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Eastern Philosophy: The Basics is an essential introduction to
major Indian and Chinese philosophies, both past and present.
Exploring familiar metaphysical and ethical questions from the
perspectives offered by a range of eastern philosophies, including
Confucianism, Daoism, the main Buddhist and Hindu philosophical
schools, as well as Jainism, this book covers key figures, issues,
methods and concepts. Questions discussed include: What is the
'self'? Is human nature inherently good or bad? How is the mind
related to the world? How can you live an authentic life? What is
the fundamental nature of reality? With timelines highlighting key
figures and their contributions, a list of useful websites,
pronunciation guides and further reading suggestions, Eastern
Philosophy: The Basics provides an engaging overview of fundamental
ideas in eastern philosophy. The second edition has been thoroughly
revised and updated to take account of the most recent scholarship.
It includes study questions for each chapter, an updated
bibliography, a new section on the Yijing and expanded discussion
of Indian philosophies and their basis in experience. Eastern
Philosophy: The Basics is valuable reading for all students of
philosophy and religion, especially those seeking to understand
eastern thought.
Japanese Culture: The Religious and Philosophical Foundations takes
readers on a thoroughly researched and remarkably readable journey
through Japan's cultural history. This much-anticipated sequel to
Roger Davies's best-selling The Japanese Mind provides a
comprehensive overview of the religion and philosophy of Japan.
This cultural history of Japan explains the diverse cultural
traditions that underlie modern Japan and offers readers real
insights into Japanese manners and etiquette. Davies begins with an
investigation of the origins of the Japanese, followed by an
analysis of the most relevant approaches used by scholars to
describe the essential elements of Japanese culture. From there,
each chapter focuses on one of the formative aspects: Shintoism,
Buddhism, Taoism, Zen, Confucianism, and Western influences in the
modern era. Each chapter is concluded with extensive endnotes along
with thought-provoking discussion activities, making this volume
ideal for individual readers and classroom instruction. Anyone
interested in pursuing a deeper understanding of this complex and
fascinating nation will find Davies's work an invaluable resource.
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In the eighth century, Wu Jing selected exchanges between Emperor
Taizong and his ministers that he deemed key to good governance.
This collection of dialogues has been used for the education of
emperors, political elites and general readers ever since, and is a
standard reference work in East Asian political thought. Consisting
of ten volumes, subdivided into forty topics, The Essentials of
Governance addresses core themes of Chinese thinking about the
politics of power, from the body politic, presenting and receiving
criticism, recruitment, the education of the imperial clan,
political virtues and vices, to cultural policy, agriculture, law,
taxation, border policy, and how to avoid disaster and dynastic
fall. Presented with introductory commentary that offers insights
into its historical context and global reception, this accessible
and reliable translation brings together ten scholars of Chinese
intellectual history to offer a nuanced edition that preserves the
organisation, tone and flow of the original.
For Nirvana features exceptional examples of the poet Cho Oh-Hyun's
award-winning work. Cho Oh-Hyun was born in Miryang, South
Gyeongsang Province, Korea, and has lived in retreat in the
mountains since becoming a novice monk at the age of seven. Writing
under the Buddhist name Musan, he has composed hundreds of poems in
seclusion, many in the sijo style, a relatively fixed syllabic
poetic form similar to Japanese haiku and tanka. For Nirvana
contains 108 Zen sijo poems (108 representing the number of klesas,
or "defilements," that one must overcome to attain enlightenment).
These transfixing works play with traditional religious and
metaphysical themes and include a number of "story" sijo, a longer,
more personal style that is one of Cho Oh-Hyun's major innovations.
Kwon Youngmin, a leading scholar of sijo, provides a
contextualizing introduction, and in his afterword, Heinz Insu
Fenkl reflects on the unique challenges of translating the
collection.
This book presents an alternative view of cosmopolitanism,
citizenship and modernity in early 20th-century India through the
multiple lenses of mysticism, travel, friendship, art, and
politics. It makes a key intervention in the understanding of
cosmopolitan modernity based on the lives and experiences of
Rabindranath Tagore, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Sri Aurobindo, Mirra
Alfassa, James Cousins, Paul Richard, Dilip Kumar Roy, and
Taraknath Das. Using archival texts and photographs, Mohanty
interrogates the ideas of tradition and modernity, the local and
the global, and Self and the world as integral to the conception of
a cosmopolitan world order. This second edition will interest
scholars and students of modern Indian history, comparative
literature, cultural studies, Indian philosophy, and South Asian
studies and the general reader.
What does the Confucian heritage mean to modern East Asian
education today? Is it invalid and outdated, or an irreplaceable
cultural resource for an alternative approach to education? And to
what extent can we recover the humanistic elements of the Confucian
tradition of education for use in world education? Written from a
comparative perspective, this book attempts to collectively explore
these pivotal questions in search of future directions in
education. In East Asian countries like China, Japan, Korea and
Taiwan, Confucianism as a philosophy of learning is still deeply
embedded in the ways people think of and practice education in
their everyday life, even if their official language puts on the
Western scientific mode. It discusses how Confucian concepts
including rite, rote-learning and conformity to authority can be
differently understood for the post-liberal and post-metaphysical
culture of education today. The contributors seek to make sense of
East Asian experiences of modern education, and to find a way to
make Confucian philosophy of education compatible with the Western
idea of liberal education. This book was originally published as a
special issue of Educational Philosophy and Theory.
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An exploration of what it means when we say something is beautiful.
Bringing together ideas of beauty from both Eastern and Western
philosophy, Francois Jullien challenges the assumptions underlying
our commonly agreed-upon definition of what is beautiful and offers
a new way of beholding art. Jullien argues that the Western concept
of beauty was established by Greek philosophy and became
consequently embedded within the very structure of European
languages. And due to its relationship to language, this concept
has determined ways of thinking about beauty that often go
unnoticed or unchecked in discussions of Western aesthetics.
Moreover, through globalization, Western ideals of beauty have even
spread to cultures whose ancient traditions are based upon
radically different aesthetic foundations; yet, these cultures have
adopted such views without question and without recognizing the
cultural assumptions they contain. Looking specifically at how
Chinese texts have been translated into Western languages, Jullien
reveals how the traditional Chinese refusal to isolate or abstract
beauty is obscured in translation in order to make the works more
understandable to Western readers. Creating an engaging dialogue
between Chinese and Western ideas, Jullien reassesses the essence
of beauty.
Theistic Vedanta originated with Ramanuja (1077-1157), who was one
of the foremost theologians of Visistadvaita Vedanta and also an
initiate of the Srivaisnava sectarian tradition in South India. As
devotees of the God Visnu and his consort Sri, the Srivaisnavas
established themselves through various processes of legitimation as
a powerful sectarian tradition. One of the processes by which the
authority of the Srivaisnavas was consolidated was Ramanuja's
synthesis of popular Hindu devotionalism with the philosophy of
Vedanta. This book demonstrates that by incorporating a text often
thought to be of secondary importance - the Visnu Purana (1st-4th
CE) - into his reading of the Upanisads, which were the standard of
orthodoxy for Vedanta philosophy, Ramanuja was able to interpret
Vedanta within the theistic context of Srivaisnavism. Ramanuja was
the first Brahmin thinker to incorporate devotional puranas into
Vedanta philosophy. His synthetic theology called Visistadvaita
(unity-of-the-differenced) wielded tremendous influence over the
expansion of Visnu devotionalism in South India and beyond. In this
book, the exploration of the exegetical function of this purana in
arguments salient to Ramanuja's Vedanta facilitates our
understanding of the processes of textual accommodation and
reformulation that allow the incorporation of divergent doctrinal
claims. Expanding on and reassessing current views on Ramanuja's
theology, the book contributes new insights to broader issues in
religious studies such as canon expansion, commentarial
interpretation, tradition-building, and the comparative study of
scripture. It will be of interest to students and scholars of
Indian philosophy and Religious Studies.
Exploring the thought of Mulla Sadra Shirazi, an Iranian Shi'ite of
the seventeenth century: a universe of politics, morality, liberty,
and order that is indispensable to our understanding of Islamic
thought and spirituality. This lluminating study by Christian
Jambet explores the essential elements of the philosophical system
of Mulla Sadra Shirazi, an Iranian Shi'ite of the seventeenth
century. The writings of Mulla Sadra Shirazi (d. 1640) bear witness
to the divine revelation in every act of being, from the most
humble to the most celebrated. More generally, Islamic philosophy
employs an ontology of the real that is important to the destiny of
metaphysics, an ontology that belongs to our own universe of
thought. The Act of Being, nourished by the Sufism of Ibn
al-'Arabi, the philosophy of classical Islam, the thought inherited
from the Greeks, and the esoteric and mystical dimension of
Shi'ism, seeks to make sense of this intuition of the real.Mulla
Sadra saw the world as moving ceaselessly in an uninterrupted
revolution of its substances, in which infinite existence breaks
through the successive boundaries of the sensible and the
intelligible, the mineral and the angelic. In a flourish of
epiphanies, in the multiplied mirror of bodies and souls, Mulla
Sadra perceived absolute divine liberty. Revealing freedom in the
metamorphosis of the believer and the sage, existence teaches the
imitation of the divine that can be seen "in its most beautiful
form." Reading Mulla Sadra reveals the nexus of politics, morality,
liberty, and order in his universe of thought-a universe, as
Christian Jambet shows, that is indispensable to our understanding
of Islamic thought and spirituality.
Unique in its combination of scriptural erudition and experiential
wisdom, this book makes accessible the true philosophy of Tantra
and Kashmir Shaivism for dedicated students of yoga and Eastern
philosophy.
This original work focuses on the rational principles of Indian philosophical theory, rather than the mysticism more usually associated with it. Ganeri explores the philosophical projects of a number of major Indian philosophers and looks into the methods of rational inquiry deployed within these projects. In so doing, he illuminates a network of mutual reference, criticism, influence and response, in which reason is used to call itself into question. This fresh perspective on classical Indian thought unravels new philosophical paradigms, and points towards new applications for the concept of reason.
Steve Coutinho explores in detail the fundamental concepts of
Daoist thought as represented in three early texts: the Laozi, the
Zhuangzi, and the Liezi. Readers interested in philosophy yet
unfamiliar with Daoism will gain a comprehensive understanding of
these works from this analysis, and readers fascinated by ancient
China who also wish to grasp its philosophical foundations will
appreciate the clarity and depth of Coutinho's explanations.
Coutinho writes a volume for all readers, whether or not they have
a background in philosophy or Chinese studies. A work of
comparative philosophy, this volume also integrates the concepts
and methods of contemporary philosophical discourse into a
discussion of early Chinese thought. The resulting dialogue relates
ancient Chinese thought to contemporary philosophical issues and
uses modern Western ideas and approaches to throw new interpretive
light on classical texts. Rather than function as historical
curiosities, these works act as living philosophies in conversation
with contemporary thought and experience. Coutinho respects the
multiplicity of Daoist philosophies while also revealing a
distinctive philosophical sensibility, and he provides clear
explanations of these complex texts without resorting to
oversimplification.
"An elegant and comprehensive critical edition of the Dao De Jing."
KIRKUS Review This book examines one of the world's most enduring
and influential literary works through the timeless art of qigong.
In his words, Lao Tzu (or Laozi), author of the Dao De Jing,
embodies qigong principles, advocating the cultivation of mind and
body. Only when we know qigong can we know Lao Tzu-and only when we
know Lao Tzu can we know the Dao De Jing. Lao Tzu's writing has
been read, translated, and discussed around the globe. It deals
with principles that transcend time and culture. That is why this
ancient text has been reimagined countless times in books on
business, relationships, and parenting-but never with a focus on
the art of qigong. This makes the Dao De Jing: A Qigong
Interpretation unique and indispensible. Many chapters in the Dao
De Jing purely talk about qigong, especially the practices of
regulating the body, breathing, mind, qi, and spirit. Dr. Yang, a
renowned author, scholar, and martial artist, devoted decades to
researching and writing this book. He interprets and analyzes the
81 chapters of the Dao De Jing. His commentary will bring new
insight, inspiration, and depth to your understanding of Lao Tzu's
words-and to your qigong practice. This book includes The complete
Dao De Jing in English and its original Chinese text Dr. Yang,
Jwing-Ming's commentary and analysis of each chapter Numerous
illustrations and diagrams The Dao De Jing: A Qigong Interpretation
is not a book of instruction. It is about the Way-the path before
us, in qigong and in life, where what you achieve comes through
your own understanding.
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