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Philosophy
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Correcting the Unenlightened (Zhengmeng)
The last and most systematic work of the Song-dynasty philosopher Zhang Zai, a series of terse statements later arranged by a disciple into 17 chapters. Its title borrows…
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Attaining Enlightenment in This Very Body (Sokushin jōbutsu gi)
A short doctrinal treatise by Kūkai, founder of the Shingon school of Japanese esoteric Buddhism, written after his study of esoteric teachings in China. It defends the claim…
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The Subject as Freedom
A short, dense treatise by K. C. Bhattacharya, often regarded as one of the most important works of academic philosophy written in colonial India. Drawing on Vedānta, Sāṃkhya…
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Waiting for the Dawn (Mingyi daifang lu)
A short political treatise written by Huang Zongxi in the early 1660s, after the Ming dynasty had fallen to the Manchu Qing. The title joins the name of…
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Distinguishing the Way (Bendō)
A short polemical treatise written in 1717 by the Confucian scholar Ogyū Sorai, paired with his longer glossary Benmei (Distinguishing Names). In a series of brief sections Sorai…
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Duties of the Heart
A guide to the inner life written in Judaeo-Arabic by Baḥya ibn Paqūda, a judge in Muslim Spain, and translated into Hebrew by Judah ibn Tibbon in 1161.…
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Abhidharmakośa (Treasury of Abhidharma)
A systematic summary of Buddhist scholastic thought, written as some six hundred verses with Vasubandhu's own prose commentary (bhāṣya). The verses largely report the views of the Vaibhāṣika…
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The Fountain of Life (Fons Vitae)
A metaphysical dialogue between a master and a disciple by the Jewish poet and philosopher Solomon ibn Gabirol, written in Arabic in eleventh-century Spain. The Arabic original is…
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The Ornament of the Middle Way (Madhyamakālaṃkāra)
A short treatise of ninety-seven verses with Śāntarakṣita's own commentary, later explained further by his student Kamalaśīla. Its central argument is the 'neither one nor many' reasoning: anything…
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The Wars of the Lord
The main philosophical work of Levi ben Gershom, known as Gersonides, a Provençal Jewish philosopher, astronomer and biblical commentator, completed in 1329 after about twelve years of work.…
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