J.J. Clarke 
Oriental Enlightenment [PDF ebook] 
The Encounter Between Asian and Western Thought

What is the place of Eastern thought – Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism, Confucianism – in the Western intellectual tradition? Oriental Enlightenment shows how, despite current talk of ’globalization’, there is still a reluctance to accept that the West could have borrowed anything of significance from the East, and explores a critique of the ’orientalist’ view that we must regard any study of the East through the lens of Western colonialism and domination.Oriental Enlightenment provides a lucid introduction to the fascination Eastern thought has exerted on Western minds since the Renaissance.