Self as Body in Asian Theory and Practice

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Thomas P. Kasulis, Roger T. Ames, Wimal Dissanayake
SUNY Press, Jan 1, 1993 - Philosophy - 383 pages
This book is an investigation of the relationship between self and body in the Indian, Japanese, and Chinese philosophical traditions. The interplay between self and body is complex and manifold, touching on issues of epistemology, ontology, social philosophy, and axiology. The authors examine these issues and make relevant connections to the Western tradition. The authors' allow the Asian traditions to shed new light on some of the traditional mind-body issues addressed in the West.
 

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Contents

Introduction to Part
3
Introduction to Part Two Wimal Dissanayake
45
Ayurveda and the Hindu philosophical
103
Introduction to Part Three Roger T Ames
149
The Human Body as a Microcosmic Source
179
BodyPerson and HeartMind
213
Introduction to Part Four Thomas P Kasulis
295
A Contemporary Scientific Paradigm and the Discovery
347
Contributors
363
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achievement activity Advaita Vedanta Agnicayana Ah-baao Asian Atman Ayurvedic become bodily scheme body-mind body-space brahman Buddha Buddhist called calligraphy Caraka ch'i Cherng China circuit classical Chinese concept Confucian consciousness constitute context cultural Descartes developed Dhammapada discourse distinction dualism embodied energy enlightenment entity essay example existence experience expression Figure function hand heart-mind human body Ibid Ichikawa important Indian inner cosmos integrated interaction interpretation Jade Japanese Kalarippayattu kinesthesis knowledge Kūkai Little Phoenix lived body meaning medicine metaphor metaphysical mind and body mind-body complex mind-body problem modern nature notion object object-body one's organs perception person perspective philosophical physical polarity Porkert practice prakṛti problem purușa relation relationship ritual action root image Samkhya sattva sensation sense Shahnghaai shen Shinran skandhas social somatic spirit subtle body theoretical theory things thought tion tradition translated understanding University Upanisad Vaiśeṣika Western Yuasa Yurnsheng

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About the author (1993)

Thomas P. Kasulis is Professor of Comparative Studies in the Humanities at The Ohio State University. He has been the Numata Visiting Professor in Buddhist Studies at the University of Chicago, a Japan Foundation Fellow at Osaka University, and Mellon Faculty Fellow at Harvard. He has also served as the President of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy. He is the author of Zen Action/Zen Person, and the editor and co-translator of The Body: Toward an Eastern Mind-Body Theory, also published by SUNY Press.

Roger T. Ames is Professor of Chinese Philosophy at the University of Hawaii and edits the journal, Philosophy East and West. He is the co-author of Thinking Through Confucius (with David L. Hall), and co-editor of Nature in Asian Traditions of Thought: Essays in Environmental Philosophy (with J. Baird Callicott), both published by SUNY Press.

Wimal Dissanayake is a research scholar in the Institute of Culture and Communication at the East-West Center in Honolulu.

Bibliographic information

TitleSelf as Body in Asian Theory and Practice
SUNY series, the body in culture, history, and religion
EditorsThomas P. Kasulis, Roger T. Ames, Wimal Dissanayake
Editionillustrated
PublisherSUNY Press, 1993
ISBN079141079X, 9780791410790
Length383 pages
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Philosophy / Epistemology
  
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