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What is a good survey/introduction of Indian Philosophy? And

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What is a good survey/introduction of Indian Philosophy? And one of Chinese Philosophy?
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indian philosophy a very short introduciton
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>mfw you came into /lit/ just in time for it's eastern philosophy age
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>>7467243
I've heard it suffers from being very short lol.

Have you read it? What you say it has given you good direction for further reading?

>>7467251
Just you wait till Yang Zhu replaces Stirner
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The Wonder That Was India by A.L. Basham

Ways of Thinking of Eastern Peoples: India-China-Tibet-Japan by Hajime Nakamura
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>>7467231
historyofphilosophy.net is going through Indian Philosophy now
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>>7467312
Cheers man
>>7467321
Thanks fella; I'm not big on podcasts, but I'll take a peak at them anyway--their presocratic podcasts helped me with Parmenides
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>>7467231
Bhagavad Gita
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Anything for the Chinese lads?
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>>7467251
>Eastern philosophy

Literally only dogmatic mysticism bullshit.
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>>7467452
That 'dogmatic mysticism' actually helps you towards achieving some semblance of peace in this shit world, more so than any western philosophy anyway.
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>>7467452
>>7467460
Both of you are being silly
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>>7467460
>this entire post
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>>7467470
>posting Stirner
>not the beast from the east

Real fucking unpleasurable lolmao
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http://fucktheory.tumblr.com/post/18168780203/western-philosophy-and-eastern-philosophy

This will cover 80% of what you should know about Eastern philosophy.
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>>7467554
Thanks, but that hasn't helped me find a general introduction to Indian philosophy; an interesting read nonetheless.
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>>7467452
You'd really like the Carvakas. They were the fedoras of ancient India.
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