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Approaches to the Asian classics

Designed for anyone interested in learning more about the aesthetics, history, philosophy and religion represented in the canonical literature of Asia, this work includes readings of the "Great Books" of the East.
Print Book, English, ©1990
Columbia University Press, New York, ©1990
Aufsatzsammlung
xii, 395 pages ; 22 cm.
9780231070041, 9780231070058, 0231070047, 0231070055
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Asia in the core curriculum / Wm. Theodore de Bary
Asian classics as "The Great Books of the East" / Wm. Theodore de Bary
The classics of the Islamic tradition. The Qurá̄n / Peter Awn
ʻAṭṭār, The Conference of the Birds / James Winston Morris
Al-Ghazālī / Peter Awn
Ibn Khaldūn / Muhsin Mahdi
Classics of the Indian tradition. The Upanishads / Joel Brereton
The Mahābhārata / Barbara Stoler Miller
Indian and Greek epics / Robert Antoine
Śakuntalā / Barbara Stoler Miller
Gandhi's Autobiography / Ainslie T. Embree
Classics of the Chinese tradition and Buddhism. Mencius / Irene Bloom
Lao Tzu / Franciscus Verellen
The Lotus sutra / Wing-tsit Chan
The Vimalakīrti sutra / Robert A.F. Thurman
The Platform sutra / Philip Yampolsky
T'ang poetry / Burton Watson
A dream of red mansions / C.T. Hsia
Classics of the Japanese tradition. The tale of Genji / Haruo Shirane
Kamo no Chōmei's Ten foot square hut / Paul Anderer
The tale of the Heike / H. Paul Varley
Kenkō : essays in idleness / Donald Keene
The poetry of Matsuo Bashō / Haruo Shirane
Symposium on the Oriental humanities / Robert Goldman [and others]
Updated ed. of: Approaches to the Oriental classics. 1959