Wisdom of the East („Weisheit des Ostens“) ist eine englische Buchreihe mit oder zu philosophischen und religiösen Texten des Orients, die bei John Murray in London erschienen ist.

Kurzeinführung Viele der Bücher wurden in den ersten beiden Jahrzehnten des 20. Jahrhunderts unter der Herausgeberschaft von L. Cranmer-Byng und S. A. Kapadia veröffentlicht.sacred-texts.com: Wisdom of the East

Die thematisch breit aufgestellte Reihe, an der zahlreiche Fachgelehrte mitgearbeitet haben, umspannt Bahai-Texte, Texte aus dem Buddhismus, der chinesischen Philosophie, altägyptische Legenden, Judentum, hinduistische Vedanta-Philosophie, Islam, Sufi-Poesie, klassische japanische Dichter, Sikhismus, Daoismus, Zoroastrismus, um nur einige Themenbereiche aus dem weiten Feld der Orientalistik des ehemaligen Britischen Weltreiches zu nennen. Viele der Bände liegen inzwischen digitalisiert vor.

Die Reihe umfasst 122 Bände. Die folgende Übersicht erhebt keinen Anspruch auf Aktualität oder Vollständigkeit:publishinghistory.com: Wisdom of the East (John Murray)

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Abu'l Ala, the Syrian. Henry Baerlein; Abu al-Ala al-Maarri. 1914 Ancient Egyptian legends. Margaret Alice Murray. 1913 Ancient Indian fables and stories, being a selection from the Panchatantra. Stanley Rice. 1924 Anthology of modern Indian poetry. Gwendoline Goodwin. 1927 Arabian wisdom; selections and translations from the Arabic. John Wortabet. 1907 An Arab philosophy of history; selections from the Prolegomena of Ibn Khaldun of Tunis. Ibn Khaldun. 1950 The autumn wind : a selection from the poems of Issa. Issa Kobayashi; Lewis Mackenzie. 1957 Avicenna on theology. Avicenna. Arthur John Arberry. 1951 The awakening of the soul. Muhammad ibn Abd al-Malik Ibn Tufayl; Paul Bronnle. 1907 The book of filial duty. Confucius; Zengzi; Ivan Chen. 1908 The book of Lieh-tzu. Liezi; A. Ch. Graham. 1960 The book of Mencius (abridged). Mencius.; Lionel Giles. 1942 (abridged) Brahma-knowledge; an outline of the philosophy of the Vedanta, as set forth by the Upanishads and by Sankara. Lionel D Barnett. 1907 The Buddha's „Way of virtue“. Kenneth J. Saunders; W. D. C. Wagiswara. 1920 Burmese proverbs. Hla Pe, U. 1962 Chinese Buddhist verse. Richard H. Robinson. 1954 The classics of Confucius. Book of history (Shu King). Confucius; Sepharial. 1906 The cloud-men of Yamato : being an outline of mysticism in Japanese literature. E. V. Gatenby. 1929 The Confessions of Al Ghazzali : Translated for the first time into English by Claud Field. Abu-Hamid Muhammad Ibn-Muhammad al-Gazzali. 1909 A Confucian notebook. Edward Herbert. 1950 The creative east. J. W. T. Mason. 1928 The Dhammapada. Narada, Maha Thera. 1954 The diwan of Abul-ala. Abu al-Ala al-Maarri; Henry Baerlein. 1908 The duties of the heart. Bahya ben Joseph ibn Pakuda; Yehudah ibn Tibon; Edwin Collins. 1909 Eastern science; an outline of its scope and contribution. Henry James Jacques Winter. 1952 Egyptian religious poetry. Margaret Alice Murray. 1949 An essay on landscape painting. Hsi Kuo; Shiho Sakanishi. 1935 A feast of lanterns. L. Cranmer-Byng. 1916 A flight of swans. Rabindranath Tagore. 1962 The flight of the dragon; an essay on the theory and practice of art in China and Japan, based on original sources. Laurence Binyon. 1911 A further selection from the Three hundred poems of the Tang dynasty. Hengtangtuishi; Soame Jenyns. 1944 The glad tidings of Baha'u'llah. Bahaullah. 1949 The golden breath : studies in five poets of the new India. Mulk Raj Anand. 1933 The harvest of leisure; Kenko Yoshida. 1931 The heart of India : sketches in the history of Hindu religion and morals. Lionel D. Barnett; Mahmoud Saba. 1908; reprinted 1913 The herald wind. Clara M. Candlin. 1933 Hindu Gods and heroes. Lionel David Barnett. 1922 The hymns of Zarathustra; being a translation of the Gathas together with introd. and commentary. Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin. 1952 The instruction of Ptah-hotep : and, the instruction of Ke'gemni: the oldest books in the world. Ptahhotep; Kagemni; Battiscombe G Gunn; Amenemhet, King of Egypt. 1912 Jataka tales; birth stories of the Buddha. Ethel Beswick. 1956 Japanese literature; an introduction for Western readers. Donald Keene. 1953 Karma and rebirth. Christmas Humphreys. 1943 Literatures of the East, an appreciation. Eric B. Ceadel. 1951 A lute of jade: selections from the classical poets of China. L. Cranmer-Byng. 1911 Malay proverbs. Richard Winstedt. 1950 Manifold unity; the ancient world's perception of the divine pattern of harmony and compassion. Vera Christina Chute Collum. 1940 The master-singers of Japan, being verse translations from the Japanese poets. Clara A Walsh. 1910 The message of Islam. Abdullah Yusuf Ali. 1940 The mevlidi sherif. Suleyman Celebi; F. Lyman MacCallum. 1943 The message of Milarepa, new light upon the Tibetan way. Mi-la-ras-pa; Humphrey Clarke. 1958 Musings of a Chinese mystic; selections from the philosophy of Chuang Tzu. Zhuangzi; Herbert Allen Giles; Lionel Giles. 1909 (?) The mysteries of selflessness; a philosophical poem. Muhammad Iqbal, Sir. 1953 Nogaku, Japanese no plays, Beatrice Lane Suzuki, Mrs. 1932 One in all; an anthology of religion from the Sacred Scriptures of the living faiths. Edith B. Schnapper. 1952 The path of light : rendered for the first time into English from the Bodhicharyavatara of Santideva, a manual of Mahayana Buddhism. Santideva; Lionel D. Barnett. 1909 The perfection of wisdom : the career of the predestined Buddhas. E. J. Thomas. 1952 The Persian mystics. Jalal-Din Rumi, Mawlana; F Hadland Davi. 1907 The Persian mystics. The invocations of Sheikh _Abdulla_h Ansa_ri of Herat, A.D. 1005–1090, Abd Allah ibn Muhammad Ansari al-Harawi; Jogendra Singh, Sir Sardar. 1939 Persian proverbs. L. P. Elwell-Sutton. 1954 Poems from Iqbal. Muhammad Iqbal, Sir. 1955 Poems of cloister and jungle, a Buddhist anthology. Caroline A. F. Rhys Davids. 1941 The poetry of living Japan: an anthology with an introduction by Takamichi Ninomiya and D.J. Enright. Takamichi Ninomiya; D. J. Enright. 1957 The quest of enlightenment. E. J. Thomas. 1950 The rapier of Lu, patriot poet of China. You Lu; Clara M. Candlin. 1946 The religion of Tibet; a study of Lamaism. J. E. Ellam. 1927 The religion of the Koran. Arthur N. Wollaston. 1905 The religion of the Sikhs. Dorothy Field. 1914 The Rose-garden of Sadi. Sadi.; L Cranmer-Byng. 1905 The Rubaiyat of Hafiz. Hafiz; Abd Majid; L Cranmer-Byng. 1910 Sadi's Scroll of wisdom. Sadi.; Arthur N Wollaston. 1906 The sayings of Confucius. Confucius.; Lionel Giles. 1907 The sayings of Lao Tzu. Laozi; Lionel Giles. 1905 The sayings of Muhammad. Abdullah al-Mamun Suhrawardy, Sir; Hassan Suhrawardy. 1941 The secret rose garden of Sad ud din Mahmud Shabistari. Mahmud ibn Abd al-Karim Shabistari; Florence Lederer. 1920 Selections from the Three hundred poems of the Tang dynasty. Tang-shih san-pai shou.; Soame Jenyns. 1952 The sketch book of the Lady Sei Shonagon. Sei Shonagon; Nobuko Kobayashi; L Adams Beck. 1930 The song of the Lord: Bhagavadgita. E. J. Thomas. 1931 The spirit of Japanese art. Yone Noguchi. 1916 The spirit of Japanese poetry. Yone Noguchi; John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress). 1934 The spirit of the brush. Shiho Sakanishi. 1939 The spiritual physick of Rhazes. Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya Razi. 1950 Taoist teachings from the book of Lieh Tzu. Liezi; Lionel Giles. 1912 The teachings of Zoroaster and the philosophy of the Parsi religion. Zoroaster; S. A. Kapadia. 1905 Thirty poems. Hafiz; Peter Avery; John Heath-Stubbs. 1952 Ti-Me-Kun-Dan prince of Buddhist benevolence : a mystery play. Millicent H Morrison; Sylvia Beach. 1925 Vedic hymns. E. J. Thomas. 1923 Voices of the dawn; a selection of Korean poetry from the sixth century to the present day. Peter Hyun. 1960 The Wisdom of Israel: being extracts from the Babylonian Talmud and Midrash Rabboth. Edwin Collins. 1906 (?) The wisdom of the Apocrypha. C. E. Lawrence. 1910 The wisdom of Israel: being extracts from the Babylonian Talmud and Midrash Rabboth. 1910 Women and wisdom of Japan: With an introd. by Shingoro Takaishi. Ekiken Kaibara; Basil Hall Chamberlain; Shingoro Takaishi. 1905 Yang Chu's Garden of pleasure. Zhu Yang; Alfred Forke; Hugh Cranmer-Byng. 1912

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