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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Smr̥tikaustubhaḥ	Anantadeva	Digest of Hindu religious rites.	OL1047695W
Dharmasindhu	Kāśīnātha Upādhyāya	Digest of Hindu ritualistic codes.	OL1075999W
Rgyud don Rig-ʼdzin dgʼyes paʼi źal luṅ	Dkon-mchog-bstan-ʼdzin Mkhan-po.	Brief introduction to essence of Tantric Buddhism according to Rñiṅ-ma-pa tradition.	OL1079815W
Vedic elements in puranic mantras and rituals	Gauri Mahulikar	Influence and usages of Vedic mantras on Hindu rituals and mythological worship of Hindu deities.	OL1083011W
The Masonic Myth	Jay Kinney	The Masonic Myth by Jay Kinney is an accessible and fascinating history of the Freemasons that sheds new light on this secret fraternity. A nonfiction look at the mysterious and wrongly maligned anci…	OL14951994W
Rje-btsun Ye-śes-rgya-mtshoʼi gsuṅ ʼbum	Ye-śes-rgya-mtsho.	Collected works of Dge-lugs-pa scholar predominantly on doctrines, commentary on Vasubandhu's Abhidharmakośa, study on Abhisamayālaṅkāra of Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikā Prajñāparāmitā, Buddhist…	OL1777375W
sham bha la'i cong sgra	1972 rang sad/ gcan rang sad	Collected rituals practices for the propitiation of protective deities of Sa-skya-pa sect.	OL18152416W
gnas mchog sring mo rdzong gi lo rgyus dang bskor ba'i phan yon mdor bsdus thar lam snang ba'i skya…	kun bzang yon tan bzang po/ nyi sprul 07 kun bzang yon tan bzang po	Description of treasure revelation sites in Khams sring mo rdzong with ritual text; Includes foldout acrostic poem.	OL18152496W
Bkaʼ-gdams gsuṅ ʼbum phyogs bsgrigs bźugs so	Blo-ldan-shes-rab Rngog-lo-chen-po	Collected works of Kadampa scholar's on doctrines, philosophy, rituals, and biographies, etc.	OL18764616W
Daoist priests of the Li family	Stephen Jones	"Along with Jones' moving film Li Manshan : Portrait of a Folk Daoist, this engaging and original book describes a hereditary family of household Daoist priests in rural north China. It traces the vi…	OL19747705W
Ramadan and Id-ul-Fitr	Rosalind Kerven	As darkness falls, a bright new moon rises in the sky: it is the end of Ramadan and time to clebrate Id-ul-Fitr. After a month of 'going without' each day, everyone is looking forward to the fun of e…	OL20976972W
The Mephisto Club	Tess Gerritsen	It's a chilling Christmas greeting for Boston medical examiner Maura Isles and Detective Jane Rizzoli, who swiftly link the victim to controversial celebrity psychiatrist Joyce O'Donnell-Jane's profe…	OL24423889W
Mortal Remains	Henry Scammell	viii, 302 p. : 25 cm	OL2758868W
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Freemasonry	S. Brent Morris	Mysteries revealed … truths uncovered … and myths dispelled.What is the truth about the Masons suggested in Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code? Can Freemasonry really be dated back as far as Babylon? Did …	OL2771236W
Confucianism and family rituals in imperial China	Patricia Buckley Ebrey	x, 272 p. ; 25 cm	OL2959574W
Mengungkap misteri lailatul qadar	Lukman Saksono	Analysis and interpretation of Koran on the Laylat al-Qadr from Indonesian Muslim viewpoint.	OL3889917W
Born in blood	John J. Robinson	Its mysterious symbols and rituals had been used in secret for centuries before Freemasonry revealed itself in London in 1717. Once known, Freemasonry spread throughout the world and attracted kings,…	OL3911481W
Making Virtuous Daughters and Wives	June McDaniel	"Exploring the folk religion of India and the role of girls and women within it, author June McDaniel focuses on the brata (vrata) ritual in which moral lessons are taught and goddesses are revealed.…	OL4646820W
Zab gsaṅ A-ti-yo-gaʼi rnal ʼbyor chen po Sder-naṅ Gter-chen Padma-mkhyen-brtseʼi-ʼod-zer gyi gsun…	Padma-mkhyen-brtseʼi-ʼod-zer Sder-naṅ Gter-chen	Collected works of Sder-naṅ Gter-chen Padma-mkhyen-brtseʼi-ʼod-zer, 1894-1959 on diverse subjects of Rñiṅ-ma-pa doctrines and rituals.	OL5763057W
Reading Against the Orientalist Grain	Syed Jamil Ahmed	Reading Against the Orientalist Grain: Performance and Politics Entwined with a Buddhist Strain is exploratory and self-questioning, crystallized around the post-colonial location of the author. From…	OL9148351W