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Readings of the Platform Sutra (Columbia Readings of Buddhist Literature)

The Platform Sutra contains quite a lot of very important Chan/Zen Buddhist teachings. imagined to comprise the autobiography and sermons of Huineng (638–713), the mythical 6th Patriarch of Chan, the sutra has been well known between monastics and the knowledgeable elite for hundreds of years. the 1st examine of its type in English, this quantity deals essays that introduce the historical past and concepts of the sutra to a basic viewers and interpret its practices.

Intersectoral Resource Flows and China's Economic Development (Studies on the Chinese Economy)

This booklet makes a survey of the methodologies utilized in earlier quantitative research of intersectoral source flows (IRF). in line with the dialogue of the defects of a lot latest paintings, an try is made to enhance the dimension of IRF. The booklet is a scientific research of IRF in China 1952-1983 and lays a lot of the foundation for constructing a coherent research of the timing, measurement and course of IRF in China.

A History of the Chinese Language

A historical past of the chinese presents a entire advent to the historic improvement of the chinese from its proto Sino-Tibetan roots in prehistoric instances to fashionable general chinese language. Taking a hugely available and balanced technique, it offers a chronological survey of many of the levels of chinese improvement, masking the most important points similar to phonology, syntax and semantics.

500 Common Chinese Idioms: An Annotated Frequency Dictionary

500 universal chinese language Idioms is the proper software for all intermediate to complex novices of chinese language. in response to huge corpora of real language facts, it provides the five hundred most typically used chinese language idioms or chengyu, in addition to quite a few synonyms, antonyms and the commonest constructions, permitting the reader to make knowledgeable guesses in regards to the meanings of 1000's of surprising idioms.