The Tao Is Silent (book review) Raymond M. Smullyan
090819: i have read many philosophy texts of several types but this is probably my favorite daoist work. easy to read, playful, in its...
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090819: i have read many philosophy texts of several types but this is probably my favorite daoist work. easy to read, playful, in its...
180614: beautiful, concise, this work shows the practice of zen. there are no koans, no zazen, no sutras, no wisdom of patriarchs. there...
Towards a Sexuate Philosophy 101013: i had heard of Irigaray, knew she is an important feminist philosopher, knew of her through other...
A Buddhist Engagement with the Ontology of Jean-Paul Sartre 070418/090915/181112: this is a much much later addition: another 3 years......
090118: clear, concise, introduction to the work of philosophers known as 'Kyoto school', all Japanese thinkers who learned much...
021217: this is a challenging text. this work focuses on nishida's way of interrogating an entire range of 'western' philosophers, how he...
An Essay on the Kyoto School 020616: this is a fascinating intro to Japanese 'Kyoto school' of philosophy, who were influenced strongly...
280120: reading essay on buddhist logic https://aeon.co/essays/the-logic-of-buddhist-philosophy-goes-beyond-simple-truth and another book...
210317: i have decided i read this too quickly, too superficially, after several other texts on jaina philosophy. i have hence decided to...
seem to have lost review, so here is blurb. did greatly enjoy it: This is a manifesto for a more active, compassionate, and socially...
An Introduction to the History of Eastern Thought 180220: excellent introductory textbook to an entire tradition of philosophical thought...
??? 2000s?: this is the best commentary i have read on the eightfold path.
200620: in the mahayana interpretation of buddhist thought, i must note the vital difference between the terms ‘nothingness’ and...
Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā Nāgārjuna, Jay L. Garfield (Translator) 110220: i have been reading this, studying actually, going back...
Burton Watson(Translator) 130219: five. english translation of chinese translation of sanskrit original. one of the easiest sutras i have...
A Feminist History, Analysis, and Reconstruction of Buddhism 230417: excellent work unifying, contrasting, mutually aiding, feminism and...
200805: years (decades...) since first reading. this might be first buddhism book i read, very concise, great translations, clear and...
160513: this is a book i have had for years, i read now, in chapter reads a day each, but not studying. this could be an excellent text...
140220: i will reread this, now having read garfield’s translation and commentary on [book:The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way:...
Padmakara Translation Group (Translator), Dalai Lama XIV 010420: can this actually be seven years since read? apparently so. and i...