ABSTRACT
Through key readings from primary and secondary sources this book communicates at first hand the principal features of a remarkable range of Eastern thought - from Buddhism, Confucianism, and Hinduism to Islam, Shinto, and Zoroastrianism. Passages from key texts guide the reader through over ninety major terms, from abhidharma to Zen.
Material is drawn not only from such cornerstone texts as the Bhagavad-gita and the Lao-tzu, but also from modern writings on Eastern philosophy and religion.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |4 pages
List of Entries
chapter |285 pages
List of Entries and Their Sources
entry |3 pages
Abhidharma
entry |3 pages
Action
entry |3 pages
Advaita/Advaita Vedanta
entry |6 pages
Afterlife
entry |3 pages
Ahimsa
entry |2 pages
Amida
entry |3 pages
Analysis
entry |5 pages
Anatman/Anatta
entry |2 pages
Asceticism
entry |5 pages
Atman
entry |5 pages
Atomism
entry |2 pages
Avatar
entry |9 pages
Bhagavad-Gita
entry |4 pages
Bhakti
entry |3 pages
Bodhi
entry |5 pages
Bodhichitta
entry |2 pages
Bodhisattva
entry |6 pages
‘Book of Changes’
entry |5 pages
Brahman
entry |4 pages
Buddha
entry |2 pages
Buddha Nature
entry |3 pages
Buddhi
entry |2 pages
Bushido
entry |1 pages
Caste
entry |13 pages
Cause/Causality/Causation
entry |3 pages
Compassion
entry |4 pages
Confucianism
entry |8 pages
Consciousness
entry |3 pages
Creation
entry |7 pages
Daoism
entry |5 pages
Death
entry |3 pages
Dependent Co-Origination
entry |4 pages
Dharma
entry |2 pages
Dhyana
entry |2 pages
Duhkha/Dukkha
entry |3 pages
Education
entry |4 pages
Emptiness
entry |5 pages
Enlightenment
entry |15 pages
Ethics
entry |8 pages
Evil
entry |2 pages
Existence
entry |2 pages
Fa
entry |3 pages
Fatalism
entry |2 pages
Gender
entry |5 pages
God
entry |3 pages
Golden Mean
entry |2 pages
Guna/Gunas
entry |2 pages
Guru
entry |4 pages
Happiness
entry |2 pages
Harmony
entry |4 pages
Heaven
entry |1 pages
Hua Yan/Hua Yen
entry |7 pages
Human Nature/Humaneness/Humanity
entry |2 pages
Imagination
entry |4 pages
Inference
entry |2 pages
‘Irfan
entry |3 pages
Jainism
entry |2 pages
Jiva/Jivanmukta
entry |6 pages
Karma
entry |7 pages
Knowledge
entry |1 pages
Koan
entry |4 pages
Language
entry |2 pages
Legalism
entry |1 pages
Lila
entry |4 pages
Logic
entry |2 pages
Lotus Sutra
entry |3 pages
Love
entry |5 pages
Madhyamaka/Madhyamika
entry |6 pages
Mahayana
entry |2 pages
Manas
entry |2 pages
Materialism
entry |3 pages
Maya
entry |5 pages
Meditation
entry |3 pages
Mohism
entry |2 pages
Moksa/Moksha
entry |6 pages
Nirvana
entry |3 pages
Nyaya-Vaisheshika
entry |2 pages
Ontology
entry |4 pages
Orientalism
entry |5 pages
Politics and Power
entry |4 pages
Prajna
entry |3 pages
Prakriti
entry |3 pages
Purva-Mimamsa and Vedanta
entry |1 pages
Samsara
entry |4 pages
Samkhya/Sankhya-Yoga
entry |3 pages
Self
entry |1 pages
Skilful Means
entry |1 pages
Sufism
entry |2 pages
Tantra
entry |4 pages
Tathata/Tathagata
entry |1 pages
Tendai
entry |3 pages
Tian Tai
entry |4 pages
Time
entry |6 pages
Universals
entry |2 pages
Upanishads
entry |1 pages
Vedanta
entry |2 pages
War
entry |3 pages
Work
entry |3 pages
Yin-Yang
entry |6 pages
Yoga
entry |3 pages
Yogachara
entry |4 pages
Zen
