FULLTEXTS OF OTHER CONFUCIAN BOOKS: The Great Learning (Daxue) (Bilingual Chinese-English fulltext, with a contemporary English translation by Charles Muller)
The Doctrine of the Mean (Zhongyong) (Bilinguah Chinese-English fulltext, with a contemporary English translation by Charles Muller)
REQUIRED READINGS:
(1) Adler, 51-57
(2) de Bary & Bloom, 95-111
(3) From Chapter 2 of Zhuangzi: "Three in the Morning/Keeper and Monkeys" (2:6), "Beauty of Mao Qiang and Li Ji" (2:11),and "Zhuangzi's Dream (Butterfly)" (2:14)
(4) From Chapter 3 of Zhuangzi: "Cook Ding and Duke Wenhui" (3:2)
(5) From Chapter 12 of Zhuangzi: "immortality of sage" (12:6) and the nature and reality of Dao (12:8)
(6) From Chapter 13 of Zhuangzi: Duke Huan and Wheelwright Bian (13:9b)
(7) From Chapter 17 of Zhuangzi: Sacred or Living Tortoise? (17:11)
(8) From Chapter 18 of Zhuangzi: "Zhuangzi's Wife" (18:2)
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
All students are encouraged to watch the video documentary, Footprint of the Buddha (from the acclaimed BBC Classics series, "The Long Search"). This documentary is available for loan from Xavier University Library: BL80.2.L64 2001 Disc 2 (DVD).
REMINDER: Please e-mail your Living Personalities Project paper to ProfessorJTan@gmail.com by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, 12 Dec 2008.
Humorous student evaluations at a foreign (non-U.S.) university... Enjoy!!!
子曰:「學而不思則罔,思而不學則殆。」
The Master [Confucius] says:
"Learning without thinking is a waste of time,
Thinking without learning is dangerous" (Analects 2:15).
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REQUIRED
TEXTBOOKS:
Joseph A. Adler
Chinese
Religious Traditions
(Prentice Hall, 2002)
de Bary & Bloom, eds.
Sources of
Chinese Tradition
(2nd Ed), Vol. 1
(Columbia, 1999)
Eva Wong
Shambhala Guide
to Taoism
(Shambhala, 1997)
Kenneth Chen
Buddhism in
China: A
Historical Survey
(Princeton, 1964)