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The Secret Codes of the Mind, Volume III: Eastern Philosophy
Hardcover
Series: The Secret Codes of the Mind, Book 3
PhilosophyGeneral Eastern ReligionsTaoism
ISBN13: 9781971325279
Publisher: Kudin & Sons Academic Press
Published: Jul 21 2026
Pages: 772
Weight: 3.40
Height: 1.63 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Eastern Philosophy is the second revised and expanded edition of Volume III of The Secret Codes of the Mind, Andrew V. Kudin's six-volume academic textbook in philosophy. Built on nearly four decades of university teaching and research, this volume turns to India, China, and Japan through the question: can a human being remain free when suffering, desire, power, and death set the terms of life?
The book treats Eastern thought as a struggle over the formation of life. In these traditions, philosophy enters daily conduct, spiritual discipline, political order, embodied practice, and the arts of attention. Thought is measured by the life it can form.
The Indian part begins with the Vedas and Upanishads, then moves through Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, the classical darśanas, Yoga, Vedanta, Tantra, and Kashmir Shaivism. These traditions ask what binds the human being to suffering, what knowledge can release, how consciousness relates to reality, and whether liberation can be reached within embodied life.
The Chinese part turns to Confucianism, Daoism, Mohism, Legalism, Neo-Confucianism, and Sunzi. It follows the Chinese search for order in family, ritual, government, moral education, and strategy, where philosophy shapes conduct without surrendering to disorder.
The Japanese part examines Shinto, Japanese Buddhism, Zen, Pure Land devotion, Nichiren Buddhism, Bushido, Kokugaku, and the Kyoto School. It follows thought as it takes form in sacred place, posture, silence, martial discipline, aesthetic impermanence, and the beauty of a world that vanishes as it appears.
Written for college courses, general education programs, independent study, and serious readers, the textbook gives students a structured path into Eastern philosophy while resisting simplified cultural images of India, China, and Japan. Each lecture includes discussion questions, analytical assignments, recommended literature, and review work for active study.
This volume is suitable for courses in Eastern philosophy, Asian thought, comparative philosophy, Indian philosophy, Chinese philosophy, Japanese philosophy, religious studies, ethics, and the history of ideas. It gives students and independent readers a structured path into traditions that explored the transformation of the self and the struggle for inner freedom.
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