Disc 1. Life's great questions: Asian perspectives ; The Vedas and Upanishads: the beginning --
Disc 2. Mahavira and Jainism: extreme nonviolence ; The Buddha: the middle way --
Disc 3. The Bhagavad Gita: the way of action ; Confucius: in praise of sage-kings --
Disc 4. Laozi and Daoism: the way of nature ; The Hundred Schools of pre-imperial China --
Disc 5. Mencius and Xunzi: Confucius's successors ; Sunzi and Han Feizi: strategy and legalism --
Disc 6. Zarathustra and Mani: dualistic religion ; Kautilya and Ashoka: Buddhism and empire --
Disc 7. Ishvarakrishna and Patanjali: Yoga ; Nagarjuna and Vasubandhu: Buddhist theories --
Disc 8. Sima Qian and Ban Zhao: history and women ; Dong Zhongshu and Ge Hong: eclecticism --
Disc 9. Xuanzang and Chinese Buddhism ; Prince Shotoku, Lady Murasaki, Sei Shonagon --
Disc 10. Saicho to Nichiren: Japanese Buddhism ; Shankara, Ramanuja, Madhva: Hindu Vedanta --
Disc 11. Al-Biruni: Islam in India ; Nanak and Sirhindi: Sikhism and Sufism --
Disc 12. Han Yu to Zhu Xi: Neo-Confucianism ; Wang Yangming: The study of heart-mind --
Disc 13. Dogen and Hakuin: Zen Buddhism ; Zeami and Sen no Rikyu: Japanese aesthetics --
Disc 14. Wonhyo to King Sejong: Korean philosophy ; Padmasambhava to Tsongkhapa: Tibetan ideas --
Disc 15. Science and technology in premodern Asia ; Muhammad Iqbal and Rabindranath Tagore --
Disc 16. Mohandas Gandhi: Satyagraha, or soul-force ; Fukuzawa Yukichi and Han Yongun --
Disc 17. Kang Youwei and Hu Shi ; Sun Yat-sen and Mao Zedong --
Disc 18. Modern legacies ; East and West.