Zen culture and literature

Author: Ji Xianlin
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Publish Date: 1998-08-18
Features: "Zen Culture and Literature" mainly includes the following content: The way of thinking in the West is analytical; the way of thinking in the East, represented by China, is comprehensive. Eastern culture advocates that humans and nature are friends, emphasizing "harmony between heaven and man." Western culture advocates "conquering nature," considering itself the "pride of heaven" and the "ruler of the earth." Over five thousand years and across ten thousand miles, the changes in Eastern and Western cultures are like the saying, "Thirty years the river flows east, thirty years it flows west." Western civilization has flourished for several hundred years and is now at its waning stage. What will inevitably take its place is Eastern civilization. The author predicts that this turning point will begin in the 21st century.