Древневосточная literature

Since ancient times, it has been customary in Japan to gather in the evenings and listen to fairy tales with the whole family. Following this custom, the fam...

Tsele Natsog Rangdrel (born 1608) is a Tibetan thinker, yogi and poet, Buddhist master of the Nyingma and Kagyu traditions. He has written many works devoted...

The great Chinese poet Li Bo (8th century) is usually perceived as a poet of civic, heroic-romantic, sublime tonality. However, his “soft, gentle” poetry, as...

From time immemorial, having tried out the methods of achieving success, people shared them with each other, creating entire systems that make it possible to...

The essay is called “Purusha-pariksha”, i.e. "Testing People" Vidyapati is an Indian poet and prose writer of the 15th century, who occupies an honorable pla...

Khayyam's poetry is very ambiguous and contains multi-level layers of meaning. His poems not only challenge any rigid system of views - they initiate us into...

A monument to the genre of “war stories” (“gunki-monogatari”), “The Tale of the Troubles of the Heiji Years” (“Heiji-monogatari”, 13th century) describes one...

Reacher goes where he wants, when he wants. That morning he was heading west, walking under the merciless desert sun—until he comes upon a curious scene. ...

Sheikh Farid ad-Dii Attar Nishapuri was a spiritual mentor and brilliant poet who lived in the 12th century. This publication is a translation of Attar’s fam...

Zhuang Tzu (c. 396–286 BC) is the great Chinese philosopher of the Warring States period, along with Lao Tzu, one of the founders of Taoism. This book is nam...

The novel "Addition to the Journey to the West", entitled in the Russian translation "New Adventures of the Monkey King", is one of the most original works o...

“Hagakure, or Hidden in the Leaves” is a famous treatise on the code of honor of the samurai (bushido), consistent with the canons of Zen Buddhism, Shintoism...