/lit/ - Literature

>>16386210
They are in the east.

>>16386210
Proper philosophy doesn't exist in the Far East. Try some Indian stuff or leave.

What do you constitute as "contributing"?

>>16386224
because chinks are a robot species incapable of individual thought

>>16386210
Chinese literature exists. And some of it is very, very good.

>>16386231
Confucianism fucked up everything.

>Where are the Eastern thinkers, artists and philosophers
Eastern religion hasn't degenerated to create a divide between religious and secular. thinkers, artists and philosophers are all within the religious system,

>contributed nothing of note to the human race
because humanism is irrelevant outside of the western upper middle class

>>16386219
This
>>16386210
Westerners can't
>>16386299
>humanism is irrelevant outside of the western upper middle class
Based

>>16386210

Definitely check out Shankara's commentary on the Upanishads

>>16386318
Lol

*blocks your path*

>he hasn't learned the entire opera of Basho, Buson and Issa by heart
lmao, never gonna make it

>>16386247
I was blown away by A Dream of Red Mansions. It was a modernist masterpiece before that literary movement had even been started

>>16387028
Maybe if I get struck by lightning and can suddenly speak fluent Japanese but until then...

Budisum has contributed nothing and that it's the point of budisum.

>>16386586
Step aside, plebeian

>>16386210
Why westerners keep craving to contribute to society?

>>16386327
so is that bot gone?

>>16387058
You are nothing to me

>>16387111
You are nothing compared to the eternal Tao

>>16387153
The tao you speak of is not the tao.

>>16386586
>>16387058
>>16387111
>>16387153
>>16387158
Lmao

>>16386255
confucianism is pretty based actually bro

>>16387195
>confucianism is pretty based actually bro

>>16387158
>>16387153
The Tao? Who said you could talk about that

>>16386327
I would be careful about reading Advaita Vedanta interpretations such as Shankara's as a commentary to the Upanishads, they are extremely reliant on Buddhist philosophy (Shankara is called a "cryptobuddhist" by most Hindus, and most scholars agree). If you want to read the Upanishads, work through them with editions and commentaries that aren't sectarian, or at least read an interpretation that is closer to the original meaning of the Upanishads, rather than Shankara's 9th century AD quasi-buddhism.

Off the top of my head:
Confucius
Mencius
Mozi
Laozi
Nagarjuna
Vasubandhu.
Huineng
Rinzai
Kukai
Saicho
Honen
Shinran
Dogen

they contributed enlightenment, mediation, yoga, chakra alignment, they taught jesus the hell r u talking about they were in the new age 2000 years ago

I'd rather contribute to my own life.

>>16386210
One of the most beautiful paintings I've ever sen. Fan Kuan - Travellers Among Mountains and Streams

>wtf why arent there any chinese thinkers in lists of thinkers that exclude chinese thinkers!?
you didnt think this through, did you?

>>16386318
hory fucking based

>>16389136
Yeah that one is gorgeous, anon. Here's one that I like a lot

>>16387195

>Just be average bro. Don't get in my way.

It's like Marcus Aurelius but even more blatantly opressive.

>>16386210
>if their philosophy are so deep how come they didn't invent the microwave, the milkshake and the Minions™ movie

>>16386210
Do your own research, faggot.

>>16391928
The CCP probably did have a hand in the Minions movie

>>16386210
>why have they contributed nothing of note to the human race?
Do I need to make a list?

>want to be immortal celestial
>"those who want to be celestials will never be celestials"

>>16386318
that's not even a tibetan name

>>16391928
Or electricity, evolution, newtonian physics, the steam engine, vaccines and modern hygiene, etc.

>>16386318
fake but real to me

>>16387591

Yes,but what were their developments?