Eastern Classics Reading List – Year 2
Month One
Anonymous, The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic, translated by Bargain Price (Penguin Classics)
Month Two
Michael H. Fisher, A History of India (The Great Courses)
Month Three
Anonymous, The Mahabharata: Complete and Unabridged, Volume 1, translated by Bibek Debroy (Penguin Classics)
Month Four
Mark W. Muesse, Great World Religions: Hinduism (The Great Courses)
Month Five
Gandhi, Autobiography or the Story of My Experiments with Truth, (TBS)
Month Six
Anonymous, The Mahabharata: Complete and Unabridged, Volume 2, translated by Bibek Debroy (Penguin Classics)
Month Seven
The Samaveda Samhita, Volume 1, B. R. Sharma, Harvard Oriental Series
Month Eight
The Samaveda Samhita, Volume 2, B. R. Sharma, Harvard Oriental Series
Month Nine
The Samaveda Samhita, Volume 3, B. R. Sharma, Harvard Oriental Series
Month Ten
Great World Religions: Islam, John L. Esposito - Georgetown University, The Great Courses
Month Eleven
Qur’an (first half)
Month Twelve
Qur’an (second half)