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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. imagined 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 examine of its variety in English, this quantity deals essays that introduce the heritage and ideas 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 ebook makes a survey of the methodologies utilized in earlier quantitative research of intersectoral source flows (IRF). in response to the dialogue of the defects of a lot latest paintings, an try is made to enhance the size of IRF. The booklet 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, dimension and path of IRF in China.

A History of the Chinese Language

A background of the chinese presents a finished creation to the ancient improvement of the chinese from its proto Sino-Tibetan roots in prehistoric occasions to trendy ordinary chinese language. Taking a hugely available and balanced strategy, it provides a chronological survey of some of the levels of chinese improvement, protecting the most important elements reminiscent of phonology, syntax and semantics.

500 Common Chinese Idioms: An Annotated Frequency Dictionary

500 universal chinese language Idioms is the fitting software for all intermediate to complicated newbies of chinese language. according to huge corpora of genuine language information, it offers the five hundred most ordinarily used chinese language idioms or chengyu, besides various synonyms, antonyms and the most typical constructions, permitting the reader to make expert guesses concerning the meanings of enormous quantities of unusual idioms.