GENERAL INTRODUCTION UNCOVERING THE STRUCTURE OF THE TEACHING Though his teaching is highly systematic, there is no single text that can be ascribed to the Buddha in which he defines the architecture of the Dhamma, the scaffolding upon which he has framed his specific expressions of the doctrine. In the course of his long ministry, the Buddha taught in different ways as determi...(展开全部)

For more than four hundred years, the personal  essay has been one of the richest and most vibrant  of all literary forms. Distinguished from the  detached formal essay by its friendly, conversational  tone, its loose structure, and its drive toward  candor and self-disclosure, the personal essay  seizes on the minutiae of daily life-vanities,  fashions, foibles, oddballs, seas...(展开全部)

A monumental work in the history of religion, the history of the book, the study of politics, and bibliographical research, this volume follows the making of the Chinese Buddhist canon from the fourth century to the digital era. Approaching the subject from a historical perspective, it ties the religious, social, and textual practices of canon formation to the development of Ea...(展开全部)

一行禅师 （Thich Nhat Hanh） 国际知名禅师、诗人、学者 1926年出生于越南，为越南临济法脉第四十二代传人。1967年，一行禅师被美国黑人民权领袖马丁·路德·金提名为当年诺贝尔和平奖候选人。1982年，在法国南部建立了“梅村”禅修道场，并经常赴世界各地弘法。 一行禅师通晓越、英、法及中文，迄今已出版佛学论述、诗集、小说、戏剧、传记等上百本著作，其中包括《正念的奇迹》、《观照的奇迹》、《心力》、《调心》、《与生命相约》、《你可以不生气》、《你可以不怕死》、《你可以，爱》、《生生基督世世佛》、《步步安乐行》。

The author, himself a Zen master, here unfolds an explanation of core Buddhist teachings such as the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path. He makes these practices accessible to Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike, showing how our very suffering can be the path to our liberation.

For centuries, Stoicism was virtually the unofficial religion of the Roman world Yet the stress on endurance, self-restraint and the power of the will to withstand calamity can often seem coldhearted. It is Epictetus, a lame former slave exiled by the Emperor Domitian, who offers by far the most positive and humane version of Stoic ideals. "The Discourses, " assembled by his pu...(展开全部)

This volume, Grice's first book, includes the long-delayed publication of his enormously influential 1967 William James Lectures. But there is much, much more in this work. Paul Grice himself has carefully arranged and framed the sequence of essays to emphasize not a certain set of ideas but a habit of mind, a style of philosophizing. Grice has, to be sure, provided philosoph...(展开全部)

This innovative textbook for learning classical Chinese poetry moves beyond the traditional anthology of poems translated into English and instead brings readers—including those with no knowledge of Chinese—as close as possible to the texture of the poems in their original language. The first two chapters introduce the features of classical Chinese that are important for poetry...(展开全部)

Discover with the original teachings of the Buddha in this thorough translation of some of the oldest Buddhist texts in the world. Like the River Ganges flowing down from the Himalayas, the entire Buddhist tradition flows down to us from the teachings and deeds of the historical Buddha, who lived and taught in India during the fifth century B.C.E. To ensure that his legacy woul...(展开全部)