Maintained by Saundra Lipton (
lipton@ucalgary.ca)
Sacred Texts
It is impossible to provide a comprehensive list of electronic texts. The following links provide access to variety of sites for religious texts.
General / Bahai / Bible/ Buddhist / Christian / Confucian / Hindu / Islamic / Jain / Jewish / Sikh / Taoist /Unification Church / Zoroastrian / Other
General
- Alex: A catalog of electronic texts on the Internet provides author, title and subject access to many electronic texts found on the Internet. Its focus is American and English literature and western philosophy
- Bibliotheca Religiosa IntraText - religious texts from Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam
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Center for Computer Analysis of Texts (University of Pennsylvania) - Biblical, Early Christianity, Islam, Koresh - center appears to no longer be in existence but the text files have been archived here.
- Internet Archives - the open access text archive includes almost 2,000 texts scanned by Canadian libraries, over 10,000 items in the million books project and over 7,000 items in Project Gutenberg
- Interpreting Ancient Manuscripts Web - study of ancient manuscripts upon which the New Testament is based. Greek focus with English transliteration
- Internet History Sourcebooks Project - note sections for India, Islam and Judaism
- Internet Sacred Text Archives - good site for locating texts for a wide variety of religious traditions
- Latin Library
- Perseus Digital Library - includes Greek and Roman texts, Papyri, and Boyle's papers
- The Schoyen Collection - private collection of 740 manuscripts spanning 5,000 years, includes manuscripts from the Biblical texts, the Quran, Patristic Writings, Qumran, Zoroastian, Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, Taoism etc. The site provides a detailed index and description of the collection and a wealth of images of the manuscripts..
- University of Virginia Electronic Text Center - includes approximately 40,000 humanities texts; while the majority are available through the internet, many are only accessible to University of Virginia users
Bahai
Bible
Buddhist
Collections
- Access to Insight: Readings in Theravada Buddhism - links to directories and selected texts from the Pali Canaon including Bodhi Leaves and Wheel Publications and english translations of selected texts from the Vinaya Pitaka, and Sutta Pittaka (including Digha Nikaya, Majjhima Nikaya, Samyutta Nikaya, Anguttara Nikaya and Khudaka Nikaya )
- Asian Classics Input Project - Kanjur, Tanjur and native Tibetan classics
- Bibliography of Translations from the Chinese Buddhist Canon into Western Languages - good guide to where translations of specific texts can be found in books, theses and journal articles
- Bibliography of Jodo-Shinshu Scriptures in Western Language translations
- Buddhanet's e-books
- Buddhism Depot
- Buddhist Digital Library and Museum - produced by the Library of the National Taiwan University
- Buddhist Scriptures Information Retrieval - BUDSIR on the Internet
- Chan: The Essence of all Buddhas - Lectures by the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua, translation by the Buddhist Text Translation Society
- Chinese Cultural Studies : Texts - includes Confucian, Daoist and Buddhist texts
- Chinese Buddhist Electronic Text Association
- DharmaNet learning Center - see texts and Sutras section
- Electronic Bodhidharma - links to a variety of texts
- The International Dunhuang Project - text and images for manuscripts including Amitrabha Sutra, Tibetan Tantric Manuscripts, Chinese Manuscripts, Sanskrit Fragments and Saddharma Pundarika Sutra
- Links Pitaka - Academic Buddhist Resources
- Nyingma Tibetan Text Translation and Preservation
- Online Sutras from the Buddhist Digital Library and Museum
- Pali Tipitaka (Vipassana Research Institute)
- Pali Canon Tipitaka - Outline and explanation of the canon and English translations of selected texts
- Resources for East Asian Language and Thought by Charles Muller - Diamond Sutra, Sutra of the Perfect Enlightenment, Analects of Confucius etc.
- Sanskrit Documents
- Sanskrit Manuscripts from Cambridge Digital Library - the University of Cambridge has over 1600 doctrinal, exegetical, philosophical, scientific and ritual works in Sanskrit, Prakrit, Pali , Tamil and other ancient and medieval South Asian languges. A catalogue is being produced and a significant percentage of the titles will be digitzed.
- SAT Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō Text Database - full text of 85 volumes
- The Schoyen Collection - Buddhism and China (private collection of 740 manuscripts spanning 5,000 years, includes manuscripts from the Biblical texts, the Quran, Patristic Writings, Qumran, Zoroastian, Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, Taoism etc.) The site provides a detailed index and description of the collection and a wealth of images of the manuscripts.
- Systemtischer Uberblick uber die Literatur der erkenntnistheoretisch-logischen Schule des Buddhismus (SUEBS) - index to where Sanskirt texts can be located.
- Taisho Tripitaka
Index
- Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library - " The main foci of the literature section are cataloging of large collections, such as The Collected Tantras of the Ancients; digitization of texts either in the form of images or marked-up texts, as well as summary and analysis of texts within the realm of Tibetan and Himalayan Literature."
- Tibetan Buddhist Resource Centre - extensive lists of texts; many are available with a nominal fee
- Titus : Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text-Und Sprachmaterialien - Includes buddhist Sanskrit texts as well as Pali texts such as Buddhacarita, Lankavatarasutra, Causparisatsutra Sardulakarnavadana, Udanavarga, Abhisamayalamkara and Mahavamsa.
- Zen Buddhist Texts - primary texts and those of the Southwest Zen Academy including "Beginner's guide to sitting"
Individual Texts
- Dhammapada - sayings of Buddha (scroll to bottom of pages) - translations by Richards and Wannapok
- Undanavarga - edited by Franz Bernhard
- Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra - Translated by Robert Thurman; Sutra translated by Robert A. F. Thurman , commentaries by Hon Sing Lee and
Chiew Hoon Goh
Christian
Confucian
Hindu
Collections:
- Internet Sacred Text Archive - Hinduism - Vedas, Upanishads, Puranas, Laws of Manu, Mahabharata, Ramayana, Bhagavad Gita, Vendanta, Yoga Sutras, Kalidasa etc.
- Classical Hindu Texts - site maintained by Fran Pritchett at Columbia University
- Digital Corpus of Sanskrit - " is a searchable collection of lemmatized Sanskrit texts"
- Sanskrit Documents - texts in Devanagari display and transliteration format as well as dictionaries and pronounciation guides
- Sanskrit Scriptures - Amitabha Sutras, Vajracchedika-prajnaparamita sutras, and Heart Sutra - from Digital Library of Buddhist Studies. Note need to select "sanskrit scriptures" from left side menu
- Tantrik Texts - including: Yoni Tantra, Ganapati Upanishad and Kaula Upanishad
- Sanskrit Manuscripts from Cambridge Digital Library - the University of Cambridge has over 1600 doctrinal, exegetical, philosophical, scientific and ritual works in Sanskrit, Prakrit, Pali , Tamil and other ancient and medieval South Asian languges. A catalogue is being produced and a significant percentage of the titles will be digitzed.
- Sanskrit Manuscripts at University of Pennsylvania - a number of the manuscripts have been digitized and are available at this site
- Vedic texts at the University of Frankfurt archives - include Rgveda-Samhita, Pada-Patha, Samhita-Patha Aitareya-Brahmana, Kausitaki-Brahmana, Aitareya-Upanisad and Manu-Smrti. Select "textus" and then text database where you will see links to the Indic texts
Individual texts:
- Bhagavad Gita - translation by Sir Edwin Arnold
- Bhagavad Gita - translation by Edwin Arnold with concordance and word lists (alphabetical, frequency, inverse and length) - from Bibliotheca Religiosa IntraText
- Digital Shikshapatri
- Hymns of the Atharva-Veda - translated by Maurice Bloomfield with concordance and word lis
ts (alphabetical, frequency, inverse and length) - from Bibliotheca Religiosa IntraText
- Hymns of the Samaveda - translated by Ralph T.H. Griffith with concordance and word lists (alphabetical, frequency, inverse and length) from Bibliotheca Religiosa IntraText
- Mahabharata - overview and links to texts - James L. Fitzgerald at Brown University
- The Rig Veda - translated by Ralph R.H. Griffith with concordance and word lists (alphabe
tical, frequency, inverse and length) - from Bibliotheca Religiosa IntraText
- The Rig Veda transliterated Sanskrit with concordance and word lists (alphabetical, frequency, inverse and length) - from Bibliotheca Religiosa IntraText
- The Upanishads - translated by F. Mac Muller with concordance and word Lists (alphabetical, frequency, inverse and length) - from Biblotheca Religiosa IntraText
- The Yajur Veda
- translated by A. Berriedale with concordance and word lists (alphabetica
l, frequency, inverse and length) from Bibliotheca Religiosa IntraText
Islamic
Qur'an
- Holy Qur'an - English translation by Abdullah Usufali
- Holy Qur'an - listing of a number of editions and translations into English and other languages, links also to searching by topic and by key word.
- Koran - from the University of Virginia Electronic Text Collection
- Qur'an - translations into a variety of languages and a number of editions including: Pickthall, Yusuf Ali, Arberry, Asad and Lings
- Mandudui's introduction to the chapters of the Qur'an
- Quran - translations into a number of languages - a number of versions including Pickthall, Asad, Ali, Arberry, Lings (selected verses) and Uthmani
- Quran - from Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement. Search the Quran
- The Qur'an and Qur'anic translation
- The Qur'an (Irving's translation)
- The Quran (Yusuf Ali's translation)
- The Quran (E.H. Palmer's translation)
- Quran - translation of three versions (Yusufali, Pickthall, Shakir) Include index and search feature
- The Quran (Pickthall's translation)
- Qu'ran - transcribed by the Muslim Students Association of Oregon State University with concordance and word list (alphabetical, frequency, inverse and length) from the Bibliotheca Religiosa IntraText
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The Quran (M.H. Shakir's translation)
- Qu'ran - Shakir's translation from the Electronic Text Center ar the University of Virginia
- Qur'an in Dutch, German, Albanian, Swahili, Spanish and French with concordance and word list (alphabetical, frequency, length) searching from Bibliotheca Religiosa IntraText
- Qur'an in Arabic - includes recitation
- Topical Index to the Quran
- Quran Browser and Concordance - allows searching by passage, word or word part, searches Pickthall, Yusufali, Shakir, Ali and Khalifa
- Qur'anic Manuscripts
- Quran - includes links to French, Turkish, Spanish and Indonesian versions of the Quran.
Other texts
Jain
Jewish
Collections
- Digitized Book Repository (Jewish National and University Library) - includes approximately 100 books to date
- Early Jewish Writings - links to the Tanakh, Pseudepigrapha, Philo, Flavius Josephus
- Genizah (Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit) - Digitized fragments from the Cairo Genizah / Princeton Genizah Project site - requires Hebrew web fonts
- Guide to Chabad Literature
- Hebrew Manuscripts from the Cambridge Digital Library - Bibles, commentaries, liturgical, philosophical, kabbalistic and scientific manuscripts
- Hebrewbooks.org - "Hebrewbooks.org was founded in order to preserve old American Hebrew books that are out of print and/or circulation. Many American Rabbis wrote seforim (Hebrew books) in the early part of the 20th century. They have long since passed away and in many instances so has their holy work. Currently our mission has expanded to include all Torah Seforim ever printed. At Hebrewbooks.org you will be able to view and print the entire Sefer online." - can search and browse by author and title. Note this also includes journals.
- Holy texts from Snunit (in Hebrew) - Tanach, Mishnah, Tosefta, Talmud, Mishneh Torah (Maimonides)
- Seforim Online - mostly Hebrew texts
- Sifrut HaKodesh - Hebrew text of the Tanakh, Mishnah, Tosefta, Babylonian Talmud, Talmud Yerushalmi, and the Mishneh Torah of Rambam
Specific texts
Bible (Tanakh)
Dead Sea Scrolls
Liturgical texts (Prayer Books)
Talmud
- Babylonian Talmud - Rodkinson's English translation of approximately 1/3 of the Talmud
- Full Hebrew text of the Tanach, Mishnah, Tosefta, Babylonian Talmud, Talmud Yerushalmi, Mishneh Torah le-Rambam
- Holy texts from Snunit (in Hebrew) - Tanach, Mishnah, Tosefta, Talmud, Mishneh Torah (Maimonides)
- Online Treasury of Talmudic Manuscripts - images of major manuscripts of the Talmud from the Vatican Library, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence, the Bibliotheque Nationale, the British Library etc.
- Primary Textual Witnesses to Tannaitic Literature - " The database is part of an extensive project under the directorship of Prof. Shamma Friedman, whose objective is to enable access online to an electronic searchable transcription of all the primary textual witnesses to Tannaitic Literature. This project is funded by the The Naftal - Yoffe Center for the Study and Dissemination of Oral Law, under the auspices of the Bar Ilan University - Faculty for Jewish Studies. Currently online are the Mekhilta Database and the Tosefta Database."
- Rabbinic Literature - guide to electronic images and transcriptions as well as print resources - compiled by the The Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary
- Responsa Project - "The Global Jewish Database (the Responsa Project) contains the world's largest electronic collection of Jewish texts in Hebrew ever recorded, which embody thousands of years of Jewish learning. The database includes numerous works from the Responsa Literature - rabbinic case-law rulings which represent the historical-sociological milieu of real-life situations. In addition, the database includes the Bible, the Talmud and their principal commentaries; works about Jewish law and customs; major the codes of Jewish law, such as Maimonides' Mishneh Torah and the Shulchan Aruch with its principal commentaries; midrashim, Zohar, etc…
- Soncino English Talmud
- Talmud - images from the Bablylonian Talmud - Pergamenthandschrift, Frankreich (?) 1342 - Cod.hebr.95 from the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
- Talmud Guide - If you only have the title of the chapter of the Talmud, you can use this guide to determine which tractate the title is found in. Note the titles are listed in Hebrew.
- Talmud Tractates Abbreviations Guide
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Tosefta Online
- WebShas - Guide to the places in the Talmud where issues are discussed - can search by keyword or subject
Other
Sikh
Taoist
Unification Church
Zoroastrian
Other
- Alchemical texts - primarily 16th to 18th century
- Advanced Papyrological Information System - index to holdings of a number of American universities. Provided digital images and records that provide information pertaining to the papyrus, including translations of texts
- Ancient Semitic Texts - Aramaic, Moabite, Phoenician, Ugarit etc.
- Cuneiform Digital Library
- Duke Papyrus Archive - texts about papyri from ancient Egypt and images of over 1,300 papyri. Can keyword search an browse by topic or language
- Egyptian Book of the Dead / Papyrus of Ani
- Egyptian Book of the Dead/ Papyrus of Ani - from University of Pennsylvania
- ETANA core texts - texts of the civilizations of the ancient Near East (Egypt, Assyria, Sumeria, Babylon etc.), includes both primary and secondary texts (Book of the Dead, Encyclopedia Biblica, Handbook of Egyption Relgion etc.)
- Folklore and mythology electronic texts
- Hieroglyphica - (hieroglyphic library of more than 6900 signs)
- Sites for the study of Gnosticism
- Gnostic Society Library
- Gnosis Archive - access to a broad range of resources relevant to Gnostic studies
- Koresh Manuscripts
- Leuven Database of Ancient Books - over 11,000 Greek and Latin Literary texts, can search by author, inventory, century, provenance, material. language, culture, religion etc.
- Marriage and Divorce Papyri
- Nag Hammadi Library
- Rosicrucian texts
- Secular Web Historical Documents / Modern Documents
- Shaker Manuscripts On-Line
- Theosophy texts
- Ugaritic texts - texts from the Edinburgh Ras Shamra Project
- Urantia Book
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