Reading List
Master of Arts in Buddhist Classics
The reading list for the Master’s Program is composed of a wide range of texts from the Buddhist canon, including s¨±tras/suttas, abhidharma?and??¨¡²õ³Ù°ù²¹²õ, and??¨©±ô²¹ texts, as well as selection of readings from Western philosophy and psychology.?Below you will find a selection of some of the texts that you will encounter over the course of the program.
- ?cariya Anuruddha, Abhidhammatthasa?gaha
- The Avatamsaka Sutra
- Buddhaghosa, The Path of Purification
- The Lotus Sutra
- The Sixth Patriarch Sutra
- The Shurangama Sutra
- Vasubandhu, Abhidharmako?abh¨¡?ya
- Selections from The Majjhima Nik¨¡ya
- Selections from The Sa?yutta Nik¨¡ya
- Selections from The A?guttara Nik¨¡ya
- Selections from The?D¨©gha Nik¨¡ya?
- The Heart Sutra
- The Kalama Sutta
- The Mahaparinirvana Sutra
- The Scripture on the Explication of Underlying Meaning
- Shastra on the Door to Understanding the Hundred Dharmas
- The Vajra Prajna Paramita Sutra
- Selections from The Anguttara Nikaya
- Selections from The Avatamsaka Sutra
- Selections from The Majjhima Nikaya
- Arendt, The Human Condition
- Butler, Gender Trouble
- Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy
- Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
- Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
- Hadot, Philosophy as a Way of Life
- Heidegger, On the Way to Language
- Heidegger, Selections from Being and Time?
- Irigaray, The Forgetting of Air in Martin Heidegger
- James, Pragmatism
- Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
- Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition
- Plato, Symposium
- Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism
- Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea
- Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
- Zizek, Enjoy your Symptom!?