Approaches to the Oriental ClassicsWilliam Theodore De Bary Columbia University Press, 1959 - 262 pages |
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... fact that it will count for more from him than it could from me . It surely is not necessary for me to recall to this group the fact that there was in Europe , during part of the Middle Ages , a transnational Latin culture which ...
... fact that it will count for more from him than it could from me . It surely is not necessary for me to recall to this group the fact that there was in Europe , during part of the Middle Ages , a transnational Latin culture which ...
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... facts . One fact is the relation of Sanskrit to the other Indo - European languages . This fact implies no theory as to when , where , or by whom this language group originated , but the fact itself is un- deniable . The other fact is ...
... facts . One fact is the relation of Sanskrit to the other Indo - European languages . This fact implies no theory as to when , where , or by whom this language group originated , but the fact itself is un- deniable . The other fact is ...
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... fact he is teaching throughout eternity ( ch . 15 ) . For the Buddha is really eternal . His true char- acter knows neither being nor nonbeing , neither life nor death . Be- fore restoring the stupa to its place , the two Buddhas ...
... fact he is teaching throughout eternity ( ch . 15 ) . For the Buddha is really eternal . His true char- acter knows neither being nor nonbeing , neither life nor death . Be- fore restoring the stupa to its place , the two Buddhas ...
Contents
Opening Remarks by Jacques Barzun THE TEACHING OF | 3 |
Great BooksEast and West by Mark Van Doren | 7 |
Education in a Multicultural World by Thomas Berry 24 On Exploiting the Greek Analogy by Moses Hadas | 24 |
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