Myths of Light: Eastern Metaphors of the Eternal

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Myths of Light: Eastern Metaphors of the Eternal
by Joseph Campbell

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Table of Contents

Editor's Foreword

Introduction: The Humbling of Indra

Chapter I: The Birth of Brahman

• Interpreting Oriental Myth
• West and East
• I and Thou
• The Myth of the Lights
• The Ever-Burning Sacrifice
• The Vedas
• The Face of Glory

Chapter II: The Jiva's Journey

• The Mystical Tradition of India
• Raja Yoga: The Serpent of the Cakras
• Yoga of the Body, Mind, and Heart
• The Round of Sorrow
• Birth and Rebirth
• The Horror
• The World Soul
• Maya
• Destroyers and Creators
• The Individual in Oriental Myth
• The Mask and the Actor
• Agents of the Eternal
• The Imagery of Rebirth Yoga
• The Journey to the Sun's Door
• Hearing the Intermediate State: The Tibetan Book of the Dead
• Creativity in Oriental Myth
• Avatars of Light: Indian Art
• Light and Dark: East Asian Art

Chapter III: Vessels to the Farther Shore

• Jainism: The Path of Withdrawal
• Hinduism: The Pursuit and Escape of Dharma
• Impersonal Divinity
• Dharma and Sat
• The Stages of Life
• Buddhism: The Flower of the World
• The Life of the Buddha
• Ferryboats

Envoy: The Tiger in the Depths

• The Cry of the Buddha Child
• The Tigers and the Goats

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[This Table of Contents was originally posted to YouAreThat.org. I may have omitted some of the scholarly apparatus from this table of contents, such as Acknowledgements, the Index, etc.]

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