Overview :Since its appearance in China in the third century, The Lotus Sutra has been regarded as one of the most illustrious scriptures in the Mahay... Read More
Overview :This is one of the most justly celebrated texts of the Chinese tradition - impressive for both its bold philosophical imagination and its st... Read More
Overview :Compiled by disciples of Confucius in the centuries following his death in 479 B.C.E., The Analects of Confucius is a collection of aphorism... Read More
Overview :Only by inhabiting Dao (the Way of Nature) and dwelling in its unity can humankind achieve true happiness and freedom, in both life and deat... Read More
Overview :One of the most popular Asian classics for roughly two thousand years, the Vimalakirti Sutra stands out among the sacred texts of Mahayana B... Read More
Overview :The Tales of the Heike is one of the most influential works in Japanese literature and culture, remaining even today a crucial source for fi... Read More
Overview :Mozi (fifth century B.C.) was an important political and social thinker and formidable rival of the Confucianists. He advocated universal lo... Read More
Overview :The basic writings of Chuang Tzu have been savored by Chinese readers for over two thousand years. And Burton Watson's lucid and beautiful t... Read More
Overview :The basic writings of Chuang Tzu have been savored by Chinese readers for over two thousand years. And Burton Watson's lucid and beautiful t... Read More
Overview :Hs n Tzu set forth the most complete well-ordered philosophical system of his day. Although basically Confucian, he differed with Mencius, h... Read More
Overview :The T'ang dynasty was the great age of Chinese poetry, and Po Ch -i (772-846) was one of that era's most prolific major poets. His appealing... Read More
Overview :Trenchant, sophisticated, and cynical, Han Feizi has been read in every age and is still of interest today when people are more than ever co... Read More
Overview :The Nihon ryoiki, a collection of setsuwa, or "anecdotal" tales, compiled by a monk in late-eighth- or early-ninth-century Japan, records th... Read More
Overview :Representative of the Fachia, or Legalist, school of philosophy, the writings of Han Fei Tzu (280?-233 B.C.) confront the issues of preservi... Read More