A short-stories collection offers selected chapters of author’s research which began in 1982 with the publication of the work by Čedomil Veljačić, “Ethos of Cognition in European and Indian Philosophy”, and continued by analysing philosophical issues of cognitive heritage of India, China and Japan. In a way a reader is presented with a summary of a 25-year research, in selected fragments of the most prominent sections of Asian thinking, analysis of methodological issues of dialogues of borderline philosophies, as well as the outline of most recent attempts of the two cultures meeting, e.g. western and eastern. The book was published with the support of Croatian Ministry of Culture.