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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “fung yu lan”
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  • A Short History of Chinese Philosophy

    by Yu-lan Fung ...
    The classic chronicle of Chinese philosophical thought from the third millennium to the 20th century.From the sage-kings of ancient China to the 1911 overthrow of the oldest monarchical system in the world, Chinese philosophy has evolved and influenced schools of thought around the world. In an accessible voice, A Short History of Chinese Philosophy clearly illuminates Confucianism, Taoism, Mohism ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • The Spirit of Chinese Philosophy

    by Fung Yu-Lan ...
    Translated by E. R. Hughes ...
    First published in 1947. The Spirit of Chinese Philosophy covers the major philosophers and philosophical movements in China from Confucius to the middle of the twentieth century including: Confucius, Mencius, Yang Chu and Mo Ti, the Dialecticians and Logicians, Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu, The Han Scholars, The Mystical School, The Ch'an Tsung of Buddhism, The Neo-Confucianist Philosophy. ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • Chuang-Tzu

    A New Selected Translation with an Exposition of the Philosophy of Kuo Hsiang

    by Chuang Tzu, Yu-lan Fung ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book reprints an ancient Chinese work from the late Warring States period (3rd century BC) that contains stories and anecdotes exemplifying the carefree nature of the ideal Taoist sage. Chuang Tzu’s philosophy represents the main current of Taoist teachings, and his text is widely regarded as both deeply insightful and a great achievement in the Chinese poetical essay form. The version ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

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    For the first time, an award-winning Harvard professor shares his wildly popular course on classical Chinese philosophy, showing you how ancient ideas—like the fallacy of the authentic self—can guide you on the path to a good life today.Why is a course on ancient Chinese philosophers one of the most popular at Harvard? Because it challenges all our modern assumptions about what it takes to ... Read more

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  • By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean

    The Birth of Eurasia

    by Barry Cunliffe ...
    By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean is nothing less than the story of how humans first started building the globalized world we know today. Set on a huge continental stage, from Europe to China, it is a tale covering over 10,000 years, from the origins of farming around 9000 BC to the expansion of the Mongols in the thirteenth century AD. An unashamedly 'big history', it charts the development of ... Read more

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  • Trying Not to Try

    Ancient China, Modern Science, and the Power of Spontaneity

    by Edward Slingerland ...
    A deeply original exploration of the power of spontaneity—an ancient Chinese ideal that cognitive scientists are only now beginning to understand—and why it is so essential to our well-beingWhy is it always hard to fall asleep the night before an important meeting? Or be charming and relaxed on a first date? What is it about a politician who seems wooden or a comedian whose jokes fall flat or an ... Read more

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  • The Bhagavad-Gita

    Krishna's Counsel in Time of War

    by Barbara Stoler Miller ...
    The Bhagavad-Gita has been an essential text of Hindu culture in India since the time of its composition in the first century A.D. One of the great classics of world literature, it has inspired such diverse thinkers as Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, and T.S. Eliot; most recently, it formed the core of Peter Brook's celebrated production of the Mahabharata. ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • In Camp with the Katchins, Burma, Illustrated.

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    This report from an outpost of the British Empire in Northern Burma during the last decade of the nineteenth century highlights the colonial mindset. Written for an American Audience of the period. ... Read more

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  • Ruling Your World

    Ancient Strategies For Modern Life

    by Sakyong Mipham ...
    You’re stuck in the airport security line, late for a flight. The line isn’t moving. You’re angry at the security personnel for taking so long, you’re irritated at the other passengers for having so much stuff, you’re mad at your boss for sending you on this trip in the first place. By the time you get to your gate you’re angry, deflated, and exhausted. Then someone cuts in front of you in the ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Promise of Kuan Yin

    Wisdom, Miracles, & Compassion

    by Martin Palmer, Ray Ramsay ...
    The best and most comprehensive book on the most important and best-loved Chinese goddess.Walk down the streets of Chinatown in any American or western European city and look around. She is there. Walk through the downtown streets, look in a shop window. She is there. Go to any city in China and open your eyes. She is there, too.Kuan Yin is the most ubiquitous Chinese deity—and the most loved. She ... Read more

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  • A History of the Mahrattas

    In Three Volumes

    by James Grant Duff ...
    A History of the Mahrattas: In Three Volumes by James Grant Duff.The want of a complete history of the rise, progress, and decline of our immediate predecessors in conquest, the Mahrattas, has been long felt by all persons conversant with the affairs of India; in so much, that it is very generally acknowledged, we cannot fully understand the means by which our own vast empire in that quarter was ... Read more

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    Discovering Humanity's Hidden Treasure

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