Kategoria BISAC: Philosophy >> Eastern

How can we live our lives when everything seems to fall apart--when we are continually overcome by fear, anxiety, and pain? The answer, Pema Chodron suggests, might be just the opposite of what you expect. Here, in her most beloved and acclaimed work, Pema shows that moving toward painful...

This book is about Tangut translations of Chinese literary texts. Although most of the extant Tangut material comprises Buddhist texts, there are also many non-religious texts, which are mostly translations from Chinese. The central concern is how the Tanguts appropriated Chinese written culture through translation and what their reasons for this were. Of the seven chapters, the first three provide background information on the discovery of Tangut material, the emergence of the field of Tangut studies, and the history of the Tangut state. The following four chapters are devoted to...

This book attempts to unravel the worldview of two prominent Indians of recent Indian history - Tagore and Vivekananda. Both suggested emancipation through political struggles but without transgressing the boundaries of humanism. This is significant, as identifying an enemy was an intrinsic part of nationalistic formulations. The larger philosophy of life, for Tagore and Vivekananda, was to reach out across geographical borders.

In this work, their alternative idea of India is analysed in the larger context of the many formulations of nationalism with special reference(s) to...

Sun Tzu on the Art of War

"Master Sun's Rules of Warfare"

Translated from the Chinese with Introduction

and Critical Notes by Lionel Giles

The Art of War, literally: "Master Sun's Rules of Warfare," is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the 5th century BC. Attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Wu - "Master Sun," the text is composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare. It is commonly thought of as a definitive work on military strategy and tactics. It was placed at the head of China's Seven Military Classics upon the...

Grappling with the place of Jewish philosophy at the margin of religious studies, Robert Erlewine examines the work of five Jewish philosophers--Hermann Cohen, Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, Abraham Joshua Heschel, and Joseph Soloveitchik--to bring them into dialogue within the discipline. Emphasizing the tenuous place of Jews in European, and particularly German, culture, Erlewine unapologetically contextualizes Jewish philosophy as part of the West. He teases out the antagonistic and overlapping attempts of Jewish thinkers to elucidate the philosophical and cultural meaning of Judaism...

About the Book

The original mandate held in Changes of Zhou. Oracle script set to calendar.

Description

A definitive rescript of Yijing based upon Dragon Horse River Map and Congenital Gossip. Strategies for opposing false authority with natural law. Orthodox hexagram characters from the earliest rulers of the Zhou dynasty who also authored Imperial Mandate For Peace, China's oldest known document on administrative law.