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[Anonymous No.14153020]

what's your favorite eastern philosophy and why? not a hippie, just interested in reading about it

[Anonymous No.14153022]

>>14153020
Anime

[Anonymous No.14153033]

>>14153022
so Tao? why?

[Anonymous No.14153117]

>>14153020
Zen, because it recognizes the fact that true understanding is outside words.

[Anonymous No.14153125]

Buddhism.

[Anonymous No.14153170]

>>14153125
why? any recommended reading?

[Anonymous No.14153180]

>>14153020
My favorite philosophy is my own, followed by my family's, followed by my nation's. I don't hate anyone else, but I don't care as much about them either.

[Anonymous No.14153190]

>>14153180
i asked about eastern philsophy. Are you from east asia?

[Anonymous No.14153244]

>>14153020
My favorite is Advaita Vedanta because it has cool aesthetics, because it logically btfos a lot of other philosophy and because I find that reading the highest-quality Advaita writings can immediately induce mind-blowing transcendental experiences while I'm just sitting there looking at the page without having to do anything like meditation or yoga first.

[Anonymous No.14153246]

>>14153190
Vietnamese.

[Anonymous No.14153344]

>>14153022
Shinto

[Anonymous No.14153388]

read the Tirukkural

[Anonymous No.14153408]

Eastern philosophy is just pre-roman western philosophy.

[Anonymous No.14153546]

the zhuangzi is excellent literature

[Anonymous No.14153614]

If God didn't first give me faith through Christianity I'd probably be a Buddhist if I could choose

[Anonymous No.14153628]

>>14153180
>>14153246
who are your favorite Vietnamese authors or philosophers?

[Anonymous No.14153635]

>>141536134
take the monothestic mahayana pill
Myth of er is a western description of samsara

[Anonymous No.14153652]

>>14153635
what kind of mahayana are you talking about that is monotheistic?
The closest I can think of is Pure Land, but Amitabha and the philosophy around him is extremely different from any sort of monotheistic religion.

[Anonymous No.14153662]

>>14153244
this

[Anonymous No.14153684]

>>14153170
In The Buddha’s Words or What The Buddha Taught
Heart Sutra
A Buddhist Doctrine of Experience (translations of Vasubandhu)
Nagarjuna’s Mulamadhyamakakarika
Practical Insight Meditation
all good choices, but the rabbit hole is very deep for Buddhism

[Anonymous No.14153694]

>>14153170
Dhammapada

[Anonymous No.14153727]

>>14153614
Consider looking into the works of Ramanuja.
Don't give up on christanity though it's never a good idea to give up on a faith that's working.

[Anonymous No.14153732]

>>14153020
Zen straight to the point-

[Anonymous No.14153769]

>>14153170

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- T.W. Rhys Davids : Buddhist India ( ! )

- An Introduction to Buddhism, Second Edition: Teachings, History and Practices (Introduction to Religion) ( ! )

- In the Buddha's Words : An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon

- Pāli Canon in English Translation ( Pali Text Society ) ( Vinaya Pitaka + Sutta Pitaka ) ( ! )

- The Buddhist Cosmos: A Comprehensive Survey of the Early Buddhist Worldview ( ! )

- Great Disciples of the Buddha : Their Lives, Their Works, Their Legacy (Teachings of the Buddha) ( ! )

- Milinda's Questions, Vol. 1 ( Translated by I. B. Horner ) ( Pali Text Society ) ( ! )
- Milinda's Questions, Vol. 2 ( Translated by I. B. Horner ) ( Pali Text Society ) ( ! )

- With Each & Every Breath - A Guide to Meditation ( ! )
- Right Concentration : A Practical Guide to the Jhanas ( ! )
- Manual of Insight ( ! )

- A History of Buddhist Philosophy : Continuties and Discontinuties ( ! )

- Abhidhammattha-sangaha ( Pali Text Society ) ( ! )
- Pāli Canon in English Translation ( Pali Text Society ) ( Abhidhamma Pitaka ) ( ! )

- Buddhaghosa : Visuddhimagga ( Pali Text Society ) ( ! )

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- Nagarjuna's Middle Way : The Mulamadhyamakakarika (Classics of Indian Buddhism) ( ! )
- Nagarjuna's Seventy Stanzas : A Buddhist Psychology of Emptiness ( ! )
- The Dispeller of Disputes : Nagarjuna's Vigrahavyavartani ( ! )
- Crushing the Categories (Vaidalyaprakarana) (Treasury of the Buddhist Sciences) ( ! )
- Nagarjuna's "Reason Sixty" (Yuktisastika) with Candrakirti's Commentary (Yuktisastikavrrti) (Treasury of the Buddhist Sciences) ( ! )
- Nagarjuna's Precious Garland : Buddhist Advice for Living and Liberation ( ! )
- Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend : With Commentary by Kangyur Rinpoche ( ! )

- Aryadeva's Four Hundred Stanzas on the Middle Way (Textual Studies and Translations in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism) ( ! )

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- The Scripture on the Explication of Underlying Meaning (BDK English Tripitaka Series) ( ! )
- A Compendium of the Mahayana : Asanga's Mahayanasamgraha and Its Indian and Tibetan Commentaries (Tsadra) ( ! )
- Vasubandhu ( ??? )

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[Anonymous No.14153774]

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- The Awakening of Faith : Attributed to Asvaghosha (Translations from the Asian Classics) ( ! )

- The Lotus Sutra (BDK English Tripitaka Series) ( ! )
- The Heart Sutra ( Red Pine ) ( ! )
- The Diamond Sutra ( Red Pine ) ( ! )
- The Sutra of Queen Srimala of the Lion's Roar AND The Vimalakirti Sutra (BDK English Tripitaka Series) ( ! )

- Avatamsaka Sutra ( ! )

- The Bodhicaryavatara (Oxford World's Classics) ( ! )

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- Lankavatara Sutra ( ! )

- The Zen Teachings of Bodhidharma ( ! )

- Platform Sutra, The: The ZEN Teaching of Hui-Neng ( ! )

- The Clouds Should Know Me By Now: Buddhist Poet Monks of China ( Red Pine ) ( ! )

- The Record of Linji: A New Translation Of The Linjilu In The Light Of Ten Japanese Zen Commentaries ( ! )

- The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse ( ! )

- Zen Texts (BDK English Tripitaka Series) ( ! )

- The Gateless Gate ( ! )
- Blue Cliff Record ( ! )

- Master Dogen : Shōbōgenzō : The True Dharma-Eye Treasury, Volume I (BDK English Tripitaka Series) ( ! )
- Master Dogen : Shōbōgenzō : The True Dharma-Eye Treasury, Volume II (BDK English Tripitaka Series) ( ! )
- Master Dogen : Shōbōgenzō : The True Dharma-Eye Treasury, Volume III (BDK English Tripitaka Series) ( ! )
- Master Dogen : Shōbōgenzō : The True Dharma-Eye Treasury, Volume IV (BDK English Tripitaka Series) ( ! )

- Complete Poison Blossoms from a Thicket of Thorn: The Zen Records of Hakuin Ekaku ( ! )

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- The Pratyutpanna Samadhi Sutra AND The Surangama Samadhi Sutra (BDK English Tripitaka Series) ( ! )
- The Three Pure Land Sutras (BDK English Tripitaka Series) ( ! )

- Shandao ( ??? )

- Genshin : Ōjōyōshū ( ??? )

- Honen : Senchakushū ( ??? )

- Shinran : Tannishō ( ! )
- Shinran : Kyogyoshinsho ( ! )

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- Esoteric Texts (BDK English Tripitaka Series) ( ! )
- Kukai : Major Works (Translations from the Asian Classics) ( ! )
- The Weaving of Mantra : Kûkai and the Construction of Esoteric Buddhist Discourse : Kukai and the Construction of Esoteric Buddhist Discourse ( ! )
- The Vairocanābhisaṃbodhi Sutra (BDK English Tripitaka Series) ( ! )
- Two Esoteric Sutras (BDK English Tripitaka Series) ( ! )
- Shingon Texts (BDK English Tripitaka Series) ( ! )

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[Anonymous No.14153794]

Hinduism :

- John Keay : India : A History ( ! )

- An Introduction to Hinduism 1ed (Introduction to Religion) ( ! )

- The Myths and Gods of India: The Classic Work on Hindu Polytheism from the Princeton Bollingen Series: The Classic Work of Hindu Polytheism ( ! )

- The Rigveda : 3-Volume Set (South Asia Research) ( ! )
- Upanisads (Oxford World's Classics) ( ! )

- Manu's Code of Law: A Critical Edition and Translation of the Manava-Dharmasastra (South Asia Research) ( ! )

- Pancatantra : The Book of India's Folk Wisdom (Oxford World's Classics) ( ! )

- The Bhagavad Gita (Norton Critical Editions) ( ! )

- The Heart of Awareness : A Translation of the "Ashtavakra Gita" (Shambhala Dragon Editions) ( ! )

- The Ramayana ( Bibek Debroy ) ( ! )

- The Mahabharata ( Bibek Debroy ) ( ! )

- King, Governance, and Law in Ancient India : Kautilya's Arthasastra ( ! )
- Chanakya Neeti ( Manoj Publications ) ( ! )

- Roots of Yoga (Penguin Classics) ( ! )

- Vasistha's Yoga ( Swami Venkatesananda ) ( WARNING : Abridged, but no other version is available ATM ) ( ! )

- The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali : The Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies Guide (Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies Guides) ( ! )

- The Complete Kama Sutra : The First Unabridged Modern Translation of the Classic Indian Text ( ! )

- Kalidasa : The Loom of Time: A Selection of His Plays and Poems (Penguin Classics) ( ! )
- Erotic Love Poems from India: 101 Classics on Desire and Passion ( Amaruśataka ) ( ! )
- Some Unquenchable Desire: Sanskrit Poems of the Buddhist Hermit Bhartrihari ( ! )
- Love Lyrics: Amaru, Bhartrihari, and Bilhana (Clay Sanskrit Library) ( ! )

I personally like to weave some non-religious texts in as well, as they're often inspired by the religious texts, or give you a good feel for them, or they let you see the religious concepts you've been reading about put into use.

[Anonymous No.14153798]

Advaita Vedanta

- Hiriyanna : The Essentials of Indian Philosophy ( ! )
- Essential Vedanta : A New Source Book of Advaita Vedanta (Treasures of the World's Religions) ( ! )

- Shankara's Crest-Jewel of Discrimination: Timeless Teachings on Nonduality ( ! )

- Eight Upanishads, with the Commentary of Sankaracarya, Vol. I ( ! )
- Eight Upanishads, with the Commentary of Sankara, Vol. II ( ! )

- Chandogya Upanishad - With the Commentary of Shankaracharya ( ! )
- Adi Shankara's Brihadaranyaka Upanishad commentary ( ! )

- Brahma Sutra Bhasya Of Shankaracharya ( ! )

- Gambhirananda : Bhagavad-Gita ( w/ the commentary of Adi Shankara ) ( ! )

- Upadesa Sahasri: A Thousand Teachings ( ! )
- Self-Knowledge: Atmabodha ( ! )


Kashmir Shaivism :

- The Aphorisms of Siva: The Siva Sutra with Bhaskara's Commentary, the Varttika (Suny Series in Tantric Studies) ( ! )

- Spanda-Karikas: The Divine Creative Pulsation ( Jaideva Singh ) ( ! )

- Vijnana-bhairava or Divine Consciousness: A Treasury of 112 Types of Yoga ( ! )

- An Introduction to Tantric Philosophy (Routledge Studies in Tantric Traditions) ( ! )

- Abhinavagupta's Commentary on the "Bhagavad-Gita" ( ! )

[Anonymous No.14153806]

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>>14153774
>>14153794
>>14153798
thanks, saving these to a pastebin and my backlog

[Anonymous No.14153811]

- Jacques Gernet : A History of Chinese Civilisation ( ! )
- John Keay : China : A History ( ! )

- The Cambridge History of Ancient China ( ! )
- The Cambridge History of China ( ! )

- Confucianism : An Introduction (I.B.Tauris Introductions to Religion) ( ! )

- Ta Hsueh and Chung Yung: The Highest Order of Cultivation AND On the Practice of the Mean (Penguin Classics)

- Analects : With Selections from Traditional Commentaries (Hackett Classics Series)
- The Analects ( D.C. Lau ) ( Penguin Classics ) ( ! )
- The Analects ( Arthur Waley ) (Everyman's Library Classics) ( ! )

- Mengzi: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries (Hackett Classics) ( ! )
- Mencius ( D.C. Lau ) ( Penguin Classics ) ( ! )
- The Book of Songs ( Arthur Waley ) ( ! )

- The Book of Documents ( Shang Shu )

- The Book of Rites (Li Ji) : English-Chinese Version ( ! )

- I Ging : Das Buch der Wandlungen
- The Classic of Changes : A New Translation of the I Ching as Interpreted by Wang Bi (Translations from the Asian Classic) ( ! )

- Zuo Tradition / Zuozhuan : Commentary on the "Spring and Autumn Annals" (Classics of Chinese Thought) : Commentary on the "Spring and Autumn Annals" : Three Volumes ( ! )
- The Annals of Lü Buwei ( ! )

- Xunzi : The Complete Text ( Eric L. Hutton ) ( ! )
- Daoism : An Introduction (I.B. Tauris Introductions to Religion) ( ! )

- Tao Te Ching (D.C. Lau edition)
- Lao-Tzu's Taoteching ( Red Pine ) ( ! )
- Dao De Jing : The Book of the Way ( Moss Roberts ) ( ! )

- The Complete Works of Zhuangzi (Translations from the Asian Classics) ( ! )
- Zhuangzi (Brook Ziporyn edition)

- The Book of Lieh-Tzu : A Classic of the Tao (Translations from the Oriental Classics) ( ! )
- The Mozi : A Complete Translation (Translations from the Asian Classics) ( ! )

- The Book of Lord Shang : Apologetics of State Power in Early China (Translations From the Asian Classics) ( ! )
- Han Feizi : Basic Writings (TRANSLATIONS FROM THE ASIAN CLASSICS) ( ! )