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Pages: 200
Authors: Robert Edgar Carter
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-01-01 - Publisher: SUNY Press

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Explores how spiritual values are learned and mind and body developed through the practice of the Japanese arts.
Encounter with Enlightenment
Language: en
Pages: 295
Authors: Robert E. Carter
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-02-01 - Publisher: State University of New York Press

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In Encounter with Enlightenment, Robert E. Carter puts forth the East, and specifically Japan, as a source of possible solutions to the world's social, economic
Overcoming Modernity
Language: en
Pages: 258
Authors: Yasuo Yuasa
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-01-01 - Publisher: State University of New York Press

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In Overcoming Modernity, which contains the last writings from Yuasa, the prominent Japanese scholar reconsiders the modern Western paradigm of thinking and in
The Body, Self-Cultivation, and Ki-Energy
Language: en
Pages: 270
Authors: Yasuo Yuasa
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993-09-06 - Publisher: State University of New York Press

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This book is an inquiry into ki-energy, its role within Eastern mind-body theory, and its implications for our contemporary Western understanding of the body. Y
Armed Martial Arts of Japan
Language: en
Pages: 260
Authors: G Hurst I
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-07-11 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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This unique history of Japanese armed martial arts--the only comprehensive treatment of the subject in English--focuses on traditions of swordsmanship and arche