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The Other Half of the World

India and China asked the same questions and answered them differently

Buddha · Nāgārjuna · Confucius · Laozi · Zhuangzi · 4 chapters · 14 min read

India and China asked the same questions and answered them differently.

Free to read: every chapter below is open

India

  1. 01The Four Noble TruthsOn a diagnosis, and why it is framed as medicine rather than as doctrine.
  2. 02Emptiness and the Middle WayOn what is left when you take the analysis all the way down.

China

  1. 03Ritual and the Cultivated PersonOn why a bow, performed often enough, might make you a different person.
  2. 04Wu Wei and the Uncarved BlockOn the argument that most intervention makes things worse.