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Non-Western Philosophy

32 books

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Avesta

Zoroaster (attributed)

Must-Read 1944

Bhagavad Gita

Vyasa

Must-Read 1986

Black Skin, White Masks

Frantz Fanon

Must-Read 1993

Culture and Imperialism

Edward Said

Must-Read 1998

Mahabharata

Vyasa

Must-Read 1963

Mencius

Mencius

Must-Read 1970

Mulamadhyamakakarika

Nāgārjuna

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Must-Read 1952

Principal Upanishads

The Upanishads

Must-Read 1823

Ramayana

Valmiki

Must-Read 1994

Representations of the Intellectual

Edward Said

Must-Read 1842

Tao Te Ching

Laozi

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The Upanishads

Various (Ancient India)

Must-Read 1999

The Way of the Bodhisattva

Shantideva

Must-Read 2004

The Wretched of the Earth

Frantz Fanon

Must-Read 1914

Zhuangzi

Zhuangzi

Recommended 1986

Decolonising the Mind

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Recommended 1972

Discourse on Colonialism

Aimé Césaire

Recommended 1811

Han Feizi

Han Fei

Recommended 2011

I Ching

Book of Changes

Recommended 1972

Jnana Yoga

Swami Vivekananda

Recommended 1992

Moving the Centre

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Recommended 1875

Mozi

Mozi

Recommended 1917

Nationalism

Rabindranath Tagore

Recommended 1920

Raja Yoga

Swami Vivekananda

Recommended 1913

Sadhana

Rabindranath Tagore

Recommended 1996

Shōbōgenzō

Dōgen

Recommended 2013

The Book of Five Rings

Musashi Miyamoto

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Recommended 1949

The Human Cycle

Sri Aurobindo

Recommended 1939

The Life Divine

Sri Aurobindo

Recommended 1804

Xunzi

Xunzi

Recommended 1930

Yoga Sutras

Patanjali

Supplementary 1972

The Ten Stages of the Development of Mind

Kūkai