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The Lotus Sutra by Burton Watson
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.11Since its appearance in China in the third century, The Lotus Sutra has been regarded as one of the most illustrious scriptures in the Mahayana Buddhist canon. The object of intense veneration among... -
The Vimalakirti Sutra by Burton Watson 9780231106573
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.25One 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... -
The Tales of the Heike by Burton Watson 9780231138031
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.25The Tales of the Heike is one of the most influential works in Japanese literature and culture, remaining even today a crucial source for fiction, drama, and popular media. Originally written in the... -
The Complete Works of Zhuangzi by Burton Watson
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £49.89Only by inhabiting Dao (the Way of Nature) and dwelling in its unity can humankind achieve true happiness and freedom, in both life and death. This is Daoist philosophy's central tenet, espoused by... -
The Analects of Confucius by Burton Watson 9780231141642
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £54.13Compiled by disciples of Confucius in the centuries following his death in 479 B.C.E., The Analects of Confucius is a collection of aphorisms and historical anecdotes embodying the basic values of... -
The Analects of Confucius by Burton Watson 9780231141659
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.67Compiled by disciples of Confucius in the centuries following his death in 479 B.C.E., The Analects of Confucius is a collection of aphorisms and historical anecdotes embodying the basic values of... -
Xunzi: Basic Writings by Burton Watson 9780231129657
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.40Xunzi asserted that the original nature of man is evil, differing on this point from Mencius, his famous predecessor in the Confucian school. In the most complete, well-ordered philosophical system... -
Salutations; A Festschrift for Burton Watson by Jesse Glass 9780996478403
Booksplease Price: £16.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996478403Author Jesse GlassFormat PaperbackImprint Ahadada/EkleksographiaPublisher... -
Ryokan: Zen Monk-Poet of Japan by Burton Watson 9780231044158
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.32Ryokan (1758-1831), a Buddhist monk in the Zen sect, was a major figure in Tokugawa poetry. Although a Zen master, he never headed a temple but chose to live alone in simple huts and to support... -
Record of Miraculous Events in Japan: The Nihon ryoiki by Burton Watson 9780231164214
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.40The Nihon ryoiki, a collection of setsuwa, or "anecdotal" tales, compiled by a monk in late-eighth- or early-ninth-century Japan, records the spread of Buddhist ideas in Japan and the ways... -
Four Huts: Asian Writings on the Simple Life by Burton Watson 9781570629464
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570629464Author Burton WatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Shambhala Publications... -
Four Huts: Asian Writings on the Simple Life by Burton Watson 9781611806410
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611806410Author Burton WatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Shambhala Publications... -
Record of Miraculous Events in Japan: The Nihon ryoiki by Burton Watson 9780231164207
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £82.80The Nihon ryoiki, a collection of setsuwa, or "anecdotal" tales, compiled by a monk in late-eighth- or early-ninth-century Japan, records the spread of Buddhist ideas in Japan and the ways in which... -
Chinese Lyricism: Shih Poetry from the Second to the Twelfth Century by Burton Watson
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorBurton Watson is one of the world's best-known translators from the Chinese and Japanese. His translations... -
The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry: From Early Times to the Thirteenth Century by Burton Watson
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.93The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry presents translations of more than 420 poems by 96 poets drawn from the great ages of Chinese poetry. It begins with selections from the Book of Odes, the oldest... -
Courtier and Commoner in Ancient China: Selections from the History of the Former Han by Pan Ku by Burton Watson 9780231083546
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.60Pan Ku's celebrated and influential History of the Former Han has been a model for dynastic history since its appearance in the first century A.D. The narrative is rich in detail and characterized by... -
Han Fei Tzu: Basic Writings by Han Fei Tzu 9780231086097
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.40Representative of the Fachia, or Legalist, school of philosophy, the writings of Han Fei Tzu (280?-233 B.C.) confront the issues of preserving and strengthening the state. His lessons remain timely... -
The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu by Zi Zhuang 9780231031479
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £72.80This is one of the most justly celebrated texts of the Chinese tradition - impressive for both its bold philosophical imagination and its striking literary style. Accepting the challenge of... -
Records of the Historian: Chapters from the Shih Chi of Ssu-Ma Ch'Ien by Sima Qian 9780231033213
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.55'Book InformationISBN 9780231033213Author Burton WatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Columbia University PressPublisher Columbia University Press -
The Zen Teachings of Master Lin-Chi: A Translation of the Lin-chi lu by Lin-Chi
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.25Among the most important texts of Zen literature, the Lin-Chi lu details the insights and exploits of the great ninth century Chinese Zen master Lin-chi, one of the most highly regarded of the T'ang... -
Mo Tzu: Basic Writings by Mo-tzu 9780231086080
Booksplease Price: £24.99The thoughts and writings of this important fifth century B.C. political and social thinker -- and formidable rival of the Confucianists -- are presented here in English translation.About the... -
The Demon at Agi Bridge and Other Japanese Tales by Haruo Shirane 9780231152457
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.88Burton Watson and Haruo Shirane, renowned translators and scholars, introduce English-speaking readers to the vivid tradition of early and medieval Japanese anecdotal (setsuwa) literature. These... -
The Demon at Agi Bridge and Other Japanese Tales by Haruo Shirane 9780231152440
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £66.38Burton Watson and Haruo Shirane, renowned translators and scholars, introduce English-speaking readers to the vivid tradition of early and medieval Japanese anecdotal (setsuwa) literature. These... -
Selected Poems of Du Fu by Du Fu 9780231128292
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.17Du Fu (712-777) has been called China's greatest poet, and some call him the greatest nonepic, nondramatic poet whose writings survive in any language. Du Fu excelled in a great variety of poetic... -
Hsun Tzu: Basic Writings by Hsun Tzu
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.40Hsun Tzu set forth the most complete well-ordered philosophical system of his day. Although basically Confucian, he differed with Mencius, his famous predecessor in the Confucian school, by asserting... -
Zhuangzi: Basic Writings by Zhuangzi 9780231129596
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.02Only by inhabiting Dao (the Way of Nature) and dwelling in its unity can humankind achieve true happiness and freedom, in both life and death. This is Daoist philosophy's central tenet, espoused by... -
A Tale of Eleventh-Century Japan: Hamamatsu Chunagon Monogatari by Thomas H. Rohlich 9780691613581
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.25This book is a complete translation of Hamamatsu Chunagon Monogatari, one of the few extant works of monogatari literature of the Heian period Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy... -
The Ways of Zen by C. C. Tsai
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.50From bestselling cartoonist C. C. Tsai, a delightfully illustrated collection of classic Zen Buddhist stories that enlighten as they entertainC. C. Tsai is one of Asia's most popular cartoonists, and... -
The Book of Lieh-Tzu: A Classic of the Tao by A. C. Graham
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08-- Burton WatsonIt is a gem of a work following on the Chuang Tzu, in a somewhat darker tone, yet punctuated with a most extraordinary humor. The modernity of this text... is astonishing...[A.C... -
Han Feizi: Basic Writings by Han Fei Tzu 9780231129695
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.95Trenchant, sophisticated, and cynical, Han Feizi has been read in every age and is still of interest today when people are more than ever concerned with the nature and use of power. Han Feizi... -
For All My Walking: Free-Verse Haiku of Taneda Santoka by Santoka Taneda 9780231125161
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £72.50In April 1926, the Japanese poet Taneda Santoka (1882-1940) set off on the first of many walking trips, journeys in which he tramped thousands of miles through the Japanese countryside. These... -
For All My Walking: Free-Verse Haiku of Taneda Santoka by Taneda Santoka 9780231125178
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.40In April 1926, the Japanese poet Taneda Santoka (1882-1940) set off on the first of many walking trips, journeys in which he tramped thousands of miles through the Japanese countryside. These... -
Masaoka Shiki: Selected Poems by Masaoka Shiki
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.25Here are graceful and timeless poems by one of Japan's greatest modern writers, rendered by a master translator. Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902) is credited with modernizing Japan's two traditional verse... -
Classical Chinese Literature: An Anthology of Translations: From Antiquity to the Tang Dynasty by John Minford 9780231096775
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £41.17The summation of more than two thousand years of one of the world's most august literary traditions, this volume also represents the achievements of four hundred years of Western scholarship on China... -
Sleeping, Sinning, Falling by Mutsuo Takahashi 9780872862685
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68Sleeping Sinning Falling is a generous volume of selected and new poems, written over the last twenty-five years by one of the major voices in twentieth century Japanese poetry. The translations are... -
Poems of a Penisist by Mutsuo Takahashi 9780816679720
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.19"In the name of / Man, member, / and the holy fluid, / Amen," begins Mutsuo Takahashi's epic one-thousand-line erotic fantasy poem, "Ode," the centerpiece of his groundbreaking collection of queer... -
The Mountain Poems of Hsieh Ling-Yun by Hsieh Ling-Yun 9780811214896
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.86During the last decade of his life, living as a recluse high in the mountains of southeast China, he initiated a tradition of "rivers-and-mountains" (shan-shui) poetry that stretches across the... -
Finding Wisdom in East Asian Classics by William Theodore De Bary 9780231153966
RRP: £134.00Booksplease Price: £106.44Finding Wisdom in East Asian Classics is an essential, all-access guide to the core texts of East Asian civilization and culture. Essays address frequently read, foundational texts in Chinese,... -
Finding Wisdom in East Asian Classics by William Theodore De Bary 9780231153973
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.20Finding Wisdom in East Asian Classics is an essential, all-access guide to the core texts of East Asian civilization and culture. Essays address frequently read, foundational texts in Chinese,... -
The Late Poems of Meng Chiao by Meng Chiao
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.25Late in life, Meng Chiao (A.D. 751--814) developed an experimental poetry of virtuosic beauty, a poetry that anticipated landmark developments in the modern Western tradition by a millennium. With...