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• Sacred books -- Comparative studies
• Sacred books -- Discography
• Sacred books -- Exhibitions
• Sacred books -- History and criticism
• Sacred books -- Inspiration
• Sacred books -- Introductions
• Sacred books -- Quotations
• Sacred books -- Selections, extracts, etc
• Sacred books -- Texts
• Apocryphal books
• Afro Athlican Constructive Church -- Sacred books
• Babism -- Sacred books
• Bahai Faith -- Sacred books
• Bon (Tibetan religion) -- Sacred books
• Brahmanism -- Sacred books
• Buddhism -- Sacred books
• Buddhist goddesses -- Sacred books
• Ch'ŏndogyo -- Sacred books
• Christianity -- Sacred books
• Christians -- Sacred books
• Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- Sacred books
• Confucianism -- Sacred books
• Confucius and Confucianism -- Sacred books
• Druzes -- Sacred books
• Egypt -- Religion -- Sacred books
• Hasidism -- Sacred books
• Hinayana Buddhism -- Sacred books
• Hinduism -- Sacred books
• Hua yan Buddhism -- Sacred books
• Islam -- Sacred books
• Jainism -- Sacred books
• Jōdoshū -- Sacred books
• Judaism -- Sacred books
• Latter Day Saint churches -- Sacred books
• Mahayana Buddhism -- Sacred books
• Nichiren (Sect) -- Sacred books
• Orthodox Eastern Church -- Greece -- Sacred books
• Pure Land Buddhism -- Sacred books
• Rastafari movement -- Sacred books
• Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints -- Sacred books
• Shakers -- Sacred books
• Shin (Sect) -- Sacred books
• Shingon (Sect) -- Sacred books
• Shinto -- Sacred books
• Sikhism -- Sacred books
• Taejonggyo -- Sacred books
• Tantric Buddhism -- Sacred books
• Taoism -- Sacred books
• Tendai (Sect) -- Sacred books
• Theravāda Buddhism -- Sacred books
• Trinity -- Sacred books
• Zen Buddhism -- Sacred books
• Zoroastrianism -- Sacred books

• Sacred Books of the East (50 volumes; 1879-1910), ed. by F. Max Müller
  • all volumes, but incomplete index volume: illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
  • index volume: multiple formats at archive.org
• Sacred Books of the East: Including Selections from the Vedic Hymns, Zend-Avesta, Dhammapada, Upanishads, the Koran, and the Life of Buddha, with Critical and Biographical Sketches (revised edition, 1900), ed. by Epiphanius Wilson, trans. by F. Max Müller, James Darmesteter, George Sale, Dharmakṣema, and Samuel Beal, contrib. by Aśvaghoṣa and Thomas Carlyle
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Jātaka-mālā; or, Bodhisattvāvadāna-mālā (Published for Harvard University by Ginn, 1891), by Āryaśūra and H. Kern (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Vishńu Puráńa : a system of Hindu mythology and tradition (Trubner, 1864), by Fitzedward Hall and H. H. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Aṅguttara-nikâya (Pub. for the Pali text society, by H. Frowde, 1885), by Caroline A. F. Rhys Davids, Mabel Hunt, Edmund Hardy, and Richard Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Ādi-Granth, or, The holy scriptures of the Sikhs (W.H. Allen and Co., 1877), by Ernst Trumpp and Great Britain India Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sacred writings... with introductions and notes. (P. F. Collier & son, 1910) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sacred scriptures of world-religion. ([Caustic-Claflin Co., Printers], 1913), by Martin K. Schermerhorn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buddhism in translations (Harvard University, 1896), by Henry Clarke Warren (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Sacred books of China : the texts of Confucianism (Clarendon press, 1879), by James Legge and Confucius (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sacred anthology; a book of ethnical Scriptures (H. Holt, 1874), by Moncure Daniel Conway (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tongues of fire : a bible of sacred scriptures of the non-Christian world (The Johns Hopkins press, 1941), by Grace Hill Turnbull (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sacred books of the East (Clarendon Press, 1879), by F. Max Müller and Edward Henry Palmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sacred books of the East (Motilal Banarsidass, 1962), by F. Max Müller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shinshū seiten. (Mugasan Bō, 1917) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nie ban jing xi tan zhang ([Shangyu Luo shi], 1917), by -412? Kumārajīva (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fo jiao zong pai xiang zhu ([publisher not identified], 1921), by Wenhui Yang (page images at HathiTrust)
• Da zang mi yao : [5 juan ([Jinling ke jing chu], 1918), by Yuandufashi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shazhou zhu zi er shi liu zhong (Hong wen tang shu fang pai yin, 1929), by Wenzi, Zhuangzi, and Nihon Takase Hakushi Kanreki Kinenkai (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shinshū daiseiten (Nihon Bukkyō Kyōkai, 1916), by Masazumi Andō, Eun Maeda, and Bunyiu Nanjō (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sacred writings... with introductions and notes. (P. F. Collier & son, 1910) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Phrasūttantapidok. ([publisher not identified], 1893), by King of Siam Chulalongkorn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Religionsgeschichtliches Lesebuch (Mohr, 1908), by Alfred Bertholet, Adam Mez, M. Winternitz, Karl F. Geldner, and Wilhelm Grube (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Udāna; or, The solemn utterances of the Buddha. (Luzac & co., 1902) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The bible of bibles : a source book of religions, demonstrating the unity of sacred books of the world (J.F. Rowny Press, 1928) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Duṣkaracaryā des Bodhisattva in der buddhistischen Tradition (K. J. Trübner, 1905), by Julius Dutoit (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sacred anthology; a book of ethnical scriptures (Trübner, 1876), by Moncure Daniel Conway (page images at HathiTrust)
• Five Jātakas, containing a fairy tale, a comical story, and three fables : in the original Pali text (C.A. Reitzel, 1861), by V. Fausbøll (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Rig-Veda and Vedic religion : with readings from the Vedas (Christian Literature Society for India, 1913), by A. C. Clayton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sacred books of the East; comprising the Vedic hymns, Zend-Avesta, Dhammapada, Upanishads, the Koran and the life of Buddha (Colonial press, 1900), by Epiphanius Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tongues of fire: a bible of sacred scriptures of the pagan world (The Macmillan Company, 1929), by Grace Hill Turnbull (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sacred books of the East (Clarendon, 1895), by F. Max Müller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les livres sacrés de l'Orient, comprenant: le Chou-king ou le Livre par excellence: les Sse-chou ou les Quatre livres moraux de Confucius et de ses disciples: les Lois de Manou...: le Koran de Manomet: (Firmin Didot frères [etc.], 1840), by G. Pauthier, Manu (Lawgiver), Albert de Biberstein-Kazimirski, A. Loiseleur Deslongchamps, Antoine Gaubil, and Confucius (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sacred anthology; a book of ethnical Scriptures (London : Trübner, 1874., 1874), by Moncure Daniel Conway (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Sacred anthology (Oriental) : a book of ethnical scriptures (H. Holt, 1877), by Moncure Daniel Conway (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les livres sacrés de l'Orient, comprenant: le Chou-king ou le Livre par excellence: les Sse-chou ou les Quatre livres moraux de Confucius et de ses disciples: les Lois de Manou, premier legislateur de l'inde ; le Koran de Mahomet (Au Bureau du Panthéon Littéraire, 1852), by Antoine Gaubil, Confucius, and G. Pauthier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sacred books of the East : including selections from the Vedic Hymns, Zend-Avesta, Dhammapada, Upanishads, the Koran, and the Life of Buddha (P.F. Collier & Son, 1900), by Dharmaraksha and Epiphanius Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Âyâraṃga sutta of the C̦vetâmbara Jains. (Pub. for the Pali text society, by H. Frowde, 1882), by Hermann Jacobi (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Vibhaṅga, being the second book of the Abhidhamma piṭaka (Pub. for the Pali text society by H. Frowde, 1904), by Caroline A. F. Rhys Davids (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zendavesta (Printed by Berling brothers, sold by Gyldendal, 1852), by N. L. Westergaard (page images at HathiTrust)
• New witness for God. (The Deseret news, 1895), by B. H. Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sacred scriptures of the world; being selections of the most devotional and ethical portions of the ancient Hebrew and Christian scriptures, to which have been added kindred selections from other ancient scriptures ... (G.P. Putnam, 1883), by Martin K. Schermerhorn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The minor law-books (Clarendon press, 1889), by Julius Jolly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sacred scriptures of the world; being selections of the most devotional and ethical portions of the ancient Hebrew and Christian scriptures, to which have been added kindred selections from other ancient scriptures of the world ... (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1898), by Martin K. Schermerhorn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pali book-titles and their brief designations. (American academy of arts and sciences, 1909), by Charles Rockwell Lanman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Worte der Wahrheit, Dhammapadam : eine zum buddhistischen Canon gehörige Spruchsammlung (H. Haessel, 1892), by Leopold von Schroeder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Avesta, die heiligen schriften der parsen. (W. Engelmann, 1852), by Fr. Spiegel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pahlavi version of the Avesta Vendidâd (Education Society's Steam Press, 1895), by Darab Dastur Peshotan Sanjana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Teachings of Buddha (Hebrew Pub. Co., 1922), by George Selikovitch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les livres sacrés de l'Orient, comprenant: le Chou-king ou le Livre par excellence: les Sse-chou ou les Quatre livres moraux de Confucius et de ses disciples: les Lois de Manou...: le Koran de Mahomet: (Société du Panthéon littéraire, 1843), by G. Pauthier, Manu (Lawgiver), Albert de Biberstein-Kazimirski, A. Loiseleur Deslongchamps, Antoine Gaubil, and Confucius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wŏrin sŏkpo. (s.n., 1568), by King of Korea Sejo (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sacred anthology (oriental); a book of ethnical scriptures (H. Holt and co., 1889), by Moncure Daniel Conway (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les livres sacrés de l'Orient, comprenant le Chou-king ou le livre par excellence, les Sse-chou ou les quatres livres moraux de Confucius et de ses disciples, les lois de Manou, premier législateur de l'Indie, le Koran de Mahomet; traduits ou revus et publiés par G. Pauthier. (Bureau du Panthéon littéraire, 1852), by G. Pauthier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sacred books of the East (Christian Literature Co., 1898), by F. Max Müller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Taittaríya and Aittaréya Upanishads, with the commentary of Sankara Achárya and the gloss of Ananda Giri, and the Swétáswatara Upanishad with the commentary of Sankara Achárya (Printed by J. Thomas, 1850), by Edward Röer, Śaṅkarācārya, and Ānandagiri (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Bhăgvăt-gēētā, or, Dialogues of Krĕĕshnă and Ărjŏŏn (Reprinted for G.P. Philes, 1867), by Charles Wilkins and East India Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Sacred books of the East. (Clarendon Press, 1879), by F. Max Müller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sacred books of the East (Christian Literature Co., 1897), by F. Max Müller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Phraʻaphithammapidok. ([Bangkok?] : [publisher not identified], 112 [1893], 1893), by King of Siam Chulalongkorn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sacred literature (J.M. Dent, 1905), by George Leopold Hurst (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buddhism in translations; passages selected from the Buddhist sacred books and translated from the original Pali into English (Harvard University Press, 1922), by Henry Clarke Warren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journal of the Pali Text Society. (Caxton Publications, 1882), by Pali Text Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Texts from the Buddhist canon commonly known as Dhammapada : (Theosophical Publishing Society, 1902), by Samuel Beal (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Antagaḍa-ḍasāo and Aṇuttarovavāiya-dasāo (Printed and pub. under the patronage of the Royal Asiatic society, 1907), by Lionel D. Barnett and Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sutta Nipáta (Trübner, 1874), by Mutu Coomaraswamy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buddhism in translations; passages selected from the Buddhist sacred books and translated from the original Pali into English (Harvard University Press, 1915), by Henry Clarke Warren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sacred literature of the Jains. (Printed at the Education Society's Steam Press, 1893), by Albrecht Weber and Herbert Weir Smyth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zoroastrian litanies. (Columbia University Press, 1908), by Maneckji Nusservanji Dhalla (page images at HathiTrust)
• Religious profession of an Uvāsaga (Printed at the Baptist mission Press, 1885), by active 11th century Abhayadevasūri and A. F. Rudolf Hoernle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sacred anthology : a book of ethnical scriptures (Holt, 1889), by Moncure Daniel Conway (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buddhist suttas (Clarendon Press, 1900), by T. W. Rhys Davids (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sŏnghun yŏnŭi (Pomunsa, 1907), by Chʻŏndogyo. Chungang Chʻongbu (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buddhism in translations (Harvard University, 1906), by Henry Clarke Warren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fu xing ji (Jiangdu Zhang shi, 1885), by Zhanran and Xintai Zhang (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lian zong bao jian : [10 juan] (Ma nang si jing fang, 1879), by Pudu (page images at HathiTrust)
• Da fang guang fo Hua yan jing : 60 juan. (Ke jing chu, 1881), by Fotuobatuoluo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bukkyō seiten (Sanseidō, 1905), by Bunyiu Nanjio and Eun Maeda (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zokushū Tōdaiji Shōsōin monjo (Kondō Keizō, 1885), by Japan) Shōsōin (Nara-shi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zhi xuan pian (Ying fang er sheng xian jing ben tan, 1887), by Dongbin Lü and Canghailaoren (page images at HathiTrust)
• From the Upanishads (Whaley, 1896), by Charles Johnston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prajná páramitá. (Asiatic Society, 1888), by Pratāpacandra Ghosha (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Bhagavadgîtâ, with the Sanatsugâtîya and the Anugîtâ (Clarendon Press, 1882), by Kashinath Trimbak Telang (page images at HathiTrust)
• T'ai-shang kan-ying p'ien. (Clarendon Press, 1891), by James Legge, Laozi, and Zhuangzi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Udânavarga : a collection of verses from the Buddhist canon. (Trübner & co., 1883), by William Woodville Rockhill, Vidyāprabhākara, Dharmatrāta, Vasubandhu, Dharmatrāta, and Prajñāvarman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Māra und Buddha. (S. Hirzel, 1895), by Ernst Windisch (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Kalpasûtra of Bhadrabâhu (In Commission bei F.A. Brockhaus, 1879), by Bhadrabāhu and Hermann Jacobi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buddhist scriptures; a selection translated from the Pāli (J. Murray, 1913), by E. J. Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Book of devotion (Aryan Theosophical Press, 1913), by William Quan Judge (page images at HathiTrust)
• The bible of bibles ; a source book of religions, demonstrating the unity of the sacred books of the world (J. F. Rowny Press, 1957), by Frank Lawrence Riley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Readings from world religions (Fawcett, 1959), by Selwyn Gurney Champion and Dorothy Short (page images at HathiTrust)
• Srīmat Kamparāmāyaṇam : teyvīkaṁ poruntiya kaviccakravarttiyākiya kampanāṭṭāl̲vā raruḷicceytatu mutavāvatu pālakaṇtam (880-03 Cen̲n̲ai : Vittiyāratnākar Accukkūṭattir̲ patippikkappaṭṭatu, 1911., 1911), by A. Cuntaranātampiḷḷai Avarkaḷal and active 9th century Kampar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Religionsgeschichtliches Lesebuch (J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1926), by Alfred Bertholet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Problems in Mormon text : a brief study of changes in important Latter-day Saint publications ... with references to controversial aspects of the restoration of the priesthood and Mormon concepts of deity ([s.n.], 1957), by LaMar Petersen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kitāb raghbat al-aḥdāth (al-Maṭbaʻah al-Baṭrīrkīyah al-Suryānīyah, 1907), by Isḥāq Armalah (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jñātādharmma kathāṅgasūtra (Nūtanasaṃskr̥itayaṃtra, 1876), by Vijayasādhu and son of Śreṣṭhi Dhana Abhayadeva Sūri (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Bahn und der rechte Weg des Lao-Tse : der chinesischen Urschrift (Insel-Verlag, 1919), by Laozi and Alexander Ular (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Sirāj al-munīr fī al-aʻānah ʻalá maʻrifah baʻḍ maʻānī kilām rabbinā al-ḥakīm al-khabīr / lil-Imām al-Khaṭīb al-Shirbīnī (880-07 [Miṣr?] : [publisher not identified], 1868-1869., 1868), by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Shirbīnī (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sacred Book of the Babists (Columbia University Libraries, 1872), by Bahá'u'lláh, Alexander Isaac Cotheal, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buddhism in translations : passages (Harvard University Press, 1922), by Henry Clarke Warren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le livre des récompenses et des peines : avec commentaires et légendes : ouvrage taoiste : texte chinois (H. Georg, 1889), by F. Turrettini (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Dhammapada : a collection of verses : being one of the canonical books of the Buddhists (Clarendon Press, 1881), by F. Max Müller and V. Fausbøll (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories of the Buddha's former births. (University Press, 1895), by Robert Alexander Neil, H. T. Francis, W. H. D. Rouse, Robert Chalmers, and Edward B. Cowell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Paṭisambhidāmagʻ pāḷi toʻ. (Sudhammavatī Cā puṃ nhipʻ tuikʻ, 1920) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Udānʻʺ Pāḷitoʻ nissaya : Cā khya nakʻ, muiʺ thi mū (Manta leʺ toṅʻ Piṭakatʻ toʻ cā puṃ nhipʻ tuikʻ], 1926), by ʾA shyaṅʻ Jāgara Matherʻ (page images at HathiTrust)
• Therī gāthā Paḷi toʻ Nisya : Cā khya nakʻ, muiʺ thi mū (Mantaleʺ mruí : Mantaleʺ toṅʻ Piṭakatʻ toʻ Cā puṃ nhipʻ Tuikʻ, 1288 [1926], 1926), by ʼA shyaṅʻ Jāgara Matherʻ (page images at HathiTrust)
• Therī ʼapādanʻ Paḷi toʻ Nisya : Cā khya nakʻ, muiʺ thi mū (Mantaleʺ mruí : Mantaleʺ toṅʻ Piṭakatʻ toʻ Cā puṃ nhipʻ Tuikʻ, 1289 [1927], 1927), by ʼA shyaṅʻ Jāgara Matherʻ (page images at HathiTrust)
• Peta vatthu Paḷi toʻ Nisya : Cā khya nakʻ, muiʺ thi mū (Mantaleʺ mruí : Mantaleʺ toṅʻ Piṭakatʻ toʻ Cā puṃ nhipʻ Tuikʻ, 1288 [1926], 1926), by ʼA shyaṅʻ Jāgara Matherʻ (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cūḷanideddasa Paḷi toʻ Nisya : Cā khya nakʻ, muiʺ thi mū (Mantaleʺ mruí : Mantaleʺ toṅʻ Piṭakatʻ toʻ Cā puṃ nhipʻ Tuikʻ, 1288 [1926], 1926), by ʼA shyaṅʻ Jāgara Matherʻ (page images at HathiTrust)
• Therā gāthā Paḷi toʻ Nisya : Cā khya nakʻ, muiʺ thi mū (Mantaleʺ mruí : Mantaleʺ toṅʻ Piṭakatʻ toʻ Cā puṃ nhipʻ Tuikʻ, 1288 [1926], 1926), by ʼA shyaṅʻ Jāgara Matherʻ (page images at HathiTrust)

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