Eastern Canon

[Anonymous No.9195331]

What works would you include in an "Eastern Canon"?

[Anonymous No.9195477]

Asking westerners about eastern culture seems pretty dumb to me.

[Anonymous No.9195487]

If you want an outline of Buddhists texts and their history, read The Flower of Chinese Buddhism by Daisaku Ikeda. It's on Libgen.

[Anonymous No.9195491]

>>9195331
None of us have any idea because learning those languages well enough to investigate "eastern cannon" and then actually doing so, could probably take lifetimes.

[Anonymous No.9195501]

>>9195491
It's not as if they don't know their own shit, anon. Read literary criticism from those countries.

[Anonymous No.9195515]

Eastern philosophy and literature is bad

[Anonymous No.9195535]

Here's a starting point: http://interleaves.org/~rteeter/grtorien.html

[Anonymous No.9195557]

>>9195331
Journey to the west

[Anonymous No.9195576]

>>9195501
Oh, my mistake. I assumed that one should read a book before pretending to know it's place in the ideological development of a continent.

[Anonymous No.9195596]

>>9195331
Majjhima Nikāya is the Complete Plato of Eastern Canon

[Anonymous No.9195622]

>>9195515
This

[Anonymous No.9195629]

>>9195576
You're being inconsistent. Are you complaining that you can read one book and decide its importance to a foreign culture, or are you complaining that you can't but also shouldn't trust objective sources on that matter?

Either you are able to decide its importance, or you need historical perspective. It's one or the other, unless you chose not to read them foreign books.

[Anonymous No.9197577]

I got the picture.

[Anonymous No.9197704]

>>9197577
>no poetry, often considered the most important work of Chinese literature
come on