Eastern Canon

Asking westerners about eastern culture seems pretty dumb to me.

If you want an outline of Buddhists texts and their history, read The Flower of Chinese Buddhism by Daisaku Ikeda. It's on Libgen.

>>9195331
None of us have any idea because learning those languages well enough to investigate "eastern cannon" and then actually doing so, could probably take lifetimes.

>>9195491
It's not as if they don't know their own shit, anon. Read literary criticism from those countries.

Eastern philosophy and literature is bad

Here's a starting point: http://interleaves.org/~rteeter/grtorien.html

>>9195331
Journey to the west

>>9195501
Oh, my mistake. I assumed that one should read a book before pretending to know it's place in the ideological development of a continent.

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>>9195331
Majjhima Nikāya is the Complete Plato of Eastern Canon

>>9195515
This

>>9195576
You're being inconsistent. Are you complaining that you can read one book and decide its importance to a foreign culture, or are you complaining that you can't but also shouldn't trust objective sources on that matter?

Either you are able to decide its importance, or you need historical perspective. It's one or the other, unless you chose not to read them foreign books.

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>>9197577
>no poetry, often considered the most important work of Chinese literature
come on