Yoon-Suin Companion Adventures

This is reference list of things I use when constructing and fleshing out my Yoon-Suin.  
It is a broad list of history books, pulp fiction, folk-tales, picture books, and stuff that would be classed as Orientalist in nature. It is my expanded appendix N for Yoon-Suin for stuff that is not already in Yoon-Suin's appendix N. You can use it or not.  It is merely my springboard and I cannot put everything on it because my Yoon-Suin has been created within years of causal research on Asian folk-lore and religion. 
Also, I do not endorse all the messages in these works, as written before, some of these works can be classified as Orientalist and though I am inspired by them, that does not mean I want to follow their example and I try to not have a racist, caricatured version of a made-up world loosely inspired by real world things. I am not trying to mystify or create an air of mystery around the real, actual places of Asia.

In no particular order:
Books:

Hindu Folktales

Plays by Kalidasa

The King of the Dark Chamber by Rabindranath Tagore

Works by Jorge Luis Borges 

The Life of the Buddha by Tenzin Chogyel. Translated by Kurtis R. Schaeffer

Simhasana Dvatrimsika: Thirty-Two Tales of the Throne of Vikramaditya by Anonymous. Traslated by A.N.D. Haksar

A History of Bhutan by Karma Phuntsho

Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake

Fafhrd and Grey Mouser series by Fritz Leiber

Crane Boy By Diana Cohn and Illustrated by Younme

Dragon Dance by Joyce Chng and Jeremy Pailer

Ghost Train By Paul Lee and illustrated by Harvy Chan

Goddess of Death and House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson 

Life of Milarepa

The All-Pervading Melodious Drumbeat: The Life of Ra Lotsawa by Ra Yeshe Senge. Translated by Bryan J. Cuevas

Tantric Visions of the Divine Feminine

Buddhist Art and Architecture (Thames and Hudson World of Art)

Indian Art by Vidya Dehejia

The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

Candide by voltaire

Passage to India 

Rudyard Kipling's the Jungle Books

The Moonstone (Passage, Moonstone, and the Jungle Books are all orientalist fiction 

Zen Ghosts by Ton J Muth

What will you be, Sara Mee? By Kate Aver Avaraham

Solomon Kane stories by robert E. Howard

Clark Ashton Smith

The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas

Where's Halmoni? By Julie Kim

There is a Tribe of Kids by Lane Smith

Same, Same But Different by Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw

The Fairy Caravan by Beatrix Potter 

Noodle Magic by Roseanne Greenfield Thong

Ruby's Chinese New Year by Vickie Lee

Books about Indonesia by Clifford Geertz

This Was Our Pact by Ryan Andrews

Tibetan Tales from the Top of the World by Naomi C. Rose

Escape from Kathmandu By Kim Stanley Robinson

Tales of the Golden Corpse: Tibetan Folk Tales By Sandra Benson

All The Way to Lhasa: A Tale from Tibet by Barbara Helen Berger

The Demonic Image of Goddess Durga in Bali by Ni Wayan Pasek Ariati Blog post. Link: https://ariatipasek.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-demonic-image-of-goddess-durga-in.html

Rangda and Durga in Bali by Sarah Weiss link https://www.academia.edu/35754671/Weiss_2017_Rangda_and_Durga_in_Bali

The Demon Queen by Richard Lewis 

Rangda: The Legendary Goddess of Bali by Brandon Spars

Leigh Brackett

Chuang Tzu (big influence)

Tintin in Tibet by Herge (You can't escape it, sadly)

Daughter of the Mountains by Louise Rankin

Running on the Roof of the World by Jess Butterworth (Side Note: Daughter and Running are two children's books written in very different times and it is interesting comparing the two.)

Games: 

Bloodborne

Cosmology of Kyoto

Detention

Movies and Documentaries:

The Miracle of Bali

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Remember his Past Lives

Mystics in Bali

The Boxer's Omen

Riki-oh: the Story of Ricky

The Dark Crystal 

Mandy

The Cup

Travelers and Sorcerers

Eve and the Fire Horse

Kubo and the Two-Strings

King Kong

Ray Harryhausen Films 

Douglas Fairbanks Films

Ralph Bakshi's Wizards and his version of Lord of The Rings

The Stranglers of Bombay

Masque of the Red Death 1964

The Thief of Bagdad 1940 (For all its flaws)

Anime and Manga:

Spirited Away 

Uzumaki 

Dororo

This list may update as time goes on and I recall more things.

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