Confucianism


The Analects
Mencius
Confucianism: A Very Short Introduction
The Book of Rites
The Most Venerable Book - Shang Shu
The Doctrine Of The Mean
Xunzi: The Complete Text
The Book of Songs: The Ancient Chinese Classic of Poetry
The I Ching or Book of Changes
The World's Religions
Shijing, Book of Odes: Bilingual Edition, English and Chinese 詩經: Classic of Poetry, Book of Songs
Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy
The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life
Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean
Ta Hio: The Great Learning Of Confucius
TaoTuning by Adrian EmeryTao Te Ching by Lao TzuA-Ma Alchemy of Love by Nataša PantovićZen Flesh, Zen Bones by Paul RepsSpace Clearing for Your Home and Soul by Althea S.T.
Best Books On Eastern Philosophy
38 books — 46 voters
TaoTuning by Adrian EmeryThe Analects by ConfuciusThe I Ching or Book of Changes by AnonymousTao Te Ching by Lao TzuIs Nothing Sacred? Making Money as a Wedding Priest in China. by Christian D. Taulkinghorn
Religion in China
38 books — 13 voters

Buddhism After Patriarchy by Rita M. GrossFeminism and World Religions by Arvind SharmaInnovative Buddhist Women by Karma TsomoWomen in the Footsteps of the Buddha by Kathryn R. BlackstoneGoddesses and Women in the Indic Religious Tradition by Arvind Sharma
Non-Abrahamic Religious Feminism
58 books — 6 voters
TaoTuning by Adrian EmeryThe Analects by ConfuciusTao Te Ching by Lao TzuLearning to Be A Sage by Zhu XiMencius by Mencius
Chinese Philosophy
115 books — 21 voters

Stephen Prothero
If religion is about the sacred as opposed to the profane, the spirit as opposed to matter, the Creator as opposed to the created, Confucianism plainly does not qualify. But perhaps what we are to learn from this tradition is not that Confucianism is not a religion but that not all religious people parse the sacred and the secular the way Christians do.
Stephen Prothero, God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter

Edgar Snow
What's wrong with China?" Dr. Frene demanded of me almost immediately, after Nym introduced us. "Why were the Chinese able to invent everything and develop nothing? Why did Chinese civilization undergo a menopause? What happened to China's creative power?" "Maybe China atrophied because of lack of competition," I suggested weakly. "Nonsense!" he screamed mildly. "China is a case of stability achieved at the expense of stifling the individual. The society lives but the creative personality dies ...more
Edgar Snow, Journey to the Beginning

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