Presents a new vision of the Buddhist history and philosophy of emptiness in Tibet.

An accessible introduction to the centrality of word, chant, and song in the Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, and Sikh traditions.

Places the phenomenologies of Merleau-Ponty and Nishida in dialogue and uncovers a demand for a motor-perceptual form of faith in both philosophers’ meditations on artistic expression.

Provides the first systematic interpretation of Heidegger’s relation to Eckhart, centering on the idea that we must release ourselves in order to know the truth.

Challenges descriptions of East Asian societies as Confucian cultures and communitarian Confucian models as a political alternative to liberal democracy.

Explores the role of meditation on the five elements in the practice of Yoga.

Explores how writers across five continents and four centuries have debated ideas about what it means to be an individual, and shows that the modern self is an ongoing project of global history.

Proposes an “intra-cultural philosophy” based on John Dewey’s “cultural turn” and promotes Daoist thought as a resource that can help to reconstruct outmoded assumptions that continue to shape how we currently think.

Assesses John Dewey’s visit to China in 1919–21 as an “intra-cultural” episode and promotes “Chinese natural philosophy” as a philosophical context in which to understand the connections between Dewey’s philosophy and early Confucian thinking.

Investigates the cosmological and metaphysical thought in the Zhuangzi from the perspective of nothingness.

The first in-depth analysis of the radical feminist theory and coalitional praxis of scholar-activist María Lugones.

Systematically addresses the philosophical implications of the postcolonial.

Offers the first focused study of the shifei debates of the Warring States period in ancient China and challenges the imposition of Western conceptual categories onto these debates.

Reveals the complicity between the Kyoto School’s moral and political philosophy, based on the school’s founder Nishida Kitarō’s metaphysics of nothingness, and Japanese imperialism.

Critically introduces the philosophical system of Li Zehou, one of the most significant modern scholars of Chinese history and culture.

Explores the philosophical dimensions and implications of integral theory.

A guide to Buddhism’s rich variety of traditions and cultural expressions for educators who would like to include Buddhism in their undergraduate courses.

Provides a new perspective on important linguistic issues in philosophical and religious Daoism through the comparative lens of twentieth-century European philosophies of language.

A wide-ranging exploration and critical assessment of the work of a major figure in Chinese and comparative philosophy.

Offers a new perspective on the relationship between religion and the creation of the first Chinese empires.

The first comprehensive treatment of Inoue Enryō, a pioneer of modern Buddhism and a key figure in the reception of Western philosophy in East Asia.

Adds new voices to the feminist conversation and brings a rich variety of diverse approaches to Buddhist women’s identities, “the feminine,” and Buddhist feminism.

Challenges the idea held by many prominent twentieth-century Sinologists that early China experienced a “language crisis. ”

Argues that Socrates’ fundamental role in the dialogues is to guide us toward self-inquiry and self-knowledge.

Critical reflections on the work of Angus Charles Graham, renowned Western scholar of Chinese philosophy and sinology.