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Product Description: Secrets of the Japanese Art of Warfare is Thomas Cleary's translation of the seminal writings attributed to Yamamoto Kansuke (1501-1561) on Japanese martial arts and military service. A mysterious man of humble origins, Yamamoto distinguished himself in the service of the redoubtable Takeda Shingen (1521-1573), heir to a long lineage of warriors and renowned for having fought thirty-nine battles without a single defeat...read more
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9784805312209 | Periplus Editions, November 10, 2012, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Secrets of the Japanese Art of Warfare is Thomas Cleary's translation of the seminal writings attributed to Yamamoto Kansuke (1501-1561) on Japanese martial arts and military service.

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Product Description: Recopilado más de dos mil años atrás por un misterioso guerrero filósofo, El arte de la guerra sigue siendo, quizás, hoy en día, el libro de estrategia más prestigioso e influyente del mundo, estudiado en Asia por políticos modernos y ejecutivos con el mismo entusiasmo con el que fuera consultado en tiempos antiguos por jefes militares...read more
By Thomas Cleary (trans)
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9781611800227 | Shambhala Pubns, September 11, 2012, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Recopilado más de dos mil años atrás por un misterioso guerrero filósofo, El arte de la guerra sigue siendo, quizás, hoy en día, el libro de estrategia más prestigioso e influyente del mundo, estudiado en Asia por políticos modernos y ejecutivos con el mismo entusiasmo con el que fuera consultado en tiempos antiguos por jefes militares.

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Product Description: From the time of its earliest sages in prehistoric China, Taoism has looked to the underlying Way of all things (the Tao) as a guide to thoughts and actions. For the Taoists, the patterns of nature revealed the answers to their deepest spiritual questions and provided the inspiration for their unique teachings...read more
By Thomas Cleary (trans)
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9781590309506 | Shambhala Pubns, June 12, 2012, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: From the time of its earliest sages in prehistoric China, Taoism has looked to the underlying Way of all things (the Tao) as a guide to thoughts and actions.

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Product Description: Founded by Bodhidharma centuries ago in China, Zen and its teachings have since spread widely, exerting a tremendous cultural influence not only across Asia, but also the modern West. To this day, Zen inspires young and old, from all walks of life, to see the world with fresh eyes—beyond our usual assumptions and prejudices...read more
By Thomas Cleary (compiler)
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9781590309469 | Original edition (Shambhala Pubns, February 14, 2012), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Founded by Bodhidharma centuries ago in China, Zen and its teachings have since spread widely, exerting a tremendous cultural influence not only across Asia, but also the modern West.

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Product Description: One of the best known translators of the wisdom of Asia, Thomas Cleary now adds a new book to his samurai canon with Samurai Wisdom, new translations of five classic works on bushido. His previous works, Code of the Samurai and Soul of the Samurai, focused on the practical aspects and the more spiritual, Zen side of the samurai, respectively...read more
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9780804840088 | Periplus Editions, April 10, 2009, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: One of the best known translators of the wisdom of Asia, Thomas Cleary now adds a new book to his samurai canon with Samurai Wisdom, new translations of five classic works on bushido.

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Product Description: Some types of meditation are aimed at promoting a sense of confidence and well-being in everyday life, while other types focus on producing altered states of consciousness, transcending the world, or developing skills for serving other people...read more
By Thomas Cleary (trans)
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9781590306857 | Shambhala Pubns, February 10, 2009, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Some types of meditation are aimed at promoting a sense of confidence and well-being in everyday life, while other types focus on producing altered states of consciousness, transcending the world, or developing skills for serving other people.

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Product Description: Including translations of Yagyu Munenori's Book of the Sword and Takuan Soho's Inscrutable Subtlety of Immovable Wisdom and The Peerless Sword, the teachings in this spiritual guide represent the recording and codification of these 17th-century beliefs...read more
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9788472456341 | Italian edition edition (Karios Editorial Sa, October 28, 2007), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Including translations of Yagyu Munenori's Book of the Sword and Takuan Soho's Inscrutable Subtlety of Immovable Wisdom and The Peerless Sword, the teachings in this spiritual guide represent the recording and codification of these 17th-century beliefs.

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Product Description: This guide to enlightened conduct for people in positions of authority is based on the teachings of several great Zen masters of China. Drawing on private records, letters, and long-lost documents of the Song dynasty (tenth to thirteenth century), the book consists of short excerpts written in a language that is accessible to readers without any background in Eastern philosophy...read more
By Thomas Cleary (trans)
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9780877738930 | Shambhala Pubns, September 1, 1993, cover price $7.00 | About this edition: This guide to enlightened conduct for people in positions of authority is based on the teachings of several great Zen masters of China.
9780877734468 | 1 edition (Shambhala Pubns, June 1, 1989), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Gathers the political, social, and psychological teachings of Chinese Zen masters from the tenth to the thirteenth centuries

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9780877735595 | Shambhala Pubns, July 1, 1990, cover price $11.00 | About this edition: Zen Lessons Translated by Thomas Cleary The great Ch’an (Zen) masters of China – Mingjiao, Dajiao, Yuantong Na, Fushan Yuan, and others – brought to light by the eminent Buddhist translator and scholar Thomas Cleary.

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Product Description: Dominated by warriors for hundreds of years, over time Japan adapted the ancient philosophies of the East to the realities of warfare and military training, producing the demanding discipline of Bushido, the Way of the Warrior. As a ruling class wielding both civil and military power, the samurai sought to reconcile these roles by advocating an ethic of austerity, vigilance, self-control, service, and sacrifice...read more
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9781425741143 | Xlibris Corp, December 31, 2006, cover price $31.99 | About this edition: Dominated by warriors for hundreds of years, over time Japan adapted the ancient philosophies of the East to the realities of warfare and military training, producing the demanding discipline of Bushido, the Way of the Warrior.

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9781425741136 | Xlibris Corp, December 31, 2006, cover price $21.99 | About this edition: Dominated by warriors for hundreds of years, over time Japan adapted the ancient philosophies of the East to the realities of warfare and military training, producing the demanding discipline of Bushido, the Way of the Warrior.

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A classic on martial arts strategy and confrontation originally written in 1643 is enhanced by fifty-four full-color illustrations from Japanese sources, including battle scenes, reproductions of fine samurai swords and armor, and art from the Zen tradition.
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9780834805651 | Weatherhill, October 10, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A classic on martial arts strategy and confrontation originally written in 1643 is enhanced by fifty-four full-color illustrations from Japanese sources, including battle scenes, reproductions of fine samurai swords and armor, and art from the Zen tradition.

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Product Description: Indice dinamico.Si conoces a los demás y te conoces a ti mismo, ni en cien batallas correrás peligro; si no conoces a los demás, pero te conoces a ti mismo, perderás una batalla y ganarás otra; si no conoces a los demás ni te conoces a ti mismo, correrás peligro en cada batalla...read more
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9788441417557 | Circulo De Lectores, March 7, 2006, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Indice dinamico.

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Presents an illustrated version of the ancient Chinese classic of philosophy and diviniation.
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9788441417038 | Ill tra edition (Edaf Antillas, November 30, 2005), cover price $41.99 | About this edition: Presents an illustrated version of the ancient Chinese classic of philosophy and diviniation.

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Product Description: Thomas Cleary's translation of Code of the Samurai introduced the social, political, and organizational principles of samurai culture, including loyalty to family, a sense of service and duty, and the rules for dealing with allies and enemies...read more
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9780804836906 | Tuttle Pub, October 15, 2005, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Thomas Cleary's translation of Code of the Samurai introduced the social, political, and organizational principles of samurai culture, including loyalty to family, a sense of service and duty, and the rules for dealing with allies and enemies.

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Product Description: Composed by two prominent statesmen-generals of classical China, this book develops the strategies of Sun Tzu's classic, The Art of War , into a complete handbook of organization and leadership. The great leaders of ancient China who were trained in Sun Tzu's principles understood how war is waged successfully, both materially and mentally, and how victory and defeat follow clear social, psychological, and environmental laws...read more
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9781590302644 | Shambhala Pubns, August 9, 2005, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Composed by two prominent statesmen-generals of classical China, this book develops the strategies of Sun Tzu's classic, The Art of War , into a complete handbook of organization and leadership.

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This translation of Shoyo Roku with commentaries is a companion to The Blue Cliff Record. Reprint.
By Thomas Cleary (trans)
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9781590302491 | Reprint edition (Shambhala Pubns, March 8, 2005), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: This translation of Shoyo Roku with commentaries is a companion to The Blue Cliff Record.

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Presents a collection of poetry by women poets from China's Tang dynasty.
By Bannie Chow (editor) and Thomas Cleary (trans)
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9781586540258 | Story Line Pr, January 1, 2004, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Presents a collection of poetry by women poets from China's Tang dynasty.

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Product Description: The Book of Balance and Harmony is a renowned anthology of writing by a thirteenth-century master of the Complete Reality School of Taoism, a movement begun around the turn of the first millennium CE whose aim was a return to the purity of Taoism's original principles and practices...read more
By Thomas Cleary (trans) and Daochun Li
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9781590300770 | Shambhala Pubns, November 1, 2003, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The Book of Balance and Harmony is a renowned anthology of writing by a thirteenth-century master of the Complete Reality School of Taoism, a movement begun around the turn of the first millennium CE whose aim was a return to the purity of Taoism's original principles and practices.

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Product Description: This collection of translated texts includes:    •  Tao Te Ching: Cleary's original translations of the great classic of Taoism, accompanied by his commentary illuminating the text and its context.    •  Chuang-tzu: The "Inner Teachings" of a widely influential compendium of wisdom stories, fables, and anecdotes...read more
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9781570629051 | Shambhala Pubns, February 1, 2003, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: This collection of translated texts includes:    •  Tao Te Ching: Cleary's original translations of the great classic of Taoism, accompanied by his commentary illuminating the text and its context.

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Product Description: This collection of translated texts includes:    •  Understanding Reality: A Taoist Alchemical Classic: A tenth-century text on the principles of inner alchemy.    •  The Inner Teachings of Taoism: The essentials of self-transformation according to the Complete Reality School of Taoism, with commentary by Liu I-ming...read more
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9781570629068 | Shambhala Pubns, February 1, 2003, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: This collection of translated texts includes:    •  Understanding Reality: A Taoist Alchemical Classic: A tenth-century text on the principles of inner alchemy.

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Product Description: This collection of translated texts includes:    •  Vitality, Energy, Spirit: A Taoist Sourcebook: An extraordinarily rich and diverse collection of Taoist writings from the fifth century BCE to modern times.    •  The Secret of the Golden Flower: The Classic Chinese Book of Life: Essentially a practical guide to the integration of personality—hailed by C...read more
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9781570629075 | Shambhala Pubns, February 1, 2003, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This collection of translated texts includes:    •  Vitality, Energy, Spirit: A Taoist Sourcebook: An extraordinarily rich and diverse collection of Taoist writings from the fifth century BCE to modern times.

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Product Description: This collection of Taoist texts includes:    •  The Taoist I Ching: The classic "Book of Change" illuminated by the commentary of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Taoist adept Liu I-ming. The first part of the book is the text of I Ching proper with Liu's commentary...read more
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9781570629082 | Shambhala Pubns, February 1, 2003, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This collection of Taoist texts includes:    •  The Taoist I Ching: The classic "Book of Change" illuminated by the commentary of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Taoist adept Liu I-ming.

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Product Description: Understanding the development and practice of power—based on an in-depth observation of human psychology—has been a part of traditional Chinese thought for thousands of years and is considered a prerequisite for mastering the arts of strategy and leadership...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781570626609 | Shambhala Pubns, May 1, 2002, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Understanding the development and practice of power—based on an in-depth observation of human psychology—has been a part of traditional Chinese thought for thousands of years and is considered a prerequisite for mastering the arts of strategy and leadership.
9781570620270 | Reissue edition (Shambhala Pubns, September 1, 1994), cover price $10.00 | About this edition: A translation of two ancient Chinese texts argues that successful leadership lies in designing strategies based on a study of the objectives, intentions, and abilities of competitors and allies alike.

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Product Description: Goddess worship is among the original forms of human religious expression. Thomas Cleary and Sartaz Aziz show how the Divine Feminine has never really disappeared from religion—in spite of its suppression by patriarchal culture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781570624995 | Random House Inc, October 1, 2000, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A survey of the feminine imagery and symbolism contained in Hinduism, Taoism, Buddhism, and the Sufi tradition reveals that feminine iconography never actually disappeared from religious thought, but rather was re-interpreted.

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9781570628245 | Shambhala Pubns, February 1, 2002, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Goddess worship is among the original forms of human religious expression.

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Product Description: Antología de textos clásicos. Versión de Thomas Cleary. Esta extraordinaria coleccíón de enseñanzas y de comentarios ilumina los muchos misterios profundos de la alquimia interior, que es una de las dimensiones más importantes de la tradicíon taoísta.
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9788441402256 | Edaf Antillas, March 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Antología de textos clásicos.

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9788441402843 | Edaf Antillas, March 1, 2001, cover price $11.99

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