Xuanxue resonates far beyond China. These dialogues explore unexpected convergences with Western philosophy, Buddhism, and contemporary thought — and ask what these ancient insights mean for the present.
Separate civilizations, arriving at the same vertigo. Each dialogue illuminates a different dimension of how Xuanxue speaks to — and is spoken to by — the wider world.
"Nothingness" in Wang Bi and "Nothing" in Being and Time — a conversation across 1,700 years. Two traditions, separated by everything, arriving at the same abyss.
Geyi Buddhism, the Six Schools and Seven Sects — how Chinese thought absorbed and transformed the Dharma through the lens of Xuanxue.
Hermeticism, Neoplatonism, and the Perennial Philosophy — parallels with the Chinese "Dark Learning" that suggest something universal in the human encounter with the formless.
Wabi-sabi in Japan, the Korean Dao, contemporary minimalism — how the legacy of Xuanxue lives on in modern East Asian aesthetics and global culture.