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Tao te Ching

老子

1870 ★ 4.3

Sacred texts of the world : a universal anthology

Ninian Smart, Richard D. Hecht

1982

The Origins of Civilization

William Hardy McNeill, Jean W. Sedlar

1968

Rāmāyaṇam

Mu Irāmacuvāmi, Sheldon I. Pollock, Vālmīki

1914

Zen and the sutras

Albert Low

2000

Buddhist Mahayana Texts

F. Max Müller, Asvaghosa, Junjirō Takakusu et al.

1894

History, literature, and identity

Grewal, J. S.

2011

Writings from spiritual & mystical books

Kartick C. Mukherjee

2010

Apocrypha now

Mark Russell

2016

The Bhagavad gita

Anonymous, Juan Mascaró

1962

Hindu Writings

Klaus Klostermaier

2000

I ching

Winberg Chai, James Legge, Chʻu Chai

1964

Dante's equation

Jane Jensen

2003

The seventy faces of Torah

Stephen M. Wylen

2004

Handbook of Hindu mythology

Williams, George M.

2008

The Good Book - A Humanist Bible

A. C. Grayling

2011

The Texts of Taoism, Part I (The Sacred Books of China, Part 5; The Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 39)

James Legge

1891

Beyond the written word

William A. Graham

1987

Bodhicaryavatāra

Śāntideva

1970

Eight decisive books of antiquity

Frederick Russell Hoare

1952

Hope for a Global Ethic

Brian D. Lepard

2005

The little book of Hindu wisdom

Stephen Cross

1997

The Long Discourses of the Buddha

Maurice Walshe

1995

How does the Christian confront the Old Testament?

Benoit, Pierre, Bastiaan Martinus Franciscus van Iersel, Roland E. Murphy

1968

A Buddhist Bible

Dwight Goddard

1938

Dialogue and Early South Asian Religions

Laurie Patton, Brian Black

2015

Bhagavad-Gita

Vyasa

1944 ★ 4.0

The gospel of Buddha

Paul Carus

1894

The Book of Mormon

Joseph Smith, Jr.

1828

The wisdom of the Hindus

Brian Brown

1921

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