Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.10, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # UniversityMedia Research and Publishing House ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://universitymedia.org/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Pages - [Home](https://universitymedia.org/) - UniversityMedia is a publishing house that offers services to individuals, private and public institutions such as schools, universities, museums and more... - [About us](https://universitymedia.org/about-us) - UniversityMedia was founded in 2002 with the intention to provide a platform for research and publication of scientific and cultural content. - [Our Authors](https://universitymedia.org/our-authors) - Our Authors and founders Urs App and Monica Esposito along with Richard DeMartino, Steve Antinoff, Johannes Bronkhorst, Helena Blavatsky and M-JF Ozeray - [Michel-Jean-François Ozeray](https://universitymedia.org/our-team/michel-jean-francois-ozeray/) - was born 1764 in Chartres in the Loire valley, and died 1859 in Bouillon, Luxembourg. The son of a wealthy family, Ozeray was primarily interested in history. - [Helena Petrovna Blavatsky](https://universitymedia.org/our-team/helena-petrovna-blavatsky/) - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831–1891) co-founded the Theosophical Society in 1875 and authored the major texts of the movement. - [Johannes Bronkhorst](https://universitymedia.org/our-team/johannes-bronkhorst/) - is a Dutch Orientalist and Indologist, specializing in Buddhist studies and early Buddhism. He is emeritus professor at the University of Lausanne. - [Steve Antinoff](https://universitymedia.org/our-team/steve-antinoff/) - Steve Antinoff was born in 1949. Questions he could not answer led him to train at a Zen monastery in Kyoto. He stayed in Japan for many years. - [Richard DeMartino](https://universitymedia.org/our-team/demartino/) - Zen practitioner and thinker, long-time student of D.T. Suzuki, Shin’ichi Hisamatsu, Paul Tillich, and Reinhold Niebuhr, co-author of the classic Zen Buddhism and Psychoanalysis. - [Monica Esposito](https://universitymedia.org/our-team/monica-esposito/) - (August 7, 1962 – March 10, 2011) was an Italian scholar of Chinese religion specializing in the history, texts, and practices of Daoism (15th - 20th centuries) - [Urs App](https://universitymedia.org/our-team/urs-app/) - Urs App was born in 1949 in Rorschach on the Swiss shore of the Lake of Constance and studied in Freiburg, Kyoto and Philadelphia psychology, philosophy and religious studies. - [Our Books](https://universitymedia.org/our-books/) - This is an overview of all the books published by UniversityMedia. The books are divided in different series. Get in touch with us to find out more. - [Zen Encounters](https://universitymedia.org/galleries/galleries-04/) - Zen Encounters. Essays and Conversations Overview By Richard DeMartino (1922–2013). Dr. DeMartino, Zen practitioner and thinker, long-time student of D.T. Suzuki, Shin’ichi Hisamatsu, Paul Tillich, and Reinhold Niebuhr, was co-author (along with D.T. Suzuki and Erich Fromm) of the classic Zen Buddhism and Psychoanalysis. He was senior associate professor of religion at Temple University, Philadelphia, - [Basket](https://universitymedia.org/basket/) - [woocommerce_cart] - [Checkout](https://universitymedia.org/checkout/) - [woocommerce_checkout] - [My account](https://universitymedia.org/my-account/) - [woocommerce_my_account] - [Wishlist](https://universitymedia.org/wishlist/) - [yith_wcwl_wishlist] - [Home](https://universitymedia.org/home/) - Release Shop Now Release Shop Now Release Shop Now worldwide for orders over $99! THEGEM BOOK SHOP Trending Products Explore Your Fantasy with This Books Explore Collection THEGEM BOOK SHOP Books of the Month Lorem Ipsum. Proin gravida nibh vel velit auctor aliquet. 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Written by Urs App - [Wagner e il buddismo](https://universitymedia.org/wagner-e-il-buddismo) - Il libro Richard Wagner and Buddhism di Urs App (UniversityMedia, 2011) è stato quasi interamente plagiato da Giorgio Tagliabue in Wagner e il nirvana (Roma: Albatros, 2022). - [Richard Wagner and Buddhism](https://universitymedia.org/richard-wagner-and-buddhism/) - Richard Wagner was among the very first Westerners to appreciate Buddhism, he was the first major European artist to be inspired by this religion. - [Richard Wagner und der Buddhismus (German edition)](https://universitymedia.org/richard-wagner-und-der-buddhismus/) - Richard Wagner war einer der ersten Europäer, der den Buddhismus schätzte, und er darf als der erste große Künstler des Westens gelten, der sich von dieser Religion inspirieren ließ. - [The Zen of Tantra](https://universitymedia.org/zen-of-tantra/) - Monica Esposito, one of the West’s foremost scholars of Chinese religions, on the reception of Tibetan Great Perfection teachings in modern China. - [La Porte du Dragon](https://universitymedia.org/la_porte_du_dragon/) - UniversityMedia PDF edition (original typescript with handwritten emendations and comments by the author and preface by the editor) - [Schopenhauers Kompass (German edition)](https://universitymedia.org/schopenhauers-kompass/) - Schopenhauer war der erste große Philosoph Europas, der schon in seiner Jugend tiefes Interesse an asiatischen Philosophien und Religionen zeigte. - [Blavatsky on Buddhism](https://universitymedia.org/blavatsky-on-buddhism/) - Blavatsky on Buddhism presents 31 interviews, letters, and articles of Helena Blavatsky, the co-founder and preeminent thinker of the Theosophical Society. - [The Zen Understanding of Man](https://universitymedia.org/the-zen-understanding-of-man/) - DeMartino’s analysis in this book of the Zen resolution to man’s fundamental problem and of the basic features of Zen methodology. - [Facets of Qing Daoism](https://universitymedia.org/facets-of-qing-daoism/) - Modern Daoism has its roots in Daoist movements of the Qing dynasty (1644–1911), research on premodern Daoism had been largely neglected. - [Creative Daoism](https://universitymedia.org/creative-daoism/) - Monica Esposito describes in this book how Daoist masters and historiographers in China invented a glorious patriarchal lineage and a system of ordination. - [Absorption](https://universitymedia.org/absorption/) - This book argues for the central role played by absorption in the functioning of the human mind. - [Schopenhauer’s Compass](https://universitymedia.org/schopenhauers-compass/) - Schopenhauer was the first major Western philosopher to take Asian thought seriously. He became a key figure of the Western discovery of Asian philosophies and religions. - [The First Western Book on Buddhism and Buddha](https://universitymedia.org/the-first-western-book-on-buddhism-and-buddha/) - The ancient Greeks received scant information about a religion that we now identify as Buddhism, its real discovery by Westerners began in 16th century Japan. - [The Cult of Emptiness](https://universitymedia.org/the-cult-of-emptiness/) - What did Europeans first learn about Buddhist thought? When and where did this discovery take place and who was involved in it? - [Les Misérables](https://universitymedia.org/les_miserables/) - This book is written for those inspired by the musical and movie versions of Les Misérables who have not yet tackled Victor Hugo’s 1200-page masterpiece. - [Zen Encounters](https://universitymedia.org/zen-encounters/) - Richard DeMartino, the author, was singularly fortunate to meet and converse with some of the most outstanding Zen teachers of the twentieth century. - [Human Nature and Zen](https://universitymedia.org/human-nature-and-zen/) - Richard DeMartino explains what makes us members of the species homo sapiens sapiensunique and what Zen Buddhism has to do with this.