Draws on Asian philosophical traditions to offer business executives and personnel managers insights on how to recognize, organize, and develop human resources

Product Description: This extraordinary collection of teachings and commentaries illuminates the many profound mysteries of inner alchemy, one of the most important dimensions of the Taoist tradition. The science of inner alchemy consists of meditation practices that enable the individual to have a more intimate, energizing, and inspiring relationship with life...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A translation of a classical sourcebook of Buddhist yoga offers a detailed course in both the philosophical and pragmatic foundations of the medium while exploring the harmonious union associated with Buddhist enlightenment. Original.

"À Votre Portée" is an introductory reader for university students at the intermediate/advanced levels of French. It is designed especially for students who have learned French under a communicative approach - that is, where emphasis has been on meaning, and where students have been encouraged to use French to express their own ideas on topics that are important to them. The primary goal of "À Votre Portée" is to help students acquire reading skills that will enable them to enjoy and appreciate unedited texts in French. It contains short stories and poems by nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors from various francophone countries. Because the texts have not been abridged or simplified in any way, they can be read and studied in any order. In addition to questions inserted within the texts, there are several sections accompanying each text that will help students thoroughly probe and understand what they have read.

Product Description: Nearly 800 years ago, pagan Mongol tribes from the Central Asian steppes broke upon the ancient civiliations of Asia like a tidal wave, unleashing a whirlwind of destructive fury with unprecedented force. Through this holocaust wandered a lone buddhist poet, a pacifist and feminist, a former politcal prisoner and a lifelong exile and sojourner in his own homeland...read more

Selections from Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Buddhist writings deal with basic meditation, concentration techniques, common meditation problems, and methods of enlightenment

A contemporary translation of a collection of Buddha's sayings features notes and comments

Product Description: The secrets of serenity and wisdom in a changing world can be found in these Taoist teachings, written during the late 16th century in the Ming dynasty. The author's reflections are an outgrowth of his upbringing in the science of neo-Confucianism, a lifelong career in public service, and his retirement at age 62 into Taoist apprenticeship...read more

Two ancient Chinese works present the heart of Taoist philosophy through poems, proverbs, and ancecdotes (view table of contents)

A translation of the classic Chinese book of moral puzzles and spiritual folktales includes interpretations of the 'koans' and provides a view of the stories over the centuries

Discusses the impact of ancient Japanese philosophy and the ancient strategies of the art of war on Japanese attitudes and behavior in social, business, political, and personal life.

Presents a selection of Taoist texts from ancient times to the present which deal with the 'three treasures' of human life--vitality, energy, and spirit

Gathers together the poems and writings of six distinguished Taoist women from the fourth of the twelfth century offering insight into Taoist tradition

Explains how the teachings of Taoism can lead one to full human consciousness (view table of contents)

Product Description: . 1988, 234pp

Surveys Japanese Rinzai Zen teachings from the thirteenth to the eighteenth centuries through treatises and sermons on enlightment through astonishment and paradox