[Buddha-l] Book Recommendations

[celliott at epix.net]

Hi Hans,

I taught a 200 level course about Asian Religion and Culture for 30 years at a two-year school. I found The Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita, both translated by Juan Mascaro for Penguin were tops and also cheap.
...and of course they fit snuggly into the earliest Buddhist Dharma. So I taught them, along with The Tao Te Ching (D.C. Lau, Penguin), which Lucien Stryk confirmed was the best.
They also enjoyed Zen in the Art of Archery, once they waded through his impossibly complex sentences. His approach to his own ignorance is nicely done, and the extensive Buson section is beautiful.

Good Luck. I retired 10 years ago because the students stopped reading the homework. (I did not teach at Harvard.)
Carolyn Elliott  


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 From: "Gruenig, Hans W" <gruenig at tulane.edu>
To: Buddhist discussion forum <buddha-l at mailman.swcp.com> 
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 12:03 AM
Subject: [Buddha-l] Book Recommendations
 

Hello Everyone,

I am working on designing an undergraduate intro level Asian Philosophy course which will include Buddhist philosophy and other philosophies from India and Asia.  I am wondering what *non-Buddhist* Indian/Asian philosophy texts other professors have found to be of particular interest to undergraduate students -- especially texts that students find to be inspiring or personally relevant.  I have a lot of experience teaching Buddhism and have a few non-Buddhist texts in mind, but would be interested to hear what others have found to be engaging for intro level undergrad students.  (Somehow, I imagine that Richard Hayes might point to some Vivekananda texts, for example.)

Thank you,
-Hans Gruenig
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