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This volume offers a rich and accessible introduction to contemporary research on Buddhist ethical thought for interested students and scholars, yet also offers chapters taking up more technical philosophical and textual topics. A Mirror is For...

The Ikhwan al-Safa' (Brethren of Purity), the anonymous adepts of a tenth-century esoteric fraternity based in Basra and Baghdad, hold an eminent position in the history of science and philosophy in Islam due to the wide reception and assimilation of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934389072Author Jim PowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint For BeginnersPublisher For Beginners

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940985346Author Sri AurobindoFormat PaperbackPage Count 285Imprint Lotus PressPublisher Lotus Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936828074Author Lao TzuFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint NMD BooksPublisher NMD BooksWeight(grams) 149gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 5mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788120830943Author Charles WillemenFormat HardbackPage Count 357Imprint Motilal Banarsidass,Publisher Motilal Banarsidass,Dimensions(mm) 220mm * 150mm * 30mm

The Platform Sutra comprises a wide range of important Chan/Zen Buddhist teachings. Purported to contain the autobiography and sermons of Huineng (638-713), the legendary Sixth Patriarch of Chan, the sutra has been popular among monastics and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783847108627Author Karl BaierFormat HardbackPage Count 630Imprint V&R unipress GmbHPublisher V&R unipress GmbHWeight(grams) 1024g

This introduction brings to life the main themes in Indian philosophy of language by using an accessible translation of an Indian classical text to provide an entry into the world of Indian linguistic theories. Malcolm Keating draws on Mukula's...

What are the basic, unique characteristics of the Chinese mind, of the Chinese philosophical tradition, and of the Chinese culture based upon that tradition? Here, in a series of essays by men of exceptional competence and insight, is an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438466583Author Marthe Atwater ChandlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788120831124Author Tom TillemansFormat HardbackPage Count 330Imprint Motilal Banarsidass PublicationsPublisher Motilal Banarsidass...

What is yoga? Stereotypical images of people practicing this ancient art range from white-bearded Indian mystics chanting 'om' on mountaintops to urban fitness fanatics contorted into uncomfortable looking positions. We recognize the name, but may not...

Contemporary Japanese Philosophy: A Reader is an anthology of contemporary (post-war) Japanese philosophy showcasing a range of important philosophers and philosophical trends from 1945 to the present. This important and comprehensive volume introduces...

Syncretistic exegesis.The philosopher Philo was born about 20 BC to a prominent Jewish family in Alexandria, the chief home of the Jewish Diaspora as well as the chief center of Hellenistic culture; he was trained in Greek as well as Jewish ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946742131Author Agni Yoga SocietyFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint AGNI Yoga Society, Inc.Publisher AGNI Yoga Society, Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524853846Author Mari FujimotoFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Andrews McMeel PublishingPublisher Andrews McMeel PublishingWeight(grams)...

Skill and Mastery: Philosophical Stories from the Zhuangzi presents an illuminating analysis of skill stories from the Zhuangzi, a 4th century BCE Daoist text. In this intriguing text that subverts conventional norms and pursuits, ordinary activities...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935785972Author Miyamoto MusashiFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Bottom of the Hill PublishingPublisher Bottom of the Hill PublishingWeight(grams)...

Syncretistic exegesis.The philosopher Philo was born about 20 BC to a prominent Jewish family in Alexandria, the chief home of the Jewish Diaspora as well as the chief center of Hellenistic culture; he was trained in Greek as well as Jewish ...

Leo Strauss is widely recognized as one of the foremost interpreters of Maimonides. His studies of the medieval Jewish philosopher led to his rediscovery of esotericism and deepened his sense that the tension between reason and revelation was central to...

The Brethren of Purity, the anonymous adepts of a tenth-century esoteric fraternity based in Basra and Baghdad, hold an eminent position in the history of science and philosophy in Islam due to the wide reception and assimilation of their monumental...

This wide-ranging anthology of classic and newly-commissioned essays brings together the major theories of multiculturalism from a multiplicity of philosophical perspectives.About the AuthorThe editor is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Emory...

Can Zen tell us whether particular wars are right or wrong? What role did D. T. Suzuki and other Zen figures play in the Japanese nationalism that fueled World War II? What are we to make of nationalistic elements in the thought of Nishida Kitaro, Tanabe...

Can Zen tell us whether particular wars are right or wrong? What role did D. T. Suzuki and other Zen figures play in the Japanese nationalism that fueled World War II? What are we to make of nationalistic elements in the thought of Nishida Kitaro, Tanabe...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788120832756Author J. KrishnamurtiFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Motilal Banarsidass,Publisher Motilal Banarsidass,

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806529219Author Theos BernardFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Philosophical LibraryPublisher Philosophical LibraryWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm)...

The common Western understanding of Buddhism today envisions this major world religion as one of compassion and tolerance. But as Roger-Pol Droit reveals, this view bears little resemblance to one broadly held in the 19th century European philosophical...

Mental illness complicates views of agency and moral responsibility in ethics. Particularly for traditions and theories focused on self-cultivation, such as Aristotelian virtue ethics and many systems of ethics in early Chinese philosophy, mental illness...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946742056Author Agni Yoga SocietyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint AGNI Yoga Society, Inc.Publisher AGNI Yoga Society, Inc.Weight(grams)...

That bad things happen to good people was as true in early China as it is today. Franklin Perkins uses this observation as the thread by which to trace the effort by Chinese thinkers of the Warring States Period (c.475-221 BCE), a time of great conflict...

Poetics of the Earth is a work of environmental philosophy, based on a synthesis of eastern and western thought on natural and human history. It draws on recent biological research to show how the processes of evolution and history both function...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789872828Author Kitaro NishidaFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Pantianos ClassicsPublisher Pantianos ClassicsWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

One of the most popular Asian classics for roughly two thousand years, the Vimalakirti Sutra stands out among the sacred texts of Mahayana Buddhism for its conciseness, its vivid and humorous episodes, its dramatic narratives, and its eloquent exposition...

A popular and critical success when it first appeared in France, Yoga and the Hindu Tradition has freed Yoga from the common misconceptions of the recent Yoga vogue. Jean Varenne, the distinguished French Orientalist, presents the theory of classical...

The six lectures that make up this book were delivered in March 2011 at London University's School of Oriental and Asian Studies as the Jordan Lectures on Comparative Religion. They revolve around the intersection of two ideas, nothingness and desire, as...

Chinese traditional culture cannot be understood without some familiarity with the I Ching, yet it is one of the most difficult of the worlds ancient classics. Assembled from fragments with many obscure allusions, it was the subject of ingenious, but...

This book presents two essays by Nishida Kitaro, translated into English for the first time by John Krummel and Shigenori Nagatomo. Nishida is widely regarded as one of the father figures of modern Japanese philosophy and as the founder of the first...

While phenomenology and Yogacara Buddhism are both known for their investigations of consciousness, there exists a core tension between them: phenomenology affirms the existence of essence, whereas Yogacara Buddhism argues that everything is empty of...

Crossing the Stream, Leaving the Cave brings philosophers from two of the world's great philosophical traditions--Platonic and Indian Buddhist--into joint inquiry on topics in metaphysics, epistemology, mind, language, and ethics. An international team...