Companion Encyclopedia of Asian PhilosophyDr Brian Carr, Brian Carr, Indira Mahalingam The Companion Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy is a unique one-volume reference work which makes a broad range of richly varied philosophical, ethical and theological traditions accessible to a wide audience. The Companion is divided into six sections covering the main traditions within Asian thought: Persian; Indian; Buddhist; Chinese; Japanese; and Islamic philosophy. Each section contains a collection of chapters which provide comprehensive coverage of the origins of the tradition, its approaches to, for example, logic and languages, and to questions of morals and society. The chapters also contain useful histories of the lives of the key influential thinkers, as well as a thorough analysis of the current trends. |
Contents
Notes on contributors | |
J OConnor | |
Preface | |
Theorigins ofZoroastrian philosophy | |
Later Zoroastrianism | |
3Morals andsociety in Zoroastrian philosophy | |
Introduction | |
12Logicand languagein Indian philosophy | |
19Buddhism inTibet | |
Buddhism in Sri Lanka and southeast Asia Padmasiri de Silva and Trevor Ling 21 Logic and language in Buddhism | |
Introduction | |
Huang Nansen | |
Introduction | |
Confucianism in Japan | |
Introduction | |
Islamic philosophy since Avicenna OliverLeaman | |
9PKrvaMīmāìsā and Vedānta | |
Morals andsocietyin Indian philosophy | |
Contemporary Indian philosophy | |
The Buddha | |
17Buddhism inIndia | |
18Nāgārjuna | |
Sufi mysticism | |
William Montgomery Watt 44 Islamic philosophy in south and southeast Asia | |
Contemporary Islamic philosophy | |
Glossary | |
Index | |
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