• ISBN13: 9789811972058
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: N/A
• Publisher: Springer
• Publisher Imprint: Springer
• Publication Date: January 2, 2023
• Pages: 611
• Original Price: EUR 149.99
• Language: English
• Edition: 2023
• Item Weight: 1048 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Movements / General, Comparative Religion, and History & Surveys / General

From the Back Cover

Chinese traditions of Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism have a profoundly philosophical dimension. The three traditions are frequently referred to as three paths of moral teachings. In this book, Mou provides a clear account of the textual corpus that emerges to define each of these traditions and how this canonical axis was augmented by a continuing commentarial tradition as each generation reauthorized the written core for their own time and place.

At the center of the alternative religious experience reflected throughout the teachings of Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism is the project of personal cultivation as it comes to be expressed as robust growth in family and communal relations. For Mou, these three highly distinctive and yet complementary ways of thinking and living constitute a kind of moral ecology, wherein each of them complements the others as they stand in service to a different dimension of the human need for an educated spirituality.

Mou Zhongjian has the stature of being one of contemporary China's most distinguished interpreters of the long and rich tradition of Chinese philosophy and culture. He has high visibility in the Chinese academy as a prolific scholar. Mou is an Honorary Distinguished Professor and prestigious academia of philosophy and religious studies at Minzu University of China, an Honorary Advisor of the International Confucian Association, Advisor of the Chinese Religious Society, Director of the Academic Committee of the Confucius Research Institute of China, and Honorary Dean of Shandong Nishan Shengyuan Academy.