Resultaten voor "Burton Watson"

Ssu Ma Chien Grand Historian of China

Burton Watson

• Paperback | Engels
• This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in... Lees meer

Courtier and Commoner in Ancient China

• Paperback | Engels
• Pan Ku's celebrated and influential History of the Former Han has been a model for dynastic history since its appearance in the first century A.D. The... Lees meer

Mo Tzu

• Paperback | Engels | Translations from the Asian Classics
• The thoughts and writings of this important fifth century B.C. political and social thinker -- and formidable rival of the Confucianists -- are presen... Lees meer

Han Feizi

• Paperback | Engels | Translations from the Asian Classics
• Trenchant, sophisticated, and cynical, Han Feizi has been read in every age and is still of interest today when people are more than ever concerned wi... Lees meer

Mozi

• Paperback | Engels | Translations from the Asian Classics
• Mozi (fifth century B.C.) was an important political and social thinker and formidable rival of the Confucianists. He advocated universal love--his mo... Lees meer

The Analects of Confucius

Burton Watson

• Paperback | Engels | Translations from the Asian Classics
• Compiled by disciples of Confucius in the centuries following his death in 479 B.C.E., The Analects of Confucius is a collection of aphorisms and hist... Lees meer

Grass Hill

Gensei

• Hardcover | Engels | Translations from the Oriental Classics
• Gensei, a seventeenth century Nichiren sect monk, composed poetry in Chinese and was a leading figure among the literary elite of his era. "Grass Hill... Lees meer

Hsün Tzu

• Paperback | Engels | Translations from the Asian Classics
• Hsün Tzu set forth the most complete well-ordered philosophical system of his day. Although basically Confucian, he differed with Mencius, his famous ... Lees meer

The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

• Hardcover | Engels | Translations from the Asian Classics
• This is one of the most justly celebrated texts of the Chinese tradition - impressive for both its bold philosophical imagination and its striking lit... Lees meer

Four Huts

Burton Watson

• Paperback | Engels
• The short works collected in Four Huts give voice to one of the most treasured aesthetic and spiritual ideals of Asia--that of a simple life lived in ... Lees meer

Letters of Nichiren

• Hardcover | Engels | Translations from the Asian Classics
• -- "Tricycle: The Buddhist Review" Lees meer

Selected Poems of Su Tung-P'o

Su Tung-P'o

• Paperback | Engels
• Burton Watson is our greatest translator of classical Chinese poetry, and here he presents 115 poems by the greatest poet of the Sung dynasty, Su Shih... Lees meer

Poems of a Mountain Home

Saigyo

• Hardcover | Engels | Translations from the Oriental Classics
• Gathers two hundred poems by the twelfth-century Japanese poet, and offers a brief introduction to his life and the traditions of Japanese court poetr... Lees meer

For All My Walking

Santoka Taneda

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Asian Literature
• In April 1926, the Japanese poet Taneda Santoka (1882-1940) set off on the first of many walking trips, journeys in which he tramped thousands of mile... Lees meer

Ryōkan

Ryōkan

• Paperback | Engels | Translations from the Asian Classics
• Ryokan (1758-1831), a Buddhist monk in the Zen sect, was a major figure in Tokugawa poetry. Although a Zen master, he never headed a temple but chose ... Lees meer

Saigyo

Saigyo

• Paperback | Engels | Translations from the Asian Classics
• Saigyo: Poems of a Mountain Home contains translations of two hundred of Saigyo's poems. His poems are almost all written in the thirty-one syllable t... Lees meer

Record of Miraculous Events in Japan

• Hardcover | Engels | Translations from the Asian Classics
• The Nihon ryoiki , a collection of setsuwa , or "anecdotal" tales, compiled by a monk in late-eighth- or early-ninth-century Japan, records the spread... Lees meer

The Essential Lotus

• Paperback | Engels | Translations from the Asian Classics
• Since its first appearance in China in the third century CE, the Lotus Sutra has been the object of intense veneration among generations of Buddhists ... Lees meer

Demon at Agi Bridge and Other Japanese Tales

• Paperback | Engels | Translations from the Asian Classics
• Burton Watson and Haruo Shirane, renowned translators and scholars, introduce English-speaking readers to the vivid tradition of early and medieval Ja... Lees meer

Po Chü-I

• Hardcover | Engels | Translations from the Asian Classics
• The T'ang dynasty was the great age of Chinese poetry, and Po Chü-i (772-846) was one of that era's most prolific major poets. His appealing style, ma... Lees meer

Record of Miraculous Events in Japan

• Paperback | Engels | Translations from the Asian Classics
• The Nihon ryoiki , a collection of setsuwa , or "anecdotal" tales, compiled by a monk in late-eighth- or early-ninth-century Japan, records the spread... Lees meer

Buddhism

Daisaku Ikeda

• Paperback | Engels | Soka Gakkai History of Buddhism | nr. 2
• Beginning with the events immediately following the dark days after the death of Shakyamuni and continuing over a period of 1,000 years, this dynamic ... Lees meer

Records of the Grand Historian

Qian Sima

• Hardcover | Engels | Records of the Grand Historian
• Sima Qian (145?-90? BCE) was the first major Chinese historian. His Shiji, or Records of the Grand Historian, documents the history of China and its n... Lees meer

Han Fei Tzu

• Paperback | Engels | Translations from the Asian Classics
• Representative of the Fachia, or Legalist, school of philosophy, the writings of Han Fei Tzu (280?-233 B.C.) confront the issues of preserving and str... Lees meer