Eastern Classics - Year 5

Eastern Classics Reading List – Year 5

Month One

• Anonymous, The Mahabharata: Complete and Unabridged, Volume 5, translated by Bibek Debroy (Penguin Classics)

Month Two

• Yoga Sutras of Patañjali

• The Vedanta Sutra with the Commentary of Shankaracharya

Month Three

• Gitagovinda of Jayadeva

• Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore

• Autobiography of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Month Four

• Understanding Japan: A Cultural History, Mark J. Ravina, Ph.D. Professor, Emory University, The Great Courses

Month Five

• Manyoshu

• Court Poetry: The Kokinshu and other Imperial Anthologies

• Poetic Diaries and Poem Tales

Month Six

• Writings of Kukai

• Writings of Buddhist Masters of the Kamakura Period

Month Seven

• Writings of the Zen Master Hakuin

• An Account of My Hut (Hojoki) by Kamo no Chomei

Month Eight

• Poetry, Fiction, and Diaries of the Ninth to Eleventh Centuries

• Literature in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries

Month Nine

• Essays in Idleness (Tsurezure-gusa) by Yoshida Kenko

• The No Plays

Month Ten

• The Fiction of Ihara Saikaku

• The Poetry and Prose of Matsuo Basho

Month Eleven

• The Plays of Chikamatsu Manzaemon

• The Treasury of Loyal Retainers (Chushingura) by Takeda Izumo, Miyoshi Shoraku, and Namiki Senryu

Month Twelve

• Literature of the Meiji Period

• Kokoro by Natsume Soseki