East Asian and Indian philosophy Books

Dieses Buch ist Teil der Trilogie von Professor Liu Dong über den Rationalismus vor der Qin-Zeit.Aufgrund der einzigartigen Perspektive der vergleichenden Forschung schleicht sich der Autor unter dem starken Kontrast des atheistischen Existentialismus...

Calligraphy Meets Philosophy - Talk 3Introduction(I)The Calligraphy Meets Philosophy series aims to foster a correct and deeper understanding of traditional Chinese calligraphy and philosophy. It does so by having calligraphies of selected classical...

Цагийн хүрдний зам та бидэнд өөрсдийн дотоод чадварыг амьдруулах хийгээд энэ ертөнцийг энх амгалан цогцолсон газар болгоход өөрсдийн зүгээс хувь нэмрээ оруулахад тань зориулсан гүнзгий чадварлаг аргуудыг санал болгож байна. Энэхүү ер бусын...

Нам гүн тааламжтай аль ч газрыг хамаагүй сонгон авч сэтгэлийн амгалан тайван байдлыг олж хүч тамираа сэргээж байхад туслах буюу өөрөөр хэлбэл "төрөлх гэрээ олох" тэгснээр амьдран буй нийгэмдээ үр ашигтай харилцаанд ороход тань туслах бясалгалын аргыг...

Цагийн хүрдний зам та бидэнд өөрсдийн дотоод чадварыг амьдруулах хийгээд энэ ертөнцийг энх амгалан цогцолсон газар болгоход өөрсдийн зүгээс хувь нэмрээ оруулахад тань зориулсан гүнзгий чадварлаг аргуудыг санал болгож байна. Энэхүү ер бусын...

Цагийн хүрдний зам та бидэнд өөрсдийн дотоод чадварыг амьдруулах хийгээд энэ ертөнцийг энх амгалан цогцолсон газар болгох үйлсэд өөрсдийн зүгээс хувь нэмрээ оруулахад зориулсан гүнзгий мэргэн аргуудыг санал болгож байна. Энэхүү ер бусын гайхамшигтай...

‘The Way of the Heart’ is a collection of Jeshua’s teachings, faithfully transcribed from the original channeled audio recordings. It forms the third volume of the five essential ‘Way of Mastery’ texts. Jeshua shares:...

The poems John shares in this collection are deeply personal. They offer a glimpse into decades of devoted practice—living out the teachings of the Buddhist masters of our age. His poems transport readers to a cave in...

Cultures of noble warrior protectors are found throughout all ages of humankind in countless civilizations across the globe. A few brave men and women choose to put the welfare and security of their neighbors ahead of their own, and take to the...

"The author of this book is the great Shadhili Shaykh Sidi 'Ali al Jamal of Fez, Morocco, who died in 1194 Hijrah. The original Arabic title of the book was 'Advice to the Seeker on the Path of Asceticism' or 'Beautiful Rubies in Understanding the...

A Quirin Pinyin Updated Editions (QPUE) Alfred Forke's unsurpassed translation and annotation of the Lunheng 論衡 has been revised and updated to reflect the original order of The Complete Essays of Wang Chong 王充, 27-ca. 97. as handed down from the...

A Quirin Pinyin Updated Editions (QPUE)Alfred Forke's unsurpassed translation and annotation of the Lunheng 論衡 has been revised and updated to reflect the original order of The Complete Essays of Wang Chong 王充, 27-ca. 97. as handed down from the end of...

THE STORY OF ZEN is a complete overview of the ideas, history, evolution, and practice of Zen Buddhism, based on interviews with more than 100 Zen teachers and senior students in Canada, the United States and Mexico. Richard Bryan McDaniel, the...

大学时，夏天的周日午后，喜欢懒洋洋坐在未名湖湖心岛的长椅上，摊开一本书卷，看大师们的美文，好似在智慧的殿堂，叩开一扇扇心扉。那时懵懂无知，时光倏忽，已然千帆而过。世上可看的书太多，皓首穷经，不如通读经典；可请教的人太多，不如师从先贤；营营到白首，不如以生活为瑜伽去体悟修行。大道至简，将先哲的智慧，与自己的人生相印证，烦恼与困惑如烟消云散。本书从日常生活的点滴，以挚友之心，简单之语，融汇老（Laozi）、孔(Confucius)、释（Buddha）、小葵花（Krishna）诸子的智慧，娓娓道来，让你感受一场...

In There Is No Somewhere Else: Insights from the Tao Te Ching, Francis Pring-Mill takes us on a journey up the same mountain from which Lao Tzu pointed out amazing views in his Tao Te Ching. Written over twenty-five hundred years ago, the Tao Te Ching...

众里寻"他"千百度，蓦然回首，那"人"却在《几何原本》处。本书从不同的角度（地理的、物理的、生理的、心理的、真理的）；不同的方面（数学的、文化的、文字的、图符的、宗教的）；从不同的国度（中美俄英埃及）来论述人类社会的起源、演化和走向；从而论证了人类文明的发展史都逃不出两个数字（0,1），两个符号（⊙,十）和一个金字塔的形式与逻辑。本书开创先河，第一次用性染色体的符号（XX,XY）来探论东西方化的异同和人类文明演化的形式。这是一本旅行记，也是一本随想录，还是一本论文集。...

The title “What Are You Doing” is designed to encourage readers to ask that question of themselves in the context of being compassionate (Buddhist) citizens in the modern world of global warming, human over-population, environmental...

This book presents a personal non-religious philosophy of life inspired by the 4th Century BCE Daoist philosopher Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu). In the face of our irremediable not-knowing Zhuangzi suggests we abandon all supposedly definitive declarations of...

Analects of Confucius, is the collection of sayings and ideas attributed to the Chinese philosopher Confucius and his contemporaries.The Doctrine of the Mean is both a doctrine of Confucianism and also the title of one of the Four Books of Confucian...

Argues that Daoism and dandyism, linked by likeminded philosophies of "carefree wandering," deconstruct the puritanism and political correctness sought by Confucianism, Victorianism, and contemporary neoliberal culture.

An introduction to ancient Chinese ideas on how to live a good life.

Posits the origin of a specifically Chinese concept of "word-meaning," and sheds new light on the linguistic ideas in early Chinese philosophical texts.

The ancient concept of spontaneous self-causation (ziran) from Daoism opens a path to understanding human action as self-organizing, attention as effortless, and art as somatic.

Offers the first focused study of the shifei debates of the Warring States period in ancient China and challenges the imposition of Western conceptual categories onto these debates.

Proposes an "intra-cultural philosophy" based on John Dewey's "cultural turn" and promotes Daoist thought as a resource that can help to reconstruct outmoded assumptions that continue to shape how we currently think.

A guide to Buddhism's rich variety of traditions and cultural expressions for educators who would like to include Buddhism in their undergraduate courses.

Assesses John Dewey's visit to China in 1919-21 as an "intra-cultural" episode and promotes "Chinese natural philosophy" as a philosophical context in which to understand the connections between Dewey's philosophy and early Confucian thinking.

Adds new voices to the feminist conversation and brings a rich variety of diverse approaches to Buddhist women's identities, "the feminine," and Buddhist feminism.

Provides a new perspective on important linguistic issues in philosophical and religious Daoism through the comparative lens of twentieth-century European philosophies of language.

A wide-ranging exploration and critical assessment of the work of a major figure in Chinese and comparative philosophy.

Challenges the idea held by many prominent twentieth-century Sinologists that early China experienced a "language crisis."

An encounter between Franke's philosophy of the unsayable and Eastern apophatic wisdom in the domains of poetry, thought, and culture.

Critical reflections on the work of Angus Charles Graham, renowned Western scholar of Chinese philosophy and sinology.

The author demystifies the spiritual path of Eastern Spiritual practices by removing dogma and culture and mystical stories by re-framing concepts to fit the modern, scientifically trained western mind. If you've ever had trouble understanding...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

Much of the teaching many Buddhists receive doesn't really get to the core of our suffering. After years of practice, nothing much really changes. As the 17th century Zen Master Benkei said, "the feeling I get is that of scratching an itchy foot with my...

We suffer from the most insidious kind of addiction — one we don’t even realize we have. It is the addiction to power itself. The Way of Powerlessness by Wayne Liquorman, brings together the...

The author says: "I began my Zen practice in the midst of a life crisis, under the guidance of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. When I asked that Zen Master what I should do about my life dilemmas, he responded, 'Do zazen. Life without zazen is like winding your...

Imam Abü Hamid al-Ghazalı is perhaps the most celebrated Muslim theologian of medieval Islam yet little attention has been paid to his personal theology. This book sets out to investigate the relationship between law and politics in the writings of...