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 sūtras/suttas, abhidharma and śāstras, and śīla 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.
- Ācariya Anuruddha, Abhidhammatthasaṅgaha
- The Avatamsaka Sutra
- Buddhaghosa, The Path of Purification
- The Lotus Sutra
- The Sixth Patriarch Sutra
- The Shurangama Sutra
- Vasubandhu, Abhidharmakośabhāṣya
- Selections from The Majjhima Nikāya
- Selections from The Saṃyutta Nikāya
- Selections from The Aṅguttara Nikāya
- Selections from The Dīgha Nikāya
- 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!