Eastern philosophy

Eastern philosophy

Terms that relate to the philosophy of South and East Asia.

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Eastern philosophy

Confucius

Philosophy; Eastern philosophy

Founder of the most dominant system of Chinese thought, emphasised the perfectibility of people as well as their ability to affect things for the better.

Lao Tzu

Philosophy; Eastern philosophy

Founder of Taoism, held that the Tao is ineffable and beyond our ability to alter. He emphasised the importance of effortless nonstriving.

Murasaki Shikibu

Philosophy; Eastern philosophy

An influential Japanese Mahayana Buddhist philosopher of the late tenth and early eleventh centuries, held that women were responsible moral agents who were capable of enlightenment and could ...

Al-Kindi

Philosophy; Eastern philosophy

A ninth-century Islamic thinker, used Greek ideas to define God as an absolute and transcendent being.

Kabir

Philosophy; Eastern philosophy

A late-fifteenth- and early-sixteenth-century Indian poet, was considered one of the great mystical poets in the tradition of Sufism.

A further development of Platonic philosophy under the influence of Aristotelian and Pythagorean philosophy and Christian mysticism; it flourished between the third and sixth centuries, stressing a ...

Zen Buddhism

Philosophy; Eastern philosophy

A form of Buddhism that reached its zenith in China and later developed in Japan, Korea, and the West; its name (Chinese Ch'an, Japanese Zen) derives from the Sanskrit dhyana (meditation). In early ...