Course Reader (CR) (filenames in parentheses)

1. Ralph T. H. Griffith, trans., The Hymns of the Rgveda (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1973) 206, 633-4; Shree Purohit Swami and W. B. Yeats, trans., The Ten Principal Upanishads (Calcutta: Rupa, 1992) 90-92. (1-Vedas.pdf)

2. Laurie Patton, trans, The Bhagavad Gita (NY: Penguin Books, 2014) vii-xxiv, 3-29, 61-75, 145-149 (2-BhagavadGita.pdf)

3. Joseph Campbell, “IV: The Way of Delight,” Oriental Mythology - The Masks of God (NY: Penguin, 1991) 343-364. (3-GitaGovinda.pdf)

4. Peter Harvey, An Introduction to Buddhism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990) 9-26. (4-IntroBuddhism.pdf)

5. Jay Garfield, trans., The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nagarjuna’s Mulamadhyamakakarika (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995) 293-307. (5-Garfield-Nagarjuna.pdf)

6. Mark Unno, "Key Ideas: Nagarjuna" and "Key Ideas: Philosophical Schools." (6-Unno-Nagarjuna.pdf)

7. Robert A. F. Thurman, trans., “The Goddess,” The Holy Teaching of Vimalakirti (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1987) 56-63. (7-Thurman-Vimalakirti.pdf)

8. Taitetsu Unno, "Philosophical Schools - San-lun, T'ien-t'ai, and Hua-yen," in Buddhist Spirituality, ed. by Takeuchi Yoshinori (New York: Crossroad, 1995) 343-365. (8-Unno-ChineseBud.pdf)

9. Herbert Fingarette, Confucius: The Secular as Sacred (Long Grove, IL: Waveland, 1998) 1-9, 18-21, 71-75. (9-Fingarette-Confucius.pdf)

10. Burton Watson, trans., Zhuangzi: Basic Writing (New York: Columbia Univ Press, 1993) 1-7, 31-41, 44, 61-62, 114-117, 128-129. (10-Zhuangzi.pdf)

11. Heinrich Dumoulin, Zen Buddhism: A History-India and China (New York: Macmillan Publishing, 1988) 85-94. (11-Dumoulin-Bodhi.pdf)

12. Mu Soeng Sunim, “Ch.4: Buddhism during the Unified Silla Period,” Thousand Peaks: Korean Zen-Tradition & Teachers (Berkeley: Parallax Press, 1987) 28-48. (12-KoreaBuddhism1.pdf)

13. Hayao KAWAI, "Japanese Mythology: Balancing the Gods," in his Dreams, Myths and Fairy Tales in Japan (Daimon, 1995) 67-97. (13-Kawai-JapanMyth.pdf)

14. Mark Unno, "Key Terms - Philosophical Terms in the Zen Buddhist Thought of Dogen"; Norman Waddell and Masao Abe, trans., "Shobogenzo Genjokoan," by Dogen Kigen, The Eastern Buddhist 5:2 (10/1972) 129-140. (14-Dogen-Genjokoan.pdf)

15. Mark Unno, “The Original Buddhist Rebel,” Tricycle (Winter 2017) 1-16. (15-Shinran-Rebel.pdf)

16. Mark Unno, "Key Terms - Pure Land Buddhism and the Philosophy of Honen and Shinran." (16-Unno-PureLand.pdf)

17. Taitetsu Unno, trans. Tannisho: A Shin Buddhist Classic (Honolulu, HI: Buddhist Study Center Press) 4-9, 14. (17-Unno-Tannisho.pdf)

18. The Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso), A Policy of Kindness (Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion, 1990) 33-59. (18-DalaiLama.pdf

19. Nishitani Keiji, "Ikebana," Kyoto Journal 4 (Fall 1987) 33-35. (19-Nishitani-Ikebana.pdf)

20. Paula Arai, "Soto Zen Nuns in Modern Japan: Keeping and Creating Tradition," Bulletin of the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture 14 (Summer 1990) 38-51. (20-Arai-ZenNuns.pdf)

21. Mu Soeng Sunim, “Zen Master Seung Sahn,” Thousand Peaks: Korean Zen-Tradition & Teachers (Berkeley: Parallax Press, 1987) 191-314. (21-KoreaBuddhism2.pdf)