Introduction: Making Chinese Sense of Phenomenology -- 1. Time Zones: Phenomenological Reflections on Cultural Time -- 2. Krisis: The Power of Sense. Time, History and the Crisis of Western Culture in Husserl's Phenomenology -- 3. The Human Sciences and Historicality: Heidegger and the Self-positioning of the Western Humanistic Tradition -- 4. Authentic Historicality -- 5. The Sociological Gaze and its Time Structure-A Sociologist's Belated Encounter with Merleau-Ponty -- 6. Toward Revisioning Ricoeur's Hermeneutic of Suspicion in Other Spaces and Cultures -- 7. Objectivity and Inter-Cultural Experience -- 8. Phenomenology of the Consocial Situation: Advancing the Problems -- 9. Intersubjectivity and Phenomenology of the Other: Merleau-Ponty's Contribution -- 10. Personal Givenness and Cultural a prioris -- 11. Lifeworld, Cultural Difference and the Idea of Grounding -- 12. Empathy and Compassion as Experiential Praxis. Confronting Phenomenological Analysis and Buddhist Teachings -- 13. Heng and Temporality of Dao: Laozi and Heidegger -- 14. Self-Consciousness (Svasamvittibhaga) and Ego-Consciousness (Manas) in Yogacara Buddhism and in Husserl's Phenomenology -- 15. Natural Realism, Anti-reductionism, and Intentionality. The "Phenomenology" of Hilary Putnam -- 16. Separation and Connection: Phenomenology of Door and Window -- Notes on Contributors -- Index of Names.