Adding on to this question: a lot of the (really excellent) recommendations here are quite focused on the Western cannon. Are there similar suggestions for reading other schools of thought?
The reading list for their Masters program in Eastern Classics [https://www.sjc.edu/academic-programs/graduate/masters-easte...] —while not exclusively focused on "philosophy" per se— presents a great deal of material and a framework for approaching the texts that anyone, Johnnie or not, may find valuable.
She has more of a interpretive approach (which is not clearly spelled out) rather than a direct translation and hence highly controversial. Her works seriously suffer from The Danger of a Single Story syndrome (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Ihs241zeg) towards the culture they purport to explain.