Guide to Oriental Classics
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I. 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 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
II. 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
- Sakuntala 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
III. Classics of the Chinese Tradition
- The Analects (Lun Yu) or Confucius
- The Great Learning (Ta Hsueh)
- The Mean (Chung Yung)
- Mencius (Meng Tzu)
- Mo Tzu
- Lao Tzu, Tao te Ching
- Chuang Tzu
- Hsun Tzu
- Han Fei Tzu
- Works of Chu Hsi
- Works of Wang Yang-ming
- Texts of Chinese Buddhism
- The Lotus Sutra (Saddharma Pundarika Sutra, or
Miao Fa Lien Hua Ching)
- The Vimalakirti-nirdesa 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
- Supplementary Readings on Chinese Buddhism
- 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 Poetry
IV. Classics of the Japanese Tradition
- Texts of Japanese Buddhism
- Writings of Kukai
- Writings of the Zen Master Hakuin
- Supplementary Readings in Japanese Buddhism
- Manyoshu
- The Pillow-Book of Sei Shonagon
- The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
- Poetry, Fiction, and Diaries of the Ninth to Eleventh Centuries
- Literature in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
- Tsurezure-gusa by Yoshida Kenko
- The No Plays
- The Novels of Ihara Saikaku
- The Poetry and Prose of Matsuo Basho
- The Plays of Chikamatsu Manzaemon
- Chushingura by Takeda Izumo, Miyoshi Shoraku, and Namiki Senryu
- Literature of the Meiji Period
Source: A Guide to Oriental Classics. 2nd ed.
Ed. by Wm. Theodore de Bary and Ainslie T. Embree. New York and London:
Columbia University Press, 1975. © 1964, 1975 Columbia University
Press
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