Guide to the Oriental Classics

Source: A Guide to Oriental Classics. 3rd ed. Ed. by Wm. Theodore de Bary & Ainslie T. Embree

Classics of the Islamic Tradition

• The Seven Odes (Al-Mu 'Allaqat)

• The Koran (Al-Qur'an)

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

• The Maqamat of al-Hamadhani

• 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

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

• The Conference of the Birds by Farid Al-Din 'Attar

• The Mystical Poetry of Jalal al-Din Rumi

• The Prolegomena (Al-Muqaddima) of Ibn Khaldun

• The Shahnama

• The Rubaiyat of 'Umar Khayyam

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

• The Mystical Poetry of Yunus Emre

• Leyla and Mejnun by Fuzuli

Classics of the Indian Tradition

• The Vedas

• Upanishads

• Mahabharata

• Bhagavadgita

• Ramayana of Valmiki

• Yoga Sutras of Patañjali

• The Vedanta Sutra with the Commentary of Shankaracharya

• Theravada Buddhism: The Tipitaka

• Theravada Buddhism: The Dhammapada

• Theravada Buddhism: The Milindapanha

• Theravada Buddhism: The Mahasatipatthana Sutta

• Mahayana Buddhism: Prajnaparamita

• Mahayana Buddhism: The Srimaladevisimhanada Sutra

• Mahayana Buddhism: The Lankavatara Sutra

• Mahayana Buddhism: The Sukhavativyuha Sutras

• Mahayana Buddhism: The Bodhicaryavatara of Shantideva

• Supplementary Readings on Indian Buddhism

• Shakuntala of Kalidasa

• The Little Clay Cart of Shudraka

• Pancatantra, According to Purnabhadra

• Sanskrit Lyric Poetry

• Gitagovinda of Jayadeva

• Indian Devotional Poetry

• Indo-Islamic Poetry

• Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore

• Autobiography of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Classics of the Chinese Tradition

• The Analects (Lun Yu) or Confucius

• Mo Tzu

• Lao Tzu, Tao te Ching

• Chuang Tzu

• Mencius (Meng Tzu)

• The Great Learning (Ta Hsueh)

• The Mean (Chung Yung)

• Hsun Tzu

• Han Fei Tzu

• Records of the Historian: The Shih chi of Ssu-ma Ch'ien [added in 3rd ed.]

• Texts of Chinese Buddhism

• The Lotus Sutra (Saddharma Pundarika Sutra, or Miao Fa Lien Hua Ching)

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

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

• Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch

• The Record of Lin-chi

• Supplementary Readings on Chinese Buddhism

• Works of Chu Hsi

• Works of Wang Yang-ming

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

• 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

• Chinese Drama

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

• Chinese Poets and Poetry

Classics of the Japanese Tradition

• Manyoshu

• Court Poetry: The Kokinshu and other Imperial Anthologies

• The Pillow-Book of Sei Shonagon

• The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

• Poetic Diaries and Poem Tales

• Texts of Japanese Buddhism

• Writings of Kukai

• Writings of Buddhist Masters of the Kamakura Period

• Writings of the Zen Master Hakuin

• Supplementary Readings in Japanese Buddhism

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

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

• Literature in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries

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

• Tale of the Heike

• The No Plays

• The Fiction of Ihara Saikaku

• The Poetry and Prose of Matsuo Basho

• The Plays of Chikamatsu Manzaemon

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

• Literature of the Meiji Period

• Kokoro by Natsume Soseki