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Eastern Philosophy – Selected Source Texts

Eastern Philosophy – Selected Source Texts

Eastern Philosophy – Selected Source Texts [Filozofia Wschodu. Wybór tekstów], ed. Marta Kudelska, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Kraków 2002.  

Table of contents

Introduction

PART I- INDIA
Hymns:

From the Books of Rigveda

From the Books of Atharvaveda

Upanishads

Bhagavadgita

Ishvara Krishna, Samkhyakarika

Patañjali, Yoga Sūtras

Srimad Annambhatta, A Summary and Explanation of Terms            

Gangesia Upadhjaja, The Holy Jewel of Knowing the Truth

Jaymini, Mimansa Sutras

Śankaraćarja:

From Brahma Sutras

Denying Knowing

A Thousand Teachings

Tattwa Bodha, Understanding the Nature of Things

Mandana Miśra:

Brahmasiddhi

A Unity is not a Metaphor

Unspeakability of the World's Being and the Location of Ignorance

Śri Ramana Maharishi: 

Who Am I? Where Do I Come from?

Śri Rama Krishna: Excerpts

 

PART II: BUDDHISM
The Texts Attributed to Buddha

Dhammapada

Bhadanta Vasumitra: Sarwastiwada's Tractate About Five Elements

The Heart Sutra Prajñāpāramitāhṛdaya

Sutra Lankawatara

Nagarjuna

Wigrahawjawartani or the Reversal of Criticism

Mulamadhjamakakarika, or the Basic Strophes of Madhjamaka

Siantarakshita, the Compendium of Truth

Gam-po-pa: the Precious Rosary of the Choicest Road

 

PART III: CHINA AND JAPAN
Gongsun Long:

Gongsun Long: the excerpts from the tractate of Gongsun Long

Laozi: the Book of Road and Virtue

Zhuangzi, Nan-hua-zhen-king or the True Book of the Southern Flower

 

Four Confucian Books

Confucian Dialogues

Great Teaching

The Doctrine of Mean

The Book of Mencius

 

Neoconfucianism

Chu Van An, The Remaining Fragments

T'oegye i Kobong, The Debate on Four and Seven

Le Quy Dón, The Fragments

 

Huineng, The Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch

Dogen Kigen: The Treasury and Eye of the True Law

Shunryu Suzuki: Zen Mind of the Beginner