Древневосточная literature

In this volume of the Collected Works of S.S. Averintsev included the collection “The Pearl of Great Price,” significantly expanded in comparison with its pr...

Wonderful romantic stories fascinate the reader with age-old wisdom, elegant poetry of storytelling, and bizarre interweavings of fantasy and reality. Love a...

The great yogi and poet Milarepa (1040–1123) is one of the founding fathers of the Tibetan Kagyu Buddhist tradition, a luminary of early Buddhism in Tibet. T...

For the first time, the fundamental texts of the Nyaya - the classical philosophical school of Ancient India - "Nyaya-sutra" (III-IV centuries) and the norma...

A unique book is offered to the attention of readers - an early collection of Azerbaijani fairy tales. The fairy tales presented are magical, everyday, instr...

Ihara Saikaku keenly noticed new features of human characters that were being formed in his time. Dexterity, ingenuity, and enterprise helped to climb the so...

Saikaku masterfully shows the fate of women - strength of character and activity in the struggle for personal happiness are characteristic not only of the in...

The book “Collection of Japanese Medieval Tales”, published for the first time in Russian, reveals one of the many branches of Japanese mythology - ghost sto...

Ekklesiast, also ecclesiaste, ecclesiast, Ecclesiaste (Hebrew קהלת-“Kohalet”; dr. Greek εκκλησιαστής)-33rd part of the tanach, 7th book Ktuvim, the name of ...

Western civilization was not always wise, but it strictly adhered to its basic principles: life is a battlefield where you must be first or immediately prepa...

The name of the ancient Chinese thinker Lao Tzu, who lived in China in the 6th–5th centuries. BC e., can be translated as “Old Child.” (Although this hierogl...