Harvard 5-Foot Shelf of Classics
(Somebody bring this back or update it!)
(Somebody bring this back or update it!)
Or get individual works:
1. Vedas c. 1500-500
BCE
2. The Bible 1000 BCE through second century AD
3. Upanishads 1000 BCE
4. Mahabarata 8th-9th
c. BCE
5. Bhāgavata Purāṇa (Srimad
Bhagavatam) Basic final
shape at some stage during the Indian Middle Ages, with
primordial roots
shape at some stage during the Indian Middle Ages, with
primordial roots
6. Tripura Rahasya (n.d.)
7.
Homer
800 BCE Iliad/Odyssey
8. The
Bhagavad Gita c.500 BCE
9. Buddha c.563 to 483 BCE Sutras and Classics:
The
Dhammapada (n.d.), Diamond, Heart, Lotus,
Platform Sutras, Path of Purification (Visuddhimagga),
Buddhaghosa, approx. 430 CE, Surangama
Platform Sutras, Path of Purification (Visuddhimagga),
Buddhaghosa, approx. 430 CE, Surangama
Sutra, trans. 705,
Avatamsaka Sutra, c. 500 yrs. after
Buddha, Lankavatara
Buddha, Lankavatara
Sutra, 443 CE, Awakening of Faith c. 553
10. Herodotus 484-425 BCE
Histories
11.
Plato
428-348 BCE Dialogues
12. Lao-Tzu c. 6th to 4th century BCE
13.
Chuang Tzŭ c. 4th century BCE
14. Acharya Nāgārjuna
ca. 150-250 CE
15.
Patañjali
fl. 150 BCE or 2nd c. BCE Yoga Sutras,
practices as early as 3000 BCE
practices as early as 3000 BCE
16. Virgil 70-19 BCE Aeneid
17.
Ovid
43 BC-17 AD Metamorphoses, Art of Love
18.
Plutarch 46-120 Lives and Moralia
19.
Aurelius 121-180 Meditations
20.
Plotinus
204-270 Enneads
21.
Iamblichus c.245-c.325 De
Mysteriis, Life of Pythagoras
22. Gregory of Nyssa
c. 335-after 394 Life of Moses
23.
St. Augustine 354-430 Confessions
24.
Yoga
Vasistha 5th and 14th Century C.E.
25. Proclus c. 411-485 The Elements of Theology
26.
Boethius 480-524/5 Consolation of
Philosophy
27. Pseudo-Dionysius
5th to early 6th
Divine Names
Celestial
Hierarchy, Mystical Theology
28.
Shantideva
8th-century
29. Shankara 788-820
Crest-Jewel of Discrimination,
Atmabodha,
Atmabodha,
Commentary on the Upanishads, Commentary on the
Bhagavad Gita
Bhagavad Gita
30. The Thousand and One Nights AD 800–900
31.
Shikibu c.976-1015
Tale of Genji
32. St. Bernard of Clairvaux 1091-1153
33. Richard of St. Victor
c.1173
34. Mechtild of Magdeburg
1212-1299
35. St. Francis of Assisi
1182-1216
36. Jacopone da Todi
1228-1306
37.
Blessed
Angela of Foligno 1248-1309
38. Saint Bonaventure
1221-1274 Soul’s Journey into God,
The Tree of Life, The
The Tree of Life, The
Life of St.
Francis
39. Thomas Aquinas 1226-1274
40.
Dante
1265-1321 Divine Comedy
41.
Eckhart 1260-1327 Essays and
sermons
42. Ruusbroec 1293-1381
Spiritual Espousals, etc.
43. Chaucer, 1342-1400
Canterbury Tales, Troilus and
Cressida
Cressida
44.
Julian of
Norwich c.1342-1423 Showings
45.
Nicholas of
Cusa 1401-1464 Selected Writings
46. Ficino 1433-1499
Platonic Theology
47. Pico della Mirandola 1463-1494 On the Dignity of Man
48. Cloud of Unknowing (late 14th century)
49.
St.
Teresa of Avila 1515-1582 Interior Castle, Life
50.
Montaigne
1533-1592
51.
John of the
Cross 1542-1591 Selected Writings
52.
Cervantes
1547-1616 Don Quixote
53.
Shakespeare
1564-1616 Plays
54. Milton 1608-1674 Paradise
Lost
55. Swift 1667-1745
56. Law 1686-1761 A
Serious Call, Spirit of Love
57. Alexandre Dumas 1802-870 Count of Monte Cristo,
Three Musketeers
Three Musketeers
58.
Emerson 1803-1882 Essays
59. Eliot 1819-1880 Middlemarch
60.
Dostoyevsky
1821-1881 Brothers Karamazov, Crime
and Punishment, Idiot
and Punishment, Idiot
61. Tolstoy 1828-1910
War and Peace, Ana Karenina,
62. Walter Pater 1839-1894
63.
Nietzsche 1844-1900 Collected Works
64. Bram" Stoker 1847-1912
65. Dewey 1859-1952
Art as Experience
66.
D'Arcy
Wentworth Thompson 1860- 1948
67. Vivekananda 1863-1902 Jnana-yoga, Raja-yoga,
Karma-yoga, Bhakti-yoga
Karma-yoga, Bhakti-yoga
68. Stanislavski 1863-1938
An Actor Prepares
69. Gandhi 1869-1948
70. Proust 1871-1922
71.
Aurobindo 1872-1950
Essays on the Gita, Synthesis of
Yoga, Life Divine, The Upanishads
Yoga, Life Divine, The Upanishads
72.
Underhill 1875-1941
Mysticism
73. Mann
1875-1955 Magic Mountain, Joseph
and His
Brothers
Brothers
74.
Korzybski 1879-1950
Science and Sanity
75.
Radhakrishnan 1888-1975 Eastern Religions
and
Western Thought,
Western Thought,
Bhagavadgita, etc.
76.
Collingwood 1889-1943 Principles of Art
77. Bolesławski, 1889-1937 Acting, the First Six Lessons
78. Wittgenstein 1889-1951
Philosophical Investigations,
Tractatus Logico
Tractatus Logico
Philosophicus
79. Polanyi 1891-1976 Personal Knowledge
80. Read
1893-1968 Education Through Art
81.
Paramahansa Yogananda 1893-1952 The
Bhagavad Gita,
Autobiography of a Yogi
Autobiography of a Yogi
82.
Prabhavananda 1893-1976 The Spiritual Heritage of
India, Upanishads,
India, Upanishads,
Crest- Jewel, How to Know God, Wisdom of God
83. Huxley 1894-1963 Perennial Philosophy, Essays
84.
Nisargadatta 1897-1981 I Am That
85. Borges 1899-1986 Ficciones
86. Campbell 1904-1987 Masks of God (4 vols.), The
Power of Myth, The Hero
Power of Myth, The Hero
With A Thousand Faces
87. Hayakawa 1906-1992 Language in Thought and Action
88. Koestler
1905-1983 Act of Creation,
Fiction
89.
Weil 1909-1943
Gravity and Grace, Waiting for God
90.
Gombrich 1909-2001 Art and Illusion
91.
Camus 1913-1960
Myth of Sisyphus, etc.
92.
Murdoch 1919-1999
Essays, Fiction
93.
Thich Nhat Hanh 1926 Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching,
Understanding Our Mind
Understanding Our Mind
94.
Roberts 1929-1984
Seth Material, Seth Speaks,
Personal Reality, Nature of the Psyche, Individual and
Mass Events, Unknown Reality
Personal Reality, Nature of the Psyche, Individual and
Mass Events, Unknown Reality
95. Dalai Lama
1935 (The Path to Enlightenment, How to
Practice, Essence of the Heart Sutra, Middle Way,
Universe in a Single Atom)
Practice, Essence of the Heart Sutra, Middle Way,
Universe in a Single Atom)
96.
Talbot 1953-1992 The Holographic Universe
97. Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche 1959 (Wonders of the
Natural Mind, The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep)
Natural Mind, The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep)
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