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

The Platform Sutra includes quite a lot of very important Chan/Zen Buddhist teachings. alleged to include the autobiography and sermons of Huineng (638–713), the mythical 6th Patriarch of Chan, the sutra has been renowned between monastics and the knowledgeable elite for hundreds of years. the 1st learn of its variety in English, this quantity bargains essays that introduce the background and concepts of the sutra to a normal 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 out is made to enhance the size of IRF. The publication is a scientific research of IRF in China 1952-1983 and lays a lot of the basis for constructing a coherent research of the timing, measurement and course of IRF in China.

A History of the Chinese Language

A heritage of the chinese offers a complete creation to the ancient improvement of the chinese from its proto Sino-Tibetan roots in prehistoric instances to trendy normal chinese language. Taking a hugely obtainable and balanced process, it offers a chronological survey of many of the phases of chinese improvement, protecting the most important points reminiscent of phonology, syntax and semantics.

500 Common Chinese Idioms: An Annotated Frequency Dictionary

500 universal chinese language Idioms is the appropriate instrument for all intermediate to complicated rookies of chinese language. in response to huge corpora of real language facts, it provides the five hundred most ordinarily used chinese language idioms or chengyu, besides numerous synonyms, antonyms and the commonest constructions, permitting the reader to make trained guesses concerning the meanings of enormous quantities of unexpected idioms.