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Book Description Condition: Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Seller Inventory # GRP82514146
Book Description 1st edition thus. Lucid account of the essence of the philosophies of the Orient (esp India, China, Japan) and concise history of major figures. Nice bright clean tight HB copy w jacket. 6-1/2 x 9-1/2, 303 pp, index, rdg suggestions. VG+ ex-USArmy-library copy else unmarked; in VG+ unclipped jacket. Hardcover in black cloth boards; in red illus jacket. Seller Inventory # 32345
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Thus. Text/BRAND NEW. Black linen boards w/gilt lettering/Fine. DJ/V with rubs to leading edges & penned price to front inner flap. Introduction to the history and development of religious and philosophical thought in India, China, and Japan. Part I, India, reviews the caste system and early thought, followed by discussion on the Vedic Hymns, the Upanishads, the Bhagavadgita, Jainism, Materialism, Buddhism, Hindusim, and ending with Gandhi. Part II, China. reviews early thought, the I China, Confucius, Mo Tzu, Mencius, Hsun Tzu, Laotse, the Legalists, Chuang Tzu, the School of Names, Neo-Confucianism, Chinese Communism, and the thought of Mao Tse-tung. Part III, Japan, early thought, Buddhist sects, Zen Buddhism, the indigenous Shinto, Confucianism, Empiricism, and the decline of Japanese philosophy. Fine springboard for the study of comparative religions and philosophies. Seller Inventory # 001427
Book Description New York, Horizon Press, 1976. 8vo. 303 S. OLwd (mit OUmschlag) (St.a.T.). OLwd (mit OUmschlag) (St.a.T.). Seller Inventory # 24966DB