Ithamar Theodor is a scholar of Hinduism. A graduate of the Theology Faculty, University of Oxford, and a Life Member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, he is lecturer at the University of Haifa and visiting scholar at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.Zhihua Yao is associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests cover Buddhist philosophy, Indian philosophy, and philosophy of religion.

• AcknowledgmentsList of ContributorsIntroductionPart One: Metaphysics and SoteriologyChapter 1: One, Water, and Cosmogony: Reflections on the Rgveda X.129 and the Taiyi sheng shuiChapter Two: Exploring Parallels between the Philosophy of Upanisads and DaoismChapter Three: The Way of silent Realization: Ineffability and Rationality in the Philosophical Mysticisms of Sa?kara and Zhan RuoshuiChapter Four: Impermanence and Immortality: The concept of pañca-skandha in Buddhism and in Twofold Mystery DaoismSection Two: EthicsChapter Five: Li and Dharma: Gandhi, Confucius and Virtue Aesthetics Chapter Six: Ethics and Metaphysics in the Bhagavadgita and Classical Chinese Thought Chapter Seven: Communal Moral Personhood and Moral Responsibility in the Analects and the Bhagavadgita Chapter Eight: Ethics of Compassion: Buddhist Karu?a and Confucian Ren Chapter Nine: Why “Besire” Is Not Bizarre: Moral Knowledge in Confucianism and HinduismSection Three: Body, Health and SpiritualityChapter Te

This volume will contribute to broadening the horizons of comparative philosophy and religion, and for that reason I highly recommend it to scholars of Indian and Chinese traditions and anyone who is interested in what can be learned from cross-cultural explorations.