Sacred Text Archive

A selection of texts from the Internet Sacred Text Archive:

Southern Buddhism

Vinaya Texts translated from the Pali by T.W. Rhys Davids and Herman Oldenberg
Part II, The Mahavagga, V-X, and the Kullavagga, I-III
Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 17 [1882]
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe17/index.htm

Vinaya Texts translated from the Pali by T.W. Rhys Davids and Hermann Oldenberg
Part III, The Kullavagga, IV-XII.
Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 2, [1885]
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe20/index.htm

The Questions of King Milinda translated by T. W. Rhys Davids
Part I of II
Volume XXXV of "The Sacred Books of the East" [1890]
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe35/index.htm

The Questions of King Milinda translated by T. W. Rhys Davids
Part II of II
Volume XXXVI of "The Sacred Books of the East" [1894]
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe36/index.htm

Dialogues of the Buddha
(The Digha-Nikaya)
Translated from the Pali by T. W. Rhys Davids
London, H. Frowde, Oxford University Press
[1899] Vol. II of The Sacred Books of the Buddhists
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/dob/index.htm

BUDDHISM IN TRANSLATIONS

Passages Selected from the Buddhist Sacred Books and Translated from the Original Pali into English by
Henry Clarke Warren
Published by Harvard University Press (1896)
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/bits/index.htm

The Udana translated from the Pali
by Dawsonne Melanchthon Strong [London, 1902]
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/udn/index.htm

Psalms of the Early Buddhists
I.-Psalms of the Sisters
by Mrs. Rhys Davids
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/pos/index.htm


The Jataka Fables

The Jataka
Volume I
tr. Robert Chalmers
ed. E. B. Cowell [1895]
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/j1/index.htm

The Jataka
Volume II
tr. W.H.D. Rouse
ed. E. B. Cowell [1895]
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/j2/index.htm

Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs [1912]
http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/ift/index.htm

JATAKA TALES by Ellen C. Babbitt [1912]
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/jt/index.htm


Northern Buddhism

The Fo-Sho-Hing-Tsan-King:
A Life of Buddha by Asvaghosha Bodhisattva,
translated from Sanskrit into Chinese by Dharmaraksha A.D. 420,
and From Chinese into English by Samuel Beal
Sacred Books of the East Vol. 19 [1883]
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe19/index.htm

Buddhist Mahayana texts translated by E. B. Cowell, F. Max Müller and J. Takakusu
Oxford, the Clarendon Press [1894]
Vol. XLIX of The Sacred Books of the East
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe49/index.htm

Saddharma-Pundarika or, The Lotus of the True Law,
Translated By H. Kern (1884)
Sacred Books of the East, Vol XXI.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/lotus/index.htm

She-rab Dong-bu (The Tree of Wisdom) by Nagarjuna
edited and translated by W. L. Campbell [Calcutta, 1919]
(reduced to HTML by Christopher M. Weimer, June 2002)
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/srdb/index.htm

Asvaghosha's Discourse on the Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana
tr. by Teitaro Suzuki [1900]
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/taf/index.htm

The Awakening of Faith of Ashvagosha
by Timothy Richard [1907]
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/aof/index.htm

The Gateless Gate
by Ekai, called Mu-mon, tr. by Nyogen Senzaki and Paul Reps [1934]
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/glg/index.htm

Chinese Buddhism
by Joseph Edkins [1893]
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/cbu/index.htm

Buddhism in Tibet
Illustrated by Literary documents and objects of religious worship
with an account of the Buddhist systems preceding it in India
by Emil Schlangintweit, LL.D. [1863]
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/bit/index.htm

The Religion of the Samurai
A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan
by Kaiten Nukariya [1913]
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/rosa/index.htm

Shinran and His Work
by Arthur Lloyd [1910]
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/sahw/index.htm

The Creed of Half Japan
by Arthur Lloyd [1911]
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/chj/index.htm

Principal Teachings of The True Sect of Pure Land
by Yejitsu Okusa [1915]
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/ptpl/index.htm

Buddhist Psalms
by S. Yamabe and L. Adams Beck [1921]
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/bups/index.htm

Manual of Zen Buddhism
Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, D.LITT. [1934]
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/mzb/index.htm

Sermons of a Buddhist Abbot [Zen For Americans]
by Soyen Shaku
translated by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki [1906]
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/zfa/index.htm

Mysticism, Christian and Buddhist
by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki [1957, copyright not renewed]
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/mcb/index.htm

Gleanings in Buddha-Fields
by Lafacdio Hearn [1897]
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/gbf/index.htm

The Nō Plays of Japan
by Arthur Waley [1921]
http://www.sacred-texts.com/shi/npj/index.htm

Buddhism and Immortality
by William Sturgis Bigelow [1908]
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/bai/index.htm

India in Primitive Christianity
by Arthur Lillie [1909]
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/ipc/index.htm

The Way to Nirvana
by L. de la Vallée Poussin [1917]
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/w2n/index.htm

The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/tea.htm

The Ideals of the East
with Special Reference to the Art of Japan
by Kakuzo Okakura [1904]
http://www.sacred-texts.com/shi/ioe/index.htm

Miscellaneous Short Buddhist Texts
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/etc/index.htm

Tibetan Buddhism Archives
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/tib/index.htm

Zen Buddhism Archives
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/zen/index.htm