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Any books on Eastern philosophy that don't come off as Western

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Any books on Eastern philosophy that don't come off as Western new agey horse shit?
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Dhammapada and the Pali Canon. The Analects can also be quite insightful at times.
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dao de ching, etc.
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>Eastern philosophy

You gotta be a little more specific than that m8.
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>>7814601
All the old shit: the Pali canon, dammapada (or whatever the fuck) the dao de djing, the Upanishads, the Vedas, and then Alan Watts for modern stuff.
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>>7814601
The east is a big place.
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>>7814818
Alan Watts is the John Green of Eastern thought.
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fuck yeah dude that Katie Dey album is unreal
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I would recommend something like Buddhism as Philosophy by Mark Siderits. It helps unpack some of the various philosophies of Buddhism from the more religious stuff. It should provide an okay introduction to eastern philosophy.
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>>7814818
Alan watts is the king of western new agey horse shit.
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>>7815351

Thanks, will check out.
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>>7814601
>Eastern philosophy
No such thing. Philosophy is a strictly western phenomenon.
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>>7814601

Autobiography of a Yogi
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