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Buddhism

Dhammapada

An anthology of Pali verses in the Khuddaka Nikāya.

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Udāna

Eighty Pali discourses pairing prose settings with inspired utterances.

English · Pali
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Itivuttaka

One hundred and twelve short discourses, preserving their prose and verse.

English · Pali
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Therīgāthā

Seventy-three poems attributed to elder Buddhist nuns.

English · Pali
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Christianity

Bible

Christian scriptures collected in the Old and New Testaments.

English · Hebrew · Greek
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Daoism

Dao De Jing

Eighty-one short chapters concerned with Dao, de, governing and ways of living.

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Hinduism

Bhagavad Gita

A dialogue between Krishna and Arjuna within the Mahabharata.

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Īśā Upanishad

A short Upanishad presented in a named Sanskrit print witness and an independent nineteenth-century English translation.

English · Sanskrit
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Kena Upanishad

An Upanishad on the source of hearing, thought and divine power, in independently identified Sanskrit and historical English editions.

English · Sanskrit
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Kaṭha Upanishad

The dialogue of Naciketas and Death, in independent Sanskrit and historical English editions.

English · Sanskrit
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Islam

Quran

The central scripture of Islam, arranged in 114 surahs.

English · Arabic
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Judaism

Tanakh

The Jewish scriptural collection, presented in its own canon and ordering, with JPS 1917 English and the named UXLC Hebrew transcription.

English · Hebrew
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