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Eastern Philosophy 2021 HIGHLIGHTS THE BUDDHIST SELF
CHAN BEFORE CHAN
CHINESE BUDDHISM
On Tathāgatagarbha and Ātman C.V. Jones
Meditation, Repentance, and Visionary Experience in Chinese Buddhism Eric M. Greene
A Thematic History Chün-fang Yü
Jan 2021 320pp 9780824883423 Hardback US$68.00
Offers a methodical examination of Indian teaching about the Tathāgatagarbha and the extent to which different Buddhist texts and authors articulated this in terms of the self. C. V. Jones attends to each of the Indian Buddhist works responsible for explaining what is meant by the expression Tathāgatagarbha, and how far this should be understood or promoted using the language of selfhood.
CHINESE PURE LAND BUDDHISM
Understanding a Tradition of Practice Charles B. Jones 2019 224pp 9780824888411 Paperback US$28.00 9780824879716 Hardback US$68.00
Pure Land Buddhist Studies
Provides a comprehensive overview of Chinese Pure Land Buddhism, and examines the reasons for the lack of scholarly attention and why the few past treatments of the topic missed many of its distinctive features.
CONFUCIANISM AND DEWEYAN PRAGMATISM
Resources for a New Geopolitics of Interdependence Edited by Roger T. Ames, Chen Yajun & Peter D. Hershock Apr 2021 280pp 9780824884550 Hardback US$68.00
Confucian Cultures
Distinguished scholars reflect on Confucianism and Deweyan pragmatism as possible resources for a new geopolitics, that begins from an ontology of interdependence and recognises the irreducibly ecological nature of the human experience at every level.
Mar 2021 336pp 9780824884437 Hardback US$68.00
Kuroda Institute Classics in East Asian Buddhism What is Buddhist meditation? What is going on - and what should be going on - behind the closed or lowered eyelids of the Buddha or Buddhist adept seated in meditation? And in what ways and to what ends have the answers to these questions mattered for Buddhists themselves? Focusing on early medieval China, this book answers these questions.
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JAPANESE PHILOSOPHY A Sourcebook
Jul 2020 304pp 9780824883478 Paperback US$28.00 9780824881580 Hardback US$85.00
What are the foundational scriptures and major schools for Chinese Buddhists? What divinities do they worship? What festivals do they celebrate? These are some of the basic questions addressed in this introduction to Chinese Buddhism written for students and those interested in an accessible yet authoritative overview of the subject.
MISHIMA, AESTHETIC TERRORIST An Intellectual Portrait Andrew Rankin
Edited by James W. Heisig, Thomas P. Kasulis & John C. Maraldo
2019 240pp 9780824883089 Paperback US$19.99
2011 1,360pp 9780824836184 Paperback US$40.00
Demonstrates the intelligence and seriousness of Yukio Mishima’s work and thought. Each chapter of the book examines one of the central ideas that Mishima develops in his writings: life as art, beauty as evil, culture as myth, eroticism as transgression, the artist as tragic hero, narcissism as the death drive.
Presents in a single volume the richness and diversity of Japanese philosophy as it has developed throughout history.
THE LAMP OF DISCERNMENT A Translation of Chapters 1-12 of Bhāviveka’s Prajñāpradīpa
MONASTIC EDUCATION IN KOREA
William Ames
Jun 2020 240pp 9780824889838 Paperback US$32.00 9780824882389 Hardback US$68.00
2019 486pp 9781886439696 Hardback US$55.00
Contemporary Issues in Buddhist Studies
The Buddhist thinkers of medieval India addressed many of the issues that are still central to Buddhist praxis now. One of the most important of those thinkers is Bhāviveka, author of the Prajñāpradīpa. William Ames has translated, carefully and precisely, the first twelve chapters of that work, which he presents in this volume. Institute of Buddhist Studies
Teaching Monks about Buddhism in the Modern Age Uri Kaplan
Contemporary Buddhism
Offers a biography of the Korean Buddhist monastic curriculum over the past five centuries. Based on extensive ethnographic work and archival research in Korean monasteries, the book illustrates how a particular pre-modern syllabus was reimagined in the twentieth century to become the sole national Korean monastic pedagogical programme.
THE SECRETS OF BUDDHIST MEDITATION
Essays on the Philosophy of Roger T. Ames Edited by Ian M. Sullivan & Joshua Mason
Visionary Meditation Texts from Early Medieval China
Mar 2021 312pp 9780824884628 Hardback US$72.00
Taking note of the present global philosophical situation, this collection of essays critically engages the scholarship of Roger Ames, who for decades has had a central role in the evolution of comparative and non-western philosophy. BESTSELLER
PHILOSOPHERS OF NOTHINGNESS An Essay on the Kyoto School James W. Heisig 2001 384pp 9780824824815 Paperback US$27.00
In this study, the ideas of Nishida Kitarō, Tanabe Hajime, and Nishitani Keiji are presented both as a consistent school of thought in its own right, and as a challenge to the Western philosophical tradition to open itself to the original contribution of Japan.
PHILOSOPHIES OF PLACE An Intercultural Conversation
Edited by Peter D. Hershock & Roger T. Ames 2019 400pp 9780824876586 Hardback US$70.00
The contributors to this volume draw on resources from Asian, European, and North American traditions of thought to engage in intercultural reflection on the significance of place in philosophy, and of the place of philosophy itself in the cultural, social, economic, and political domains of contemporary life.
Mar 2021 384pp 9780824884444 Hardback US$72.00
Kuroda Institute Classics in East Asian Buddhism
Presents a study of the content and historical formation, as well as complete English translations, of two of the most influential manuals in which approaches to Buddhist meditation are discussed: the Scripture on the Secret Essential Methods of Chan (Chan Essentials) and the Secret Methods for Curing Chan Sickness (Methods for Curing).
Pure Land Buddhist Studies
This anthology of Buddhist texts in translation provides a framework that will transform contemporary scholarship on Pure Land Buddhism and instigate its recognition as an essential field of Buddhist studies.
Jul 2020 200pp 9781931483452 Paperback US$35.00
Explores ancient Daoist philosophy and argues against interpretations that paint the early Daoist philosophers as mystics or cosmologists. The book claims that Dao is best understood as awareness and that Daoist concerns are primarily with the nature of human experience, meditation, and our relation to the world. Three Pines Press
XU FUGUAN IN THE CONTEXT OF EAST ASIAN CONFUCIANISMS
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TRACING BACK THE RADIANCE Chinul’s Korean Way of Zen
Chun-chieh Huang Translated by Diana Arghirescu
Robert E. Buswell, Jr. 1991 248pp 9780824814274 Paperback US$26.00
2019 276pp 9780824880385 Hardback US$68.00
Classics in East Asian Buddhism
Chinul (1158–1210) was the founder of the Korean tradition of Zen. He provides one of the most lucid and accessible accounts of Zen practice and meditation to be found anywhere in East Asian literature. This book provides an extensive introduction to Chinul’s life and thought with translations of three of his most representative works. BESTSELLER
Confucian Cultures
Among twentieth-century Confucians, Xu Fuguan (1904-1982) remains preeminent. This volume, an authority on Xu’s life and thought, offers English-speaking readers an exhaustive analysis of the philosopher’s original ideas and research for the first time. BESTSELLER
A TREATISE ON EFFICACY
ZEN ACTION/ZEN PERSON T. P. Kasulis
Between Western and Chinese Thinking
1987 192pp 9780824810238 Paperback US$14.00
François Jullien Translated by Janet Lloyd
Provides a clear and perceptive account of Zen. Kasulis locates the Zen understanding of the person in secular Japanese assumptions.
2004 200pp 9780824828301 Paperback US$30.00
An Anthology
2019 728pp 9780824873097 Hardback US$85.00
James Giles
Eric M. Greene
PURE LANDS IN ASIAN TEXTS AND CONTEXTS Edited by Georgios T. Halkias & Richard K. Payne
THE WAY OF AWARENESS IN DAOIST PHILOSOPHY
In this analysis of Western and Chinese concepts of efficacy, François Jullien delves into the metaphysical preconceptions of the two civilisations to account for diverging patterns of action in warfare, politics, and diplomacy.
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ZEN AND WESTERN THOUGHT Masao Abe Edited by William R. LaFleur
1989 332pp 9780824812140 Paperback US$22.00
This collection of Abe’s essays is a welcome addition to philosophy and comparative philosophy.
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