Great minds of the Eastern intellectual tradition [videorecording] / Grant Hardy.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: FilmPublisher number: 4620 | Teaching CompanyID4620A-01 | Teaching CompanySeries: Great courses (DVD). Philosophy & intellectual history.Publication details: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., �2011.Description: 6 videodiscs (ca. 1080 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + course guidebook (160 p. ; 19 cm.) + course transcripts (312 p. ; 19 cm. ; 326 p. ; 19 cm.)ISBN:
  • 1598037412
  • 9781598037418
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Disc 1: Lecture 1: Life's great questions: Asian perspectives -- Lecture 2 : The Vedas and Upanishads: the beginning -- Lecture 3 : Mahavira and Jainism: extreme nonviolence -- Lecture 4 : The Buddha: the middle way -- Lecture 5 : The Bhagavad Gita: the way of action -- Lecture 6 : Confucius: in praise of sage-kings.
Disc 2: Lecture 7 : Laozi and Daoism: the way of nature -- Lecture 8 : The Hundred Schools of preimperial China -- Lecture 9 : Mencius and Xunzi: Confucius's successors -- Lecture 10 : Sunzi and Han Feizi: strategy and legalism -- Lecture 11 : Zarathustra and Mani: dualistic religion -- Lecture 12 : Kautilya and Ashoka: Buddhism and empire.
Disc 3: Lecture 13 : Ishvarakrishna and Patanjali: Yoga -- Lecture 14 : Nagarjuna and Vasubandhu: Buddhist theories -- Lecture 15 : Sima Qian and Ban Zhao: history and women -- Lecture 16 : Dong Zhongshu and Ge Hong: eclecticism -- Lecture 17 : Xuanzang and Chinese Buddhism -- Lecture 18 : Prince Shotoku, Lady Murasaki, Sei Shonagon.
Disc 4: Lecture 19 : Saicho to Nichiren: Japanese Buddhism -- Lecture 20 : Shankara, Ramanuja, Madhva: Hindu Vedanta -- Lecture 21 : Al-Biruni: Islam in India -- Lecture 22 : Nanak and Sirhindi: Sikhism and Sufism -- Lecture 23 : Han Yu to Zhu Xi: Neo-Confucianism -- Lecture 24 : Wang Yangming: The study of heart-mind.
Disc 5: Lecture 25 : Dogen and Hakuin: Zen Buddhism -- Lecture 26 : Zeami and Sen no Rikyu: Japanese Aesthetics -- Lecture 27 : Wonhyo to King Sejong: Korean philosophy -- Lecture 28 : Padmasambhava to Tsonghkapa: Tibetan ideas -- Lecture 29 : Science and technology in premodern Asia -- Lecture 30 : Muhammad Iqbal and Rabindranath Tagore.
Disc 6: Lecture 31 : Mohandas Gandhi: Satyagraha, or soul-force -- Lecture 32 : Fukuzawa Yukichi and Han Yongun -- Lecture 33 : Kang Youwei and Hu Shi -- Lecture 34 : Sun Yat-sen and Mao Zedong -- Lecture 35 : Modern legacies -- Lecture 36 : East and West.
Summary: "[This series] is an epic, comprehensive survey of the East's most influential philosphers and thinkers. In 36 lectures, [the student will be introduced to] the men and women responsible for molding Asian philosophy and for giving birth to a wide variety of spiritual and ideological systems, including Hinduism, Daoism, Confucianism, Sufism, and Buddhism."--Www.thegreatcourses.com.
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Book Storms Research Center DVD Collection DVD B 121 .H37 2011 GDBK (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available .PUBLIC. Accompanying guidebook. 98644776
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DVD ; NTSC.

Thirty six lectures at 30 min. each.

"[This series] is an epic, comprehensive survey of the East's most influential philosphers and thinkers. In 36 lectures, [the student will be introduced to] the men and women responsible for molding Asian philosophy and for giving birth to a wide variety of spiritual and ideological systems, including Hinduism, Daoism, Confucianism, Sufism, and Buddhism."--Www.thegreatcourses.com.

Disc 1: Lecture 1: Life's great questions: Asian perspectives -- Lecture 2 : The Vedas and Upanishads: the beginning -- Lecture 3 : Mahavira and Jainism: extreme nonviolence -- Lecture 4 : The Buddha: the middle way -- Lecture 5 : The Bhagavad Gita: the way of action -- Lecture 6 : Confucius: in praise of sage-kings.

Disc 2: Lecture 7 : Laozi and Daoism: the way of nature -- Lecture 8 : The Hundred Schools of preimperial China -- Lecture 9 : Mencius and Xunzi: Confucius's successors -- Lecture 10 : Sunzi and Han Feizi: strategy and legalism -- Lecture 11 : Zarathustra and Mani: dualistic religion -- Lecture 12 : Kautilya and Ashoka: Buddhism and empire.

Disc 3: Lecture 13 : Ishvarakrishna and Patanjali: Yoga -- Lecture 14 : Nagarjuna and Vasubandhu: Buddhist theories -- Lecture 15 : Sima Qian and Ban Zhao: history and women -- Lecture 16 : Dong Zhongshu and Ge Hong: eclecticism -- Lecture 17 : Xuanzang and Chinese Buddhism -- Lecture 18 : Prince Shotoku, Lady Murasaki, Sei Shonagon.

Disc 4: Lecture 19 : Saicho to Nichiren: Japanese Buddhism -- Lecture 20 : Shankara, Ramanuja, Madhva: Hindu Vedanta -- Lecture 21 : Al-Biruni: Islam in India -- Lecture 22 : Nanak and Sirhindi: Sikhism and Sufism -- Lecture 23 : Han Yu to Zhu Xi: Neo-Confucianism -- Lecture 24 : Wang Yangming: The study of heart-mind.

Disc 5: Lecture 25 : Dogen and Hakuin: Zen Buddhism -- Lecture 26 : Zeami and Sen no Rikyu: Japanese Aesthetics -- Lecture 27 : Wonhyo to King Sejong: Korean philosophy -- Lecture 28 : Padmasambhava to Tsonghkapa: Tibetan ideas -- Lecture 29 : Science and technology in premodern Asia -- Lecture 30 : Muhammad Iqbal and Rabindranath Tagore.

Disc 6: Lecture 31 : Mohandas Gandhi: Satyagraha, or soul-force -- Lecture 32 : Fukuzawa Yukichi and Han Yongun -- Lecture 33 : Kang Youwei and Hu Shi -- Lecture 34 : Sun Yat-sen and Mao Zedong -- Lecture 35 : Modern legacies -- Lecture 36 : East and West.

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