01 Life’s Great Questions—Asian Perspectives
02 The Vedas and Upanishads—The Beginning
03 Mahavira and Jainism—Extreme Nonviolence
04 The Buddha—The Middle Way
05 The Bhagavad Gita—The Way of Action
06 Confucius—In Praise of Sage-Kings
07 Laozi and Daoism—The Way of Nature
08 The Hundred Schools of Preimperial China
09 Mencius and Xunzi—Confucius’s Successors
10 Sunzi and Han Feizi—Strategy and Legalism
11 Zarathustra and Mani—Dualistic Religion
12 Kautilya and Ashoka—Buddhism and Empire
13 Ishvarakrishna and Patanjali—Yoga
14 Nagarjuna and Vasubandhu—Buddhist Theories
15 Sima Qian and Ban Zhao—History and Women
16 Dong Zhongshu and Ge Hong—Eclecticism
17 Xuanzang and Chinese Buddhism
18 Prince Shotoku, Lady Murasaki, Sei Shonagon
19 Saicho to Nichiren—Japanese Buddhism
20 Shankara, Ramanuja, Madhva—Hindu Vedanta
21 Al-Biruni—Islam in Indian
22 Nanak and Sirhindi—Sikhism and Sufism
23 Han Yu to Zhu Xi—Neo-Confucianism
24 Wang Yangming—The Study of Heart-Mind
25 Dogen and Hakuin—Zen Buddhism
26 Zeami and Sen no Rikyu—Japanese Aesthetics
27 Wonhyo to King Sejong—Korean Philosophy
28 Padmasambhava to Tsongkhapa—Tibetan Ideas
29 Science and Technology in Premodern Asia
30 Muhammad Iqbal and Rabindranath Tagore
31 Mohandas Gandhi—Satyagraha, or Soul-Force
32 Fukuzawa Yukichi and Han Yongun
33 Kang Youwei and Hu Shi
34 Sun Yat-sen and Mao Zedong
35 Modern Legacies
36 East and West
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