Confucianism

By far the most important and revered book in Confucianism is The Analects of Confucius, or, in Chinese, Lun Yu by K'ung Fu-tsu.

There is a complete, online copy on this site. I am in the process of indexing the text.

You may also want to order an inexpensive hardcover or paperback edition of the Analects of Confucious from Amazon.com. I recommend the Waley translation linked above. Be aware that not all the reviews are necessarily on the proper pages: In the past some reviews refered to a different edition by the same title (different translator), and although I contacted them about the problem twice, I noticed four years later (on 4/20/06) that it still had not been corrected.

Also recommended:

Confucian Analects, the Great Learning, and the Doctrine of the Mean (James Legge, translator)

The Works of Mencius (James Legge, translator)

A while back the link I had to an introductory explanation of Confucianism went dead, and though I've read a number of others, they all betray an outsider's perspective. I have yet to find an suitable substitute.

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