http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/1994/10/03#wisdom-of-the-east From earliest times onwards. Import of African religions? Did European religions move east at the same times? <a href="zen.html">Zen</a>, other Buddhisms, <a href="tao-chia.html">Taoism</a>, <a href="ju-chia.html">Confucianism</a>. <ul>Recommended: <li>Gita Mehta, <cite>Karma Cola</cite> [Actually, this deserves more than just "recommended"; it's aristocratic scorn in a pure, crystalline state.] <li>Ulansey, <cite>Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries</cite> <li>Washington, <cite>Madame Blavatsky's Baboon</cite> </ul> <ul>To read: <li>Philip C. Almond, <cite>The British Discovery of Buddhism</cite> [<a href="http://cambridge.org/http://www.cambridge.org/0521033853">blurb</a>] <li>Srinivas Aravamudan, <cite>Guru English: South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan Language</cite> [<a href="http://pup.princeton.edu/titles/8070.html">blurb</a>] <li>J. J. Clarke, <cite>The Tao of the West: Western Transformations of Taoist Thought</cite> <li>Thomas A. Tweed, <cite>The American Encounter with Buddhism, 1844-1912: Victorian Culture and the Limits of Dissent</cite> <li>Shoji Yamada, <cite>Shots in the Dark: Japan, Zen, and the West</cite> [<a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&bookkey=371709">blurb</a>] </ul>