Eastern Classics - Year 4

Eastern Classics Reading List – Year 4

Month One

• Anonymous, The Mahabharata: Complete and Unabridged, Volume 4, translated by Bibek Debroy (Penguin Classics)

Month Two

• "Kautilya's Artha-sastra", A Sourcebook in Indian Philosophy, edited by Sarvepali Radhakrishnan and Charles A. Moore (Princeton University Press), pp. 193-226.

Month Three

• The Seven Odes (Al-Mu 'Allaqat)

• The Ring of the Dove (Tawq al-Hamama) by Ibn Hazm

• The Maqamat of al-Hamadhani

Month Four

• The Assemblies of Al-Hariri (Maqamat al-Hariri)

• The Thousand and One Nights (Alf Layla wa-Layla)

• Deliverance from Error (Al-Munqidh min al-Dalal) by Al-Ghazali

Month Five

• On the Harmony of Religion and Philosophy (Kitab fasl al-maqal) by Averroes (Ibn Rushd)

• The Shahnama

• The Rubaiyat of 'Umar Khayyam

Month Six

• The Book of Dede Korkut (Kitab-i Dede Korkut)

• The Mystical Poetry of Yunus Emre

• Leyla and Mejnun by Fuzuli

Month Seven

• Kenneth J. Hammond, From Yao to Mao: 5000 Years of Chinese History (The Great Courses)

Month Eight

• The Vimalakirtinirdesa Sutra (Wei-mo-chieh so-shuo ching)

• The Awakening of Faith in Mahayana (Ta-ch'eng ch'i-hsin lun)

Month Nine

• Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch

• The Record of Lin-chi

Month Ten

• Works of Wang Yang-ming

• The Water Margin, or All Men Are Brothers (Shui Hu Chuan)

Month Eleven

• Journey to the West, or Monkey (Hsi Yu Chi) by Wu Ch'eng-en

• The Golden Lotus (Chin P'ing Mei)

• Dream of the Red Chamber (Hung Lou Meng) by Ts'ao Hsüeh-ch'in

Month Twelve

• Chinese Drama

• The Book of Songs (Ch'u Tz'u) by Ch'u Yüan and other poets

• Chinese Poets and Poetry