A beloved collection of the Buddha's sayings in verse, on ethics, mindfulness, and the path to liberation. Concise and memorable, it is one of the most widely read of all Buddhist texts.
Sources for Buddhism — The Dhammapada
Buddhism — The Dhammapada in Religion & Spirituality
Held in the Religion & Spirituality chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Ancient Egyptian — The Book of the Dead (Spells for Coming Forth by Day) (−1550)
- Hinduism — The Rigveda (selected hymns) (−1500)
- Judaism — The Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) (−500)
- Christianity — The New Testament (60)
- Islam — The Qur'an (650)
- Hinduism — The Upanishads (−700)
- Hinduism — The Bhagavad Gita (−200)
- Laozi — Tao Te Ching (−400)
- Confucius — Analects (−475)
- Zhuang Zhou — Zhuangzi (−300)
- Rumi — Masnavi (Book I) (1258)
- Augustine — Confessions (397)
- Thomas à Kempis — The Imitation of Christ (1418)
- Josephus — Antiquities of the Jews (93)
- Zoroastrianism — The Avesta (Zend-Avesta) (−1000)
- Sikhism — The Guru Granth Sahib (selected hymns) (1604)
- K'iche' Maya — The Popol Vuh (1550)
- Anonymous — Theologia Germanica (1350)
- William James — The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)
- Augustine — The City of God (426)