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Buddhist and Confucian Traditions

  • Comparative and General
  • Resources for East Asian Language and Thought (Japan)
    http://www.human.toyogakuen-u.ac.jp/~acmuller/index.html
    [These are resources for the most part supplied (and a few linked) by Dr. A. Charles Muller of Toyo Gakuen University in Japan. There are several kinds of useful materials here, but chief among them for their relevance to philosophical Taoism are Dr. Muller's own translations of five Chinese classics: the Analects of Confucius, the Great Learning, the Doctrine of the Mean, the Mencius, and the Tao Te Ching.]

    Buddhist
  • 10 Bulls
    http://www.cs.sfu.ca/people/ResearchStaff/jamie/personal/10_Bulls/Title_Page.html
    [Kakuan's ten "ox herding pictures" as translated by Nyogen Senzaki and Paul Reps, illustrated by Tomikichiro Tokuriki, and put up on the web by Jamie Andrews with permission from the copyright holder — the Charles E. Tuttle publishing company — which has a book version in print.]
  • Buddhist Studies WWW Virtual Library (Australia)
    http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-Buddhism.html
    [An authoritative internet guide to Buddhism and Buddhist Studies sites that is maintained at the Australian National University by Dr. T. Matthew Ciolek and others. A major resource.]
  • Digital Buddhist Library and Museum (National Taiwan U.)
    http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/ (Taiwan)
    http://sino-sv3.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/ (Germany)
    http://pears2.lib.ohio-state.edu/ (USA)
    [A major resource in English and in Chinese (Big-5).]
  • Chinese Buddhist Canon
    http://villa.lakes.com/cdpatton/Dharma/Canon/index.html
    [A web site currently under development by Charles Patton. The site's main page is titled The Gateless Passage.]
  • Electronic Bodhidharma (Japan)
    http://www.iijnet.or.jp/iriz/
    [Site maintained by the International Research Institute for en Buddhism in Kyoto. Claims the largest collection of Buddhist electronic texts on the Internet.]
  • Links Pitaka (Switzerland)
    http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/ethg/ducor/intro.htm
    [A useful site, and member of the Dharma Ring, maintained by Jérôme Ducor, conservateur for the Département Asie of the Musée d'ethnographie de la Ville de Genève.]

    Confucian
  • Confucius and Socrates
    http://www.san.beck.org/C&S-Contents.html
    [An essay on comparative philosophy by Sanderson Beck.]
  • Imaginary Dialogue between Confucius and John Dewey
    http://wang.ed.csuohio.edu/learning_center/confucius.dewey.dialogue.html
    [Two great philosophers of education exchange ideas.]
  • Looking for Confucius
    http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Bridge/8744/
    [An attractive and informative introduction to Confucius and available texts in English that is maintained by Thomas Carlson.]

    The Classics
  • Confucius and the Classics: A Brief Graphic Introduction
    http://www.friesian.com/confuci.htm
    [A resource provided by philosopher Kelley L. Ross of Los Angeles Valley College as part of his Friesian School project.]
  • The Analects in English Translation
    http://classics.mit.edu/Confucius/analects.html
    [A convenient HTML version. See also the version of The Analects available from the Exploring Ancient World Cultures site at the University of Evansville, USA.]
  • Confucius Publishing Company Ltd.
    http://www.confucius.org/main01.htm
    [Analects (Lun Yu) and extracts of other texts in several languages are provided by Mr. William Cheung in Hong Kong.]
  • Zhongwen.com: Chinese Characters and Culture
    http://www.zhongwen.com/
    [An excellent site for those who know how to read Chinese characters (rendered in Big 5 format), and worth a look even by those who do not. See especially Rick Harbaugh's work on Confucian Classics.]

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