[Buddha-l] Book Recommendations

[J. Kingston Cowart]

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Carolyn,

These (along with the Lankavatara Sutra, the I Ching, and others I 
cannot immediately recall) are the same texts/authors which the 
eminent religious studies professor Allan W. Anderson, Ph.D. (Phil., 
Columbia) used at San Diego State University for 26 years.

Allan was one of the three original founders of the department.

He passed away in March.

Yours truly,

John

J. Kingston Cowart, M.S.
San Diego, California

At 01:03 PM 5/10/2013, Carolyn Elliott wrote:

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.