Wang Yangming’s Living World: The Path to Sagehood

This book summarizes the academic biography of most influential Neo–Confucian philosopher Wang Yangming’s life in Ming dynasty of China. It gives a detailed description of Wang Yangming’s life and career, as well as to makes attention points of research on various historical archives. The combination of history and theory integrates the development of his life world and the evolution of ideological world. This book will serve as a comprehensive reference for reserchers to have a detailed understanding of Wang Yangming’s life and ancient and medieval philosophy of mind.

Dong Ping, a Distinguished Qiushi Professor, Doctoral Supervisor at the School of Philosophy, Zhejiang University, and a recipient of the Special Government Allowance of the State Council, now serves as President of Zhejiang Jishan Wang Yangming Research Institute, Vice President of the International Confucian Federation, Vice President of the Chinese Society for the History of Philosophy, Vice President of the Zhonghua Confucius Society, and Research Fellow of Zhejiang Provincial Museum of Literature and History.

His main research areas include pre-Qin Confucianism and Taoism, Neo-Confucianism of the Song and Ming dynasties, the Eastern Zhejiang School, and Chinese Buddhist philosophy. His representative monographs include A Critical Biography of Chen Liang, A Study of the Tiantai School, A History of Thought and Scholarship in Zhejiang: From Wang Chong to Wang Guowei, WangYangming’s Living World – The Path to Sagehood, An Interpretation of the Laozi, An Extensive Discussion on Pre-Qin Confucianism, Song-Ming Confucianism and Eastern Zhejiang Scholarship, and Taoism, Buddhism, and Indian Philosophy. He has also compiled and collated ancient texts such as The Complete Works of Wang Yangming (co-edited), Collected Works of Zou Shouyi, and The Complete Works of Yang Jian.

He delivered lectures titled “Guan Zhong, the Famous Minister” and “Wang Yangming, the Legendary Philosopher” on CCTV’s Lecture Room (Baijia Jiangtan).