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Asia Wisdom Collection

The best collection of ancient eastern masters including Sun Tzu, Confucius, Lao Tze, Buddha and other works about Zen, the Samurai spirit and more. For the price of 1, get 9 works of fundamental wisdom that guided the Chinese Emperors, the Samurai or the itinerant monks. More valuable works will be included as future updates, FREE for previous owners!

GET IT NOW on SPECIAL SALE, for 25% of the original price!

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Asia Wisdom is a TouchBooksReader Collection aimed to create a growing library of Oriental wisdom. So far included in this collection:
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* 'The Art of War' by Sun Tzu - the most famous strategy and military work in the history of mankind.

* 'The Tao Teh King' - or the Tao and Its Characteristics by Lao-Tse. Written around the 6th century BC by the sage Laozi (or Lao Tzu, "Old Master") - fundamental to the Taoist school of Chinese philosophy

* 'Confucian Analects' - a collection of sayings written down by Confucius' students in the period approximately seventy years after his death (ca. 479 BCE - 221 BCE), the representative work of Confucianism which continues to have a tremendous influence on Chinese and East Asian thought and values today.

* The legendary "Book of Five Rings", the masterpiece on strategy and sword fighting written in the 17th century by samurai warrior Miyamoto Musashi, added at general public request

* 'Gateless Gate' - a fundamental Zen work by the Chinese Zen master Wumen Hui-k'ai (Japanese: Mumon Ekai), published in 1228 and including 48 fundamental Chan(Zen) koans.

* 'The Book of Tea' - Kakuzo Okakura (1906) - The aesthetics of the Japanese Tea Ceremony, and its connection to the Japanese world-view as a whole. An exotic and instructive work discussing Asian philosophies in the context of the famous Tea Ceremony.

* "Zen for Americans" - Soyen Shaku - a book of essays by a zen buddhist who visited the United States at the beginning of 20th century, instructing the western reader to the basic concepts, principles and theories of Zen Buddhism.

* Bushido - the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

* "Manual of Zen Buddhism" by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki

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Powered by TouchBooksReader, one of the most ergonomic and user friendly iPhone ebook readers:

*. Full HTML content including different fonts, colors, embedded images and more.

*. Intuitive design, extremely ergonomic and user friendly, making the most of your screen. Skip to the NEXT or PREVIOUS chapter by clicking on the tasteful, discrete and unobtrusive top page corners images.

*. Manual bookmarks and autobookmark of your last visited location for uninterrupted reading. Use the fast-forward arrow to get back to your last opened page.

*. 3 ways of Scrolling suiting your personal style: touch-slide way, Page Down / Page Up buttons or the Autoplay feature that lets the reader do the scrolling in a teleprompter way!

What's new

Fixed some aesthetic issues, small improvements to UI.

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Last changed:

Aug 28, 2009

Category:

Books

Developer:

Alexandru Brie

Version:

1.5.1

Average Rating:

4.00 (35)

Size:

1.4 MB

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