Eastern Classics Seminar Reading List
Fall Semester
- Week 1
- Valmiki: Ramayana (Buck edition, entire)
- Ramayana*
- Week 2
- Ramayana*
- Ramayana*
- Week 3
- Rig Veda*
- Rig Veda*
- Week 4
- Katha Upanishad
- Shvetashvatara Upanishad; Isha Upanishad
- Week 5
- Kautilaya: Arthashastra*
- Institutes of Manu*
- Week 6
- Kalidasa: The Birth of the War God
- Kalidasa: Shakuntala
- Week 7
- Charvaka*
- Patanjali: Yoga Sutra
- Week 8
- Vaisheshika Sutra
- Ishvarakrishna: Sankhya Karikas
- Week 9
- Jayadeva Gitagovinda
- Mahabharata*
- Week 10
- Mahabharata*
- Mahabharata*
- Week 11
- Mahabharata*
- Mahabharata; Bhagavad Gita
- Week 12
- Mahabharata; Bhagavad Gita
- Confucious: Analects
- Week 13
- Analects
- Analects
- Week 14
- Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching
- Tao Te Ching
- Week 15
- Chuang Tzu: Inner Chapters
- Inner Chapters
- Week 16
- Inner Chapters
- Chinese Lyric Poetry
Break for Winter Vacation
Spring Semester
- Week 1
- Ssu-Ma Ch'ien: Records of the Historian
- Records of the Historian
- Week 2
- Mencius*
- Mencius*
- Week 3
- Ashvaghosha Acts of the Buddha
- Dhamapada
- Week 4
- Mahaparinibanna Sutta
- Journey to the West (Monkey)
- Week 5
- Journey to the West
- Journey to the West
- Week 6
- Journey to the West
- Journey to the West
- Week 7
- Journey to the West
- Vimalakirti Sutra
- Week 8
- Diamond Sutra; Heart Sutra
- Bodhidharma*
- Break for Spring Vacation
- Week 9
- Lady Murasaki: Tale of Genji
- Tale of Genji
- Week 10
- Tale of Genji
- Tale of Genji
- Week 11
- Nagarjuna: Vigrahavyavartani
- Vigrahavyavartani
- Week 12
- Badarayana: Vedanta Sutras, with Shankara's Commentary
- Vedanta Sutras
- Week 13
- Ta-Hsueh: The Great Learning; Chung Yun: Doctrine of the Mean
- Wang Yang-Ming (Instructions for Practical Living)
- Week 14
- Liu-Tsu T'an Ching: Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch
- Dogen: Shobo-Genzo (Sermons)
- Week 15
- Miyamoto Musashi: A Book of Five Rings
- Basho: The Narrow Road to the Deep North
- Week 16
- Selected Plays from the No Theater
- Selected Plays from the No Theater