Asian Worldviews

Preface Acknowledgements 1 India 1.1 The Brahmanist worldview 1.2 Reform movements: Jains and Buddhism 1.3 The development of Hinduism 1.4 Philosophical systems 1.6 Modern Indian thought 2 China 2.1 The beginnings 2.2 Classical Chinese thought: The Hundred Schools 2.3 From Han to Tang 2.4 From Song to Qing 2.5 From the fall of the empire to the present 3 Japan 3.1 Prehistory and the aristocratic period 3.2 The age of the warriors -- from Kamakura to Edo 3.3 Japanese modernity -- from Meiji to the present 4 Korea, Tibet and South-East Asia 4.1 Korea 4.2 Tibet 4.3 Indic South-East Asia 4.4 Vietnam Further reading Glossary Chronological table Index