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Yuasa Yasuo is Professor of Comparative Thought and Director of the Japanology program at Tsukuba University in Japan. T. P. Kasulis is Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Northland College in Ashland, Wisconsin, and Secretary of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy. S. Nagatomo , Ph.D. in Philosophy, has written several articles on comparative philosophy.

• Editor's IntroductionAuthor's Preface and Acknowledgments (from Japanese edition)Author's Introduction to the English EditionPART I: VIEWS OF THE BODY IN MODERN JAPANESE THOUGHTEditor's Summary1: WATSUJI Tetsuro's View of the BodySpace and body in intersubjectivity Differences between East and West in understanding spatial-temporal experienceUnity of body-mind2: NISHIDA Kitaro's View of the BodyThe body's amiguity in acting intuitionTime-consciousness and space-consciousness in relation to the bodyThe basho (place) vis-a-vis being and vis-a-vis nothingDual layered consciousnessPractical apodicticity in experience qua bashoThe dual structure in acting intuitionProblematics in Nishida's method3: Method and Attitude in Studying Eastern ThoughtThe need for methodological reflectionDepth psychology and Eastern metaphysicsPART II: CULTIVATION AND THE BODYEditor's Summary4: What is Cultivation (shugyo)?Kairitsu (precepts and canonical law) in Indian BuddhismKairitsu in Chin and JapanKairitsu and cultivation in Japanese BuddhismThe meaning of cultivation5: Theories of Artistry (geido)Cultivation and training in the waka theory of poetryThe waka-dharaniPerformance and mind in ZeamiNo-mind and body-mind oneness6: DogenZen's practical characterCultivation's reversal of the ordinary understanding of beingThe body-mind relation in seated meditationMolting the ordinary dimension7: KukaiChinese Buddhism and the Indian character of tantric BuddhismCultivation and the ten stages of mindThe body and sexualitySublimation of eros in the mandalaComparison with mediation in Kundalini YogaThe body-mind relation as sokushinjobutsuOvercoming the body'd ambiguity through cultivationPART III: THE CONTMEPORARY SIGNIFICANCE OF EASTERN MIND-BODY THEORIESEditor's Summary8: Contemporary Philosophical Mind-Body TheoriesBergson's Motor Scheme: Beneath the permeation of perception and memoryBrain function and the body's motor-schemeMerleau-Ponty's Somatic Scheme: The sensory-motor circuit and The somatic schemeInternal perceptionGeneral assessment of Merleau-Ponty's theory of the bodyEmotions: The base of the sensory-motor circuitTwo direction in emotion9: Dual Structure of the Mind-Body RelationshipSurface and base structures: Dual psychophysiological structures of body and mindPsychophysciological research and Eastern thoughtPhilosophical significance of body-mind researchReversing our ordinary understanding of the mind-body relation: Reevaluation of Bergson10: Eastern MeditationPsychotherapy and cultivation: Disease and cure in psychosomatic medicinePsychotherapy and meditative cultivationThe body-mind relation in Indian meditationMetaphysics and the mind-body theory: Body-mind and Eastern metaphysics (metapsychics)The body in Indian and Chinese medicineIntuition and HumannessParanormal knowledgeAuthor's Conclusion to the English EditionNotesIndex

"This is probably the first time I ranked a book outstanding for any publisher. I shall be the first professor to order it for my undergraduate course Buddhism, Psychoanalysis, and Existential Analysis. The whole work will inspire the reader's creative imagination and critical thinking regarding the philosophical, scientific, and medical problems of mind-body." — Charles Wei-hsun Fu, Temple University