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Philosophy
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Liezi
A Daoist classic in eight chapters, named after Lie Yukou, a sage who appears in the Zhuangzi riding on the wind. Most scholars think the received text was…
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The Heart Sutra
A very short Mahāyāna sutra, only a page or two long, that condenses the Perfection of Wisdom (Prajñāpāramitā) literature. In the common short version the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara, practising…
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Huainanzi
A large compendium in 21 chapters, produced by scholars at the court of Liu An, King of Huainan, and presented to Emperor Wu of Han in 139 BCE.…
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The Diamond Sutra
A Mahāyāna sutra of the Perfection of Wisdom family, set as a dialogue between the Buddha and his disciple Subhūti near Śrāvastī. Subhūti asks how someone who sets…
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Gongsun Longzi (including the White Horse Dialogue)
The only substantial surviving text of the School of Names, the early Chinese thinkers who argued about language, logic and reference. Of the 14 chapters once listed, six…
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The Lotus Sutra
A long Mahāyāna sutra, composed in stages, which in its standard Chinese form, based on Kumārajīva's translation of 406, has 28 chapters mixing prose, verse and parables. Its…
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Freedom from the Known
A short book compiled and edited by Mary Lutyens from Krishnamurti's talks, arranged as a continuous argument rather than as separate lectures. Its starting point is that no…
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Commentary on the Laozi
A line-by-line commentary on the Daodejing by Wang Bi, who died in 249 in his early twenties. It is a founding work of Xuanxue, the 'Learning of the…
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The Vimalakīrti Sutra
A Mahāyāna sutra built around a lay hero, in fourteen chapters in Kumārajīva's Chinese version. Vimalakīrti, a wealthy householder of Vaiśālī who lives fully in the world yet…
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Indian Philosophy
A two-volume history of Indian thought from the Vedic hymns to the classical schools, written for English readers and published in 1923 and 1927. Volume one covers the…
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