This anthology of scriptures offers selections that vary in length from a few paragraphs to 10 pages, accompanied by brief introductions that discuss the nature and scope of scripture within each religion as well as the history of each scripture presented. Scriptures of The East contains sacred writings of Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Shinto, and indigenous religions of the East; a companion text, Scriptures of The West, contains sacred writings of Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, the Baha’i faith, and indigenous religions of the West.
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James Fieser is an Assistant Professor of philosophy at the University of Tennessee at Martin. He received his Ph.D. from Purdue University’s Department of Philosophy (1983, 1986). He has published articles on the topics of the philosophy of religion, rights theory, environmental ethics, moral skepticism, David Hume, and Thomas Aquinas. He has created several World Wide Web sites in philosophy, including the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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Good, basic overview of the East,
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Fieser and Powers have become established names in the trade of world religious texts. This introduction will certainly not disappoint, as it has presents a wide and responsible sampling of the major religious traditions living today. While I might quibble with some of their interpretations, or the rationale for some of their selections (I would have preferred much more on the Bhagavad Gita and less on the Laws of Manu, for example), I think they have produced a very useful and informative basic overview the scriptures of Eastern Traditions. Teachers will not be disappointed in selecting it, and students will be informed in reading it. It ranks very favorably with the Mary Pat Fisher editions and should be widely read. [please also note, I believe this text is a mere exact copy of the first half of their "Scriptures of World Religions"; Mary Pat Fisher has done much the same]
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Contemporary Hindus commonly refer to their tradition as the "universal truth" (sanatana-dharma), implying that it is a meta-tradition which is able to embrace the truths of all other systems of thought while transcending them through its expansive ability to embrace truth in multiple manifestations. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
making thought sincere, lucid character, profound perfection, cyclic existence, beginningless cycle, karmic matter, compositional factors, dependent arising, world renouncer, final nirvana Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Adi Granth, Rig Veda, Gobind Singh, Basic Writings, Guru Nanak, Zhu Xi, Sima Qian, Age of the Deuce, Baba Nanak, Age of the Trey, Chuang Tzu, Columbia University Press, Exalted One, Mahapajapati Gotami, True Man, Dark Age, Early Chinese Mysticism, Motilal Banarsidass, Tibetan Buddhism, Wang Yangming, Esoteric Buddhism, Indian Buddhism, Princeton University Press, Sri Lanka New!
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Contemporary Hindus commonly refer to their tradition as the "universal truth" (sanatana-dharma), implying that it is a meta-tradition which is able to embrace the truths of all other systems of thought while transcending them through its expansive ability to embrace truth in multiple manifestations. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
making thought sincere, lucid character, profound perfection, cyclic existence, beginningless cycle, karmic matter, compositional factors, dependent arising, world renouncer, final nirvana Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Adi Granth, Rig Veda, Gobind Singh, Basic Writings, Guru Nanak, Zhu Xi, Sima Qian, Age of the Deuce, Baba Nanak, Age of the Trey, Chuang Tzu, Columbia University Press, Exalted One, Mahapajapati Gotami, True Man, Dark Age, Early Chinese Mysticism, Motilal Banarsidass, Tibetan Buddhism, Wang Yangming, Esoteric Buddhism, Indian Buddhism, Princeton University Press, Sri Lanka New!
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- The Great Learning by Confucius on 6 pages
- The Rig Veda (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous on page 8, page 12, and Back Matter
- The Book of Rites (Selections) by Confucius on page 148, page 149, and page 151
- Speaking of Siva (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous on page 44, page 55, and Back Matter
- Guru Nanak and the Sikh Religion (Oxford India Paperbacks) by W. H. McLeod on page 137, and Back Matter
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