Great minds of the Eastern intellectual tradition, Great Courses ; producer, Alisha Reay ; directors, Jonathan Leven, Wendy Scarbrough
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Great minds of the Eastern intellectual tradition, Great Courses ; producer, Alisha Reay ; directors, Jonathan Leven, Wendy Scarbrough
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Great minds of the Eastern intellectual tradition
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727192580
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Great Courses ; producer, Alisha Reay ; directors, Jonathan Leven, Wendy Scarbrough
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Great courses, Philosophy & intellectual history
Summary
"[This series] is an epic, comprehensive survey of the East's most influential philosophers and thinkers. In 36 lectures, [the student will be introduced to] the men and women responsible for molding Asian philosophy and for giving birth to a wide variety of spiritual and ideological systems, including Hinduism, Daoism, Confucianism, Sufism, and Buddhism."--www.thegreatcourses.com
Table Of Contents
Disc 1: Lecture 1: Life's great questions: Asian perspectives -- Lecture 2 : The Vedas and Upanishads: the beginning -- Lecture 3 : Mahavira and Jainism: extreme nonviolence -- Lecture 4 : The Buddha: the middle way -- Lecture 5 : The Bhagavad Gita: the way of action -- Lecture 6 : Confucius: in praise of sage-kingsDisc 2: Lecture 7 : Laozi and Daoism: the way of nature -- Lecture 8 : The Hundred Schools of preimperial China -- Lecture 9 : Mencius and Xunzi: Confucius's successors -- Lecture 10 : Sunzi and Han Feizi: strategy and legalism -- Lecture 11 : Zarathustra and Mani: dualistic religion -- Lecture 12 : Kautilya and Ashoka: Buddhism and empireDisc 3: Lecture 13 : Ishvarakrishna and Patanjali: Yoga -- Lecture 14 : Nagarjuna and Vasubandhu: Buddhist theories -- Lecture 15 : Sima Qian and Ban Zhao: history and women -- Lecture 16 : Dong Zhongshu and Ge Hong: eclecticism -- Lecture 17 : Xuanzang and Chinese Buddhism -- Lecture 18 : Prince Shotoku, Lady Murasaki, Sei ShonagonDisc 4: Lecture 19 : Saicho to Nichiren: Japanese Buddhism -- Lecture 20 : Shankara, Ramanuja, Madhva: Hindu Vedanta -- Lecture 21 : Al-Biruni: Islam in India -- Lecture 22 : Nanak and Sirhindi: Sikhism and Sufism -- Lecture 23 : Han Yu to Zhu Xi: Neo-Confucianism -- Lecture 24 : Wang Yangming: The study of heart-mindDisc 5: Lecture 25 : Dogen and Hakuin: Zen Buddhism -- Lecture 26 : Zeami and Sen no Rikyu: Japanese Aesthetics -- Lecture 27 : Wonhyo to King Sejong: Korean philosophy -- Lecture 28 : Padmasambhava to Tsonghkapa: Tibetan ideas -- Lecture 29 : Science and technology in premodern Asia -- Lecture 30 : Muhammad Iqbal and Rabindranath TagoreDisc 6: Lecture 31 : Mohandas Gandhi: Satyagraha, or soul-force -- Lecture 32 : Fukuzawa Yukichi and Han Yongun -- Lecture 33 : Kang Youwei and Hu Shi -- Lecture 34 : Sun Yat-sen and Mao Zedong -- Lecture 35 : Modern legacies -- Lecture 36 : East and West
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- Buddhism
- Buddhism + History
- Trivia and miscellanea
- Philosophy, Indic
- Sufism + History
- Sufism
- Hindu philosophers
- Lectures
- History
- Intellectual life
- Intellectual life + History
- Hinduism
- Philosophy + History
- Nonfiction films
- Philosophers
- Educational films
- Philosophy
- Taoism + History
- Philosophy and civilization
- Philosophy, Asian
- Muslim philosophers
- Confucianism + History
- Hinduism + History
- Philosophy, Indic + History
- Confucianism
- Jaina philosophers
- Taoism
- Civilization, Oriental
- Philosophy -- Miscellanea
- Buddhist philosophers
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- Buddhism + History
- Trivia and miscellanea
- Philosophy, Indic
- Sufism + History
- Sufism
- Hindu philosophers
- Lectures
- History
- Intellectual life
- Intellectual life + History
- Hinduism
- Philosophy + History
- Nonfiction films
- Philosophers
- Educational films
- Philosophy
- Taoism + History
- Philosophy and civilization
- Philosophy, Asian
- Muslim philosophers
- Confucianism + History
- Hinduism + History
- Philosophy, Indic + History
- Confucianism
- Jaina philosophers
- Taoism
- Civilization, Oriental
- Philosophy -- Miscellanea
- Buddhist philosophers
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