Eastern Philosophy

[Anonymous No.6788968]

What are some good, or at least important, books of Eastern philosophy?

[Anonymous No.6789096]

>>6788968
The important books are the original works themselves. If you have to have a "Bobby's guide to X Religion" read What the Buddha Taught.

Other than that it's the Upanishads, Tipitaka, Bhagavad Gita, ...

[Anonymous No.6789105]

>>6788968
Tao Te Ching if you're looking for absolutely nonsensical bullshit.

[Anonymous No.6789533]

>>6789096
this is pretty true. You get much more from reading the original works than you do peoples interpretations of the work. now, what the buddha taught is a great book to get you started. i still read it to this day. and if you are interested in a particular religion, check out some commentaries on other religious texts by hardcore practitioners themselves, like Prabhupada with the gita, or some of the old japanese zen monks like kodo sawaki.

try your best to avoid books written by newcomers and westerners. there are quite a lot of books on eastern philosophy that are solely based on the authors wacky eastern 420 experiences, which provide no depth or value outside of that.

Basically, the original texts are where its at. stick with them or as close to them as you can.

[Anonymous No.6790678]

>>6788968

i'm gunna copy/paste my own personal list here for you


>East Asian / Buddhism

The Analects of Confucius 論語 (lún yǔ)
Mencius 孟子
Tao Te Ching 道德经
The Book of Chuang Tzu - Martin Palmer (translator)
Ta Hsueh and Chung Yung: The Highest Order of Cultivation and On the Practice of the Mean - Andrew Plaks (translator)
Classic of Mountains and Seas - Anne Birrell (translator)
Buddhist Scriptures - Donald S. Lopez (editor)
Monkey: A Journey to the West - Wu Ch'eng-en, Arthur Waley (translator)
The Tibetan Book of the Dead: The Great Liberation by Hearing in the Intermediate States - 14th Cent Karma-Glin-Pa
The Book of Master Mo - Mo Zi, Ian Johnston (translator)
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches - Matsuo Basho (author), Nobuyuki Yuasa (translator)
The Doctrine of the Mean - Zisi, Confucius, James Legge (translator)


>Hinduism

Spiritual Verses - Rumi
The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic - R. K. Narayan
Hindu Myths: A Sourcebook Translated from the Sanskrit - anonymous
The Upanishads - Juan Mascaro (editor)
The Laws of Manu - Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty (translator)
The Rig Veda: An Anthology - Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty (translator)
Bhagavad Gita - Juan Mascaro (translator)

[Anonymous No.6790688]

For a good western interpretation of Zen Buddhism, try The Three Pillars of Zen by Philip Kapleau.

[Anonymous No.6790696]

>>6790678

oh, and here's a picture of some of my own books i took for another "asian philo" thread

[Anonymous No.6790889]

>>6790696

The Sage Learning of Liu Zhi: Islamic Thought in Confucian Terms.

>mfw

[Anonymous No.6790898]

There is no such thing as "Eastern Philosophy".

Philosophy is a uniquely Western thing.

There is Eastern wisdom, however.

[Anonymous No.6790918]

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[Anonymous No.6790920]

>>6790918
easy there little brother.

[Anonymous No.6790943]

has eastern philosophy ever come up with anything significant?

[Anonymous No.6790960]

>>6790943
Buddhism and the Indian caste system stand out
Art of War would also make it into the classics

[Anonymous No.6790962]

>>6790960
>a book of military strategy
why is eastern philosophy so cuck?

[Anonymous No.6790979]

>>6790962


Whoa, hold on there. While the western world didn't even have lube to jerk its own dick off, India invented one hundred and eighty one sacred ways to enter a woman's asshole. It's a question of priorities. Do you want to be a pasty lactose tolerant overachiever, or someone who's not a virgin.

It's just that simple.

[Anonymous No.6790985]

>>6790979
>>6790918

[Anonymous No.6790988]

>>6790979
>Not Virgin
>Milk with cereal right now
>I will prioritize your mother if you leave her around me

[Anonymous No.6790994]

>>6790979
what are you writing even faggot?

eastern philosophy is a giant fucking circlejerk

[Anonymous No.6791167]

>>6790979
Did they really?

[Anonymous No.6791284]

>>6790678
>Spiritual Verses - Rumi
>Hinduism
:^)

[Anonymous No.6791289]

>>6790979
>lube to jerk
lol Murrica.

[Anonymous No.6791400]

C H R I S T I A N B O A R D

[Anonymous No.6791433]

Eastern religions have a plethora of original sources so there is no reason to look for secondary shit unless it's commentaries from the qualified people, sadly only a small fraction is translated.

Also this>>6790898

[Anonymous No.6791459]

>>6791400

EVERYONE ACTUALLY HATES THE CHRIST-SPAMMERS

[Anonymous No.6791463]

>>6790943

Buddhas teachings contain a lot of insightful and interesting views on the mind, the link between though and behavior, and various related things related to self-control and consciously changing ones way of processing emotions or thinking.

In many ways it is very psychological and is a lot like an ancient precursor of psychology.

[Anonymous No.6791486]

Radhakrishnan is cool guy and his indian philosophy

https://archive.org/details/Sarvepalli.Radhakrishnan.Indian.Philosophy.Volume.1-2

[Anonymous No.6791496]

Daodejing
Ghuangzi
Analects
Mengzi
Xunzi
Han Feizi
And commentary on those books.

Ignore the Indians tbh

[Anonymous No.6791512]

for buddhist philosophy in particular, Nagarjuna's Middle Way (Mulamadhyamakakarika) is absolutely essential. there is a good and recent translation by Siderits and Katsura.

[Anonymous No.6791803]

>>6791496
>Plebeian haven't read The Tipitaka.

[Anonymous No.6792137]

>>6790988

How do you sleep at night.

[Anonymous No.6792146]

>>6791167
Get tantric, gora.

[Thomas No.6792152]

No. This is a Muslim board

[Anonymous No.6792186]

>>6792152
Al-salami

[Anonymous No.6792208]

>>6792152
Insha-Allah

[Anonymous No.6792232]

>>6790943
Well, Stirner, Schopie and Laozi are pretty much the same thing.

[Anonymous No.6792248]

>>6792232
And Camus & Sartre

[Anonymous No.6792455]

>>6788968
why not skip out the middleman and progress straight to nihilism?