Noh Drama and the Tale of the Genji

Janet Goff

• Hardcover | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations
• The Japanese noh theater has enjoyed a rich, continuous history dating back to the Muromachi period (1336-1573), when virtually the entire repertoire ... Lees meer

Chu Hsi's Family Rituals

Chu Hsi

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations
• Compiled by the great Neo-Confucian philosopher Chu Hsi (1130-1200), the Family Rituals is a manual for the private performance of the standard Chines... Lees meer

Poems to Siva

Indira Viswanathan Peterson

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations
• Composed by three poet-saints between the sixth and eighth centuries A.D., the Tevaram hymns are the primary scripture of the Tamil Saivism, one of th... Lees meer

The Culture of the Meiji Period

Daikichi Irokawa

• Hardcover | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations
• The description for this book, The Culture of the Meiji Period, will be forthcoming. Lees meer

The Plum in the Golden Vase Or, Chin P'Ing Mei, Volume Three

• Hardcover | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations | nr. 163
• The third volume of a celebrated translation of the classic Chinese novel This is the third volume in David Roy's celebrated translation of one of the... Lees meer

The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India, Volume III

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations | nr. 144
• This is the third volume of a planned seven-volume translation of India's most beloved and influential epic tale--the Ramayana of Valmiki. This third ... Lees meer

The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations | nr. 157
• The definitive English translation of the classic Sanskrit epic poem --now available in a one-volume paperback The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki , the monumenta... Lees meer

A Record of Buddhist Monasteries in Lo-Yang

Hsüan-Chih Yang

• Hardcover | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations
• A Record of Buddhist Monasteries in Lo-yang (the Lo-Yang ch'ieh-lan chi) is a major document of Chinese history and literature. This translation of th... Lees meer

The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India, Volume IV

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations | nr. 142
• This is the fourth volume of a translation of India's most beloved and influential epic tale--the Ramayana of Valmiki . As befits its position at the ... Lees meer

Wen Xuan or Selections of Refined Literature, Volume I

David R Knechtges, Tong Xiao

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations
• A text of central importance to the Chinese literary tradition, the Wen xuan was compiled by Xiao Tong (501-531) and is the oldest surviving anthology... Lees meer

Tsong Khapa's Speech of Gold in the Essence of True Eloquence

Robert a F Thurman

• Hardcover | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations
• This is the first full study, translation, and critical annotation of the Essence of True Eloquence, by Tsong Khapa (1357-1419), universally acknowled... Lees meer

History of Chinese Philosophy, Volume 2

Feng Youlan

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations
• Since its original publication in Chinese in the 1930s, this work has been accepted by Chinese scholars as the most important contribution to the stud... Lees meer

Siva's Warriors

• Hardcover | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations
• Here is the first translation into English of the Basava Purana, a fascinating collection of tales that sums up and characterizes one of the most impo... Lees meer

On the Art of the No Drama

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations | nr. 21
• This annotated translation is the first systematic rendering into any Western language of the nine major treatises on the art of the Japanese No theat... Lees meer

The Formation of Ch'an Ideology in China and Korea

Robert E Buswell

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations
• This book is a translation and study of the Vajrasamadhi-Sutra and an examination of its broad implications for the development of East Asian Buddhism... Lees meer

A Tale of Eleventh-Century Japan

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations
• This book is a complete translation of Hamamatsu Chunagon Monogatari, one of the few extant works of monogatari literature of the Heian period. Origin... Lees meer

Guanzi

• Hardcover | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations | nr. 161
• Named for the famous Chinese minister of state, Guan Zhong (d. 645 B.C.), the Guanzi is one of the largest collections of ancient Chinese writings sti... Lees meer

The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India, Volume V

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations | nr. 145
• The fifth and most popular book of the Ramayana of Valmiki, the Sundarakanda , recounts the adventures of the monkey hero Hanuman in leaping across th... Lees meer

The t'Ang Code, Volume II

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations
• This is the second and final volume of the annotated translation of a seminal Chinese legal text. The T'ang Code, written in 653 A.D., is the most imp... Lees meer

A Tale of Eleventh-Century Japan

• Hardcover | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations
• This book is a complete translation of Hamamatsu Chunagon Monogatari, one of the few extant works of monogatari literature of the Heian period. Origin... Lees meer

My Thirty-Three Year's Dream

Miyazaki Toten

• Hardcover | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations
• Annotated by Professors Jansen and Eto, the book illuminates the experiences of Miyazaki's generation with Western culture and the development of an A... Lees meer

The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India, Volume I

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations | nr. 45
• This is the first of seven volumes of a translation of the Valmiki Ramayana, the great Sanskrit epic of the life of Rama, ideal man and incarnation of... Lees meer

Family and Property in Sung China

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations
• Providing the best surviving evidence of the everyday thinking of the Sung upper class, Yuan Ts'ai's twelfth-century manual is the advice of a typical... Lees meer

The Central Philosophy of Tibet

Robert a F Thurman

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations | nr. 46
• This is the paperback edition of the first full study, translation, and critical annotation of the Essence of True Eloquence by Jey Tsong Khapa (1357-... Lees meer