Wisdom of the East (John Murray)
# Wisdom of the East (John Murray)

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.

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:

## Bände

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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
