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1	1921-1962	Huxley, Aldous. Works. 1921 Huxley, Aldous. Crome yellow. (London : Chatto & Windus, 1921). Chap. 2 There was the long gallery, with its rows of respectable and (though, of course, one couldn't publicly admit it) rather boring Italian primitives, its Chinese sculptures, its unobtrusive, dateless furniture… Chap. 3 She had large blue china eyes, whose expression was one of ingenuous and often puzzled earnestness… Chap. 5 Mary's china blue eyes, more serious and more astonished than ever, were fixed on Mr. Scogan… Chap. 9 The Chinese boycott of Japan, and the rivalries of that country and America in the Pacific, might be breeding a great new war in the East… Chap. 10 "I think you are so sensible to sit and read quietly," said Mary, fixing him with her china eyes… Chap. 17 Murmurs of applause and gratitude were heard, and Mary, her large china eyes fixed on the performer… Chap. 20 Mary's large blue china eyes were fixed upon him, seriously, penetratingly… 1922 Huxley, Aldous. Mortal coils : five stories. (London : Chatto & Windus, 1922). Permutations among the nightingales DOLPHIN. Precisely. But ... oh, those china-blue eyes, that ingenuousness, that pathetic and enchanting silliness! She touches lost chords in one's heart… The Tillotson banquet Spode tiptoed round the room, peering with astonishment at all the objects in glass, in gilded bronze, in china, in leathers, in embroidered and painted silk, in beads, in wax, objects of the most fantastic shapes and colours, all the queer products of a decadent tradition, with which the room was crowded… "Get someone to put all these things back in their places," Lord Badgery commanded, indicating with a wave of the hand the ravaged cases, the confusion of glass and china with which he had littered the floor, the pictures unhooked… Nuns at luncheon "I know. I shall suddenly bring a swarm of moving candles and Chinese lanterns under the mulberry trees. You imagine the rich lights and shadows, the jewel-bright leafage, the faces and moving limbs of men and women, seen for an instant and gone again… 1932 Huxley, Aldous. Brave new world. (London : Chatto & Windus, 1932). Chap. 2 Thousands of petals, ripe-blown and silkily smooth, like the cheeks of innumerable little cherubs, but of cherubs, in that bright light, not exclusively pink and Aryan, but also luminously Chinese, also Mexican, also apoplectic with too much blowing of celestial trumpets, also pale as death, pale with the posthumous whiteness of marble… 1962 Huxley, Aldous. Island : a novel. (London : Chatto & Windus, 1962). Sekundärliteratur Velma Lush : His fascination with eastern religion was one of the reasons he departed on a world tour in 1925. The island of Pala is probably one of the islands of the Indonesian Archipelago. In Island, Huxley's portrayal of the Palanese beliefs demonstrate principles of Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism and Confucianism. The beliefs, values and struggles of a lifetime are combined to form this culmination of his life's work. The Palanese are described as Mahayanists Buddhists "shot through and through with Tantra." The first principle "Nobody needs to go anywhere else. We are all, if we only knew it, already there" shows an element of Taoist philosophy. The fictional version of Tantra can be interpreted as Taoism; since being a Tantrik means you don't denounce the world and try to escape into Nirvana - you accept the world and everything about it. The Mahayanists Buddha philosophy of the Palanese aims at the passage beyond suffering into the Clear Light of the Void of all living beings (Nirvana); while living according to the Tao, appreciating and working with whatever happens during a person's life on earth. The Taoist appreciates the value of scientific knowledge about the universe and believes it increases his understanding of the "Tao." However, the "Taoist" would not use science to change a person, nor as a means to change the intelligence of society, as the Palanese did - that would be interfering with the laws of nature. In the end, the Taoist "non-interference" philosophy is one of the reasons for the doom of their society.	Person: Huxley, Aldous

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#	Year	Bibliographical Data	Type / Abbreviation	Linked Data
1	2014	Lush, Velma. The influences of Eastern philosophies in Aldous Huxley's Island. Velmhttp://www.huxley.net/island/.	Web / Hux4