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  • The Origins of Religious Violence

    An Asian Perspective

    by Nicholas F. Gier ...
    Religiously motivated violence caused by the fusion of state and religion occurred in medieval Tibet and Bhutan and later in imperial Japan, but interfaith conflict also followed colonial incursions in India, Sri Lanka, and Burma. Before that time, there was a general premodern harmony among the resident religions of the latter countries, and only in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries did ... Read more

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  • Brahman and Dao

    Comparative Studies of Indian and Chinese Philosophy and Religion

    by Sophia Katz, Friederike Assandri, Alexus McLeod, Yong Huang, Wei Zhang, Joshua Capitanio, Guang Xing, Carl Olson, Ram Nath Jha, Nicholas F. Gier, Bill M. Mak, John M. Thompson, Gad C. Isay, Timothy Connolly, Livia Kohn ...
    Series series Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion
    The present geopolitical rise of India and China evokes much interest in the comparative study of these two ancient Asian cultures. There are various studies comparing Western and Indian philosophies and religions, and there are similar works comparing Chinese and Western philosophy and religion. However, so far there is no systemic comparative study of Chinese and Indian philosophies and ... Read more

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  • The Philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi for the Twenty-First Century

    by Anthony Parel, Vinit Haksar, Richard L. Johnson, Nicholas F. Gier, Joseph Prabhu, Naresh Dadhich, Makarand Paranjape, Margaret Chatterjee, M V. Naidu, Fred Dallmayr, Bhikhu Parekh ...
    Often considered the most admired human being of the twentieth century, Mahatma Gandhi was and remains controversial. Among the leading Gandhi scholars in the world, the authors of the timely studies in this volume present numerous ways in which Gandhi's thought and action-oriented approach are significant, relevant, and urgently needed for addressing the major problems and concerns of the twenty ... Read more

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  • Code of the Samurai

    A Modern Translation of the Bushido Shoshinshu of Taira Shigesuke

    by Thomas Cleary ...
    Immerse yourself in the world of the Samurai with this classic text, translated and interpreted for the modern reader.Code of the Samurai is the four-hundred-year-old summary of the rules and expectations embodied in Bushido—the ancient Japanese "Way of the Warrior." Bushido has played a major role in shaping the behavior of modern Japanese government, corporations, society, and individuals, as ... Read more

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    by Yamamoto Tsunetomo ...
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    In India, China and Japan

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