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General

• Stephen F. Teiser, "The Spirits of Chinese Religion", from Donald S. Lopez, Jr , Religions of China in Practice, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996)
• Chinese Religions 
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• Image: Custom: Picture of New Year's Dragon

Chinese Traditional Religion

• Yi Jing [the I Ching]
• Yin and Yang in Medical Theory
• Yin and Yang   [At CCNY]
• W. A. P. Martin: The Worship of Ancestors, 1900 

Shinto

• Ten Shinto Creation Stories [At WSU]
• Japanese Creation Myth  [At WSU]
  From Genji Shibukawa: Tales from the Kojiki, 713 CE

Confucianism

• Confucius Page [At UKY]
• Confucius Page [At Albany]
• Selections from the Analects [Lun Yu], - topically arranged selections from the Confucian classic   
• Confucius (5th Century BCE?): Analects   [Lun Yu] [At WSU]
• Confucius: The Analects  [Lun Yu], selections  [At CCNY]
• The Analects  [Lun Yu], complete 
• The Analects [Lun Yu], complete, translated by Charles Muller 1995 [At GOL]
• The Great Learning [Da Xue Ta-Hsüeh] (3rd Century BCE): [At WSU]
• The Great Learning [Da Xue Ta-Hsüeh] (3rd Century BCE) complete 
• Great Learning,[Da Xue Ta-Hsüeh] (3rd Century BCE), complete, translated by Charles Muller 1995   [At GOL]
• The Doctrine of the Mean [Zhong Yong] complete 
• Doctrine of the Mean [Zhong Yong], complete, translated by Charles Muller 1995  [At GOL]  
• Mencius Mengzi: Selections from the Mencius
• Mencius Mengzi: complete, translated by Charles Muller 1995   [At GOL]
• Xunzi Hsun-tzu: Selections from the Xunzi
• Classic of Filiality [Xiao Jing]
• Legalism
  • Han Fei tzu  (d. 233 BCE): Selections from the Writings of Han Fei. c. 230 BCE 
  • Han Fei Tzu (d. 233 BCE): Legalist Views on Good Government  [At WSU]
  • Han Fei tzu: Legalism   [At CCNY]
  • Sima Qian: The Legalist Polices of the Qin 
• Examples of Filial Piety (14th Century CE)  [At WSU]Image: People: Picture of Confucius
• Image: People: Confucius
• Image: People: Mengzi
• Image: People: Mozi
• Image: People: Zhuxi - founder of 'neo-confucianism'
• Wang Yang-Ming: The Philosophy, excerpts, c. 1525 CE

Daoism

• Daoism Information Page
• Laozi Lao Tzu (5th Century BCE??): Selection from the Dao De Jing
• Laozi Lao tzu: Dao De Jing Tao Te Ching, selections  [At CCNY]
• Laozi Lao Tzu (5th Century BCE??): Tao Te Ching, excerpts,  [At WSU]
• Laozi Lao Tzu (5th Century BCE??): The Dao De Jing Tao Te Ching*, version 1, an Interpolation by Peter A. Merel (pete@extro.su.oz.au) based upon the translations of: Lin Yutang, Ch'u Ta-Kao, Gia-Fu Feng & Jane English, Richard Wilhelm and Aleister Crowley. complete, taken from internet site
• Laozi Lao Tzu (5th Century BCE??): The Dao De Jing Tao Te Ching*, Tao Te Ching, version 2, complete, taken from a version on the internet.
• Laozi Lao Tzu (5th Century BCE??): The Dao De Jing Tao Te Ching*, Tao Te Ching, version 3, complete, taken from a versionby y S. Mitchell.
• Lao Tzu (5th Century BCE??): The Dao De Jing Tao Te Ching*, Tao Te Ching, version 5, complete, translated by Charles Muller 1995    [At GOL]
• Zhuangzi Chuang tzu: Selected Chapters, translated by Lin Yutang and Lin Yutang's Introduction [At UFL]
• Zhuangzi Chuang tzu: Zhuangzi Chuang tzu translated by Thomas Merton [At Avigdor/Indiana]
• Zhuangzi Chuang tzu: Story of Three Friends [At UFL]
• Zhuangzi Chuang tzu: Selections from the Zhuangzi
• Zhuangzi Chuang tzu: Selections [At CCNY]
• The Deification of Lao Zi, 666 CE. [At this Site]
  (Inscribed in the Temple at Lao Zi's Birthplace)
• The Yin Fu King, or Classic of the Harmony of the Seen and Unseen, c. 800 CE  [At this Site]
• The Thai-Shang Kan Ying Phien, or Lao Zi's Book of Actions and Their Retribution, c. 1000 CE  [At this Site]
• Image: People: Laozi
• Image: Divinity: Three Daoist Gods
• Image: Divinity: The Three Gods of Fortune [San Hsing]
• Image: Divinity: The God of Wealth in His Civil Aspect
• Image: Divinity: Wen-ch'ang, the Daoist God of Literature

Buddhism

• General
  • Tricycle Magazine Guide to Basics of Buddhism
  • R.P. Hayes: The Dharma Tree [At Buddhist Reading Room]
    Explanation of variety of Buddhist groups and traditions.
  •  Buddhist Scriptures [At Buddhism Depot]
  • Yahoo!: Buddhism
  • Buddhist Studies WWW Virtual Library
  • WWW Virtual Library: Buddhist Texts
    Texts and Input/Translation Projects.
  • DharmaNet - Theravada Buddhism
    Mostly Theravada texts in English translation.
  • Friends of Buddhism
    Multi-denominational, and directed towards modern devotions.
• The Buddha
  • Prince Siddhartha Encounters Old Age, Sickness and Death ('Digha-nikaya,' XIV ['Mahapadana suttanta'])  [At Eliade Page]
  • Gotama's First Masters   [At Eliade Page]
  • 'I am the Holy One in this world, I am the highest teacher. . .' ('Mahavagga,' I, 7-9) [At Eliade Page]
  • Gotama Buddha Ponders ('Majjhima-.nikaya,' XXVI ['Ariya-pariyesana-sutta']) [At Eliade Page]
  • Gotama Buddha Remembers His Earlier Existences ('Majjhima-nikaya,' IV ['Bhaya-bherava-sutta]) [At Eliade Page]
  • Buddha: First Sermon (c. 6th Century BCE) [At Brooklyn College]
  • Buddha: The Teaching of Buddha, an early sermon on Nirvana  [At Brooklyn College]
  • Buddha: The Four Noble Truths [At CCNY]
  • Buddha: The Basic Teachings [At CCNY]
  • The Buddha Enters Nirvana (Ashvagosha, 'Buddhacarita,' XXVI, 83-6, 88-106) [At Eliade Page]
  • The Tathagata Announces that He has Entered Nirvana ('Saddharmapundarika,' XV, 268-72) [At Eliade Page]
  • Faxian: Account of the Buddhistic Kingdoms. [At Brooklyn College]
• Theravada/Hinayana Texts
  • The Dhammpada [At Brooklyn College]
  • The Dhammapada extracts, [At WSU]
  • The Dhammapada, trans. by John Richards [At Coombs-papers]
    "An anthology of 423 Buddhist verses embodying ethical and spiritual precepts arranged by subject."
  • The Dhammapada,Wisdom of the Buddha, translated by Harischandra Kaviratna, Full Text [At  Theosophical University Press]
  • The Dhammapada, trans John Richards [At Buddhist Reading Room]
    This is a collection of 423 insightful verses from various Buddhist texts, arranged by category.
  • The Buddha Foretells the Gradual Decline of Religion ('Anagatavamsa') [At Eliade Page]
  • Gotama Buddha Talks of his Ascetic Practices ('Majjhima-nikaya,'XII ['Maha-sihanada-sutra'])  [At Eliade Page]
  • Gotama Buddha Practiced the most Severe form of Ascetism  ('Majjhima-nikaya,' XXXVI ['Maha-saccaka-sutra']) [At Eliade Page]
  • Sutta Nipata, selections from the Pali text translated by John D. Ireland. [At Buddhist Reading Room]
  • Sammaditthi Sutta, translated from the Pali by Bhikkhu Nanamoli  [At Buddhist Reading Room]
  • Mahamangala Sutta [At Buddhist Reading Room] side by side with the original Pali text. Known in English as the Discourse of the Supreme Blessings.
  • The Four Foundations of Mindfulness [At Buddhist Reading Room]
    Part of the Satipatthana Sutra.
  • Discourse on the Mindfulness of Breathing [At Buddhist Reading Room]
    Selections from the Anapanasati Sutra.
  • Culasunnata Sutta [At Buddhist Reading Room]
    A  lesson on sunyata.
  • Metta Sutta [At Buddhist Reading Room]
    Sub-titled "The Buddha's Words on Kindness" 

Mahayana Texts

• Sunyata
  • Buddha's Sermon on the No-Self  [At Brooklyn College]
  • The Heart Sutra   [At Brooklyn College]
  • The Heart Sutra: Various Versions [At Coombs-papers]
  • Mahamangala Sutra (Discourse of the Supreme Blessings)  [At Coombs-papers]
  • Kalavinka
    Contains very long excerpts from Nagarjuna's Treatise on The Great Perfection of Wisdom (Mahaapraj~naapaaramitaa Upadesha),  "an immense
    exegesis to the Mahaapraj~naapaaramitaa Sutra in 25,000 lines. Classically, it is preserved only in a 100-fascicle Chinese edition translated from Sanskrit in 405c.e. by Kumarajiva, the brilliant and prolific translator-monk who was the premier transmitter to the Chinese of the Maadhyamika teachings of Nagarjuna."
• Bodhsicitta
  • The Bodhisattva's Infinite Compassion ('Shikshasamuccaya,' 280-2 ['Vajradhvaha-sutra']) [At Eliade Page]
  • Acts and Rewards of Devotion to the Buddha ('Shikshasamuccaya,' 299-301 ['Avalokana-sutra'] [At Eliade Page]
• Death
  • The Buddhist Conception of the Intermediate State ('Saddharma-smrityupasthana Sutra,' from chapter XXXIV, via Chinese version) [At Eliade Page]
  • Tibetan Book of the Dead: Death and Intermediate States  [At Eliade Page]
• Maitreya
  • The Prophecy Concerning Maitreya, the Future Buddha ('Maitreyavyakarana') [At Eliade Page]
• Pure Land/Amidism
  • Sutra of the Buddha's Teaching On Amitabha [At drab.org]
  • The Larger Sukhavativyuha Sutra or The Sutra on the Buddha of Eternal Life [At St. Clair]
• Tibetan Buddhism
  • Milerepa Extols His 'Five Comforts'   [At Eliade Page]
  • Père Gerbillon: A Visit to a Lama, c. 1690

Chinese/Japanese Buddhist Texts

• The Sutra of Forty-Two Chapters [At the Refuge Library]
  The first Buddhist text taken to China, c. 67 CE.
• Pure Land
  • The Sutra on Amida Buddha, [At ODN.ne.jp]
    Ddelivered by Shakyamuni Buddha, translated by Hisao Inagaki from (1) From Kumarajiva's Chinese translation and  (2) from Huan-tsang's Chinese translation.
  • Extract from the Lotus Sutra: The Nature of the Buddha  [At Brooklyn College]
  • Extract from the Lotus Sutra: On Faith   [At Brooklyn College]
  • Kûkai's Initiation in the Esoteric Buddhism ('Kobo Daishi Zenshu,' I, 98 ff.)  [At Eliade Page]
  • 2ND Kuya, 'the Saint of the Streets'   [At Eliade Page]
  • Honen and the Invocation of Amida  [At Eliade Page]
  • Shinran: 'The Nembutsu Alone is True' ('Tannisho,' selections) [At Eliade Page]
• Nicheren
  • Nichiren Sees Japan as the Centre of Buddhism's Regeneration [At Eliade Page]
  • Nicheren: Adoration to the Lotus of Perfect Truth  [At Eliade Page]
  • Nicheren Proclaims Himself the 'Bodhisattva of Supreme Action'   [At Eliade Page]
  • Nicheren's Transfiguration    [At Eliade Page]
• Chan/Zen
  • Realizing the Solution (Hashida, Shobo genzo shakui, 1, 142-64),  [At Eliade Page]
  • Sitting and the Koan ( Shobo genzo zuimonki) [At Eliade Page]
  • The Importance of Sitting (Shobo getnzo zuimonki)  [At Eliade Page]
  • Contempt for Scriptures ( Shuso to shite no Dogen Zenji),  [At Eliade Page]

Modern Renditions

• The Gospel of Buddha  [At Brooklyn College]
• The Word of Buddha  [At Brooklyn College]

Christianity

• Ch'ing-Tsing: Nestorian Tablet: Eulogizing the Propagation of the Illustrious Religion in China, with a Preface, composed by a priest of the Syriac Church, 781 A.D.  [At this Site]