East Asian and Indian philosophy Books
University of Hawai'i Press Monastic Education in Korea Teaching Monks about Buddhism in the Modern Age Contemporary Buddhism
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£60.00
University of Hawai'i Press Chan Before Chan Meditation Repentance and Visionary Experience in Chinese Buddhism 39 Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism
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£51.00
University of Hawai'i Press One Corner of the Square
Book SynopsisTaking note of the present global philosophical situation, this collection of essays critically engages the scholarship of Roger Ames, who for decades has had a central role in the evolution of comparative and nonwestern philosophy.
£54.00
University of Hawai'i Press Monastic Education in Korea
Book SynopsisProvides what is essentially a biography of the Korean Buddhist monastic curriculum over the past five centuries. The book illustrates how a particular premodern syllabus was reimagined in the twentieth century to become the sole national Korean monastic pedagogical program - only to be criticized and completely restructured in recent years.
£25.56
University of Hawai'i Press Chan Before Chan
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£16.96
University of Hawaii Press Knotting the Banner
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£23.96
Brigham Young University Press Twenty Chapters Library of JudeoArabic Literature
Book SynopsisThe literary works of ninth-century scholar Dawud al-Muqammas, who converted from Judaism to Christianity and then back to Judaism, reflect his pioneering approaches during a formative time in Jewish and Muslim medieval philosophy. A master of diverse genres, he composed in the ninth century, among other works, the thoughtfulTwenty Chapters, which is not only the first known JewishKalamtext, but also the earliest extanttheologicalsummawritten in Arabic. This authoritative edition includes the full Judeo-Arabic text in Arabic letter transcription with a facing English translation, as well as an introduction, notes, bibliography, and index.
£57.00
FARMS (imprint of Brigham Young University) The Elixir of the Gnostics
Book SynopsisThis work is unique among Sadra's writing in that it reworks and amplifies an earlier Persian work, the "Jawidannama". by Baba Afdal. The underlying theme of the work is the importance of self-knowledge in an individual's journey of origin and return.
£28.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Batman and Ethics
Book SynopsisBatman has been one of the world's most beloved superheroes since his first appearance in Detective Comics #27 in 1939. Clad in his dark cowl and cape, he has captured the imagination of millions with his single-minded mission to create a better world for the people of Gotham City by fighting crime, making use of expert detective skills, high-tech crime-fighting gadgets, and an extensive network of sidekicks and partners. But why has this self-made hero enjoyed such enduring popularity? And why are his choices so often the subject of intense debate among his fans and philosophers alike? Batman and Ethics goes behind the mask to shed new light on the complexities and contradictions of the Dark Knight's moral code. From the logic behind his aversion to killing to the moral status of vigilantism and his use of torture in pursuit of justice (or perhaps revenge), Batman's ethical precepts are compelling but often inconsistent and controversial. Philosopher and pop culture expert Mark D. WhiTrade Review"...a smart and fun-to-read book that uses three of the major ethical systems in western philosophy in order to explain why Batman does what he does...White writes in a clear, engaging style that moves along quickly. He’s thoughtful, logical, and thorough without getting bogged down in overly-long philosophical explanations. There’s also plenty of humor in the book, but it’s never campy..."Armond Boudreaux - A Clash of Heroes - Superheroes, philosophy, ethics, and politicsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vi Introduction 1 Part I: What Batman Tries to Do—and How He Might Do It Better 9 1 Utilitarianism and the Mission 11 2 Limitations of the Mission 19 3 Trade‐Offs within the Mission 43 4 The Value and Meaning of the Bat 78 Intermezzo 110 Part II: What Batman Is Willing to Do—and What He Isn’t 115 5 Deontology and the Rules 117 6 Killing 125 7 Torture and Violence 169 8 Law, Justice, and the Police 201 Conclusion 229 References 239 Index 268 List of Comics Writers and Artists 279
£17.06
John Wiley and Sons Ltd An Introduction to Chinese Philosophy
Book SynopsisAn Introduction to Chinese Philosophy unlocks the mystery of ancient Chinese philosophy and unravels the complexity of Chinese Buddhism by placing them in the contemporary context of discourse. Elucidates the central issues and debates in Chinese philosophy, its different schools of thought, and its major philosophers. Covers eight major philosophers in the ancient period, among them Confucius, Laozi, and Zhuangzi. Illuminates the links between different schools of philosophy. Opens the door to further study of the relationship between Chinese and Western philosophy. Trade Review"This kind of work is long overdue... This book will undoubtedly make classical Chinese thought more relevant to contemporary philosophical discourse and more accessible to analytically-minded readers." Shirong Luo, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews “Combining firm control of original sources and contemporary scholarship with sophisticated philosophical analysis, this book is clearly the best introduction to Chinese philosophy. It will be interesting to specialists, and enlightening to lay readers.” Ying-shih Yu, Princeton University “JeeLoo Liu has written a wonderful introduction to Chinese philosophy. Her book is introductory without being superficial, full of sure-handed scholarship, and at once analytical and sensitive to the cultural setting in which these great philosophies developed.” John Perry, Stanford UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments. Preface. Comparative Philosophy Timeline. Introduction: What Is Chinese Philosophy?. Part I: Ancient Chinese Philosophy. Introduction. 1. Yijing (I Ching): the Cosmological Foundation of Chinese Philosophy. 2. Confucius (Kongzi) in the Analects. 3. Mencius (Mengzi). 4. Xunzi (Hsün Tzu). 5. Mozi (Mo Tzu). 6. Laozi (Lao Tzu). 7. Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu). 8. Hanfeizi (Han Fei Tzu). Part II: Chinese Buddhism. Introduction. 9. The Consciousness-Only (Wei-Shi) School. 10. The Hua-yan (Hua-yen) School. 11. The Tian-tai (T’ien-t’ai) School. 12. The Chan School (Zen Buddhism). Notes. Referencesand Further Reading. Appendix.: Translation Conversion Table. Index.
£94.46
John Wiley and Sons Ltd An Introduction to Chinese Philosophy
Book SynopsisAn Introduction to Chinese Philosophy unlocks the mystery of ancient Chinese philosophy and unravels the complexity of Chinese Buddhism by placing them in the contemporary context of discourse. * Elucidates the central issues and debates in Chinese philosophy, its different schools of thought, and its major philosophers.Trade Review"This kind of work is long overdue... This book will undoubtedly make classical Chinese thought more relevant to contemporary philosophical discourse and more accessible to analytically-minded readers." Shirong Luo, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews “Combining firm control of original sources and contemporary scholarship with sophisticated philosophical analysis, this book is clearly the best introduction to Chinese philosophy. It will be interesting to specialists, and enlightening to lay readers.” Ying-shih Yu, Princeton University “JeeLoo Liu has written a wonderful introduction to Chinese philosophy. Her book is introductory without being superficial, full of sure-handed scholarship, and at once analytical and sensitive to the cultural setting in which these great philosophies developed.” John Perry, Stanford UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments. Preface. Comparative Philosophy Timeline. Introduction: What Is Chinese Philosophy?. Part I: Ancient Chinese Philosophy. Introduction. 1. Yijing (I Ching): the Cosmological Foundation of Chinese Philosophy. 2. Confucius (Kongzi) in the Analects. 3. Mencius (Mengzi). 4. Xunzi (Hsün Tzu). 5. Mozi (Mo Tzu). 6. Laozi (Lao Tzu). 7. Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu). 8. Hanfeizi (Han Fei Tzu). Part II: Chinese Buddhism. Introduction. 9. The Consciousness-Only (Wei-Shi) School. 10. The Hua-yan (Hua-yen) School. 11. The Tian-tai (T’ien-t’ai) School. 12. The Chan School (Zen Buddhism). Notes. Referencesand Further Reading. Appendix.: Translation Conversion Table. Index.
£35.10
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Hermeneutical Thinking in Chinese Philosophy
Book SynopsisThis volume is devoted to studying the emergence and flourishing of new humanistically informed developments in philosophical hermeneutics within contemporary Chinese philosophy.Table of ContentsPart I.General Introduction, Chung-ying Cheng. Part II.Editor’s Introduction, Lauren F. Pfister. Part III: Basic Chinese Philosophical Orientations about Understanding. 1. Toward Constructing a Dialectics of Harmonization: Harmony and Conflict in Chinese Philosophy, Chung-ying Cheng. 2. Hermeneutic Explorations in the Zhuangzi, Kuang-ming Wu. Part IV: Confucius, the Analects, and Early Confucianism. 3. Gadamer and Confucius: Some Possible Affinities, Richard E. Palmer. 4. A New Hermeneutical Approach to Early Chinese Texts: The Case of the Analects, John Makeham. 5. Three Kinds of Confucian Scholarship, Kelly James Clark. Part V: Zhu Xi: Textual and Philosophical Understanding. 6. On Zhu Xi’s Theory of Interpretation, Pan Derong and Peng Qifu. 7. To Catch a Thief: Zhu Xi (1130-1200) and the Hermeneutic Art, John Berthrong
£32.54
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Chinese Philosophy
Book SynopsisThis anthology presents the distinctive insights of Chinese philosophy and their relevance to contemporary issues in a range of areas: moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, environmental ethics, medicine and psychological health. New, especially interdisciplinary research Applies insights in Chinese philosophy from eminent scholars in the field of Chinese philosophy Table of ContentsPreface (Chung-ying Cheng). Introduction (Karyn L. Lai). 1. On Human Consciousness in Classical Chinese Philosophy: Developing Onto-Hermeneutics of the Human Person (Chung-ying Cheng). 2. Constructing "Chinese Philosophy" in Sino-European Cultural Exchange (Tang Yijie). 3. Drawing Insights From Chinese Medicine (Nathan Sivin). 4. Chinese Medicine and the Dynamic Conceptions of Health and Disease (William Herfel, Dianah Rodrigues and Yin Gao). 5. Understanding Change: the Interdependent Self in its Environment (Karyn L. Lai). 6. Environmental Ethics and Some Probing Questions for Traditional Chinese Philosophy (Lauren F. Pfister). 7. Virtues of Junzi (Antonio S. Cua).
£26.12
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Confucius and Confucianism
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive introduction explores the life and teachings of Confucius, and development of Confucian thought, from ancient times to the present today. Demonstrates the wisdom and enduring relevance of Confucius's teachings drawing parallels between our 21st century society and that of China 2,500 years ago, wheregovernment corruption, along with social, economic, and technical changes, led thinkers to examine human nature and society Draws on the latest research and incorporates interpretations of Confucius and his works by Chinese and Western scholars throughout the centuries Explores how Confucius''s followers expanded and reinterpreted his ideas after his death, and how this process has continued throughout Chinese history Seamlessly links Confucius with our modern age, revealing how his teachings have become the basis of East Asian culture and influenced the West Trade Review“Thoughtful and even humorous, this is a promising choice for use in a university class but should also prove a helpful resource for experts.” (Religious Studies Review, 1 December 2012) “Confucius and Confucianism: The Essentials is an excellent, well-written, and accessible introduction to the Confucian tradition, eminently suitable for both an undergraduate class and a general readership.” (Journal of Chinese Religions, 2012) "Anyone who comes out of a course based on this book will have not simply an informed sense of Confucius and his legacy but also a critical sense of where that legacy is open to dispute or re-evaluation." —T. H. Barrett, University of London "This is an excellent survey of the history of Confucianism, incorporating philosophical issues and development and the received histories of key figures in the tradition." —Jennifer L Oldstone-Moore, Wittenberg UniversityTable of ContentsList of Illustrations. Preface: Why Confucius? Book Notes. Chronology. 1 Confucius’ World and His Life. Confucius’ World: Looking Back to a Long, Unifi ed Civilization. The Zhou Dynasty. Ancestors and Spirits. Heaven and the “Choice of Heaven”. The Decline of the Zhou Dynasty and the Rise of the Warring States. The Life of Confucius. Sources. Versions of the Texts. Hagiography, the Pious Stories of Confucius’ Life. Scholarly Versions of Confucius’ Life. 2 Confucius’ Teachings I: The Foundation of a Good Person. Filial Piety. Dutifulness or Loyalty. Honesty and Sincerity. Rightness and Knowledge. Courage. Understanding, Sympathy, Compassion. Humanity. Ritual. The Gentleman. 3 Confucius’ Teachings II: The Foundation of a Good Society and Other Topics. Setting Words Right. For the Benefi t of the People. Laws. Models. Education without Distinction. Women. The Gods, the Spirits of the Dead, and the Afterlife. The Choice of Heaven and Heaven. Fate. The Way. 4 Terms, and Mozi. Problems with “Schools” and “-isms”. Problems with the Term “Confucianism”. Mozi and Mohism. 5 Opponents. Daoism. The Strategists. The Logicians. Legalism. Others. 6 Mencius. Human Nature is Good. Human Nature and Heaven. Government. Mencius on Confucian Themes. Summary. 7 Xunzi. Human Nature is Evil. Morality is Artifi cial. Ritual. Government. Language. Heaven. Xunzi on Confucian Themes. Summary. 8 Confucians, “Confucian” Texts, and the Qin Dynasty. Other Confucian Groups. Confucius and “Confucian” Texts. The First Emperor and the Reunifi cation of China. 9 The Han Dynasty, 206 BCE–220 CE. History and Development. The Classics in the Han. The New Text School. The Yin-Yang Theory. Qi. The Five Phases. The Status of Confucius. The Old Text School. Other Confucian Texts in the Han Dynasty. Summary. 10 From the Han to the Tang Dynasties, 220–907 CE. Buddhism and Its Development. Confucianism from the Han to the Tang Dynasties. Civil Service Examinations and the Imperial Civil Service. The Civil Service. The Status of Confucius in Imperial China. Confucian Temples. Confucius as a God. Confucianism outside of China: Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. Summary. 11 Neo-Confucianism. The Northern and Southern Song Dynasties. Neo-Confucianism. Issues in Neo-Confucianism. Early Neo-Confucian Thinkers. Zhu Xi (1130–1200) and Li Xue, the School of Principle. The School of Mind/Heart. Wang Yangming. Summary. 12 Confucianism and Modernity. The Qing Dynasty, 1644–1911. Kang Youwei (1858–1927) and the Reform of Confucianism. The May 4th Movement. The Guomindang and the New Life Movement. The Communist Party and the Communist Government. New Confucians. Confucianism as the Foundation of Chinese Culture. Substance/Application. The Confucian Core. Confucianism as Religion. Asian Values. Governments: Taiwan, Singapore, and China. Critics of New Confucianism. New Confucianism’s Impact and Importance. Summary. 13 Issues. What is Confucianism? Democracy. The Emphasis on the Economy. Ritual. Filial Piety. Education. Self-cultivation. Does Confucianism Include Women? Can Confucianism Include Women? Critics. Is Confucianism a Religion? A Philosophy? Something Else? Summary. Notes. Glossary of Names and Terms. Suggestions for Further Reading. Bibliography. Index.
£31.30
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Confucius and Confucianism
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive introduction explores the life and teachings of Confucius, and development of Confucian thought, from ancient times to the present today. Demonstrates the wisdom and enduring relevance of Confucius's teachings drawing parallels between our 21st century society and that of China 2,500 years ago, wheregovernment corruption, along with social, economic, and technical changes, led thinkers to examine human nature and society Draws on the latest research and incorporates interpretations of Confucius and his works by Chinese and Western scholars throughout the centuries Explores how Confucius''s followers expanded and reinterpreted his ideas after his death, and how this process has continued throughout Chinese history Seamlessly links Confucius with our modern age, revealing how his teachings have become the basis of East Asian culture and influenced the West Trade Review“Thoughtful and even humorous, this is a promising choice for use in a university class but should also prove a helpful resource for experts.” (Religious Studies Review, 1 December 2012) “Minor quibbles aside, Confucius and Confucianism: The Essentials is an excellent, well-written, and accessible introduction to the Confucian tradition, eminently suitable for both an undergraduate class and a general readership.” (Journal of Chinese Religions, 2012) "Anyone who comes out of a course based on this book will have not simply an informed sense of Confucius and his legacy but also a critical sense of where that legacy is open to dispute or re-evaluation." —T. H. Barrett, University of London "This is an excellent survey of the history of Confucianism, incorporating philosophical issues and development and the received histories of key figures in the tradition." —Jennifer L Oldstone-Moore, Wittenberg UniversityTable of ContentsList of Illustrations. Preface: Why Confucius? Book Notes. Chronology. 1 Confucius’ World and His Life. Confucius’ World: Looking Back to a Long, Unifi ed Civilization. The Zhou Dynasty. Ancestors and Spirits. Heaven and the “Choice of Heaven”. The Decline of the Zhou Dynasty and the Rise of the Warring States. The Life of Confucius. Sources. Versions of the Texts. Hagiography, the Pious Stories of Confucius’ Life. Scholarly Versions of Confucius’ Life. 2 Confucius’ Teachings I: The Foundation of a Good Person. Filial Piety. Dutifulness or Loyalty. Honesty and Sincerity. Rightness and Knowledge. Courage. Understanding, Sympathy, Compassion. Humanity. Ritual. The Gentleman. 3 Confucius’ Teachings II: The Foundation of a Good Society and Other Topics. Setting Words Right. For the Benefi t of the People. Laws. Models. Education without Distinction. Women. The Gods, the Spirits of the Dead, and the Afterlife. The Choice of Heaven and Heaven. Fate. The Way. 4 Terms, and Mozi. Problems with “Schools” and “-isms”. Problems with the Term “Confucianism”. Mozi and Mohism. 5 Opponents. Daoism. The Strategists. The Logicians. Legalism. Others. 6 Mencius. Human Nature is Good. Human Nature and Heaven. Government. Mencius on Confucian Themes. Summary. 7 Xunzi. Human Nature is Evil. Morality is Artifi cial. Ritual. Government. Language. Heaven. Xunzi on Confucian Themes. Summary. 8 Confucians, “Confucian” Texts, and the Qin Dynasty. Other Confucian Groups. Confucius and “Confucian” Texts. The First Emperor and the Reunifi cation of China. 9 The Han Dynasty, 206 BCE–220 CE. History and Development. The Classics in the Han. The New Text School. The Yin-Yang Theory. Qi. The Five Phases. The Status of Confucius. The Old Text School. Other Confucian Texts in the Han Dynasty. Summary. 10 From the Han to the Tang Dynasties, 220–907 CE. Buddhism and Its Development. Confucianism from the Han to the Tang Dynasties. Civil Service Examinations and the Imperial Civil Service. The Civil Service. The Status of Confucius in Imperial China. Confucian Temples. Confucius as a God. Confucianism outside of China: Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. Summary. 11 Neo-Confucianism. The Northern and Southern Song Dynasties. Neo-Confucianism. Issues in Neo-Confucianism. Early Neo-Confucian Thinkers. Zhu Xi (1130–1200) and Li Xue, the School of Principle. The School of Mind/Heart. Wang Yangming. Summary. 12 Confucianism and Modernity. The Qing Dynasty, 1644–1911. Kang Youwei (1858–1927) and the Reform of Confucianism. The May 4th Movement. The Guomindang and the New Life Movement. The Communist Party and the Communist Government. New Confucians. Confucianism as the Foundation of Chinese Culture. Substance/Application. The Confucian Core. Confucianism as Religion. Asian Values. Governments: Taiwan, Singapore, and China. Critics of New Confucianism. New Confucianism’s Impact and Importance. Summary. 13 Issues. What is Confucianism? Democracy. The Emphasis on the Economy. Ritual. Filial Piety. Education. Self-cultivation. Does Confucianism Include Women? Can Confucianism Include Women? Critics. Is Confucianism a Religion? A Philosophy? Something Else? Summary. Notes. Glossary of Names and Terms. Suggestions for Further Reading. Bibliography. Index.
£76.90
Bristol University Press From Greed to Wellbeing
Book SynopsisThe global financial system seems caught in a cycle of boom and bust, instability and scandal. Building on the classic works of E F Schumacher and other kindred spirits, Magnuson provides a Buddhist economics perspective on this recurring pattern and offers new possibilities for change.Trade Review“This is an insightful critique of our dysfunctional economic system, informed by Buddhist principles. Magnuson shows that the reforms usually proposed cannot alleviate the basic problem: a system that is self-destructive because it institutionalizes greed. And he offers a way forward implied by Buddhist teachings.” David Loy, author of The Great Awakening: A Buddhist Social Theory"a creative approach to understanding our world and will motivate and inspire you as a Buddhist, citizen, and human being." - Tricycle"Magnuson presents an ethical critique of conventional economics based in Buddhist principles, offering a hopeful and creative path to system stability, personal satisfaction, and liberating transformation." Stephanie Kaza, Professor emerita, University of Vermont"From Greed to Wellbeing is a tour de force. If you really want to get a close look at the socioeconomic merry-go-round we've been on since 1776 (and before), this is the book for you." Review by Morris Berman on Amazon.com"Joel Magnuson skillfully applies Buddhist teachings to quench the flames of greed, hatred, and delusion that are consuming our world." Christopher Queen, Harvard University, Editor of Engaged Buddhism in the West.“Institutionalist economist, Joel Magnuson, is a man with passion, a man on a mission. He offers a stinging critique of hegemonic capitalistic practices, especially of the vagaries of the banking and financial sectors, and the reductionist calculations of the official GDP, and proposes remedies based in socially engaged Buddhism to help us avoid the cyclical crises that plague this sector and the entire social body. He skillfully analyzes how the three fires long recognized by the Buddha—greed, aggression and delusion—fuel all manners of “fads, bubbles, and panics” in our individual and collective behavior. Magnuson shows from various angles and with a wealth of examples how defiled perceptions of self and reality feed economic toxicity and general suffering. He is at his inspired best when he details how our “witless attachment to mental fiction” plays itself out through social institutions such as money, credit, or formal institutions such as the Feds. He carefully demonstrates the sad straight line running from individual “craving and covetousness” to collective celebration of greed (the reification of ignorance) to institutionalization of greed by social structures, and finally to the cynical protection of greed and banksters (moral hazard) by political actors and governmental agencies. To remedy such dire situations, he calls for wholesomeness at the individual level, for locally-owned community banks, for holistic accounting aggregates to measure human happiness, and for what may be broadly termed social responsibility and an ethical economy. Since self and society are inseparable parts of the same complex whole, Prof. Magnuson reminds us to both meditate and chop wood and carry water in the conditions of our age. Indeed, the practice of the dharma is by essence connected to our social selves and our mission in society, and asks us to address both individual and collective, both gross and subtle dukkhas. His is a prudently optimistic perspective, as he draws on many examples of socially-engaged Buddhism, such as Bernie Glassman’s Greyston Bakery or Thich Nhat Hanh’s Order of Interbeing, to get us out of “our state of somnambulant apathy” and toward a better society. Magnuson proposes a commendable yet difficult journey toward personal enlightenment, a more humane economy, and a better future.” Michel Gueldry, PhD, Professor, International Relations and Sustainability Studies, Middlebury Institute of International Studies, California"Restructuring individual consciousness and restructuring society are complementary activities, and both are desperately needed. This new book from Joel Magnuson shows us how to do this." Sulak Sivaraksa, author and founder/chair of International Network of Engaged BuddhistsTable of ContentsBuddhist Economics and the Three Fires; Buddhist Economics and Socially Engaged Buddhism; Happiness Failing on the World Stage; The Greed-Infected Cloud of Hot Money; If the Buddha Chaired the Federal Reserve--Banking for Right Livelihood; Stepping out of the Circle of Pathology; Accepting Impermanence.
£15.99
University of Minnesota Press Cinema Illuminating Reality: Media Philosophy
Book SynopsisA new critical approach to cinema and media based on Buddhism as a philosophical discourse How can a philosophical discourse generated in Asia help us reframe and renew cinema and media theory? Cinema Illuminating Reality provides a possible way to do this by using Buddhist ideas to examine the intricate relationship between technicity and consciousness in the cinema. The resulting dialogue between Buddhism and Euro-American philosophy is the first of its kind in film and media studies.Victor Fan examines cinema’s ontology and ontogenetic formation and how such a formational process produces knowledge, political agency, and in-aesthetics. Buddhism allows Fan to deconstruct binary thinking and reimagine media as an ecology, rethinking cinema in relational terms between the human and the machine. Along the way, Fan considers a wide variety of case studies from around the globe, while paying special attention to how contemporary Tibeto-Sinophone filmmakers have adopted relational thinking to detail ways of rebuilding a world that appears to be beyond repair.From Chinese queer cinema to a reexamination of Japanese master Ozu’s work and its historical reception to Christian Petzold’s 2018 existential thriller Transit, CinemaIlluminating Reality forges a remarkable path between Buddhist studies and cinema studies, casting vital new light on both of these important subjects.Trade Review"A stunning and provocative sequel to the invaluable Cinema Approaching Reality, this book is at once audacious and scrupulous, a Promethean leap of critical imagination as substantively grounded as Talmudic exegesis. Victor Fan deftly and relevantly engages thinkers from Nāgārjuna to Deleuze without reducing these inquiries to an Asian fusion buffet, maintaining lucid explications of Buddhist tenets while daring cross-cultural and interdisciplinary dialogues that will engage the philosopher and the cinephile. The readings of Marcel Carné’s Le jour se lève and Christian Petzhold’s Transit alone are worth the price of admission. A thrilling intellectual experience that demonstrates that inquiry can and should be an adventure."—Earl Jackson, Asia University"What if Buddhism and not Bazin or Deleuze were made the foundation for film philosophy? What conceptual and geopolitical reorientations would this require of us, and what new kinds of film experience would this open onto? These are the questions that animate this astonishingly inventive work, whose nearest cousin may be either Deleuze’s Cinema books or Barthes’s Camera Lucida."—Marc Steinberg, author of The Platform Economy: How Japan Transformed the Consumer InternetTable of ContentsDependent OriginationsNote on LanguagesIntroduction: Cinema: A Technicity-Consciousness1. Meontology2. The Karma-Image3. The Insight-Image4. Cinema Ecology5. In-AestheticsConclusion: Cinema and NonviolenceMultilingual Glossary of Buddhist Terms, Names, and TitlesNotesFilmographyIndex
£86.40
University of Minnesota Press Cinema Illuminating Reality: Media Philosophy
Book SynopsisA new critical approach to cinema and media based on Buddhism as a philosophical discourse How can a philosophical discourse generated in Asia help us reframe and renew cinema and media theory? Cinema Illuminating Reality provides a possible way to do this by using Buddhist ideas to examine the intricate relationship between technicity and consciousness in the cinema. The resulting dialogue between Buddhism and Euro-American philosophy is the first of its kind in film and media studies.Victor Fan examines cinema’s ontology and ontogenetic formation and how such a formational process produces knowledge, political agency, and in-aesthetics. Buddhism allows Fan to deconstruct binary thinking and reimagine media as an ecology, rethinking cinema in relational terms between the human and the machine. Along the way, Fan considers a wide variety of case studies from around the globe, while paying special attention to how contemporary Tibeto-Sinophone filmmakers have adopted relational thinking to detail ways of rebuilding a world that appears to be beyond repair.From Chinese queer cinema to a reexamination of Japanese master Ozu’s work and its historical reception to Christian Petzold’s 2018 existential thriller Transit, CinemaIlluminating Reality forges a remarkable path between Buddhist studies and cinema studies, casting vital new light on both of these important subjects.Trade Review"A stunning and provocative sequel to the invaluable Cinema Approaching Reality, this book is at once audacious and scrupulous, a Promethean leap of critical imagination as substantively grounded as Talmudic exegesis. Victor Fan deftly and relevantly engages thinkers from Nāgārjuna to Deleuze without reducing these inquiries to an Asian fusion buffet, maintaining lucid explications of Buddhist tenets while daring cross-cultural and interdisciplinary dialogues that will engage the philosopher and the cinephile. The readings of Marcel Carné’s Le jour se lève and Christian Petzhold’s Transit alone are worth the price of admission. A thrilling intellectual experience that demonstrates that inquiry can and should be an adventure."—Earl Jackson, Asia University"What if Buddhism and not Bazin or Deleuze were made the foundation for film philosophy? What conceptual and geopolitical reorientations would this require of us, and what new kinds of film experience would this open onto? These are the questions that animate this astonishingly inventive work, whose nearest cousin may be either Deleuze’s Cinema books or Barthes’s Camera Lucida."—Marc Steinberg, author of The Platform Economy: How Japan Transformed the Consumer InternetTable of ContentsDependent OriginationsNote on LanguagesIntroduction: Cinema: A Technicity-Consciousness1. Meontology2. The Karma-Image3. The Insight-Image4. Cinema Ecology5. In-AestheticsConclusion: Cinema and NonviolenceMultilingual Glossary of Buddhist Terms, Names, and TitlesNotesFilmographyIndex
£23.39
Fordham University Press The World and God Are Not-Two: A Hindu–Christian
Book SynopsisThe World and God Are Not-Two is a book about how the God in whom Christians believe ought to be understood. The key conceptual argument that runs throughout is that the distinctive relation between the world and God in Christian theology is best understood as a non-dualistic one. The “two”—“God” and “World” cannot be added up as separate, enumerable realities or contrasted with each other against some common background because God does not belong in any category and creatures are ontologically constituted by their relation to the Creator. In exploring the unique character of this distinctive relation, Soars turns to Sara Grant’s work on the Hindu tradition of Advaita Vedānta and the metaphysics of creation found in Thomas Aquinas. He develops Grant’s work and that of the earlier Calcutta School by drawing explicit attention to the Neoplatonic themes in Aquinas that provide some of the most fruitful areas for comparative engagement with Vedānta. To the Christian, the fact that the world exists only as dependent on God means that “world” and “God” must be ontologically distinct because God’s existence does not depend on the world. To the Advaitin, this simultaneously means that “World” and “God” cannot be ontologically separate either. The language of non-duality allows us to see that both positions can be held coherently together without entailing any contradiction or disagreement at the level of fundamental ontology. What it means to be “world” does not and cannot exclude what it means to be “God.”Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations and Conventions | ix Introduction | 1 1 The Distinctive Relation between Creature and Creator in Christian Theology: Non-dualism from David Burrell, CSC, to Sara Grant, RSCJ | 17 2 Roman Catholic Encounters with Advaita Vedānta: Between Transcendental Illusion and Radical Contingency | 40 3 The Relation between the World and God in Śaṁkara and Thomas: Sara Grant’s Case for a Form of Christian Non-dualism | 69 4 Creation: “Ex Nihilo” or “Ex Deo”? | 97 5 How Real Is the World? Being and Nothingness in Śaṁkara and Thomas | 129 Conclusion | 161 Acknowledgments | 173 Notes | 177 Bibliography | 221 Index | 231
£102.85
Fordham University Press The World and God Are Not-Two: A Hindu–Christian
Book SynopsisThe World and God Are Not-Two is a book about how the God in whom Christians believe ought to be understood. The key conceptual argument that runs throughout is that the distinctive relation between the world and God in Christian theology is best understood as a non-dualistic one. The “two”—“God” and “World” cannot be added up as separate, enumerable realities or contrasted with each other against some common background because God does not belong in any category and creatures are ontologically constituted by their relation to the Creator. In exploring the unique character of this distinctive relation, Soars turns to Sara Grant’s work on the Hindu tradition of Advaita Vedānta and the metaphysics of creation found in Thomas Aquinas. He develops Grant’s work and that of the earlier Calcutta School by drawing explicit attention to the Neoplatonic themes in Aquinas that provide some of the most fruitful areas for comparative engagement with Vedānta. To the Christian, the fact that the world exists only as dependent on God means that “world” and “God” must be ontologically distinct because God’s existence does not depend on the world. To the Advaitin, this simultaneously means that “World” and “God” cannot be ontologically separate either. The language of non-duality allows us to see that both positions can be held coherently together without entailing any contradiction or disagreement at the level of fundamental ontology. What it means to be “world” does not and cannot exclude what it means to be “God.”Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations and Conventions | ix Introduction | 1 1 The Distinctive Relation between Creature and Creator in Christian Theology: Non-dualism from David Burrell, CSC, to Sara Grant, RSCJ | 17 2 Roman Catholic Encounters with Advaita Vedānta: Between Transcendental Illusion and Radical Contingency | 40 3 The Relation between the World and God in Śaṁkara and Thomas: Sara Grant’s Case for a Form of Christian Non-dualism | 69 4 Creation: “Ex Nihilo” or “Ex Deo”? | 97 5 How Real Is the World? Being and Nothingness in Śaṁkara and Thomas | 129 Conclusion | 161 Acknowledgments | 173 Notes | 177 Bibliography | 221 Index | 231
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Temple University Press,U.S. Reconstructing Prehistory: Scientific Method in
Book SynopsisReevaluating the method of scientific investigation, James A. Bell provides a bold philosophical framework for developing and assessing archaeologists' theories of the past. More informed and judicious decisions, the author asserts, are made when archaeologists explore questions such as: How can theories be formulated so that they increase understanding and provide insight, and are theories still useful when they do not? How can theories be adjusted when anomalies are revealed? How can theories be assessed against competing theories? And, when should theories be abandoned, and when should they be pursued further? With numerous examples from archaeology as well as comparative examples from the physical and biological sciences, Bell illustrates how exploring the answers to these and related inquiries will lead to improved formulation and testing of theories. James A. Bell is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of South Florida.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Part I: The Context and the Issues 1. Controversy Over Method in Theoretical Archaeology 2. Issues in Theory Building and Assessment 3. Testability Part II: The Philosophical and Methodological Roots 4. Induction 5. The Paradigmatic View of Science 6. The Refutationist View of Science 7. The Anarchic View of Science Part III: Individualism and Cognitive Archaeology 8. Holism, Individualism, and Empathy 9. Cognitive Archaeology Conclusion Bibliography Index
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New Village Press Inherited Silence: Listening to the Land, Healing
Book SynopsisAn insightful look at the historical damages early colonizers of America caused and how their descendants may recognize and heal the harm done to the earth and the native peoples Inherited Silence tells the story of beloved land in California’s Napa Valley—how the land fared during the onslaught of colonization and how it fares now in the drought, development, and wildfires that are the consequences of the colonial mind. Author Louise Dunlap’s ancestors were among the first Europeans to claim ownership of traditional lands of the Wappo people during a period of genocide. As settlers, her ancestors lived the dream of Manifest Destiny, their consciousness changing only gradually over the generations. When Dunlap’s generation inherited the land, she had already begun to wonder about its unspoken story. What had kept her ancestors from seeing and telling the truth of their history? What had they brought west with them from the very earliest colonial experience in New England? Dunlap looks back into California’s and America’s history for the key to their silences and a way to heal the wounds of the land, its original people, and the harmful mind of the colonizer. It’s a powerful story that will awaken others to consider their own ancestors’ role in colonization and encourage them to begin reparations for the harmful actions of those who came before. More broadly, it offers a way for every reader to evaluate their own current life actions and the lasting impact they can have on society and our planet.Trade Review"Louise Dunlap is not afraid to look at the truth and then tell the truth of her early California settler family, a reckoning that becomes an important history of Napa Valley’s wine country." -- Greg Sarris, Chairman, Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria; author of Becoming Story"How can European descendants of enslavers and colonizers face with honesty the brutal pain and destruction our ancestors wrought? How can we grieve and then begin to heal? In this bold and moving love letter to the land, Louise Dunlap breaks twelve generations of silence. A keen learner from Indigenous peoples and from the land she loves, Dunlap charts out a path toward rehumanization and healing. A beautifully-written memoir that is hard to put down." -- Christine Sleeter, Professor Emerita, California State University Monterey Bay; author of Family History in Black and White"Louise Dunlap offers the reader a wonderful way of living as a part of the whole: the whole of ourselves, the whole of nature, and the whole of the cosmos. She is a wise Bodhisattva who has dedicated her practice to waking up for the benefit of us all, a courageous being who offers a pathway to decolonize our hearts and minds. And she lets us know that it is possible to do so." -- —Dr. Larry Ward, author of America's Racial Karma, and Dr. Peggy Rowe Ward, senior dharma teachers in the Thich Nhat Hanh tradition and directors of The Lotus Institute"What would Justice and Healing look like when the Land speaks and uncovers the Silence of centuries-old stories of theft and genocide? Now an Elder, Louise Dunlap tells the story of how the Land of the Wappo and Patwin spoke to her heart and soul and gave her the courage to uncover the Silence. I read this book with tears of grief and gratitude and a longing for a deeper sense of justice and healing." -- Leny Mendoza Strobel, Founding Elder, Center for Babaylan Studies"Confronting the wrongs of the past is a way of honouring our ancestors, both those who have come before and those who are yet to come. We need to be taught by the failures and mistakes we have inherited and continue to reproduce in order to enable the possibility that only new mistakes will be made in the future. We need to be able to say: the buck stops here! This book is a step in that direction." -- Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti, Professor, Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities and Global Change, University of British Columbia"Louise Dunlap, in Inherited Silence, performs work very like a traditional healer with roots and herbs. Deep in the silences, the forests of the past, she unearths painful stories, absorbing them to remove any toxins they may carry. Then with love and compassion, she restores in them the healing properties of the land where they are rooted." -- Bobby Marie, community educator and activist, South Africa"For those of us still living on the land our ancestors stole for us, Inherited Silence shows us some of the first steps we must take towards healing and repair. Louise demonstrates that this work isn't about disowning our ancestors, but becoming closer to them by telling the truth of their times, committing to transform and transmute the trauma they caused, and not letting racial violence or climate chaos be the final chapter of their legacy." -- Morgan Curtis, Ancestors & Money Coach
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New Village Press Inherited Silence: Listening to the Land, Healing
Book SynopsisAn insightful look at the historical damages early colonizers of America caused and how their descendants may recognize and heal the harm done to the earth and the native peoples Inherited Silence tells the story of beloved land in California’s Napa Valley—how the land fared during the onslaught of colonization and how it fares now in the drought, development, and wildfires that are the consequences of the colonial mind. Author Louise Dunlap’s ancestors were among the first Europeans to claim ownership of traditional lands of the Wappo people during a period of genocide. As settlers, her ancestors lived the dream of Manifest Destiny, their consciousness changing only gradually over the generations. When Dunlap’s generation inherited the land, she had already begun to wonder about its unspoken story. What had kept her ancestors from seeing and telling the truth of their history? What had they brought west with them from the very earliest colonial experience in New England? Dunlap looks back into California’s and America’s history for the key to their silences and a way to heal the wounds of the land, its original people, and the harmful mind of the colonizer. It’s a powerful story that will awaken others to consider their own ancestors’ role in colonization and encourage them to begin reparations for the harmful actions of those who came before. More broadly, it offers a way for every reader to evaluate their own current life actions and the lasting impact they can have on society and our planet.Trade Review"Louise Dunlap is not afraid to look at the truth and then tell the truth of her early California settler family, a reckoning that becomes an important history of Napa Valley’s wine country." -- Greg Sarris, Chairman, Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria; author of Becoming Story"How can European descendants of enslavers and colonizers face with honesty the brutal pain and destruction our ancestors wrought? How can we grieve and then begin to heal? In this bold and moving love letter to the land, Louise Dunlap breaks twelve generations of silence. A keen learner from Indigenous peoples and from the land she loves, Dunlap charts out a path toward rehumanization and healing. A beautifully-written memoir that is hard to put down." -- Christine Sleeter, Professor Emerita, California State University Monterey Bay; author of Family History in Black and White"Louise Dunlap offers the reader a wonderful way of living as a part of the whole: the whole of ourselves, the whole of nature, and the whole of the cosmos. She is a wise Bodhisattva who has dedicated her practice to waking up for the benefit of us all, a courageous being who offers a pathway to decolonize our hearts and minds. And she lets us know that it is possible to do so." -- —Dr. Larry Ward, author of America's Racial Karma, and Dr. Peggy Rowe Ward, senior dharma teachers in the Thich Nhat Hanh tradition and directors of The Lotus Institute"What would Justice and Healing look like when the Land speaks and uncovers the Silence of centuries-old stories of theft and genocide? Now an Elder, Louise Dunlap tells the story of how the Land of the Wappo and Patwin spoke to her heart and soul and gave her the courage to uncover the Silence. I read this book with tears of grief and gratitude and a longing for a deeper sense of justice and healing." -- Leny Mendoza Strobel, Founding Elder, Center for Babaylan Studies"Confronting the wrongs of the past is a way of honouring our ancestors, both those who have come before and those who are yet to come. We need to be taught by the failures and mistakes we have inherited and continue to reproduce in order to enable the possibility that only new mistakes will be made in the future. We need to be able to say: the buck stops here! This book is a step in that direction." -- Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti, Professor, Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities and Global Change, University of British Columbia"Louise Dunlap, in Inherited Silence, performs work very like a traditional healer with roots and herbs. Deep in the silences, the forests of the past, she unearths painful stories, absorbing them to remove any toxins they may carry. Then with love and compassion, she restores in them the healing properties of the land where they are rooted." -- Bobby Marie, community educator and activist, South Africa"For those of us still living on the land our ancestors stole for us, Inherited Silence shows us some of the first steps we must take towards healing and repair. Louise demonstrates that this work isn't about disowning our ancestors, but becoming closer to them by telling the truth of their times, committing to transform and transmute the trauma they caused, and not letting racial violence or climate chaos be the final chapter of their legacy." -- Morgan Curtis, Ancestors & Money Coach
£64.00
Academica Press A History of Chinese Classical Scholarship,
Book SynopsisThe first volume of David M. Honey’s comprehensive history of Chinese thought offers a close study of Confucius, that tradition’s proto-classicist. This opening volume examines Confucius traditions that largely formed the views of later classicists, who regarded him as their profession’s patron saint. Honey’s survey begins by examining how these views informed the Chinese classicists’ own identities as textual critics and interpreters, all dedicated to self-cultivation for government service. It focuses on Confucius’s methods as a proto-classical master and teacher, and on the media in which he worked, including the spoken word and written texts. As Honey explains, Confucius’s immediate motivations were twofold: the moral development of himself and his disciples and the ritual application of the lessons from the classics. His instruction occurred in ritualized settings in the form of a question and answer catechism between master and disciples. This pedagogical approach will be analyzed through the interpretive paradigm of “performative ritual,” borrowed from recent studies of Greek classical drama. The volume concludes with a detailed treatment of a trio of Confucius’s disciples who were most prominent in transmitting his teachings, and with chapters on his intellectual inheritors, Mencius and Xunzi.
£112.50
Academica Press A History of Chinese Classical Scholarship,
Book SynopsisVolume II of David M. Honey’s comprehensive history of Chinese thought covers a vital 500-year stretch in China’s history, from national unification in 221 BCE to the first post-imperial fragmentation into rival northern and southern polities. This volume discusses the reconstitution of the classics after the textual devastation wrought by the policies of the First Emperor of Qin, who destroyed many of them, and their eventual canonization by the crown during the Western Han period. Honey also examines the professionalization of Chinese classical scholarship as a state-sponsored enterprise, whereby private masters gave way to tenured academicians who specialized in single classical works. This volume also covers the development of various subgenres in the discipline of philology by the three great Eastern Han classicists Liu Xiang in textual criticism, Xu Shen in lexicography, and the polymath Zheng Xuan in the exegesis of virtually all the classics. Honey concludes with an examination of Zheng Xuan as the inspiration for other exegetical modes to explain textual complexities following this era.
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Academica Press A History of Chinese Classical Scholarship,
Book SynopsisThis exciting third volume of David M. Honey’s comprehensive history of Chinese thought begins with China after nomadic invaders overran the northern regions of the historic kingdom. The differentiation between scholarly emphases—northern focus on the traditional pedagogical commentary, and southern classical school’s more innovative commentary—led to an emphasis on the interpretation of the overall message of a text, not a close reading of smaller sections. As Honey explains, serious attention to the phonological nature of Chinese characters also began during in this long era. Based on the work of earlier Sui dynasty classicists, Kong Yinga and his committee produced the Correct Meaning commentary to the Five Classics during the early Tang Dynasty, which is still largely normative today. The book demonstrates that the brooding presence of Zheng Xuan, the great textual critic from the Eastern Han dynasty, still exerted enormous influence during this period, as his ritualized approach to the classics inspired intellectual followers to expand on his work or impelled opponents to break off in new directions.
£112.50
Collective Ink Live in the Moment, Including Zen and the Art of
Book SynopsisWith clarity of thought and realism, Rev. Ross Cribb sets out to provide an alternative vocabulary with which to describe significant events, human nature and spirituality, with the goal to empower individuals to have happier and more meaningful lives. His highly readable combination of Zen, philosophy, psychology and science makes a compelling case for his view of spirituality. Explaining that we often refer to different parts of ourselves as independent, he takes this a step further by invoking the New Age concept of Energy Bodies (specifically the Physical, Emotional, Mental and Spiritual Bodies). With these he explains Enlightenment, Being in the Moment and Energy Healing-an effective method for releasing blockages that take us out of the moment.
£15.19
Collective Ink Path of Civility, The: Perfecting the Lessons of
Book SynopsisWhat does President George Washington have in common with the Buddha, Sakyamuni? Author and teacher, Robert Sachs, brings together the lessons and teachings of these two great men; one an exemplary political figure, the other, the founder of one of the world’s great wisdom traditions. The result is a guidebook to study, carry with you, and apply to cultivate healthy, intelligent, and communication and action inspired by and rooted in civility.
£10.97
Liverpool University Press Buddha is Dead: Nietzsche and the Dawn of
Book SynopsisDrawing on Zen as well as on Nietzsche's thought and its ramifications in and for western culture, this book is a fervent call for a re-visioning of philosophy as vocation. The author is critical of the status quo and committed to intellectual integrity; the result is a creative and adventurous enterprise which is no longer exclusively identified with academia or with the methodology of logic. Filtered through Nietzsche's hammer -- by which he sounded out gods old and new -- Buddhism in the West can avoid the pitfalls which emerged during its gestation period in the twentieth century: otherworldly spiritualism, conservatism, denial of the body. The philosophy of European Zen advocated by Manu Bazzano in 'Buddha is Dead: Nietzsche and the Dawn of European Zen' is an unconditional affirmation of living and dying to their fullest. It is an extraordinary fertile viewpoint that will be appreciated by all those who are interested in Eastern philosophy and religions, and who seek life-affirming wisdom.Trade ReviewIlluminates the common radicalism, non-conformity and insistence on honesty and integrity that underpin what is most challenging and provocative in the two traditions of Buddhism in general (and Zen Buddhism in particular) and the tradition (or anti-tradition) in Western philosophy that finds its most exultant spokesman in the figure of Friedrich Nietzsche. -- Stephen Batchelor, author of the bestselling Buddhism Without BeliefsTable of ContentsMission: Untimely (The True Task of Philosophy); Great Doubt and the Death of God; The Will to Power as Generosity; The Crooked Path of Eternity; Beyond the Dream of Change; On Nomadic Truth; The Innocence of Becoming; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
£27.92
Collective Ink Cup of Buddha, A – A Blueprint to Truth
Book SynopsisA Cup of Buddha: reflections on truth discusses how to take the journey toward inner peace, toward truth in entertaining, simple language beyond the abstract and mystical concepts typically found in eastern philosophy books. The book applies eastern philosophy to western living utilizing pop culture and music metaphors to explore dense topics in an easy to digest format. Individuals are restless, and unhappy. We search for the water to put out our fire of discontent filling this space with self help books, food, new cars, relationships, and more, all with short term satisfaction but our fire still burns. We look outward, we look to others, yet the fire rages. A Cup of Buddha: reflections on truth addresses this fire within each of us, exploring the actual journey toward truth, understanding that each moment in life is everything, and we alone ultimately make this choice toward happiness.Trade ReviewThomas Craig speaks of the unknown in very pragmatic and understandable way in his book A Cup Of Buddha. He succeeds in bringing Buddhism into your everyday way of life. A wonderful read. (Lynn Andrews, Bestselling author of Medicine Woman)
£12.99
Numata Center for Buddhist Translation & Research. Language and Meaning
Book SynopsisComparing Abhidharma and Chinese Buddhist conceptions of the Buddha's word, Eun-su Cho's study addresses the transmission and reinterpretation of theories of language and opens a doorway to Buddhist philosophical thought in East Asia. This is important because technical Buddhist philosophical thought in East Asia has long been neglected.
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Zone Books In Praise of Blandness: Proceeding from Chinese
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Zone Books The Act of Being: The Philosophy of Revelation in
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Liverpool University Press T'ai Chi Ch'uan: Harmonizing Taoist Belief and
Book SynopsisThe exploration of Taoism and T'ai Chi begins by examining their origins and affiliations under the title of Beginnings. Subsequent chapters take up the themes of Harmony (expressing the duality and interrelation of yin and yang); The Way (which looks at the philosophy of the Tao and the path that leads to its practical expression through T'ai Chi); Change (which examines the influence of the I Ching and the Eight Energies); Direction (an analysis of the Five Elements); and Energy (which explores alchemy and the vital energy of ch'i). The primary focus is on Movement and Stillness, which harmonizes the softness of movement with the stillness of the inner self -- leading to the theme of Unity, the ultimate goal of philosophical Taoism and the practical dimensions of that philosophy in T'ai Chi.Table of ContentsSection headings: Introduction; Beginnings; Harmony; The Way; Change; Phases; Energy; Movement in Stillness; Unity; Index.
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Three Pines Press Experimental Essays on Zhuangzi
Book SynopsisExperimental Essays on Zhuangzi is a classic in the field. Originally published in 1983, this edition makes it available again in an expanded version, with four additional contributions, and in an updated format, with pinyin transcription, Chinese characters embedded in the text, and reference style notes. The work is a well respected textbook and essential reader in Daoist thought. It continues to constitute an essential contribution to the study of Daoism and Chinese philosophy.
£999.99
University of Hawai'i Press New Visions of the Zhuangzi
Book SynopsisA collection of thirteen essays on the ancient Daoist philosophical work. It overcomes the traditional division of schools in favour of topics, sheds new light on key philosophical notions and examines Zhuangzi's use of language. In addition, it also applies modern neuroscience to its instructions, explores its vision of the ideal mind, and connects Zhuangzi's teachings to issues of education and community.
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Three Pines Press The Way of Awareness in Daoist Philosophy
Book SynopsisThis book explores ancient Daoist philosophy and argues against interpretations that paint the early Daoist philosophers as mystics or cosmologists. It claims that Dao is best understood as awareness and that Daoist concerns are primarily with the nature of human experience, meditation, and our relation to the world. The Dao of Awareness starts by placing Daoist philosophy within the context of ancient Chinese thought. It then proceeds by critically engaging each of the major Daoist thinkers, works, or schools: Laozi, Yang Zhu, Zhuangzi, the Inward Training, Liezi, and Neo-Daoism. It concludes by pointing to ways in which Daoist thought can offer insights into contemporary Western philosophy. Throughout the book, comparisons are drawn with Western thinkers, psychological research, and Buddhist thought. The book is both a scholarly examination of Chinese and cross-cultural philosophy as well as an original work on ethics, metaphysics, and the philosophy of mind.Trade ReviewThe Way of Awareness in Daoist Philosophy provides a detailed and superbly skillful gloss on key texts of Daoist philosophy, making them part of the global conversation. The book begins with a survey of early Chinese philosophy, then discusses various thinkers at length, culminating with Neo-Daoism. Throughout, the work makes many references to Western philosophers and argues common problems. It is a brilliant and profound extension of the global philosophical palette to include a variety of Daoist positions. Besides engaging specialists with its revolutionary vision, the book is well tailored to the general reader and highly suitable for undergraduate courses in philosophy. This reader-friendly book not simply engages us in a better understanding of Daoist philosophy as awareness, the way of both generating and developing the mind. It also opens up a philosophical horizon for gaining perceptual clarity and furthering the contemporary discussion of consciousness, action, and free will. A must for all interested in deepening their understanding of Daoist thought! Dr Giles guides the reader along a fascinating and quite bold journey through early Daoist and Daoist related teachings, thinkers, texts and commentators. Throughout this journey a single thread is woven which indicates that the Dao or Way is awareness. Intertwined within this awareness is emptiness, a back and forth of stillness and constant flow which he calls the double return, and wuwei or non-action. Dr Giles argues that these early Daoist teachings regarding awareness and how it relates to the world can enhance and inform contemporary Western philosophy. It also may be seen as beneficial to simply living life. His book provides a clear path where one can make the first step. It is now time to make that first step!
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Three Pines Press Rediscovering the Roots of Chinese Thought:
Book SynopsisRediscovering the Roots of Chinese Thought: Laozi’s Philosophy is an English translation of one of the most influential Chinese texts on Daoism of the past century, written by Guying Chen, one of China’s foremost scholars of Daoist thought and the author of annotated classical commentaries that serve as standard resources in many Chinese universities.This book offers a unique discussion of the Laozi, arguing—in contrast to standard Western scholarship—that the text goes back to a single author and identifying him as an older contemporary, and even teacher, of Confucius. This places the Confucian Analects after the Laozi and makes the text the most fundamental work of ancient Chinese thought.Chen explores these debates regarding these points, providing evidence based on materials excavated from Mawangdui and Guodian. His book is fascinating documentation of contemporary Chinese arguments and debates previously unavailable in English. It is nothing less than a complete revision of the history of Chinese thought with Daoism as its major focus.
£22.36
Three Pines Press Declarations of the Perfected: Part Two:
Book SynopsisDeclarations of the Perfected is the first complete, annotated translation of Zhen'gao, Tao Hongjing's (456-536) masterful compilation of the Shangqing or Higher Clarity revelations, setting the stage for the heyday of medieval Daoism. The present volume presents the Declarations' second part (fasc. 5-8), which focuses on the various difficulties that Daoist practitioners are likely to encounter in a dangerous world, and how to overcome them. It begins with instructions of a more general nature, before moving on to problems faced specifically by Xu Mi (303-376) and his family and fellow officials. This volume also sheds much light on the history of its time-the kinds of moral and philosophical issues that were being debated, as well political intrigues in the Eastern Jin court.Trade ReviewThe Zhen’gao or Declarations of the Perfected offers the unique opportunity to look over the shoulders of the "founder" of a new religious tradition. The text collects notes taken by the medium Yang Xi and his adherents, dealing with questions addressed to the immortals and their answers and admonitions. Chapters 5-8, which are translated in this volume, contain information on the otherworldly destiny of deceased members of the Xu family as well as of their acquaintances and their sepulchral plaints. They present a firsthand insight into the religious ideas and concepts that became the fashion of a southern Chinese elite from the third through the sixth centuries CE. Both the author’s translation and copious comments together with helpful contextualizations are praiseworthy. Not only Daoist specialists but anybody having an interest in comparative religion and Chinese history is well advised to peruse this work.
£26.96
Zone Books Ten Thousand Things: Nurturing Life in
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Zone Books The Chinese Pleasure Book
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£999.99
Springer International Publishing AG Tetsugaku Companion to Feeling
Book SynopsisThis edited volume is the first in English that covers the philosophy of feeling and related topics in Japanese philosophy on Nishida Kitaro and fellow thinkers.
£98.99
Diaphanes AG Lao-Tzu, or the Way of The Dragon
Book SynopsisAt its most basic, philosophy is about learning how to think about the world around us. It should come as no surprise, then, that children make excellent philosophers! Naturally inquisitive, pint-size scholars need little prompting before being willing to consider life’s big questions, however strange or impractical. Plato & Co. introduces children—and curious grown-ups—to the lives and work of famous philosophers, from Socrates to Descartes, Einstein, Marx, Freud, and Wittgenstein. Each book in the series features an engaging—and often funny—story that presents basic tenets of philosophical thought alongside vibrant color illustrations. In Lao-Tzu, or the Way of The Dragon, we follow the ancient Chinese philosopher who founded Taoism, from the comet that announced his birth up to his inspired composition, more than fifty years later, of the Tao Te Ching, the Book of the Way. In body and mind an old sage from birth, Lao-Tzu devotes his life to deciphering the endless book of the world. But he soon becomes frustrated with the silliness of human order, impatient kings, and greedy people, and rides off on the back of a water buffalo in search of the Way. He encounters clouds that solidify under his feet, a cave guarded by a golden monkey, and the venerable Confucius himself, and ultimately finds the wisdom of the dragon already residing deep in his own heart.
£13.93
Klaus Schwarz Akademische Philosophie in Der Arabischen Welt:
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Silkworm Books / Trasvin Publications LP Self and Society: Essays on Pali Literature and
Book SynopsisThis selection of essays demonstrates that, in the study of Buddhism, a concern with detailed accuracy in philological and textual specifics can be combined with wider philosophical and sociological issues. The essays are divided into three parts: (1) Pali Literature, (2) The Theory and Practice of Not-Self, and (3) Buddhism and Society. The last part builds on but goes beyond the work of Dumont and Max Weber in considering “world-renunciation” as a phenomenon of society and culture.Table of ContentsPreface Pali Literature 1. On the Very Idea of the Pali Canon 2. Notes on Some Oral Aspects of Pali Literature 3. What Is Literature in Pali? The Theory and Practice of Not-Self 4. What Are Buddhist Doing When They Deny the Self? 5. The Body in Theravada Buddhist Monasticism 6. A Buddhist Debate About the Self, and Remarks on Buddhism in the Work of Derek Parfit and Galen Strawson 7. Of Death and Trees Buddhism and Society 8. Monasticism, Utopias and Comparative Social Theory 9. Louis Dumont and the Study of Religions 10. Buddhist "Nuns" (Mae chi) and the Teaching of Pali in Thailand (With Justin McDaniel) Bibliography Index
£29.99
Silkworm Books / Trasvin Publications LP The Web of Buddhist Wisdom: An Introduction to
Book SynopsisLong before the advent of modern psychology, Buddhism offered ways to understand body and mind through introspection and meditation. These efforts yielded a thorough and detailed classification and analysis of mental and physical phenomena, known as the Abhidhamma. The Web of Buddhist Wisdom is a clear and accessible explanation of important themes of the Abhidhamma, such as consciousness, mental concomitants, physicality, and the experience of Enlightenment. In addition, he addresses the law of kamma, the process of dying and rebirth, the four Noble Truths and the value of the Abhidhamma. This is a rich and accessible guide for anyone who is interested in the workings of the human mind. It offers a clear and simple acquaintance with the world of the Abhidhamma, an old yet very accurate mirror of our existence.
£27.99
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Manohar Publishers and Distributors The Indian Concept of Values
Book SynopsisAccording to the author, the Indian value system is of greater value than any other systems prevailing in the world. The book also covers its encounter of ancient Indian values with the present modernist values, and its true character is also reflected in this study.
£45.50
