Asian Wisdom Collection - Zen, Tao, Confucius 1


Category: Books
Price: $1.99 (iTunes)

Description:

Asian Wisdom is a TouchBooksReader Collection aimed to create a growing library of Oriental wisdom. The collection assembles fundamental works in Zen Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism and more.

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In one place, always at hand, using the innovative TouchBooksReader interface, you'll be able to get acquainted with works of fundamental wisdom that guided the Chinese Emperors, the Samurai or the itinerant monks.

In upcoming updates we'll add many more works, according to the requests you, the readers, expressed as AppStore reviews.

In this first edition of our collection:

1. Gateless Gate - a fundamental Zen work by the Chinese Zen master Wumen Hui-k'ai (Japanese: Mumon Ekai), published in 1228 and including 48 fundamental Chan(Zen) koans.
2. Confucian Analects a collection of sayings written down by Confucius' students in the period approximately seventy years after his death (ca. 479 BCE - 221 BCE), the representative work of Confucianism which continues to have a tremendous influence on Chinese and East Asian thought and values today.
3. The Tao Teh King or the Tao and Its Characteristics by Lao-Tse, translated by James Legge. Written around the 6th century BC by the sage Laozi (or Lao Tzu, "Old Master") - fundamental to the Taoist school of Chinese philosophy
4. The Book of Tea - Kakuzo Okakura (1906) - The aesthetics of the Japanese Tea Ceremony, and its connection to the Japanese world-view as a whole. While not a religious book, it is an exotic and instructive work that, while discussing the Tea Ceremony and its history, gives many insights about 1900's Japan national spirit, philosophy and culture.


Asian Wisdom Collection - Zen, Tao, Confucius



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