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Is there an Eastern Canon

>> No.11459938
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11459938

>>11459934
Yea

>> No.11459944

Tripitaka

>> No.11459950

>>11459938
thats a big cannon

>> No.11459957

>>11459934

Yeah it goes

>Confucius's Analects
>The Tale of Genji
>Dream of the Red Chamber
>Some Haiku shit
>The Kama Sutra
>the collected works of Mishima
>Ai Yazawa's Nana
>Murikami's Norwegian Wood

>> No.11459964

Zhuangzi

>> No.11459965

>>11459950
for thee

>> No.11459978

There's a Chinese canon and an Indian canon, and a Buddhist canon and a Japanese canon and a Korean canon.

Maybe you could combine Japanese, Korean and Chinese into East Asian canon of early Chinese works that were influential all over East Asia.

But you cannot combine East Asia with India, because only a small section of Indian texts (Mahayana Buddhism) was influential in East Asia, and nothing from East Asia was influential in India. They are not the same cultural sphere.

>> No.11459987

>>11459934
Who are the Plato and Aristotle of the East?

>> No.11459993

>>11459987
Shankara and Ramanuja

>> No.11459996

>>11459987
Confucius and Mencius

>> No.11459999

>>11459987
buddha

>> No.11460027

>>11459987
THERE IS NO UNIFIED EAST NUMBNUTS

>> No.11460039

>>11459934
Canon is a Western notion

>> No.11460215

>>11459978
>>11460027
>>11460039
These. Of course I love the Western canon, but the East is a much bigger and disparate place than the West and they don’t have this same chauvinistic thing of unifying all their works into a canon/definite tradition. There’s different canons of literature and philosophy by country.

>> No.11460219

>>11459934
Who cares? The West is the best.

>> No.11460241
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>>11460219
>The West is the best

>> No.11460245

>>11460241
Based Morrisonposter

>> No.11460250

>>11460219
>>11460241
>>11460245
Based Morrisonposters.

>> No.11460301

>>11460039
>only white people have ever collected a list of books considered valuable into a list

>> No.11460388

>>11459987
Plato and Aristotle

>> No.11460408

>>11460039
The Chinese invented the cannon retard

>> No.11460438

>>11460215
>this same chauvinistic thing of unifying all their works into a canon/definite tradition
How is multiculturalism chauvinistic?

>> No.11460555

>>11460301
pretty disingenuous to suggest that's all the canon is - particularly when considering the canon's influence on institutions and religion

>> No.11460584

>>11459957
>Murakami's Norwegian Wood instead of Natsume Souseki's Kokoro
>No Romance of Three Kingdoms
>No Journey to the West
>no Ramayana/Mahabharata/Vedas/Upanishads
>no Tao Te Ching
>no Pali Canon
>no Lotus Sutra
>joseishit

>> No.11460715

>>11460584
>no Tao Lin
Into the trash it goes.

>> No.11460768

>>11460715
Tao Lin writes in English and lives in America. He could be part of the Western canon, but not the Eastern canon.

>> No.11460786

>>11459957
Ok but which translation of Analects? Because the one I tried was unreadable garbage. I think Google translate would've done a better job. Or Analects is just crap, that's possible too I guess