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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| South Asian Philosophies | |
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| Historical Perspectives | |
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| Historical Overview | |
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| Dominant Features | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Vedas and Upanishads | |
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| Indus Culture | |
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| Vedic Thought | |
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| Origins of Existence | |
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| The Upanishads | |
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| Quest for Brahman | |
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| Quest for the Ultimate Self (Atman) | |
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| Tat Tvam Asi | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| The Jain Vision | |
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| Overview | |
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| Mahavira | |
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| Karmic Bondage | |
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| Reality | |
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| Kinds of Karma | |
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| Way of Liberation | |
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| Knowledge | |
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| Faith | |
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| Conduct | |
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| Impact of Jain Thought | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Buddhism: The Basic Teachings | |
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| Overview | |
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| The Buddha | |
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| Quest for Enlightenment | |
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| Enlightenment | |
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| The Noble Fourfold Truth | |
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| The First Noble Truth | |
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| The Second Noble Truth | |
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| The Third Noble Truth | |
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| The Fourth Truth: The Noble Eightfold Path | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Interdependent Arising and the Development of Mahayana | |
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| Conditioned Existence | |
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| Mindfulness | |
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| Perfection of Wisdom and Rise of Mahayana | |
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| Reading the Texts | |
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| Diamond Sutra | |
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| Heart Sutra | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Madhyamaka and Yogacara | |
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| Overview of Madhyamaka: The Middle Way Tradition | |
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| Nagarjuna's Method | |
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| Yogacara | |
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| Nature and Function of Consciousness | |
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| Knowledge of Reality | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Society and the Individual | |
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| Bhagavad Gita | |
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| Human Aims | |
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| Social Classes | |
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| Life-Stages | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Self and the World: Sankhya-Yoga | |
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| Causality | |
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| Evolution of the World | |
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| Yoga: The Way of Discipline | |
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| Forces of Bondage | |
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| Techniques of Yoga | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Knowledge and Reality: Nyaya-Vaisheshika | |
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| The Problem of Knowledge | |
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| Perceptual Knowledge | |
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| Inference | |
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| Comparison | |
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| Testimony | |
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| Objects of Knowledge: The Vaisheshika Categories | |
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| The Knower | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Self and Reality: Mimamsa and Vedanta | |
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| Mimamsa | |
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| Vedanta | |
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| Shankara's Nondualism | |
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| Appearance and Reality | |
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| The Qualified Nondualism of Ramanuja | |
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| The Dualistic Vedanta of Madhva | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Theistic Developments | |
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| Vishnu | |
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| Krishna | |
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| Kali | |
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| Shiva | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Islam | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Basic Teachings of Islam | |
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| Development of Sufi Thought | |
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| The Sufi Path | |
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| Interaction Between Muslims and Hindus | |
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| Religion and Politics | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Tradition and Modernity | |
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| Gandhi | |
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| Aurobindo | |
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| Iqbal | |
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| Radhakrishnan | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Philosophies of East Asia | |
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| Historical Overview of East Asian Philosophies | |
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| Pre-Confucian China | |
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| Confucianism | |
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| Daoism | |
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| Moism | |
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| School of Names | |
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| Divination and Cosmology | |
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| Legalism | |
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| Synthesis | |
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| Buddhism | |
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| Korean Philosophy | |
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| Japanese Philosophy | |
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| Neo-Confucianism | |
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| Basic Characteristics | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Confucianism: The Thought of Confucius | |
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| Confucius | |
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| Human-heartedness (Ren) | |
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| Propriety (Li) | |
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| Filiality (Xiao) | |
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| Rightness (Yi) | |
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| Rectification of Names (Zheng Ming) | |
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| Governing by Virtue | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Development of Confucianism: Mengzi, Xunzi, and Dong Zhongshu | |
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| Challenges to Confucian Thought | |
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| Mengzi | |
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| Xunzi | |
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| Dong Zhongshu and a New Form of Confucianism | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Daoism: The Daodejing | |
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| Laozi | |
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| The Dao and Its Functions | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Zhuangzi's Daoism | |
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| Zhuangzi | |
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| Relativity of Distinctions | |
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| Complementariness of Opposites | |
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| Argument from Perspectives | |
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| Argument from Skepticism | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Chinese Buddhism | |
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| Introduction from Central Asia and India | |
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| Translations and Interpretations | |
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| Tiantai | |
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| Huayan | |
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| Chan | |
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| Pure Land (Jingtu) | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Neo-Confucianism: The Grand Harmony | |
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| The Buddhist Challenge | |
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| Neo-Confucian Beginnings | |
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| Zhou Dunyi | |
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| Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi | |
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| Zhu Xi | |
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| The Idealism of Lu Xiangshan and Wang Yangming | |
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| Wang Yangming | |
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| Dai Zhen | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Korean Philosophy | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Wonhyo | |
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| Chinul | |
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| Korean Neo-Confucianism | |
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| Yi T'oegye | |
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| Yi Yulgok | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Japanese Philosophy | |
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| Overview | |
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| Tendai | |
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| Pure Land | |
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| Zen | |
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| Dogen | |
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| Indian and Chinese Foundations | |
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| Daoist Influences | |
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| Aims of Zen | |
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| Zazen | |
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| Koan Practice | |
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| Zen Teachings | |
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| Ox-Herding: Stages of Practice | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Recent Thought | |
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| Kang Youwei | |
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| Zhang Dongsun | |
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| Xiong Shili | |
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| Fung Yu-lan | |
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| Nishida Kitaro | |
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| Post-Mao Thought | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Pronunciation Guide | |
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| Index | |