Experienced experience. Religions of the world. Torchinov E.

Evgeny Aleksandrovich Torchinov - a famous Chinese and a Buddhist, historian of philosophy and culture of China. Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, Head of the Department of Philosophy and Culturology of the East, laureate of the Prize of the St. Petersburg Philosophical Society “The Second Navigation” for the book “Introduction to Buddhism”. And immediately became a scientific bestseller. The book discusses in detail the various types of religious experience, as well as the connection of religion with other forms of spiritual culture: with mythology, philosophy and science. The reader learns about such exotic manifestations of religious consciousness as shamanistic psychotechnics and mysterious cults of the ancient Mediterranean; He will read about various practices in Taoism, Hinduism, Buddhism and other religions of the East and West.