Sacred texts books

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This comparative analysis of the Muslim and Jewish exegetical texts on the early life of Abraham provides a new...  Read More >>

Features alphabetical entries with the publication of volume Five.  Read More >>

Traces the role of written Buddhist texts in the predominantly oral milieu of northern Thailand from the fifteenth...  Read More >>

THE UNCOMMON DREAM, B-135 One of The Most Important Books You Will Read During Your Lifetime. It reveals the remarkable...  Read More >>

Highlights the ""Tao Te Ching's"" insights on simplicity, balance, and learning from the paradoxical truths you...  Read More >>

The Ramayana is one of India's most well-loved epics, retaining the essence of the ancient Vedas and embodying lessons...  Read More >>

This small, beautifully illustrated book demonstrates through quotations from the oldest Islamic sources that Islam...  Read More >>

Presents the original Ramayana that was written 3000 years ago by Valmiki. This is one of the most translated work...  Read More >>

This work hows how, throughout the centuries, Sufism has been a bastion against worldliness and literalism. This...  Read More >>

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Offers a deeper understanding of the Traditions of the Prophet Muhammad. These Traditions illustrate the life and...  Read More >>

Irawati Karve analyzes Mahabharata characters' humanity, virtues, and flaws from a secular, scientific, and anthropological...  Read More >>

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An anthology of sections from the Buddhist sutras and commentaries. It follows the life of the Shakyamuni Buddha...  Read More >>

Translated by Rolf W Giebel, this volume contains The Adamantine Pinnacle Sutra and The Susiddhikara Sutra, two...  Read More >>

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"Contains two works by the founder of the Nichiren Shu school: """"Risshoankokuron"""" and """"Kanjinhonzonsho""""."...  Read More >>

"Comprises three important texts of the Yogacara school - """"Demonstration of Consciousness Only"""", """"Thirty...  Read More >>

Records the life and teachings of Hui-neng, the Sixth Chan (Zen) Patriarch. This work is an eleventh-century compilation...  Read More >>

The basic sutra of the Fa-hsian School, The Scripture on the Explication of Underlying Meaning expounds the thought...  Read More >>

"Presents four texts from the Ch'an/Zen tradition - """"Essentials of the Transmission of Mind"""", """"A Treatise...  Read More >>

Translated by Sencho Murano, this thirteenth-century text by Nichiren extols the Lotus Sutra and critiques the other...  Read More >>