/lit/ - Literature

Who did it the best? Nagarjuna, Shankara or Laozi?

It's time for an eastern thought/philosophy/metaphysics/religion thread.

Post about good stuff you are reading or if you have recommendations. Feel free to ask any question about any doctrine or concept in case someone is lurking who knows the answer. I will be posting a list of English translations of various important primary texts that one can read online as pdfs or as text on a webpage.

General thread for eastern philosophy/metaphysics/religion and prominent or interesting western thinkers who engage with eastern thought such as Schopenhauer, Jung, Guenon, Evola, Eliade and so on.

This is a thread to discuss and ask questions about texts and ideas from doctrines and religions such Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Daoism, Confucianism, Zoroastrianism and Jainism as well as areas where western philosophy/esoterism comes close to eastern doctrines like Neoplatonism. Feel free to share interesting and high quality books and texts.

Generally speaking, Christianity, Judaism and western philosophy are not meant to be the focus of this unless they are being brought up when talking about about eastern ideas, if you want to talk about those things by themselves make a thread for it.

Not welcome in this thread: partisan bickering, Kantians, Theosophists, Wahhabists, new athiests, materialists, reductionists, /pol/-tier posts about race/jews, people obsessed with the 'historical method' over the ideas themselves and Sam Harris fans