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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...
x Mahabharata Kurukshetra Hinduism
The Mahabharata (Devanāgarī: महाभारत, Mahābhārata) 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...
x Navakar Mantra   Jainism
Namokâr 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 ...
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,...
x Qur'an Opened Qur'an 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...
x Sunnah   Islam
Sunnah (سنة /ˈsunna/, plural سنن sunan /ˈsunæn/) is an Arabic word that means habit or usual practice. The Muslim usage of this term refers to the sayings and living habits of Muhammad, the main prophet of Islam. Recording sunnah was an Arabic...
x Avatamsaka Sutra   Zen
The Avataṃsaka Sutra (Chinese: 華嚴經; pinyin: huá yán jīng; Vietnamese: Kinh Hoa Nghiêm; 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...
x Zhuangzi Zhuangzi Taoism
Zhuangzi (simplified Chinese: 庄子; traditional Chinese: 莊子; 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...
x Book of Common Prayer Canterbury cathedral 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...
Christianity
x Shikshapatri Shikshapatri 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...
x Heart Sutra Hình:BatNhaTamKinhTiengPhan1 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...
x Ramayana Hanuman in Terra Cotta Hinduism
The Ramayana (Devanāgarī: रामायण, Rāmāyaṇa) 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, the other being...
x Mul Mantra Sri Guru Granth Sahib Nishan Sikhism
The Mul Mantra (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...
x Mishnah Berurah The Mishnah Berurah with Rabbi Nebenzahl's commentary 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...
x Vedas Rigveda MS2097 Hinduism
The Vedas (Sanskrit वेद véda, "knowledge") are a large body of texts originating in Ancient India. The texts are composed in Vedic Sanskrit and form the oldest layer of Sanskrit literature, and the oldest sacred texts of Hinduism. The class of ...
x Kuzari 1880 Warsaw Kuzari2 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...
x Bhagavad Gita Krishna reveals his Vishvarupa form to Arjuna during their discourse of the Bhagavad Gita. Hinduism
The Bhagavad Gita (Sanskrit भगवद्गीता, Bhagavad Gītā, "Song of God") is one of the most important Hindu scriptures. It is revered as a sacred scripture of Hinduism, and considered as one of the most important philosophical classics of the world. The...
x Torah Simchat Torah Judaism
The term "Torah" (Hebrew: תּוֹרָה, "teaching" 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. A "Sefer Torah" (סֵפ...
Christianity
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...
x Pali Canon Tipitaka1 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 composed in...
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 beob nyeon hwa gyeong; Vietnamese: Diệu Pháp Liên...
Soto Zen
x Chaupai   Sikhism
Benti Chaupee: Composed by the tenth Sikh Guru, Guru Gobind Singh. It is the fourth prayer to be recited in the morning and it is also a part of main evening prayers of the Sikhs called Rehras Sahib. The Benti Chaupee can be read at any time during...
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...
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,...
x Guru Granth Sahib Sri Guru Granth Sahib Nishan 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 angs (parts), compiled and composed during the period of Sikh...
x Tanya צילום שער הספר מדפוס בן 200 שנה Judaism
Tanya (תניא) is an early work of Hasidic Judaism, by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the founder of Chabad, first published in 1797. Its formal title is Likkutei Amarim (ליקוטי אמרים, Hebrew, "collection of statements"), but it is more commonly known...
x Tanakh 11th century Hebrew Bible with Targum. Judaism
The Tanakh (Hebrew: תַּנַ"ךְ‎, pronounced [taˈnax] or [təˈnax]; also Tenakh or Tenak) is a name for the Bible used in Judaism, also known as the Masoretic Text. The name "Tanakh" is a Hebrew acronym formed from the initial Hebrew letters of the...
Abrahamic religion
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...
Hinduism
Buddhism
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...
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,...
x Daozang   Taoism
Daozang (Chinese: 道藏; pinyin: Dào Zàng; Wade-Giles: Tao Tsang), 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...
x Talmud Talmud 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...
x Dasam Granth Letter of Bhai Mani Singh informing about the compilation of various banees of Dasam Granth 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...
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....
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,...
x Analects of Confucius Engraving of Confucius. The Chinese characters read "Portrait of the First Teacher, Confucius, Giving a Lecture" Confucianism
Lunyu (English: Analects) (simplified Chinese: 论语; traditional Chinese: 論語; 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...
x Bible Family-bible Protestantism
The Bible contains the central religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. Modern Judaism generally recognizes a single set of canonical books known as the Tanakh, or Hebrew Bible, as it is written almost entirely in the Hebrew language, with some...
Christianity
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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...
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...
x New Testament Bible closed 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, both terms being associated with Supersessionism. The New...
Christianity
Anglicanism
Eastern Orthodox Church
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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...
x Perfection of Wisdom Prajnaparamita Java Zen
Prajñāpāramitā (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: hannya-haramitta (般若波羅蜜多) Korean: banya-paramilda (般若波羅蜜多...
x Adi Granth ♣ 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...
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...
x Zohar Zohar Judaism
The Zohar (Hebrew: זֹהַר‎, lit Splendor or Radiance) is widely considered the most important work of Kabbalah. It is a mystical commentary on the Torah (the five books of Moses), written in medieval Aramaic. It contains a mystical discussion of the...
x Old Testament Ten Commandments Monument at the Texas State Capitol Protestantism
In Christianity, the Old Testament is the collection of 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...
Christianity
Anglicanism
Eastern Orthodox Church
Oriental Orthodoxy
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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...
x Siddur Reading from a siddur 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...
x Book of Homilies Canterbury cathedral Anglicanism
The Books of Homilies (1547, 1562, and 1571) are two books of thirty-three sermons developing the reformed doctrines of the Church of England in greater depth and detail than in the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion. The title of the collection is...
Christianity
x Humash The Chumash 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 Chumshei...
x Kalpasutra /guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000004a6ef27 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...
x Mishneh Torah A recent accurate version of Mishneh Torah in one volume 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,...
x Puranas An illustration of Varaha avatar based on the Bhagavata Purana Hinduism
The Puranas (Sanskrit: पुराण purāṇa, "of ancient times") are a group of important Hindu (or Jain and Buddhist) religious texts, notably consisting of narratives of the history of the Universe from creation to destruction, genealogies of the kings,...
x Vachanamrut The Vachanamrut Hinduism
The Vachanamrut of Swaminarayan is a foundational scripture of the Swaminarayan faith. It is considered on of the most sacred scriptures by Swaminarayan followers. It contains sections from the Vedas, Upanishads, Brahmasutras, Bhagavad Gita,...
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...
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...
x Tao Te Ching Tao-te-ching Taoism
The Tao Te Ching or Dao De Jing (simplified Chinese: 道德经; traditional Chinese: 道德經; pinyin: Dàodéjīng), originally known as Laozi (simplified Chinese: 老子; traditional Chinese: 老子; pinyin: Lǎozǐ), is a Chinese classic text. Its name comes from the...
x I Ching Hình:Hado_lacthu 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 contains a divination system comparable to Western geomancy or the West African Ifá...
x Book of Mormon Reprint of the 1830 edition of The Book of Mormon  
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...
x Doctrine and Covenants Doctrine and Covenants 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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