Introduction : the humbling of Indra -- The birth of Brahman -- Interpreting oriental myth -- West and East -- I and thou -- The myth of the lights -- The ever-burning sacrifice -- The jiva's journey -- The mystical tradition in 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 -- My -- 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 -- 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

1. Mythology
2. Asian
3. Asia -- Religion