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The Ramayana Of Valmiki: An Epic Of Ancient India, Volume Vii - Uttarakanda

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 The concluding volume of a critical English edition of the monumental Indian epicThe seventh and final book of the monumental Ramayana of Valmiki, the Uttarakanda, brings the epic saga to a close with an account of the dramatic events of King Rama's millennia-long reign. It opens with a colorful history of the demonic race of the raksasas and t
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The Formation Of Ch'An Ideology In China And Korea - The Vajrasamadhi-Sutra, A Buddhist Apocryphon

by Robert E., Jr. Buswell

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 This book is a translation and study of the Vajrasamadhi-Sutra and an examination of its broad implications for the development of East Asian Buddhism. The Vajrasamadhi-Sutra was traditionally assumed to have been translated from Sanskrit, but some modern scholars, principally in Japan, have proposed that it is instead an indigenous Chinese composi
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The Ramayana Of Valmiki: An Epic Of Ancient India, Volume Vi - Yuddhakanda

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 The sixth book of the Ramayana of Valmiki, the Yuddhakanda, recounts the final dramatic war between the forces of good led by the exiled prince Rama, and the forces of evil commanded by the arch demon Ravana. The hero Rama's primary purpose in the battle is to rescue the abducted princess Sita and destroy the demon king. However, the confrontation
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The Ramayana Of Valmiki: An Epic Of Ancient India, Volume V - Sundarakanda

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 The fifth and most popular book of the Ramayana of Valmiki, the Sundarakanda, recounts the adventures of the monkey hero Hanuman in leaping across the ocean to the island citadel of Lanka. Once there, he scours the city for the abducted Princess Siti. The poet vividly describes the opulence of the court of the demon king, Ravana, the beauty of his
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The Ramayana Of Valmiki: An Epic Of Ancient India, Volume Iii - Aranyakanda

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 This is the third volume of a planned seven-volume translation of India's most beloved and influential epic tale--the Ramayana of Valmiki. This third volume carries forward the narrative by following the exiled hero Rama, his wife, and his brother on their wanderings. The book contains the narrative center of the epic, the abduction of Sita by the
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The Ramayana Of Valmiki: An Epic Of Ancient India, Volume Ii - Ayodhyakanda

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 This is the second volume of a translation of India's most beloved and influential epic saga, the monumental R?m?ya?a of V?lm?ki. Of the seven sections of this great Sanskrit masterpiece, the Ayodhyak???a is the most human, and it remains one of the best introductions to the social and political values of traditional India. This readable translatio
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The Ramayana Of Valmiki: An Epic Of Ancient India, Volume Vii - Uttarakanda

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 The seventh and final book of the monumental R?m?ya?a of V?lm?ki, the Uttarak???a, brings the epic saga to a close with an account of the dramatic events of King R?ma's millennia-long reign. It opens with a colorful history of the demonic race of the r?k?asas and the violent career of R?ma's villainous foe R?va?a, and later recounts R?ma's grateful
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How To Read The Chinese Novel

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 Fiction criticism has a long and influential history in pre-modern China, where critics would read and reread certain novels with a concentration and fervor far exceeding that which most Western critics give to individual works. This volume, a source book for the study of traditional Chinese fiction criticism from the late sixteenth to the early tw
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K'Ung-Ts'Ung-Tzu - The K'Ung Family Masters' Anthology

by Yoav Ariel

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 In analyzing evidence indicating that K'ung-ts'ung-tzu was a forgery, Yoav Ariel questions current views of the Confucian school in the time between the Sage's death in the fifth century B.C. and the emergence in the eleventh century of Neo-Confucianism. The text, traditionally ascribed to a descendant of Confucius, K'ung Fu (264-208 B.C.), provide
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Five Hundred Years Of Chinese Poetry, 1150-1650 - The Chin, Yuan, And Ming Dynasties

by John Timothy Wixted e Kojiro Yoshikawa

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 Five Hundred Years of Chinese Poetry offers the only historical survey, in any language, of this important span of Chinese poetry. Written by the foremost Japanese sinologist of this century, and translated here in a lucid analogue to his famous prose style, the work provides a brief but comprehensive review of the period's literary history, a sket
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Noh Drama And The Tale Of The Genji - The Art Of Allusion In Fifteen Classical Plays

by Janet Goff

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 The Japanese noh theater has enjoyed a rich, continuous history dating back to the Muromachi period (1336-1573), when virtually the entire repertoire was written. Some of the finest plays were inspired by the eleventh-century masterpiece of court literature, The Tale of Genji. In this detailed study of fifteen noh plays based upon the Genji, Janet
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Okagami, The Great Mirror - Fujiwara Michinaga (966-1027) And His Times

by Helen Craig Mccullough

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 Presented here in a new and complete translation is the Japanese classic Okagami, an historical talc that mirrors a man's life and the times in which he lived. Dating from the late eleventh or early twelfth century, it focuses on Fujiwara Michinaga, the leading political figure in the great family that dominated the court during most of the Helan p
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Philosophy And Argumentation In Third-Century China - The Essays Of Hsi K'Ang

by His K'Ang e Robert G. Henricks

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 A valuable source of information on third-century Chinese argumentation and thought, the essays are eloquent, clear, and to the point; humorous at times; philosophically subtle; and psychologically perceptive. They treat matters of perennial concern--immortality, the nature of morality, the relation of music to emotion--and should be of interest to
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A Record Of Buddhist Monasteries In Lo-Yang

by Hsuan-Chih Yang

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 A Record of Buddhist Monasteries in Lo-yang (the Lo-Yang ch'ieh-lan chi) is a major document of Chinese history and literature. This translation of the sixth- century A.D. classic describes the main Buddhist monasteries and nunneries of Lo-yang and the political, economic, and social conditions at a time when that city was the capital of the Northe
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The Plum In The Golden Vase Or, Chin P'Ing Mei, Volume Five - The Dissolution

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 This is the fifth and final volume in David Roy's celebrated translation of one of the most famous and important novels in Chinese literature. The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei is an anonymous sixteenth-century work that focuses on the domestic life of Hsi-men Ch'ing, a corrupt, upwardly mobile merchant in a provincial town, who mainta
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The Plum In The Golden Vase Or, Chin P'Ing Mei, Volume Four - The Climax

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 This is the fourth and penultimate volume in David Roy's celebrated translation of one of the most famous and important novels in Chinese literature. The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei is an anonymous sixteenth-century work that focuses on the domestic life of Hsi-men Ch'ing, a corrupt, upwardly mobile merchant in a provincial town, who
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History Of Chinese Political Thought, Volume 1 - From The Beginnings To The Sixth Century, A.D.

by Kung-Chuan Hsiao

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 This volume launches the translation of a work that describes the development of Chinese political thought from the time of Confucius in the late Chou era into the twentieth century. The author systematically treats leading thinkers, schools, and movements, displaying a consummate mastery of traditional Chinese learning, and of Western analytical a
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Tsong Khapa'S Speech Of Gold In The Essence Of True Eloquence - Reason And Enlightenment In The Central Philosophy Of Tibet

by Robert A.F. Thurman

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 This is the first full study, translation, and critical annotation of the Essence of True Eloquence, by Tsong Khapa (1357-1419), universally acknowledged as the greatest Tibetan philosopher. The work is a study of the major schools of Mahayana Buddhism, known as Vijnanavada and Madhyamika, and an explanation of the Prasarigika (Dialecticist") inter
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K'Ung-Ts'Ung-Tzu - The K'Ung Family Masters' Anthology

by Yoav Ariel

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 In analyzing evidence indicating that K'ung-ts'ung-tzu was a forgery, Yoav Ariel questions current views of the Confucian school in the time between the Sage's death in the fifth century B.C. and the emergence in the eleventh century of Neo-Confucianism. The text, traditionally ascribed to a descendant of Confucius, K'ung Fu (264-208 B.C.), provide
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The Legend Of King Asoka - A Study And Translation Of The Asokavadana

by John S. Strong

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 An English translation of the Asokavadana text, the Sanskrit version of the legend of King Asoka, first written in the second century A.D. Emperor of India during the third century B.C. and one of the most important rulers in the history of Buddhism, Asoka has hitherto been studied in the West primarily from his edicts and rock inscriptions in many
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Siva'S Warriors - The Basava Purana Of Palkuriki Somanatha

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 Here is the first translation into English of the Basava Purana, a fascinating collection of tales that sums up and characterizes one of the most important and most radical religious groups of South India. The ideas of the Virasaivas, or militant Saivas, are represented in those tales by an intriguing mix of outrageous excess and traditional conser
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Noh Drama And The Tale Of The Genji - The Art Of Allusion In Fifteen Classical Plays

by Janet Goff

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 The Japanese noh theater has enjoyed a rich, continuous history dating back to the Muromachi period (1336-1573), when virtually the entire repertoire was written. Some of the finest plays were inspired by the eleventh-century masterpiece of court literature, The Tale of Genji. In this detailed study of fifteen noh plays based upon the Genji, Janet
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Isfahan Is Half The World - Memories Of A Persian Boyhood

by Sayyed Mohammed Ali Jamalzadeh e W. Heston

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 Mohammad Ali Jamalzadeh, acclaimed as the father of modern Persian short story, wrote this work. Sar o Tah-e Yak Karbas. to provide his fellow Iranians a memoir in story form of traditional Islamic life in Iran before westernization. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again mak
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The T'Ang Code, Volume Ii - Specific Articles

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 This is the second and final volume of the annotated translation of a seminal Chinese legal text. The T'ang Code, written in 653 A.D., is the most important legal text in East Asian history. Not only is it China's earliest law code to survive in its entirety, influencing all subsequent Chinese law, but it has also served as a model for codes of law
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