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Instructions for Practical Living
Records of conversations with Wang Yangming and letters he wrote to students, compiled by his disciples in three parts, the first published during his lifetime. It is the…
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Evidential Commentary on the Meanings of Terms in the Mencius
Dai Zhen's philosophical masterpiece, finished shortly before his death, takes the form of a commentary on key terms in the Mencius, such as principle (li), the Way, nature,…
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Ten Diagrams on Sage Learning
Yi Hwang, known as Toegye, presented this work to the young King Seonjo of Joseon in 1568 as a compact course in self-cultivation for a ruler. It consists…
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Tannishō (A Record in Lament of Divergences)
A short work in eighteen sections compiled by Yuien, a disciple of Shinran, the founder of Jōdo Shinshū (True Pure Land) Buddhism, some decades after his teacher's death.…
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The Structure of Iki
A short book in which Kuki Shūzō, who had studied in Europe with Rickert and Heidegger and met Bergson, analyses iki, an aesthetic and ethical style that took…
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Ethics (Rinrigaku)
Watsuji Tetsurō's three-volume system of ethics, built on an analysis of the Japanese word for human being, ningen, written with characters meaning 'human' and 'between'. Watsuji argues that…
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The Questions of King Milinda
A Pāli text presenting conversations between King Milinda, usually identified with the Indo-Greek king Menander I, who ruled in north-western India in the second century BCE, and the…
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The Masnavi
A vast poem in six books and roughly twenty-five thousand rhyming couplets, composed in Persian by Rumi in Konya and, according to tradition, dictated to his disciple Ḥusām…
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Twenty Verses (with the Thirty Verses)
Two short verse works central to the Yogācāra school. The Twenty Verses, with Vasubandhu's own prose commentary, defend the thesis that what we experience is cognition only (vijñapti-mātra),…
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Remarks and Admonitions
One of Ibn Sīnā's last major works, a compressed summary of his philosophy written in a deliberately allusive style, its 'remarks' and 'admonitions' addressed to a reader able…
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