Graduate Institute
Santa Fe
Seminar Reading List
Eastern Classics Program
FALL
Week One
Sima Qian, The Grand Scribe’s Records, Volume 1. Edited by William H. Nienhauser, Jr. pp. 1-86. Photocopy available in bookstore.
Xiao Jing, Classic of Filial Piety, translated by James Legge. Photocopy available in bookstore.
Week Two
Confucius, Confucius Analects: with Selections from Traditional Commentaries, translated by Edward Slingerland (Hackett), pp. 1-124.
Confucius Analects, pp. 125-235.
Week Three
Mo Tzu, Basic Writings of Mo Tzu, Hsun Tzu, and Han Fei Tzu, translated by Burton Watson (Columbia University Press), fascicles 8, 9, 11, 16, 17, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27 31, 32, 35, 39 . Fascicles 14, 15. Photocopy available in bookstore.
Mencius, Books I-II, translated by either David Hinton (Counterpoint), or by D.C. Lau (Penguin Classics).
Week Four
Mencius, Books III-IV.
Mencius, Books V-VI.
Week Five
Hsun Tzu, Basic Writings of Mo Tzu, Hsun Tzu, and Han Fei Tzu, translated by Burton Watson (Columbia University Press), sections 1, 2, 9, 15, 17, pp. 15-88.
Hsun Tzu, sections 19-23, pp. 89-171.
Week Six
Chuang Tzu, The Book of Chuang Tzu, translated by Martin Palmer with Elizabeth Breully (Shambhala), chapters 1-7.
Chuang Tzu, chapters 8-22.
Week Seven
Lao Tzu, The Way of Lao Tzu, translated by Wing-Tsit Chan (Macmillan), entire.
Han Fei Tzu, fascicles 20, 21. Photocopy available in bookstore.
Week Eight
Han Fei Tzu, Basic Writings of Mo Tzu, Hsun Tzu, and Han Fei Tzu, translated by Burton Watson, sections 5-10, pp. 16-72.
Han Fei Tzu, sections 12, 13, 17, 18, 49, 50, pp. 72-129.
Week Nine
Sima Qian, Records of the Grand Historian: Qin Dynasty, translated by Burton Watson (Columbia University Press),sections6, 15, 61, 68, 79 , pp. 35-99, 131-157, and section 61, photocopy available in bookstore.
Sima Qian, sections 85-88, 126, pp. 159-26, and “Sima Qian’s Letter to Ren An,” pp. 227-237.
Week Ten
Sima Qian, Records of the Grand Historian: Han Dynasty I, translated by Burton Watson (Columbia University Press), sections 7, 8, 16, 48, 53, 55, 56, pp. 1-128.
Sima Qian, Han Dynasty I, sections 89-94 and 9-12, pp. 131-202 and 267-319.
Week Eleven
The Rig Veda: An Anthology, translated by Wendy Doniger O’Flaherty (Penguin), sections 10.129, 10.121, 10.90, 10.130, 10.190, 10.81-82, 10.72, 10.14, 10.16, 10.18, 10.154, 10.135, 10.58, 10.71, 10.125, 10.101, 10.151, 1.164, 1.163, 1.162, 10.56
The Rig Veda, sections 1.1, 1.26, 5.2, 2.35, 10.51, 10.124, 10.5, 8.79, 9.74, 4.58, 8.48, 10.136, 4.18, 10.28, 1.32, 2.12, 5.83, 7.101, 1.50, 1.160, 1.185, 6.70; 10.10, 1.179, 10.95, 10.85.
Week Twelve (Papers Due)
Brhadaranyaka Upanishad, parts I-II, in collections translated by either Patrick Olivelle (Oxford), or Robert Ernest Hume (Oxford).
Katha Upanishad.
Week Thirteen
Kena Upanishad and Isha Upanishad.
Thanksgiving: No Class.
Week Fourteen
Mundaka Upanishad, Mandukya Upanishad.
Maitri Upanishad.
Week Fifteen
Tattva-Kaumudi, karikas 1-29. Read both the Sankhya Karika verses and the commentary by Vacaspati Misra. Photocopy available in bookstore
Tattva-Kaumudi, karika 30 to end.
Week Sixteen
The Yoga Philosophy of Patanjali, translated by Hariharananda Aranya (SUNY Press), Books 1 and 2. Read both Patanjali’s sutras and Vyasa’s commentary.
The Yoga Philosophy of Patanjali, Books 3 and 4.
SPRING
Week One
The Bhagavad Gita in the Mahabharata, translated by J. A. B. van Buitenen (Chicago University Press), Books 1-9.
The Bhagavad Gita, Books 10-18.
Week Two
Charvaka section from A Sourcebook in Indian Philosophy, edited by S. Radhakrishnan and Charles Moore, pp. 236-246.
Kalidasa, Kumarasambhava, in The Origin of the Young God, translated by Hank Hifetz (University of California Press).
Week Three
Kalidasa, Shakuntala, in Kalidasa: The Loom of Time, translated by Chandra Rajan (Penguin Classics).
Abhinavagupta, Dhvanyaloka (with the Locana of Abhinavagupta), selections with supplemental material by Keith and Perry. Through p. 119. Photocopy available in bookstore.
Week Four
Dhvanyaloka, selections through p. 696.
“Discourses on the Noble Quest,” “Discourse to Kalamas,” “The Greater Discourse on Cause.” Early Buddhist Discourses edited and translated by John Holder (Hackett Publishing).
Week Five
“The Greater Discourse on the Foundations of Mindfulness,” “The Greater Discourse on the Destruction of Craving,” “Discourse of the Honeyball.”
“Short Discourses from the Samyutta Nikaya,” “The Shorter Discourse to Malunkyaputta,” “Discourse on the Parable of the Water Snake,” “Discourse to Vacchagotta on Fire.”
Week Six
“Discourse to Prince Abhaya,” “Discourse to Potthapada,” “Discourse on the Threefold knowledge”
“Discourse to Assalayana,” “The Lion’s Roar on the Wheel-Turning Monarch,” “Discourse to the Layman Sigala”
Week Seven
The Lotus Sutra, chapters 1 (prose portion only), 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 (only the parable in the last three paragraphs of the final prose section), 8, from The Lotus Sutra, translated by Burton Watson (Columbia University Press).
Lotus Sutra, chapters 10 (prose portion), 11 (verse only), 12, 13, 14 (prose portion), 16, 20 (prose portion), 21 (prose portion), 23 (prose portion), 25 (prose portion), 28.
Week Eight
Nagarjuna, Mulamadhayamakakarika, translated by Jay Garfield. Chapters 1-9.
Nagarjuna, Chapters 10-19.
SPRING BREAK
Week Nine
Nagarjuna, Chapters 20-27.
Vimalakirti Sutra, translated by Robert A. F. Thurman, sections 1-6.
Week Ten
Vimalakirti Sutra, 7-end.Gaudapada, The Great Karika on the Mandukya Upanishad, edited by Nikhilananda, pp. 223-368 (Mandukya Upanishad and Gaudapada commentary only. Omit other commentaries).
Week Eleven
Shankaracharya, Upadesa Sahasri, translated by Swami Jagadananda, Part 1 (pp.1-77), Part 2 (pp.79-150).
Upadesa Sahasri, Part 2 to end (pp.151-299).
Week Twelve
Ramanuja, Gitabhasya, pp. 48-58; 59-79; 91-107; 113-132; 175-176. Photocopy available in bookstore.
Jayadeva, Gita Govinda, in Love Song of the Dark Lord, edited and translated by Barbara Stoler Miller (Columbia University Press), pp. 69-125. [ESSAYS DUE]
Week Thirteen
The Diamond Sutra, in The Diamond Sutra & the Sutra of Hui-Neng, translated by A.F. Price and Wong Mou-lam (Shambhala). pp. 17-53. The Heart Sutra, photocopy available in bookstore.
Hui Neng, Commentary on the Diamond Sutra, translated by Thomas Cleary (Shambhala).
Week Fourteen
Hui Neng, The Sutra of Hui Neng, translated by A. F. Price and Wong Mo Lam (Shambhala), or translated by Thomas Cleary (Shambhala), chapters 1-5.
The Sutra of Hui Neng, Chapter 6 to end.
Week Fifteen
The Great Learning and The Doctrine of the Mean, in A Sourcebook of Chinese Philosophy, translated and edited by Wing-Tsit Chan, pp. 84-114.
Chu Hsi, selection from Complete Works, in A Sourcebook of Chinese Philosophy, pp. 605-633.
Week Sixteen
Chu Hsi, pp. 634-53, 593-604
Wang Lang-Ming, Inquiry of the Great Learning and selections from Instructions on Practical Living, in Sourcebook, pp. 659-691.
SUMMER
Week One
The Tale of the Heike, translated by Helen Craig McCullough (Stanford University Press), Chapters 1-8.
The Tale of the Heike, Chapters 9-10.
Week Two
The Tale of the Heike, Chapters 11 - end.
Kukai, The Meanings of Sound, Word, and Reality, from Kukai: Major Works,translated and edited by Yoshito S. Hakeda (Columbia University Press). pp. 234-246. Photocopy available in bookstore.
Week Three
Sei Shonagon, The Pillow Book, translated by Meredith McKinney (Penguin Classics), pp. 2-112.
The Pillow Book, pp. 112-189, plus sections 243, 258, 273, S 29.
Week Four
Kamo no Chomei, “Record of the Ten-Foot Square Hut,” in Four Huts: Asian Writings on the Simple Life, translated by Burton Watson (Shambhala).
Dogen, “Bendowa,” in The Heart of Dogen’s Shobogenzo, translated by Waddell and Abe (SUNY Press).
Week Five
Dogen, “Bussho,” pp. 59-bottom of 84.
“Bussho,” pp. 84-98.
Week Six
Dogen, “Genjokoan.”
Dogen, “Uji.”
Week Seven
Kenko, Essays in Idleness, translated by Donald Keene (Columbia University Press), Sections 1-38, 43-49, 52-53, 58-60, 66.
Kenko, Sections 69-75, 81-85, 89, 92, 97-98, 104-122, 127-130, 133, 137, 154, 162, 166, 184, 188, 190, 191, 235-237.
Week Eight
Basho, “Journey of Bleached Bones in a Field,” “Kashimo Journal,” “Knapsack Notebook, “Sarashine Journal” in Basho’s Journey: The Literary Prose of Matsuo Basho, translated by David Landis Barnhill (SUNY Press).
Basho, “The Narrow Road to the Deep North.”