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Wisdom of the East

Sages, poets and a walking monk. From Confucius to Tagore, eight books that ask how to live.

The works, in reading order

  1. 1. Analects anonymous · 5th century BC
  2. 2. Tao Te Ching Laozi · 4th century BC
  3. 3. Shahnameh Ferdowsi · 977 to 1010
  4. 4. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Omar Khayyám · c. 1100
  5. 5. The Conference of the Birds Farid ud-Din Attar · c. 1177
  6. 6. Masnavi Rumi · c. 1262 to 1273
  7. 7. Oku no Hosomichi Matsuo Bashō · c. 1702
  8. 8. Gitanjali Rabindranath Tagore · 1910

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