New Horizons in Eastern Humanism: Buddhism, Confucianism and the Quest for Global Peace

by Daisaku Ikeda and Tu Weiming

Book Overview

China now attracts global attention in direct proportion to its increasing economic and geopolitical power. But for millennia, the philosophy which has shaped the soul of China is not modern Communism, or even new forms of capitalism, but rather Confucianism. And one of the most striking phenomena relating to China's ascendancy on the world stage is a burgeoning interest, throughout Asia and beyond, in the humanistic culture and values that underlie...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848855923
• ISBN13: 9781848855922
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"