1.
Life's Great Questions — Asian Perspectives
2.
The Vedas and Upanishads — The Beginning
3.
Mahavira and Jainism — Extreme Nonviolence
4.
The Buddha — The Middle Way
5.
The Bhagavad Gita — The Way of Action
6.
Confucius — in Praise of Sage-Kings
7.
Laozi and Daoism — The Way of Nature
8.
The Hundred Schools of Pre-Imperial China
9.
Mencius and Xunzi — Confucius's Successors
10.
Sunzi and Han Feizi — Strategy and Legalism
11.
Zarathustra and Mani — Dualistic Religion
12.
Kautilya and Ashoka — Buddhism and Empire
13.
Ishvarakrishna and Patanjali — Yoga
14.
Nagarjuna and Vasubandhu — Buddhist Theories
15.
Sima Qian and Ban Zhao — History and Women
16.
Dong Zhongshu and Ge Hong — Eclecticism
17.
Xuanzang and Chinese Buddhism
18.
Prince Shotoku, Lady Murasaki, Sei Shonagon
19.
Saicho to Nichiren — Japanese Buddhism
20.
Shankara, Ramanuja, Madhva — Hindu Vedanta
21.
Al-Biruni — Islam in India
22.
Nanak and Sirhindi — Sikhism and Sufism
23.
Han Yu to Zhu Xi — Neo-Confucianism
24.
Wang Yangming — The Study of Heart-Mind
25.
Dogen and Hakuin — Zen Buddhism
26.
Zeami and Sen No Rikyu — Japanese Aesthetics
27.
Wonhyo to King Sejong — Korean Philosophy
28.
Padmasambhava to Tsongkhapa — Tibetan Ideas
29.
Science and Technology in Premodern Asia
30.
Muhammad Iqbal and Rabindranath Tagore
31.
Mohandas Gandhi — Satyagraha, or Soul-Force
32.
Fukuzawa Yukichi and Han Yongun
33.
Kang Youwei and Hu Shi
34.
Sun Yat-Sen and Mao Zedong
35.
Modern Legacies
36.
East and West