East Asian and Indian philosophy Books

Book Synopsis Innovative and easily implemented, One Degree Revolution is acclaimed yoga educator and leadership coach Coby Kozlowski''s holistic program for personal transformation.Imagine sailing a boat with a course set for a lifetime. If that route changes by just one navigational degree, what would happen to the journey? How far from the original trajectory would we be in one year? Five years? Twenty years? Well, we would end up in a totally different place. In much the same way, we can change the course of our life by making a one degree shift. We don't have to change everything about ourselves or our world to make a difference. Coby inspires readers to dive into the insights, experiments, and inquiries of living yoga: how can I best be with life? How can we make the most aligned choices, let go of past hurts, and discover meaningful connections? And what are the most skillful ways we can learn to savor all that life presents?One Degree Revolution will

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together over 25 years of Arindam Chakrabarti's original research in philosophy on issues of epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind.Organized under the three basic concepts of a thing out there in the world, the self who perceives it, and other subjects or selves, his work revolves around a set of realism links. Examining connections between metaphysical stances toward the world, selves, and universals, Chakrabarti engages with classical Indian and modern Western philosophical approaches to a number of live topics including the refutation of idealism; the question of the definability of truth, and the possibility of truths existing unknown to anyone; the existence of non-conceptual perception; and our knowledge of other minds. He additionally makes forays into fundamental questions regarding death, darkness, absence, and nothingness.Along with conceptual clarification and progress towards alternative solutions to these substantial philosophical problems, ChaTrade Review[A] welcome presentation of a lot of Chakrabarti’s often uniquely original work. This book is best treated as an organic whole, much better absorbed as an intellectual construction out of decades of sharp-eyed exploration of the wonders of two different traditions of philosophical thought. * Philosophy East and West *This is a book of staggering erudition; it is broad in vision, metaphysically ambitious, and beautifully written … There is such a wealth of insight here, and such a wide-ranging discussion of the many issues involved in these debates and of the many contributions to these debates over centuries in India and the West, addressed with such intellectual acuity and panache that no other book on the topic is in the same league. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *In lively and accessible prose, Arindam Chakrabarti tackles some fundamental questions about the interrelations between the self and the world, drawing on both Western and Eastern traditions of thought. There is much to learn from this book, and much to enjoy in it. The reader cannot fail to be stimulated. * A.W. Moore, Professor of Philosophy, University of Oxford, UK *Chakrabarti is almost unique in his capacity to understand in depth such a range of philosophical interlocutors, while uncovering systemic ties between apparently disparate metaphysical holdings. Realisms Interlinked is a fitting testament to his lifelong thought and stands as an exemplary work of cosmopolitan philosophy: transcending historical, geographical, and disciplinary divisions, it provides significant insight into every topic it considers. * Matthew R. Dasti, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Bridgewater State University, USA *This is an exciting, open-minded and readable contribution to the rapidly developing interaction between Indian and Western traditions in metaphysics and epistemology. Arindam Chakrabarti draws extensively on the rich resources of both to show how much they have to offer each other in the form of startling hypotheses, ingenious reasoning, and new questions. * Timothy Williamson, Wykeham Professor of Logic, University of Oxford, UK *Table of ContentsPART I: OBJECTS Introduction 1: I Touch What I Saw 2: Non-particular Individuals 3: On Perceiving Properties 4: Seeing Daffodils, Seeing as Daffodils, and Seeing Things Called ‘Daffodils’ 5: Truth, Recognition of Truth, and Thoughtless Realism 6: Idealist Refutations of Idealism 7: Externality, Difference and Inherence 8: Is This a Dream? 9: The Object to the Verb: The Case of the Accusative PART II: SUBJECTS 10: On Referring to the First Person 11: The Self at Other Times and In Other Bodies 12: Does Self Awareness Turn the Self Into an Object? 13: In Defense of an Inner Sense 14: Our Knowledge and Error About Our Own Cognitions 15: Fictionalism About the Mental 16: Nyaya Proofs for the Existence of the Self PART III: OTHER SUBJECTS 17: Knowing You From the Bridge 18: The Grammar of Calling the Other 19: Knowing From the Words of Others 20: Can Another Person Teach Me What It Means? 21: Shadows of Ignorance 22: Concept Possession, Sense Experience and Knowledge of a Language 23: On What There Will Be 24: Is There a World Out There? God Knows! 25: Absence, Non-Existence and Other Negative Things Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAssembling original contributions, this book is a pioneering attempt to address the Euro-American esoteric reception and appropriation of China.Positioned between eighteenth-century''s mesmerism and intersections with the modern martial arts current, the contributions specifically centre on nineteenth and early twentieth-century occult appraisals and representations. This book opens up an under-explored area of research inthe field of East?West interactions and the global history of religions.

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Book SynopsisNishida Kitaro is widely considered as the first original philosopher in modern Japan. Addressing this claim, Richard Stone critically examines Nishida's relation to his contemporary philosophers in the Meiji era (1868-1912), highlighting the continuity, difference and relationships between them.Stone reassesses the notion that Nishida's An Inquiry into the Good (1911) was substantially more philosophically worthwhile than any preceding attempts at philosophy in Japan, whilst demonstrating how his early ideas were heavily influenced by the work of thinkers such as Inoue Enryo, Onishi Hajime and Miyake Setsurei. He argues that original philosophy in Japan did not suddenly start with Nishida. Instead, it developed within a process of methodological refinement, wherein ideas starting from early Meiji philosophers were gradually given more rigorous treatment over the course of the era, eventually culminating in Nishida's early philosophy.Providing an in-depth analysis of Nishida''s work that brings it into dialogue with his predecessors, The Origins of Modern Japanese Philosophy offers both an engaging insight into the Meiji Period as the background of Nishida''s philosophical formation and also a clear account of how several core themes in modern Japanese philosophy evolved over the course of an era.

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Book SynopsisMargus Ott is a researcher at Tallinn University, Estonia. He has performed previous research in Taiwan and Xiamen with the National Taiwan University.

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Book SynopsisAndrew Tsz Wan Hung is a Lecturer in the Division of Social Sciences, Humanities and Design, College of Professional and Continuing Education, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.

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Book SynopsisShyam Ranganathan is a member of the Department of Philosophy, and York Center for Asian Research, at York University, Toronto, Canada and founder of the Yoga Philosophy Institute.

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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together contributions from North America, UK, Europe and Asia into a single volume to advance the field of scholarship and to celebrate Rupert Gethin's immense contribution to Buddhist studies. The essays include explorations of Buddhist teachings, Abhidharma and scriptural studies and cover the fields of research that engage Rupert Gethin's scholarship: Buddhist cosmology, textual translations, Abhidharma and the interface between Buddhism and modern science. Scholars address themes associated with Buddhist thought and practice, including philosophy of mind and the relationship between artificial intelligence and Buddhist ethics. Translations and analyses of a variety of written materials span several genres and ages: Gandhari manuscripts, Vinaya commentaries, Buddhist Sanskrit imagery and late Thai cosmological texts. To acknowledge Rupert Gethin's important and expansive contribution to the field of Abhidharma, the book explores Abhidharma terms, commentaries

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Book SynopsisStephen Harris is Lecturer in the Institute for Philosophy, Leiden University, The Netherlands.Perry Schmidt-Leukel is Senior Professor of Religious Studies and Intercultural Theology at the University of Münster, Germany.

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Book SynopsisAnton Sevilla-Liu is Associate Professor for Clinical Pedagogy at Kyushu University, Japan. He is author of Watsuji Tetsurô's Global Ethics of Emptiness (2017) and translator of Sueki Fumihiko's Religion and Ethics at Odds: A Buddhist Counter-Position (2016) and Nishihira Tadashi's The Philosophy of No-Mind (2024).

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Book SynopsisArvind-Pal Singh Mandair is an Associate Professor and holder of the S.B.S.C. Endowed Chair in Sikh Studies at the University of Michigan, USA. His earlier books include: Religion and the Specter of the West: Sikhism, India, Postcoloniality and the Politics of Translation (2009), Teachings of the Sikh Gurus (with Christopher Shackle, 2005), Secularism and Religion-Making (2009). He is a founding editor of the journal Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture and Theory.Trade ReviewSikhism – A Guide for the Perplexed is an insightful and well-crafted introduction to the study of Sikhism as a dynamic and internally fluid tradition. Mandair offers a novel approach in this introductory text that avoids the common pitfalls of historicism and that denaturalizes the tendency to frame Sikhi as purely religious experience within the parameters of the secular-religious binary. Focusing on key issues that reflect what animates Sikh activity and the lived experiences of Sikhs today, Mandair is able to achieve what might seem incommensurable objectives: introducing novices to a field of study, while challenging those already engaged in Sikh Studies with new insights and perspectives. Intriguing and at times provocative, this text will without doubt stand out among introductory texts to Sikhism for its interdisciplinary format, its success in engaging readers intellectually, and its capacity to actively relate ideas from the history and philosophy of religion in a way in which the encounter between these disciplines and Sikhi as an emerging philosophy and way of life remains always in sight. -- Michael Nijhawan, Associate Professor of Sociology, York University, CanadaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements \ Introduction \ Part I: Evolution of the Sikh Tradition \ 1. Guru Nanak and His Early Successors \ 2. Martyrdom and Militancy: Rise of the Khalsa \ 3. Modernity and Colonialism \ Part II: Teachings and Practices \ 4. Way of Life \ 5. Sikh Philosophy \ Part III: Pluralism & its Challenges \ 6. Sikh Ethics \ 7. Sikhs and the Public Sphere \ Glossary of Punjabi Terms \ Notes \ Index

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