Ways of Thinking of Eastern Peoples: India, China, Tibet, JapanMotilal Banarsidass Publishe, 1991 - 712 pages Ways of thinking of Eastern people is a comperative study of ways of thinking of major peoples of Asia. It has been widely admitted that this is the first attempt to give a survey and analysis of ways of thinking of Asians, which differ with peoples. The author has chiefly centered in pointing out features of Indian ways of thinking, as well as Chinese, Japanese and Tibetian ones. His knowledge of Asian traditions, as well as wounderful command of various languages of Asia, being combined , have made this attempt quite successful and reliable in the scholarly sense. |
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Ways of Thinking of East Asian Peoples Ways of Think | 11 |
Chapter | 22 |
Thinking of East Asian Peoples Universal and Particular | 32 |
Chapter | 41 |
Preference for the Negative | 52 |
Minimizing Individuality and Specific Particulars | 60 |
The Concept of the Unity of All Things | 67 |
Emphasis on the Particular | 196 |
Conservatism Expressed in Exaltation of Antiquity | 204 |
sical Way of Thinking Influence of the Reception of Bud | 214 |
Formal Conformity | 226 |
The Tendency towards Practicality | 233 |
Individualism | 247 |
Esteem for Hierarchy | 259 |
Esteem for Nature | 277 |
The Static Quality of Universality | 73 |
Subjective Comprehension of Personality | 87 |
Primacy of the Universal Self over the Individual Self | 93 |
Subservience to Universals | 107 |
IO Alienation from the Objective Natural World | 130 |
The Introspective Character of Indian Thought | 152 |
The Spirit of Tolerance and Conciliation | 168 |
Introduction | 175 |
NonDevelopment of Abstract Thought | 185 |
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Absolute abstract accepted According Amitabha ancient Indians Asia Aśoka ātman attained attitude Bodhisattva body Brahman Brahmanists Buddha called character characteristic China Chinese Buddhists classical concept concrete Confucianism culture death developed dharma Dharmakīrti doctrine Dōgen dynasty early Buddhism East Asian Emperor enlightenment ethics example existence explain expressed fact gods Greek human idea Indian languages Indian logic Indian philosophy Indian thought individual influence Jains Japan Japanese king living logical Lotus Sūtra Mahāyāna Buddhism means metaphysical mind modern monks moral Nāgārjuna nations natural Nichiren noun object one's original period phenomena practice precepts priests Prince Shōtoku principle Pure Land regarded relation religion religious Samkara Sanskrit schools scriptures sect sentence significance social spirit sūtras T'ang Taoism Tathāgata taught teaching temple tendency theory things thinking Tibet Tibetan tion traditional translated truth universal Upanisads Vaiśeṣika Vedanta verb virtue West words Zen Buddhism