# Thomas Cleary

American translator of Buddhist, Taoist, Confucian, and Islamic classics who brought Eastern philosophical traditions to English-speaking audiences.

**Lived:** 1949–2021
**Nationality:** American
**Training:** Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University; JD from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley

## Key works

- *The Blue Cliff Record* (1977)
- *The Art of War*
- *The Flower Ornament Scripture: A Translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra* (1993)
- *The Taoist Classics* (2003)
- *The Book of Five Rings: A Classic Text on the Japanese Way of the Sword* (2005)
- *Classics of Buddhism and Zen* (2001)