.D. CCCC circiter

by Sir E. A. Wallis Budge Translator
Paperback, 1984
Tags
women mystics, biography, Egypt, anthology, monasticism, 04th century, 03rd century, intended audience - adult
Collections
Your library, Adult Materials, Accounts of the Path, Anthologies
Barcode
BK-03333-03334
Call number
B-A / Budge

Jami

by Hamid Algar
Paperback, 2013
Tags
biography, Islam, Islam - Sufism, 15th century, intended audience - adult
Collections
Your library, New Arrivals, Adult Materials, Accounts of the Path
Series
Makers of Islamic Civilization
Barcode
BK-08508
Call number
Biography / Jami

The woman who raised the Buddha : the extraordinary life of Mahāprajāpatī

by Wendy Garling
Paperback, 2021
Tags
biography, Buddhism, women mystics, adoption, lay life - parenting, monasticism, Himalayas, Nepal, India, 1st millennium BCE, intended audience - adult
Collections
Your library, New Arrivals, Adult Materials, Accounts of the Path
Barcode
BK-08542
Call number
Biography / Mahap

Meetings With Mountains

by Peter Sanders
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
biography, anthology, art, photography, social science, Islam, Islam - Sufism, 20th century, 21st century, Middle East, United States — 1 more, intended audience - adult
Collections
Your library, New Arrivals, Adult Materials, Arts and Letters
Barcode
BK-08496
Call number
B-A / Sande

Light of fearless indestructible wisdom : the life and legacy of His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche

by Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal
Paperback, 2008
Tags
biography, Buddhism, Buddhism - Tibetan, 20th century, Tibet, intended audience - adult
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Your library, New Arrivals, Adult Materials
Barcode
BK-08494
Call number
Biography / Dudjom

European Masters: Blueprints For Awakening [book and sampler dvd pak]

by John David Interviewer & Editor
Paper Book with Disc, 2010
Tags
women mystics, Hinduism, biography, Europe, anthology, Hinduism - Advaita Vedanta, interfaith, interspiritual, 20th century, intended audience - adult
Collections
Your library, Adult Materials, video recordings, Anthologies
Barcode
BK-06550
Call number
GT-H-A / Prema

The Wayfarers : an account of the work of Meher Baba with the God-intoxicated, and also with advanced souls, sadhus, and the poor

by William Donkin
Paperback, 1948
Tags
biography, India, unaffiliated and eclectic teachings, 20th century, available online, online book, intended audience - adult
Collections
Your library, Adult Materials, Online Resource, Accounts of the Path
Barcode
BK-06776
Call number
Biography / Meher

Song of the sun : the life, poetry, & teachings of Rumi [sound recording]

by Andrew Harvey
CD sound recording, 1999
Tags
biography, literature - poetry, Islam, Islam - Sufism, recorded teachings, intended audience - adult
Collections
Your library, Adult Materials, sound recordings
Barcode
CD-0821-CD-0825
Call number
CD / Front Desk

Blossoms of the dharma : living as a Buddhist nun

by Thubten Chodron
Paperback, 1999
Tags
women mystics, Buddhism, monasticism, biography, United States, Tibet, anthology, women and religion, 20th century, intended audience - adult
Collections
Your library, Adult Materials, Accounts of the Path, Anthologies
Barcode
BK-06253
Call number
B-A / Thubt

Camaldoli : a journey into its history & spirituality

by Lino Vigilucci
Paperback, 1995
Tags
history, history of religion, Christianity, Christianity - Catholic, monasticism, biography, Italy, intended audience - adult
Collections
Your library, New Arrivals, Adult Materials, Religious Studies
Barcode
BK-08456
Call number
History / Vigil

Threads of awakening : an American woman's journey into Tibet's sacred textile art

by Leslie Rinchen-Wongmo
Paperback, 2022
Tags
biography, women artists, art, textiles, Buddhism, Buddhism - Tibetan, women mystics, 20th century, 21st century, India, Tibet — 1 more, intended audience - adult
Collections
Your library, New Arrivals, Adult Materials, Accounts of the Path
Barcode
BK-08543
Call number
Biography / Rinch

Heart essence of the Khandro : experiential instructions on Bonpo Dzogchen : thirty signs and meanings from women lineage-holders

by Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche
Hardcover, 2014
Tags
Bon, spiritual teachings, women mystics, biography, 08th century, Zhang Zhung, Tibet, intended audience - adult
Collections
Your library, New Arrivals, Adult Materials, The Great Traditions
Barcode
BK-08552
Call number
GT-Bon / Namda

The receiving : reclaiming Jewish women's wisdom / Tirzah Firestone

by Tirzah Firestone
Hardcover, 2003
Tags
Judaism, women mystics, biography, timeline ce 500-1499, timeline ce 1500-1900, Poland, Germany, Russia, anthology, women and religion, intended audience - adult
Collections
Your library, Adult Materials, Accounts of the Path, Anthologies
Barcode
BK-05520
Call number
B-A / Fires

Rumi : turning ecstatic [video recording]

by Tina Petrova Director, Producer
DVD, 2007
Tags
Islam, Islam - Sufism, biography, documentary, intended audience - adult
Collections
Your library, Adult Materials, video recordings
Barcode
DVD-0195
Call number
DVD / Front Desk

Atisa Dipamkara : illuminator of the awakened mind

by James B. Apple
Paperback, 2019
Tags
biography, Buddhism, Buddhism - Tibetan, 10th century, 11th century, Bengal, India, Tibet, intended audience - adult
Collections
Your library, New Arrivals, Adult Materials, Accounts of the Path
Series
Lives of the Masters
Barcode
BK-08480
Call number
Biography / Atisa

The life and teachings of Franklin Merrell-Wolff [streaming video]

by Thomas J. McFarlane
Streaming video, 2015
Tags
CSS teachings, Franklin Merrell-Wolff, California, 20th century, CSS community, nonduality, recorded teachings, mystical philosophy, biography, available online, intended audience - adult — 1 more, streaming option
Collections
Your library, CSS Published, Adult Materials, video recordings, Online Resource
Barcode
YT2015-TM-0621
Call number
Streaming Collection

In Your Light, We See Light: Celebrating the Legacy of Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi [video recording]

by Sally Plone Director
DVD and Streaming, 2006
Tags
Judaism, Judaism - Hasidism, biography, documentary, available online, streaming option, intended audience - adult
Collections
Your library, Adult Materials, video recordings, Online Resource
Barcode
DVD-0426
Call number
DVD / Front Desk

Zen pioneer : the life & works of Ruth Fuller Sasaki

by Isabel Stirling
Hardcover, 2006
Tags
biography, women mystics, Buddhism, Buddhism - Zen and Chan, intended audience - adult
Collections
Your library, Adult Materials, Accounts of the Path
Barcode
BK-07277
Call number
Biography / Sasak

The stations of the religion : a description of the steps of spiritual wayfaring (Sulūk)

by Ibrahim b. A'bd-Allah Niasse
Paperback, 2016
Tags
Islam, Islam - Sufism, exegesis, stages and stations of the path, practice - precepts ethics and virtues, biography, 20th century, Senegal, intended audience - adult
Collections
Your library, New Arrivals, Adult Materials, The Great Traditions
Barcode
BK-08510
Call number
GT-I-S / Niass

Great women practitioners [sound recording]

by Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
CD sound recording, 1996
Tags
women mystics, biography, Buddhism, Buddhism - Tibetan, meditation - Lojong - mind training, dzogchen - Trekchö - cutting through solidity, Tibet, recorded teachings, intended audience - adult
Collections
Your library, Adult Materials, sound recordings
Barcode
CD-0706-CD-0707
Call number
CD / Front Desk
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