East Asian and Indian philosophy

If you are from the West, it is likely that you normally assume that you are a subject who relates to objects and other subjects through actions that spring purely from your own intentions and will.

Jewels of the Middle Way documents an important tradition of Madhyamaka and provides insight into both the late Indian Buddhist blend of Madhyamaka and tantra and the Kadampa school founded by the Indian Buddhist master Atisa.

How was the post-modernist project contested, subverted and assimilated in India?

When books about Zen Buddhism began appearing in Western languages just over a half-century ago, there was no interest whatsoever in the role of ritual in Zen.

"e;The ideas, concepts, and methods of various religions must be tried on for size, must be lifted above museum displays, must be confronted and allowed to resonate with one's own character.

The many problems we face in today's world -- among them war, environmental destruction, religious and racial intolerance, and inappropriate technologies -- demand that we carefully re-evaluate such issues as our relation to the environment, the nature of progress, ultimate purposes, and human values.

In China, the debate over the moral status of emotions began around the fourth century BCE, when early philosophers first began to invoke psychological categories such as the mind (xin), human nature (xing), and emotions (qing) to explain the sources of ethical authority and the foundations of knowledge about the world.

A major figure in the Anglo-American analytic tradition, Ernest Sosa is a pioneer of contemporary virtue epistemology.

Peppered with a delicate mix of wisdom and humor, this new and enlarged edition of Quantum Soup is a light-hearted yet informative combination of happy anecdotes and traditional Chinese sensibilities in a Western setting.

Japanese philosophy is now a flourishing field with thriving societies, journals, and conferences dedicated to it around the world, made possible by an ever-increasing library of translations, books, and articles.

This book explores the core concept of Chinese ancient architecture from a multidisciplinary perspective.

A comparative study of what the most influential writers of Ancient Greece and China thought it meant to have knowledge and whether they distinguished knowledge from other forms of wisdom.

Across Buddhist traditions, the five sensessight, sound, smell, taste, and touchare perceived both positively and negatively.

The Inner Power of Stillness is not just another book about therapeutic presence, mindfulness and meditation.

The most important commentary on Vajrayana from the founder of the Dalai Lamas school of Buddhism.

Written in words so intimate, calm, kind, and immediate, this extraordinary book feels like a message from our very own heart.

A collection of classic essays by two highly regarded scholars on the development of yoga and its rapport with other religious traditions.

A variety of crucial and still most relevant ideas about nothingness or emptiness have gained profound philosophical prominence in the history and development of a number of South and East Asian traditions-including in Buddhism, Daoism, Neo-Confucianism, Hinduism, Korean philosophy, and the Japanese Kyoto School.

Japanese philosophy is now a flourishing field with thriving societies, journals, and conferences dedicated to it around the world, made possible by an ever-increasing library of translations, books, and articles.

The moral values and interpretive systems of religions are crucially involved in how people imagine the challenges of sustainability and how societies mobilize to enhance ecosystem resilience and human well-being.

Batman has been one of the world s most beloved superheroes since his first appearance in Detective Comics #27 in 1939.

Introducing the topics, themes and arguments of the most influential Hindu and Buddhist Indian philosophers, An Introduction to Indian Philosophy leads the reader through the main schools of Indian thought from the origins of Buddhism to the Saiva Philosophies of Kashmir.

Learn from the Dalai Lama the three steps to awakening: 1) renunciation, 2) the awakening mind, and 3) emptiness.

It is widely known that Buddhists deny the existence of the self.

This book tells the story of teaching Kathakali, a seventeenth century Indian dance-drama, to contemporary performers in Australia.

From Nobel Peace Prize nominee Sulak Sivaraksa comes this look at Buddhisms innate ability to help change life on the global scale.

The eleventh volume in the Notebooks of Paul Brunton is a timely, informed evaluation of mysticism, paranormal experience, sects and cults.

Illustrating the centrality of skill within ancient ethics, including Socrates' search for expertise in virtue, the Republic's 'craft of justice', Aristotle's delineation of the politike techne, the Stoics' 'art of life' and ancient Chinese ethics, this collection shows how skill has been an ethical touchstone from the beginning of philosophical thought.

Originally published in 1973.

This first Western-language translation of one of the great books of the Daoist religious tradition, the Taiping jing, or "e;Scripture on Great Peace,"e; documents early Chinese medieval thought and lays the groundwork for a more complete understanding of Daoism's origins.

This is the story of a Englishman who gave up a job in journalism to spend fourteen years with the controversial Indian mystic Osho, also known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and frequently referred to as 'the sex guru'.

'Anything Stewart Home writes intrigues me.

How is constructive cultural exchange possible when traditions hold such contradictory views?

Over the last few decades, skepticism about political and moral experts has grown into a serious social problem, undermining the functioning of liberal democratic regimes.

"e;Dogen's famous text on Zen practice comes alive in the hands of a modern meditation master.

This is the first English-language book on the philosophy of Ji Kang.

Easwarans best-selling translation of the ancient wisdom texts called the Upanishads is reliable, readable, and profound.

This introduction to Tanabe Hajime (1885 1962), the critical successor of the father of contemporary Japanese philosophy Nishida Kitaro (1870 1945), focuses on Tanabe's central philosophical ideas and perspective on self, world, knowledge, and the purpose of philosophizing.

The author of this volume, an accomplished philologist, historian and philosopher, analyzes the relevant earlier and later texts and traces the epistemological foundations of Pali canonical thought from the Vedic period onwards.

The first English translation of Master Li Ching-yun's teachings on the Eight Brocades, the central practice of qigong.

Buddhism asserts that we each have the potential to free ourselves from the prison of our problems.

Stephen Sturgess draws on decades of study and practice to present a comprehensive and engaging account of Raja and Kriya Yoga.

The book aims to describe the history of Chan (Japanese Zen) School thought from the standpoint of social history.

The tradition of philosophy in the Persian-speaking world is extraordinarily rich, creative and diverse.

The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Philosophy Methodologies presents a new understanding of the changing methods used to study Chinese philosophy.

The I Ching has influenced thinkers and artists throughout the history of Chinese philosophy.