In another moment of idleness, I was thinking if a list of 28 fits a year's worth of undergrad curriculum, then there could also be a way to build a "clean" list of 28, tapping into the concept of the 7 traditions that first started when I compiled my first List of 36. For every tradition, picking 4 texts - ideally one in each of the 4 genre category I have always been using, would yield another concept for a List of 28. Below is the trial:
Tradition | Religious Classics | History | Philosophy | Literature |
Chinese | Wang Bi | Shiji | Zhu Xi | Su Shi |
Buddhist | Samyutta Nikaya | Mahavamsha |
Tsong Kha Ba Zhi Yi |
N/A |
Indian | Rig Veda | N/A | Shankara |
Mahabharata Kalidasa |
Islamicate | Qur'an | al-Tabari | al-Ghazali | Ferdowsi |
Greco-Roman | N/A | Herodotus | Plato |
Homer Virgil |
Christian | Bible | Eusebius | Augustine | Dante |
European | N/A | Voltaire | Marx |
Shakespeare Cervantes |
Compared with the Revised List of 28 earlier:
This adds: Mahavamsha, Tsong Kha Ba (commentary on Nagarjuna), Zhi Yi (commentary on Vimalakirtinirdesasutra), Eusebius
And takes away: Kant, Tolstoy, Classic of Odes, and Tale of Genji
In summary - beefing up the history genre and the Buddhist tradition, while taking away from Literature and European and East Asian authors.
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