Eastern Philosophy Books

New and Published Books

1. Religion and the Subtle Body in Asia and the West

   Between Mind and Body

   Edited by Geoffrey Samuel, Jay Johnston

   Series: Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy

   Subtle-body practices are found particularly in Indian, Indo-Tibetan and East Asian societies, but have become increasingly familiar in Western societies, especially through the various healing and yogic techniques and exercises associated with them. This book explores subtle-body practices from a...

   Published March 27th 2013 by Routledge
2. Classical Vaisesika in Indian Philosophy

   On Knowing and What is to Be Known

   By ShashiPrabha Kumar

   Series: Routledge Hindu Studies Series

   Vaisesika is one of the six systems of Hindu philosophy. It represents a pluralistic realism and is usually held to be an atomistic, metaphysical theory. This book explores the basic tenets of the Vaisesika classical school of Indian philosophy from a new perspective. It argues that it reveals an...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
3. Emptiness Appraised

   A Critical Study of Nagarjuna's Philosophy

   By David F. Burton

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism

   Emptiness means that all entities are empty of, or lack, inherent existence - entities have a merely conceptual, constructed existence. Though Nagarjuna advocates the Middle Way, his philosophy of emptiness nevertheless entails nihilism, and his critiques of the Nyaya theory of knowledge are shown...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
4. The Buddha and Religious Diversity

   By J. Abraham Velez de Cea

   Series: Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy

   Providing a rigorous analysis of Buddhist ways of understanding religious diversity, this book develops a new foundation for cross-cultural understanding of religious diversity in our time. Examining the complexity and uniqueness of Buddha’s approach to religious pluralism using four main...

   Published December 11th 2012 by Routledge
5. China on the Mind

   By Christopher Bollas

   Several thousand years ago Indo-European culture diverged into two ways of thinking; one went West, the other East. Tracing their differences, Christopher Bollas examines how these mentalities are now converging once again, notably in the practice of psychoanalysis. Creating a freely associated...

   Published October 28th 2012 by Routledge
6. Eastern Philosophy: The Basics

   By Victoria S. Harrison

   Series: The Basics

   Eastern Philosophy: The Basics is an essential introduction to major Indian and Chinese philosophies, both past and present. Exploring familiar metaphysical and ethical questions from the perspectives of different Eastern philosophies, including Confucianism, Daoism, and strands of Buddhism and...

   Published July 31st 2012 by Routledge
7. Environmental Ethics in Buddhism

   A Virtues Approach

   By Pragati Sahni

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism

   Environmental Ethics in Buddhism presents a logical and thorough examination of the metaphysical and ethical dimensions of early Buddhist literature. The author determines the meaning of nature in the early Buddhist context from general Buddhist teachings on dhamma, paticcasamuppada, samsara and...

   Published November 17th 2011 by Routledge
8. Thirty-Five Oriental Philosophers

   By Diané Collinson, Dr Robert Wilkinson, Robert Wilkinson

   These are questions to which oriental thinkers have given a wide range of philosophical answers that are intellectually and imaginatively stimulating. Thirty-Five Oriental Philosophers is a succinctly informative introduction to the thought of thirty-five important figures in the Chinese, Indian,...

   Published November 10th 2011 by Routledge
9. Moral Exemplars in the Analects

   The Good Person is That

   By Amy Olberding

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

   In this study, Olberding proposes a new theoretical model for reading the Analects. Her thesis is that the moral sensibility of the text derives from an effort to conceptually capture and articulate the features seen in exemplars, exemplars that are identified and admired pre-theoretically and thus...

   Published August 24th 2011 by Routledge
10. An Introduction to Indian Philosophy

    Perspectives on Reality, Knowledge, and Freedom

    By Bina Gupta

    An Introduction to Indian Philosophy offers a profound yet accessible survey of the development of India’s philosophical tradition. Beginning with the formation of Brahmanical, Jaina, Materialist, and Buddhist traditions, Bina Gupta guides the reader through the classical schools of Indian thought,...

    Published August 2nd 2011 by Routledge