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Taiga?s True Views: The Language of Landscape Painting in Eighteenth-Century Japan by Melinda Takeuchi (1994-06-01)
The History of England, Vol 2
The History of Scepticism: From Savonarola to Bayle
Cicero: On Moral Ends (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)
Das Goldene Vlies: Dramatisches Gedicht in Drei Abteilungen
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Notes from Underground & The Double
The World of Thought in Ancient China
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The Legend of Gold and Other Stories
This book contains an English translation of the ancient Chinese translation from the Sanskrit by Buddhatrata in 693 of the Sutra of Complete Enlightenment, an important text in Mahayana Buddhism. Approximately 4/5 of the book consists of a commentary on the sutra by the Ch'an master Sheng-yen. To be completely honest, I found the sutra itself to reek of church scholasticism and the, to my mind, totally unnecessary and enormously complicated metaphysics typical of a certain kind of Indian thinking. However, the commentary is beautifully to the point and concrete. This, I find, is typical of a certain kind of Chinese thinking. :) One star for the sutra, 5 stars for the commentary!