Sacred Books of the East

by Epiphanius Wilson (Introduction), James Darmesteter (Translator), George Sale (Translator)

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Genres: Religion, Philosophy, Spirituality, Buddhism, Theology, Nonfiction, Amazon

202 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 17, 2012

Reviews

[Darius · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book presents selections from: Vedic Hymns, Zend Avesta, Dhammapada, Upanishads, Koran, and Life of Buddha. Each is prefaced by an introductory note.

I thought the selections were fine, but a bit repetitive for a modern reader. The prefaces were informative. I ended up reading all the prefaces, and only sampling from the samples of the original texts.

The best preface was the one on the Koran. It deserves to be pulled out as a stand-alone essay. Written by George Sale, it comes from a Christian perspective, and is extremely sympathetic to the Koran and to Islam: making a strong case that -- theologically - Christianity and Islam (as expressed in the Koran) are not that different at their root.

[Holybooks.com · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Sacred Books of the East is an enormous project undertaken by Max Müller and various authors from 1879 and 1910. The group’s work was published by Oxford University Press and to this day many of the translations are the only ones existing or the most precise. These translations might be some of the most important pieces of religious literature in one collection the world has ever seen. It is not possible to buy the complete set of these works, but Google Books and Microsoft has done an effort to scan them all from library sources since they are now in the Public Domain. You can download the complete 50 volumes here: https://www.holybooks.com/the-sacred-...

[Neela]

includes: Vedic Hymns, Zend-Avesta, Dhamapada, Upanishads, the Koran, and the Life of Buddha

[Yusak Lie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book in the library of PCU, and it was a very old book but had been sold out in a book fair held by the university. This book discovered and compared many things about religion from the East, including the history both told and untold by common people. Therefore, this book was amazing in the sense that it revealed the most controversial history of each religion that the followers of the each might keep silent of. This book might be the most transparant in revealing the history of each religion.

[Bilal Tahir · Rating 5 out of 5]

I feel that either there is some error in the description of this book or this is another book with the same name. The book, rather set of 50 books that I read in this name were compiled by different translators and the project was supervised by the great linguistic Max Muller. And that one is a great book no doubt and I have given 5 stars for that book.