Thom Ashley-Farrand
Thomas Ashley-Farrand has practiced mantra-based spiritual disciplines for twenty-five years and is an expert in the use of Eastern mantras, including Hindu, Buddhist, and Tibetan. He teaches Sanskrit mantra and meditation at Chaffee College in ... [... more]
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Geshe Michael Roach
Michael Roach is a fully ordained Buddhist monk who received his geshe (Master of Buddhism) degree from Sera Mey Tibetan Monastery after twenty-two years of study. A teacher of Buddhism since 1981, he is also a scholar of Sanskrit, Tibetan, and ... [... more]
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Alistair Shearer
ALISTAIR SHEARER did postgraduate work in Sanskrit at the University of Lancaster, after studying literature at Cambridge. He has practiced and taught meditation for many years. He currently divides his time between lecturing and writing on the ... [... more]
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Linda Forman
Born to American Catholic parents, nine-year-old Andrea Forman astounded everyone by demonstrating an inexplicable affinity for understanding ancient Sanskrit texts. Sanskrit scholars verified her accuracy at 95 percent. Not long after, Andrea's ... [... more]
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Eknath Easwaran
Eknath Easwaran is the founder of the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation in northern California and the author of such notable books on meditation as The Bhagavad Gita (in Sanskrit, "Song of the Lord") is the most famous poem in all of Hindu ... [... more]
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Christie McNally
The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali is a classic Sanskrit treatise consisting of 195 "threads," or aphorisms, describing the process of liberation through yoga. Although little is known about Patanjali (most scholars estimate that he lived in India [... more]
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Barbara Miller
Until her death in 1993, Barbara Stoler Miller was Samuel R. Milbank Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures at Barnard College, Columbia University. A leading translator of Sanskrit literature and well-versed in Indian music and art, Dr. ... [... more]
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A Concise Elementary Grammar of the Sanskrit Language: ...
 Classic initial Sanskrit grammar: The classic Sanskrit grammar is, of course, Whitney. It, however, includes Vedic Sanskrit and very rare forms. Jan Gonda provides a basic, understandable grammar that covers everything a first year student needs to know. [... more]
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Teach Yourself Sanskrit Complete Course (book only)
Not a good teaching book: I bought this book when I was just beginning to learn Sanskrit because it was the cheapest thing on the market, and because I read that it had linguistic sidenotes in it (which, being something of a linguistics geek, appealed to [... more]
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The Sanskrit Language: An Introductory Grammar and ...
Superbly writtten.: I love this book for its organization, its exercises, and its explanations. It makes learning Sanskrit easy, and is evidently a labor of love by it author. Author: Walter Maurer Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 425 EAN: 978070 [... more]
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Concise Sanskrit English Dictionary
A few caveats: Let me make clear what is so concise about this book. For one thing, it is exclusively Sanskrit-to-English; there is no English-to-Sanskrit section. For another, the Sanskrit words are written only in Devanagari script, without Roman [... more]
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Samskrta-Subodhini: A Sanskrit Primer
Methodical, patient, clear: This is a very well thought-out text. The author states that it is not intended for self-study, but if you have a facility for languages, have studied an inflection-driven language such as Latin and have had a year of a modern [... more]
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