title: Wisdom: 365 Thoughts from Indian Masters (Offerings for Humanity)
author:  Danielle Fllmi 
description: The official photographers of the Dalai Lama train their lenses on modern India and package nearly 400 images into a weighty volume of colorful spreads, one for each day of the year. Ranging from majestic landscapes to intimate portraits, each picture is displayed alongside musings from a venerated Indian thinker or poet whose words resonate with some image or mood conveyed in the photograph. A quote from Gandhi accompanies a snapshot of a female silhouette with hands pressed against a gigantic boulder: "Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." Gandhis aphorisms crop up repeatedly; other muses include Krishnamurti, Buddha and the Dalai Lama himself. Capturing a mosaic of scenesfrom the bright and whimsical to the pensive and shadowy, and from tranquil nature scenes to bustling bazaarsthe photographs depict the multi-faceted mystique of India, cradle of Eastern religion and font of spirituality. All in all, this is a lyrical expression of wisdom borne of and shaped by a cultures rich heritage.<br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text: DEDICATION
  To my friends and hosts
  James & Margaret Sainsbury
  
  SATISH KUMAR
  SOIL · SOUL · SOCIETY
  a new trinity for our time
  
  Satish Kumar elucidates the eastern wisdom for the west. In a nutshell, he says that
  caring for the natural environment (Soil), maintaining personal wellbeing (Soul) and
  upholding human values (Society) are the moral imperatives of our time. This book
  shows that this holistic vision is enshrined in the ancient philosophies of Hindu,
  Buddhist and Jain traditions of India which were revived for our time by Mahatma
  Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore. In turn these ideas were brought to the west by
  E.F. Schumacher in his book, Small is Beautiful.
  To facilitate the emergence of a new sustainable future we need to bring about an
  educational transformation by replacing the three ‘R’s (Reading, Writing, and
  Arithmetic) with three ‘H’s (education of Head, Heart and Hands). This book offers a
  recipe and guidance for a gentle revolution in our thinking and in our way of life.
  