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The Argumentative Indian
A collection of sixteen essays, several developed from lectures and articles, subtitled Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity. Sen's central claim is that India has a long…
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Nineteen Lectures on Chinese Philosophy
A series of lectures that Mou Zongsan gave to graduate students at National Taiwan University in 1978, transcribed by his students and published in 1983. They offer an…
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Religion and Nothingness
A major work of the Kyoto School by Nishitani Keiji, published in Japanese in 1961 as Shūkyō to wa nanika (What is religion?) and translated by Jan Van…
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The Path of Purification (Visuddhimagga)
A comprehensive manual of Buddhist doctrine and meditation, composed in Pali by Buddhaghosa at the Great Monastery (Mahāvihāra) in Anurādhapura, Sri Lanka, and since then the most influential…
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A Short History of Chinese Philosophy
A one-volume survey of Chinese philosophy that Feng Youlan wrote in English, based on lectures he gave at the University of Pennsylvania in 1946–47, edited by Derk Bodde…
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Philosophy as Metanoetics
A book by Tanabe Hajime of the Kyoto School, developed from lectures given in 1944 and published in 1946. Written as Japan faced defeat, it begins with a…
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The Long Discourses of the Buddha (Dīgha Nikāya)
The first collection of the Sutta Piṭaka in the Pali Canon of Theravāda Buddhism, gathering thirty-four of the longest discourses traditionally attributed to the Buddha and his disciples.…
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The Path of Beauty
A survey of Chinese aesthetic history from prehistory to the Qing dynasty by the philosopher Li Zehou, published in 1981. In ten chapters it moves through Neolithic painted…
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Samayasāra (The Essence of the Self)
One of the most revered philosophical texts of the Digambara Jain tradition, composed in Prakrit verse by the monk Kundakunda, whose dates are uncertain. Its subject is the…
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The Awakening of Faith in the Mahāyāna
A short Mahāyāna treatise traditionally attributed to the Indian poet Aśvaghoṣa and said to have been translated into Chinese by Paramārtha in the 6th century. No Sanskrit original…
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