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| x Mahayana sutras | Buddhism |
Mahayana sutras are a very broad genre of Buddhist scriptures of which the Mahayana Buddhist tradition claim that they are original teachings of the Buddha. The Theravada and the other Early Buddhist Schools claim that the Mahayana Sutras are later...
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| x Mahabharata |
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Hinduism |
The Mahābhārata (Devanāgarī: महाभारत) is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, the other being the Rāmāyaṇa. The epic is part of the Hindu itihāsa (literally "history"), and forms an important part of Hindu mythology.
It is of...
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| x Navakar Mantra | Jainism |
Navakar Mantra (णमोकार मंत्र) is the fundamental prayer in Jainism and can be recited at any time of the day. While praying by reciting this mantra, the devotee bows with respect to Arihantas, Siddhas, spiritual leaders (Acharyas), teachers ...
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| x Tattvartha Sutra | Jainism |
Tattvartha Sutra (also known as Tattvarth-adhigama-sutra or Moksh-Shastra) is a Jaina text written by Acharya Umaswati or Umasvami. It was an attempt to bring together the different elements of the Jain Path, epistemological, metaphysical,...
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| x Qur'an |
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Islam |
The Qur’an (Arabic: القرآن al-qur’ān, literally “the recitation”; also sometimes transliterated as Quran, Qur’ān, Koran, Alcoran or Al-Qur’ān) is the central religious text of Islam. Muslims believe the Qur’an to be the book of divine guidance and...
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| x Sunnah | Islam |
Sunnah (سنة, plural سنن Sunnah) literally means "trodden path", and therefore, the sunnah of Muhammad, prophet of Islam, means "the way and the manners of Muhammad".
Recording sunnah was an Arabic tradition, and once people converted toIslam, they...
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| x Avatamsaka Sutra | Zen |
The Avataṃsaka Sutra (Chinese: 華嚴經; pinyin: huá yán jīng; Japanese: Kegon Kyō; Wylie: mdo phal po che) is one of the most influential Mahayana Sutras of East Asian Buddhism. The title is rendered in English as Flower Garland Sutra, Flower Adornment...
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| x Zhuangzi |
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Taoism |
Zhuangzi (traditional Chinese: 莊子; simplified Chinese: 庄子; pinyin: Zhuāng Zǐ; Wade-Giles: Chuang Tzŭ) was an influential Chinese philosopher who lived around the 4th century BCE during the Warring States Period, corresponding to the Hundred Schools...
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| x Book of Common Prayer |
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Anglicanism |
The Book of Common Prayer is the common title of a number of prayer books of the Church of England and of other Anglican churches, used throughout the Anglican Communion. The first book, published in 1549 (Church of England 1957), in the reign of...
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| x Shikshapatri |
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Hinduism |
The Shikshapatri (Devanagari: शिक्षापत्री) is a text of two hundred and twelve verses, written in Sanskrit by Bhagwan Swaminarayan. The Shikshapatri is a key scripture to all followers of the Swaminarayan faith and is considered the basis of the...
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| x Heart Sutra |
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Zen |
The Heart of Perfect Wisdom Sutra or Heart Sutra or Essence of Wisdom Sutra (Sanskrit: प्रज्ञापारमिताहृदय Prajñāpāramitā Hṛdaya) (the word sutra is not present in known Sanskrit manuscripts) is a well-known Mahāyāna Buddhist sutra that is very...
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| x Ramayana |
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Hinduism |
The Ramayana (Devanāgarī: रामायण, Rāmāyaṇa), also spelt as Ramayan , is an ancient Sanskrit epic. It is attributed to the Hindu sage Valmiki and forms an important part of the Hindu canon (smṛti). The Ramayana is one of the two great epics of India,...
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| x Mul Mantra |
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Sikhism |
The Mul Mantar (Punjabi: ਮੂਲ ਮੰਤਰ, Mūla Maṃtar, or ਮੂਲ ਮੰਤ੍ਰ, Mūla Maṃtra) is the most important concept within the Guru Granth Sahib, and is considered the basis of Sikh theology; a position that is emphasized by its appearance as the first...
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| x Mishnah Berurah |
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Judaism |
Mishnah Berurah (Hebrew: Clarified Teaching) is a work of halakha (Jewish law) by Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan, better known as The Chofetz Chaim (Poland, 1838 - 1933). It is a commentary on Orach Chayim, the first section of the Shulchan Aruch (laws...
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| x Vedas |
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Hinduism |
For other uses, see Veda (disambiguation).
The Vedas (Sanskrit वेद véda, "knowledge") are a large body of texts originating in Ancient India. They form the oldest layer of Sanskrit literature and the oldest sacred texts of Hinduism.
The class of ...
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| x Kuzari |
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Judaism |
The Kuzari is one of most famous works of the medieval Spanish Jewish philosopher and poet Rabbi Yehuda Halevi. Divided into five essays ("ma'amarim" (namely, Articles)), it takes the form of a dialogue between the pagan king of the Khazars and a...
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| x Bhagavad Gita |
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Hinduism |
The Bhagavad Gita (Sanskrit भगवद् गीता, Bhagavad Gītā, "Song of God") is an important Sanskrit Hindu scripture. It is revered as a sacred scripture of Hinduism, and considered as one of the most important religious classics of the world. The...
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| x Torah |
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Judaism |
The term "Torah" (Hebrew: תּוֹרָה, "learning" or "instruction," sometimes translated as "Law"), refers either to the Five Books of Moses (or Pentateuch) or to the entirety of Judaism's founding legal and ethical religious texts. When used with an...
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| x Jaap Sahib | Sikhism |
Jaap Sahib is the morning prayer of the Sikhs. The Prayer or Bani was composed by the tenth Sikh Master, Guru Gobind Singh. This Bani is one of 5 Banis that a Sikh must recite everyday and is recited by the Panj Pyare while preparing Amrit on the...
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| x Pali Canon |
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Buddhism |
The Pāli Canon is the standard collection of scriptures in the Theravada Buddhist tradition, as preserved in the Pali language. It is the only completely surviving early Buddhist canon, and one of the first to be written down. It was transcribed...
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| x Lotus Sutra | Zen |
The Lotus Sutra or Sutra on the White Lotus of the Sublime Dharma (Sanskrit: सद्धर्मपुण्डरीकसूत्र Saddharma Puṇḍarīka Sūtra; Mandarin: 妙法蓮華經Miàofǎ Liánhuā Jīng; Japanese: Myōhō Renge Kyō; Korean: Myo beom nyeon hwa gyeong; Vietnamese: Diệu Pháp Liên...
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| x Chaupai | Sikhism |
Benti Chaupee: Composed by the tenth Sikh Guru, Guru Gobind Singh, it is a part of main evening prayers of the Sikhs called Rehras Sahib. The Benti Chaupee can be read at any time during the day to provide protection and energy. Chaupai is the short...
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| x Japji Sahib | Sikhism |
Japji Sahib consists of the Mool Mantra as the beginning followed by 38 hymns and a final Salok at the end of this composition. The Japji appears at the very beginning of the Guru Granth Sahib, the Holy Book of the Sikhs. It is regarded as the most...
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| x Shulchan Aruch | Judaism |
The Shulchan Aruch (Hebrew: שולחן ערוך, literally: "Set Table") (also Shulhan Aruch or Shulchan Arukh) is a codification, or written manual, of halacha (Jewish law), composed by Rabbi Yosef Karo in the 16th century. Together with its commentaries,...
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| x Guru Granth Sahib |
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Sikhism |
The Guru Granth Sahib (Punjabi: ਗੁਰੂ ਗ੍ਰੰਥ ਸਾਹਿਬ, gurū granth sāhib), or Adi Sri Guru Granth Sahib, is the holy scripture and the final Guru of the Sikhs. It is a voluminous text of 1430 pages, compiled and composed during the period of Sikh Gurus,...
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| x Tanya |
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Judaism |
Tanya (תניא, Aramaic for "it was taught") is a book more commonly known by its opening word although titled Likkutei Amarim (ליקוטי אמרים, Hebrew, "collection of statements"), an early work of Hasidic Judaism, written by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi...
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| x Tanakh |
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Judaism |
The Tanakh (Hebrew: תַּנַ"ךְ) (IPA: [taˈnax] or [təˈnax]; also Tenakh or Tenak) is a name for the Bible used in Rabbinic Judaism, also known as the Masoretic Text. The name "Tanakh" is a Hebrew acronym formed from the initial Hebrew letters of the...
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| x Agama | Jainism |
In Buddhism, an āgama (Sanskrit and Pali for "sacred work" or "scripture") is a collection of Early Buddhist scriptures, of which there are four, which together comprise the Sutra Pitika of the Sanskritic early schools. The various schools had...
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| x Upanishad | Hinduism |
The Upanishads (Devanagari: उपनिषद्, IAST: upaniṣad, also spelled "Upanisad") are Hindu scriptures that constitute the core teachings of Vedanta. They do not belong to any particular period of Sanskrit literature: the oldest, such as the...
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| x Rehras | Sikhism |
The rehras sahib is the evening prayer of the Sikhs. It is recited at the end of a working day. Its purpose is to add energy to one's being, and covers a Sikh's business actions and living environments. It is intended to help with physical weakness,...
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| x Daozang | Taoism |
Daozang (Chinese: 道藏; pinyin: Dào Zàng), meaning "Treasury of Dao" or "Daoist Canon", consists of almost 5000 individual texts that were collected circa C.E. 400 (quite some time after the Dao De Jing and Zhuang Zi which are the core Daoist texts)....
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| x Talmud |
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Judaism |
The Talmud (Hebrew: תַּלְמוּד talmūd "instruction, learning", from a root lmd "teach, study") is a record of rabbinic discussions pertaining to Jewish law, ethics, customs, and history. It is a central text of mainstream Judaism.
The Talmud has two...
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| x Dasam Granth |
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Sikhism |
The Dasven Patshah Da Granth (Punjabi: ਦਸਵੇ ਪਾਤਸ਼ਾਹ ਦਾ ਗ੍ਰੰਥ), Dasam Granth (Punjabi: ਦਸਮ ਗ੍ਰੰਥ), (Book of the Tenth Emperor), is a scripture of Sikhism, containing some of the texts composed by 10th Sikh Guru, Guru Gobind Singh. Some compositions...
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| x Sukhmani | Sikhism |
Sukhmani Sahib is the name given to the set of hymns divided into 24 sections which appear in the Sri Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikh Holy Scriptures on page 262. Each section, which is called an Ashtpadi(asht means 8), consists of 8 hymns per Ashtpadi....
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| x Rabbinic literature | Judaism |
Rabbinic literature, in its broadest sense, can mean the entire spectrum of rabbinic writings throughout Jewish history. But the term often refers specifically to literature from the Talmudic era, as opposed to medieval and modern rabbinic writing,...
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| x Analects of Confucius |
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Confucianism |
The Analects (traditional Chinese: 論語; simplified Chinese: 论语; pinyin: Lún Yǔ), also known as the Analects of Confucius, are considered a record of the words and acts of the central Chinese thinker and philosopher Confucius and his disciples, as...
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| x Bible |
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Protestantism |
The Holy Bible is the central religious text of Judaism and Christianity.
Modern Judaism generally recognizes a single set of canonical books known as the Tanakh, or Hebrew or Jewish Bible. It comprises three parts: the Torah ("Teaching", also known...
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| x Aranyaka | Hinduism |
The Aranyakas (Sanskrit आरण्यक āraṇyaka) are part of the Hindu śruti, the four Vedas; these religious texts were composed in Late Vedic Sanskrit typical of the Brahmanas and early Upanishads; indeed, they frequently form part of either the Brahmanas...
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| x Brahmana | Hinduism |
The Brāhmaṇas (Devanagari: ब्राह्मणं) are part of the Hindu śruti literature. They are commentaries on the four Vedas, detailing the proper performance of rituals.
Each Vedic shakha (school) had its own Brahmana, and it is not known how many of...
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| x New Testament |
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Protestantism |
The New Testament (Greek: Καινὴ Διαθήκη, Kainē Diathēkē) is the name given to the second major division of the Christian Bible, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament. The New Testament is sometimes called the Greek New...
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| x Tosefta | Judaism |
The Tosefta (Aramaic: תוספתא) is a secondary compilation of the Jewish oral law from the period of the Mishnah.
In many ways, the Tosefta acts as a supplement to the Mishnah (tosefta means "supplement or addition"). The Mishnah is the basic...
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| x Perfection of Wisdom |
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Zen |
"Perfection of Wisdom" is a translation of the Sanskrit term prajñā pāramitā (Devanagari: प्रज्ञा पारमिता, Tibetan: Shes-rab-pha-rol-phyin ་ཤེས་རབ་ཕ་རོལ་, simplified Chinese: 般若波罗蜜多; traditional Chinese: 般若波羅蜜多; pinyin: bō rě bō luó mì duō, Japanese...
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| x Adi Granth |
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Sikhism |
Adi Granth (or Aad Granth, literally "the first book") is the early compilation of the Sikh Scriptures by Sri Guru Arjan Dev Ji, the fifth Sikh Guru, in 1604. This Granth ("book") is the Holy Scripture of the Sikhs. The tenth Sikh Guru, Guru Gobind...
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| x Tav-Prasad Savaiye | Sikhism |
Tav-Prasad Savaiye is a short hymn of 10 stanzas. It is a part of Guru Gobind Singh ji's classic composition 'Akal Ustat' which means 'The praise of God'. In the last line of the 9th stanza, Gobind Singh has declared that 'only those who love...
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| x Zohar |
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Judaism |
The Zohar (Hebrew: זֹהַר, lit Splendor or Radiance) is widely considered the most important work of Kabbalah, or Jewish mysticism. It is a mystical commentary on the Torah (the five books of Moses), written in medieval Aramaic. It contains a...
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| x Old Testament |
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Protestantism |
In Christianity, the Old Testament refers to the books that form the first of the two-part Christian Biblical canon. These works correspond to the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh), with some variations and additions. In the Eastern Orthodox Church the...
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| x Infinite Life Sutra | Zen |
The Infinite Life Sutra, or Larger Pure Land Sutra, a Mahayana Buddhist text, is the primary text of Pure Land Buddhism, and the longest of its three major texts. It is also referred to as the Sukhāvatīvyūha-sūtra in Sanskrit, the Muryojukyo in...
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| x Siddur |
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Judaism |
A siddur (Hebrew: סידור; plural siddurim) is a Jewish prayer book, containing a set order of daily prayers. This article discusses how some of these prayers evolved, and how the siddur, as we know it today has developed. A separate article, Jewish...
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| x Book of Homilies |
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Anglicanism |
The Books of Homilies (1547, 1562, and 1571) are two books of thirty-three sermons developing the reformed doctrines of the Anglican Communion in greater depth and detail than in the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion. The title of the collection is...
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| x Humash |
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Judaism |
Chumash (Hebrew: חומש, pronounced [xuˈmɑʃ] ; also Humash) is one of the Hebrew names for the Five Books of Moses, also known as the Pentateuch or Torah. The word comes from the Hebrew word for five, chamesh. A more formal term is "Chamishah...
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| x Kalpasutra |
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Jainism |
Kalpasutra (कल्पसूत्र) is a Jain ancient text containing the biographies of the last two Jain Tirthankaras, Parshvanath and Mahavira. It contains detailed life histories with illustrations. Adinath (or RishabhDev) and Neminath are two other...
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| x Mishneh Torah |
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Judaism |
The Mishneh Torah (Hebrew: משנה תורה), subtitled Sefer Yad ha-Chazaka (יד החזקה), is a code of Jewish religious law (Halakha) by one of the important Jewish authority Maimonides (Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon, also known by the Hebrew abbreviation RaMBaM,...
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| x Puranas |
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Hinduism |
The Puranas (Sanskrit: पुराण purāṇa, "of ancient times") are a group of important Indian Hindu religious texts, notably consisting of narratives of the history of the Universe from creation to destruction, genealogies of the kings, heroes, sages,...
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| x Vachanamrut |
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Hinduism |
The Vachanamrut of Bhagwan Swaminarayan is the most sacred and foundational scripture of the Swaminarayan faith. It contains sections from the Vedas, Upanishads, Brahmasutras, Bhagavad Gita, Bhagvat Purana, Dharma shastras like Yagnavalkya Smruti,...
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| x Tibetan Buddhist canon | Buddhism |
The Tibetan Buddhist canon is a loosely defined list of sacred texts recognized by various sects of Tibetan Buddhism.
In addition to sutrayana texts from Early Buddhist (mostly Sarvastivada) and Mahayana sources, the Tibetan canon includes tantric...
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| x Arba'ah Turim | Judaism |
Arba'ah Turim (Hebrew: ארבעה טורים), often called simply the Tur, is an important Halakhic code, composed by Yaakov ben Asher (Spain, 1270 -c.1340, also referred to as "Ba'al ha-Turim", "Author of the Tur"). The four-part structure of the Tur and...
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| x Tao Te Ching |
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Taoism |
The Tao Te Ching or Dao De Jing (traditional Chinese: 道德經; simplified Chinese: 道德经; pinyin: Dàodéjīng), originally known as Laozi (Chinese: 老子; pinyin: Lǎozǐ), is a Chinese classic text. Its name comes from the opening words of its two sections: 道...
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| x I Ching |
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Taoism |
The I Ching (Wade-Giles), “Yì Jīng” (Pinyin), Classic of Changes or Book of Changes; also called Zhouyi, is one of the oldest of the Chinese classic texts. The book is a symbol system used to identify order in random events.
The text describes an...
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| x Book of Mormon |
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The Book of Mormon is the name of a book, or division, in the larger Book of Mormon. This "inner" book has nine chapters. According to the text, the first seven chapters were written by the prophet Mormon and the last two by his son Moroni. These...
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| x Doctrine and Covenants |
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints |
The Doctrine and Covenants (sometimes abbreviated and cited as D&C;) is a part of the open scriptural canon of several denominations of the Latter Day Saint movement. Originally published in 1835 as Doctrine and Covenants of the Church of the Latter...
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