Journal Articles

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• "God Has No Opposite."
• 'THE PENITENT THIEF' (Majjhima 86)

  This is a Pali Buddhist scripture — Dialogue No. 86 of the Majjhima Nikaya (Middling Collection), the Angulimala Sutta — translated by…

• 'The Canonical Account of the Birth of Gotama the Buddha'...

  This is a late 19th-century scholarly translation, with prefatory notes, of Majjhima Nikāya Sutta 123 ("Dialogue on Wonders and Marvels")…

• A Buddhist Genesis

  This is a scholarly introduction and translation, published in a quarterly magazine around 1902, presenting what the translator Albert J…

• A Collection of Kammavâcâs

  This is a 19th-century scholarly article presenting an edited collection of Kammavācās — Pāli-language texts containing the formal…

• A Cosmological Tract by Pseudo-Dionysius

  Sacred Texts Journals Christian Articles By GIUSEPPE FURLANI, PH.D., J.U.D. THE small cosmological tract I here publish, and which is…

• A Song of Hafiz

  Sacred Texts Journals Islamic Articles The following translation, in the measure of the original, of the famous song of Hafiz, is taken…

• Angelus Silesius

  This is an editorial introduction and bilingual anthology from an early-twentieth-century magazine, presenting English translations of…

• Avalokite/swara's Descent into the Hell Avîchi.

  This is a 19th-century academic article by Professor Edward Cowell, published in what appears to be a journal of Oriental studies…

• Bhûridatta Jâtaka Vatthu

  This is a scholarly Victorian-era translation of the Bhûridatta Jâtaka (No. 547 in the Ceylon List), one of the "Greater Jâtaka"…

• Biographies of Asvagosha, Nagarjuna, Aryadeva, and Vasuba...

  This is a translated excerpt from the Russian Buddhist scholar Vassilief's encyclopedic survey of Buddhism, rendered into English by E…

• Biography of Jellal-al-din Rumi

  This is a biographical article from a 19th-century Islamic studies journal, written by E. Rehatsek, presenting a life of the 13th-century…

• Book of the King's Son and the Ascetic

  This is a scholarly preface by T.W. Rhys Davids followed by the opening of E. Rehatsek's English translation of an Arabic prose text titled…

• Buddhist Meditations

  This is an early twentieth-century journal piece from a Buddhist studies publication, combining a brief editorial introduction with a…

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  This is a 19th-century ethnographic collection of Onondaga (Haudenosaunee/Iroquois) oral traditions, recorded from named Indigenous…

• Chaitanya and the Vaishnava Poets of Bengal

  This is a 19th-century academic article in the comparative religion and Indological tradition, analyzing Bengali Vaishnava devotional…

• Excerpts from Esh-Shahrastâny's Book of Creeds and Sects

  This is an excerpt from a medieval Islamic heresiographical text — likely a translated passage from a classical Arabic work on religious…

• Four Short Suttas

  This is a collection of four Pali suttas (discourses) from the Theravada Buddhist canon, presented in translation, belonging to the…

• God Hypothetically Conceived as More than Personal

  This is a scholarly theological article from a monthly magazine, written by Lawrence Heyworth Mills, examining the philosophical…

• God and His Immortals

  This is a scholarly-devotional magazine article by Lawrence Heyworth Mills, writing within the tradition of late 19th/early 20th century…

• God and His Immortals: Their Counterparts

  This is a scholarly theological article from a monthly academic magazine, part of a series by Lawrence Heyworth Mills on Zoroastrian…

• God and the World Physical.

  This is a philosophical-theological essay by Lawrence H. Mills, published in a Zoroastrian periodical, arguing for a rigorous conceptual…

• Gospel Parallels from Pâli Texts (fifth series)
• Gospel Parallels from Pâli Texts (fifth series)
• Gospel Parallels from Pâli Texts (fifth series)
• Gospel Parallels from Pâli Texts (first series)

  A MONTHLY MAGAZINE Translated from the originals by ALBERT J. EDMUNDS. I GAVE some facts about the pre-Christian antiquity of the Pâli…

• Gospel Parallels from Pâli Texts (second series)
• Gospel Parallels from Pâli Texts (third series)

  This is a translated excerpt from Pali Buddhist canonical texts (drawn from the Numerical Collection, Long Collection, and Cullavaggo)…

• Gospel Parallels from Pâli Texts - Index

  This is an editorial introduction and index to a digitized archive of scholarly articles by Albert J. Edmunds, published in academic…

• Hebrew Visions of Hell and Paradise

  This is a late 19th-century scholarly article by M. Gaster, presenting and translating into English for the first time a collection of…

• Indonesian Legend of Nabi Isa.

  This is a short scholarly editorial article, likely from the early 20th century, followed by the folk legend it discusses — a genre…

• Inscription of the Nestorian Monument

  This is an English translation of the Nestorian Stele, a stone inscription erected in Tang Dynasty China in 781 CE, composed by a Syriac…

• Ismâ'ili materials - Introduction

  This is a 19th-century scholarly introduction and partial translation of three Arabic manuscripts bearing on the beliefs of Ismāʿīlī…

• Jinacarita
• Khuddaka Pá.tha

  This is a 19th-century scholarly edition and translation of the *Khuddaka Pātha* ("Lesser Readings"), a short Pāli Buddhist scripture from…

• Kumbha Jâtaka

  This is a Jataka tale — a Buddhist story of one of the Buddha's past lives — translated from Burmese, belonging to the Pali canonical…

• Kîrtans, or Hymns from the Earliest Bengali Poets

  This is a 19th-century scholarly article by British colonial civil servant John Beames presenting, translating, and contextualizing six…

• Mârka.n.deya Purâ.na. Books VII and VIII.

  This is a 19th-century English verse translation of Books VII and VIII of the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa, a Sanskrit Hindu religious text, rendered…

• Nâgârjuna's "Friendly Epistle"

  This is a scholarly introduction and partial translation of the *Suhṛllekha* ("Friendly Epistle"), a didactic Buddhist letter in verse…

• Persian Stanzas on Attraction and Repulsion

  This is a collection of six verse excerpts from classical Persian Sufi poetry, primarily drawn from Rumi's *Masnavi* (13th century) and one…

• Selections from Rumi (I)

  These are three translated passages from the *Masnavi* of Jalal ad-Din Rumi (13th-century Persia), a canonical work of Sufi mystical poetry…

• Selections from Rumi (II)

  These are three translated verse passages from the *Masnavi* (*Mesnevi*) of the 13th-century Persian Sufi mystic Jalal ad-Din Rumi, drawn…

• Ssuma Ch'ien's Historical Records. Chapter II.

  This is a 19th-century English translation (by Herbert J. Allen, published in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society) of a chapter from…

• Ssuma Ch'ien's Historical Records. Chapter III.
• Ssuma Ch'ien's Historical Records. Introductory Chapter.

  This is a scholarly journal article (1890s, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society) by Herbert J. Allen presenting a literal English…

• St. Catharine of Alexandria (part one)

  Sacred Texts Journals Christian Articles A MONTHLY MAGAZINE WE have seen in a former article ("The Bride of Christ," published in The Open…

• St. Catharine of Alexandria (part two)

  This is the concluding installment of a scholarly article from *The Open Court*, a late 19th/early 20th century magazine on religion and…

• Story of the Merchant Who Struck His Mother

  This is a Buddhist didactic tale translated by Rev. S. Beal (published 1875, also collected in *The Romantic Legend of Sākya Buddha*)…

• Suva.n.na Sâma Jâtaka

  This is a 19th-century scholarly article in the tradition of British Orientalist philology and art-historical criticism, presenting a…

• Temiya Jâtaka Vatthu

  This is a scholarly article combining a brief critical introduction with a translated excerpt from the Temiya Jātaka, a Buddhist birth…

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