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Title

The pulse of wisdom : the philosophies of India, China, and Japan / Michael C. Brannigan.

Author

Brannigan, Michael C., 1948-

Publication

Belmont : Wadsworth, ©1995.

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Details

Description

xvi, 399 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• Philosophy, Asian
• Religion
• Geschichte
• Philosophie
• Östliche Philosophie
• Asian philosophy
• Philosophy
• Indian philosophy
• Chinese philosophy
• Japanese philosophy
• Asia > Religion
• Asia
• Indien
• China
• Japan

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-392) and index.

Contents

Preface -- Introduction : Philosophical thinking in India, China and Japan. India -- China -- Japan -- Chapter 1. Historical Survey : Indian Philosophies. Hindu philosophies -- Indian Buddhism -- Chinese Philosophies. Ancient period of Chinese philosophies -- Middle period (221 B.C.E. -- 960 C.E.) -- Neo-Confucianism (960-1912) -- Modern period -- Japanese Philosophies. Period of antiquity : Nara and Heian schools -- Medieval Buddhism -- Tokugawa Buddhism -- Modern period -- Chapter 2. Reality Nasadiya Hymn, Rig Veda Sankara, Introduction to His Commentary on the Vedanta Sutras of Badarayana Nagarjuna, ''''Examination of Relational Condition,'''' from Mulamadhyamakakarika Tao Te Ching Wang Ch''ung, ''''The Nature of Things,'''' from Lun-H?ng Seng Chao, ''''On Sunyata,'''' from Chao Lun Chu Hsi, ''''Principle (Li) and Material Force (Ch''i),'''' from Complete Works of Chu Hsi (Chu Tzu ch''Yan-shu) Fung Yu-lan, from Hsin li-hsYeh (The New Rational Philosophy) Dogen, ''''One Bright Jewel'''' (Ikka Myoju), from Shobogenzo Nishida Kitaro, ''''The Fundamental Mode of True Reality,'''' from An Inquiry into the Good Nishitani Keiji, from Religion and Nothingness 3. Self From the Chandogya Upanishad, VI Isvarakrishna, from The Samkhya Karika Swami Vivekananda, Commentary on PatanjaliOs Yoga Aphorisms Sri Aurobindo, ''''The Eternal and the Individual,'''' from The Life Divine From the Milindapanha Nagarjuna, ''''Examination of Self-nature,'''' from Mulamadhyamakakarika Vasubandhu, Trimsika-Karika (Thirty Verses) HsYan-tsang, from The Treatise on the Establishment of the Doctrine of Consciousness Only (Ch''eng wei-shih lun) Wang Yang-ming, from Instructions for Practical Life Wang Yang-ming, from Letter to Shu Kuo-yung Dogen, ''''The Issue at Hand'''' (Genjokoan), from Shobogenzo Watsuji Tetsuro, from Fudo (Climate and Culture) 4. Knowledge Gautama, from Nyayasutra with Vatsyayana''s Commentary Gangesa, ''''A Discourse on Absence'''' (Abhava-vada), fromTattvacintamani Raghunatha, from Na -- vada (A Discourse on the Significance of Negative Particles) Sarvepalli Radharkishnan, from An Idealist View of Life Dharmottara, from His Commentary on Dharmakirti''s Nyaya-bindu (A Short Treatise of Logic) Wang Ch''ung, ''''The Real Nature of Knowledge, from Lun-H?ng Chang Tung-sun, ''''A Chinese Philosopher''s Theory of Knowledge'''' Nishida Kitaro, ''''Intellectual Intuition,'''' from An Inquiry into the Good 5. Ethics The Buddha on ''''The Eightfold Path'''' The Buddha''s ''''Fire Sermon'''' Verses from The Dhammapada HsYn Tzu, ''''That the Nature Is Evil'''' Mo Tzu, ''''Universal Love'''' Chu Hsi, ''''Moral Cultivation,'''' from The Complete Works of Chu Hsi (Chu Tzu ch''Yan-shu) Wang Yang-ming, from ''''Reply to Ku Tung-ch''iao'''' Kaibara Ekken, ''''The Art of the Mind-and-Heart,'''' from Yamato Zokkun Watsuji Tetsuro, from Fudo (Climate and Culture) 6. Death From the Katha Upanishad ''''Questions Which Tend Not to Edification,'''' from Majjhima-Nikaya ''''No Continuous Personal Identity,'''' from the Milindapanha Wang Ch''ung, ''''Simplicity of Funerals,'''' from Lun-H?ng Seng Chao, ''''On Time, from Chao Lun Dogen, ''''Birth and Death'''' (Shoji), from Shobogenzo.

ISBN

• 0534243843
• 9780534243845

LCCN

94028443

OCLC

• ocm30735636
• 30735636
• SCSB-2102862

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library