Taoist
Chuang Tzu
The thirty-three books of Chuang Tzu in James Legge's 1891 English translation, arranged by book and source paragraph.
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Daoist texts
Dao De Jing (Tao Teh King)
The Dao De Jing, traditionally attributed to Laozi, in James Legge’s 1891 English translation. This edition contains only the 81 chapters of the primary translation as transcribed in Project Gutenberg ebook 216.
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Jaina Sutras
The four works in Hermann Jacobi’s English translation: Akaranga Sutra, Kalpa Sutra, Uttaradhyayana Sutra, and Sutrakritanga Sutra. Section keys encode the work and printed-transcription source page.
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Kojiki
The Kojiki in Basil Hall Chamberlain’s 1882 English translation, organized according to the translation’s 180 printed sections.
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Rig Veda
The ten Mandalas of the Rig Veda in Ralph T. H. Griffith’s 1896–1897 English translation.
View public previewConfucian texts
The Analects of Confucius
The Analects (Lunyu), a collection of sayings and dialogues attributed to Confucius and his circle, presented in James Legge's English translation as transcribed in Project Gutenberg eBook 3330.
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The Dhammapada
A canonical collection of 423 verses in the Pali Buddhist tradition, presented in F. Max Muller’s 1881 English translation.
View public previewAncient Egyptian funerary literature
The Egyptian Book of the Dead: Papyrus of Ani
E. A. Wallis Budge's English translation of the funerary text of the Papyrus of Ani, with the chapter, variant, and appendix material transmitted in the historical edition.
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The Qur'an
The Qur'an arranged in its 114 surahs and ayat; this edition contains Marmaduke Pickthall's 1930 English translation, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran.
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The Song Celestial; or Bhagavad-Gita
Sir Edwin Arnold's English poetic translation of the Bhagavad-Gita, presented as a dialogue between Arjuna and Krishna. This edition imports only the primary translated poem in its eighteen source chapters. The source has no canonical verse numbering: each unit is one blank-line-separated stanza block exactly as transcribed in Project Gutenberg eBook #2388. Labels are source-stanza locators only and do not assert canonical Bhagavad-Gita verse equivalence. Source footnote markers were removed because the separate endnotes are outside this primary-text edition.
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The Upanishads
English translation by Swami Paramananda, dated Boston, March 1919 in the source edition. This import contains the complete translated primary text of the Isa, Katha, and Kena Upanishads as transcribed in Project Gutenberg ebook 3283, with introductions, commentary, notes, and Project Gutenberg boilerplate excluded.
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The Zend-Avesta, Part I: The Vendidad
James Darmesteter’s 1880 English translation of the Vendidad, comprising the complete twenty-two Fargards. This edition imports the primary translated text only; editorial prefaces, introductions, chapter synopses, commentary, footnotes, page markers, and repository material are excluded.
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Works of Mencius
The seven books of the Mencius in James Legge's English translation, arranged by book, part, and chapter.
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