Synopsis
Among Mortals is Wang Bingnan’s philosophical meditation blending academic insight and lived experience. Structured around the spiral motif of “Standing-Preserving-Attaining,” it unfolds a tripartite dialectic on finite life and infinite possibilities. Through a cross-disciplinary lens, the author interweaves Buddhist philosophy with Dunhuang murals, existentialism with impermanence, and ancient wisdom with modern governance, reconstructing contemporary existence through timeless spiritual coordinates.
“To all those seeking life’s answers amidst the mortal world’s dust.”—With a cross-disciplinary scholar’s dual vision, Wang Bingnan weaves Among Mortals into a web connecting Buddha and Philosophy, Camus and The Book of Songs, inviting readers to reclaim courage and poetry in “being-toward-death” within modernity’s fractures.
