Four testaments : Tao Te Ching, Analects, Dhammapada, Bhagavad Gita : sacred scriptures of Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Hinduism /
Four testaments : Tao Te Ching, Analects, Dhammapada, Bhagavad Gita : sacred scriptures of Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Hinduism /
edited by Brian Arthur Brown ; foreword by Francis X. Clooney, SJ.
- 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references.
Prologue. Four fingers and a thumb : Tao Te Ching, Analects, Dhammapada, Gita, and Avesta -- Book one : from the foundations of the earth to our common spiritual ancestors. Introduction : East and West meeting at the altar of religion / by Cyril Glassé ; Exordium : what we once knew / by Karl Friedrich Geldner ; Preface : why the Z factor matters ; From the foundations of the earth : Vedic and Semitic prehistories connecting East and West ; A priest becomes a prophet : commissioned at the river ; A chance meeting at the crossroads of history : before the Vedic-Semitic Interface in Babylon ; The silk route : the axis of the Axial Age ; The extant Avesta : pieces of a jigsaw puzzle ; The fraternal twins of world religions : monism for monotheists -- Book two : the Taoist testament. Introduction : Magi in China and intellectual ferment in Eurasia at the middle of the first millennium BCE / by Victor H. Mair ; Preface : magic and iMagination ; Tao Te Ching / translated by Victor H. Mair -- Book three : the Confucian testament. Introduction : the Indian origins of Buddhism / by Sarvapelli Radhakrishnan ; Preface : the path of the teachings ; Dhammapada / translated by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan -- Book five : the Hindu testament. Introduction : reciprocal illumination / by Arvind Sharma ; Preface / with notes from Mahatma Mohandas Ghandi ; Bhagavad Gita / translated by Mohandas Ghandi -- Book six : the Z factor. Introduction : the texts / by David Bruce ; Preface : new frontiers in scriptural studies ; Israel in exile : God as Israel's only redeemer ; Jesus as a Zoroastrian Saoshyant, the redeemer of the world ; Chinvat Bridge : the final judgment : Zoroastrian scriptures and "previous relations" corrected and confirmed in the Quran -- Book seven : the "Dead zee scrolls". Introduction : searching for the "Dead zee scrolls" / by Richard Freund ; Preface : a model for the twenty-first centry ; Among the ruins : tablets and cylinders ; From Aurel Stein to Mary Boyce and beyond : controversies in the twentieth century and resolution in the twenty-first ; Epilogue : the resurrection of Zoroaster : a prophet from the East for the twenty-first century -- Appendix. Images of the original Eastern testaments and tantalizing hints of things to come.
"Four Testaments brings together four foundational texts from world religions--the Tao Te Ching, Dhammapada, Analects of Confucius, and Bhagavad Gita--inviting readers to experience them in full, to explore possible points of connection and divergence, and to better understand people who practice these traditions"--
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9E49EF46-18ED-4730-A67E-14BBF9A36887 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
2016006183
Sacred books.
Religions--Relations.
Livres sacrés.
Religions--Relations.
RELIGION--Comparative Religion.
RELIGION--Buddhism--Sacred Writings.
RELIGION--Confucianism.
RELIGION--Hinduism--Sacred Writings.
RELIGION--Taoism (see also PHILOSOPHY--Taoist)
Interfaith relations
Religion
Religions
Sacred books
Asia--Religion.
Asie--Religion.
Asia
Electronic books.
Electronic book.
BL70
208/.2
Includes bibliographical references.
Prologue. Four fingers and a thumb : Tao Te Ching, Analects, Dhammapada, Gita, and Avesta -- Book one : from the foundations of the earth to our common spiritual ancestors. Introduction : East and West meeting at the altar of religion / by Cyril Glassé ; Exordium : what we once knew / by Karl Friedrich Geldner ; Preface : why the Z factor matters ; From the foundations of the earth : Vedic and Semitic prehistories connecting East and West ; A priest becomes a prophet : commissioned at the river ; A chance meeting at the crossroads of history : before the Vedic-Semitic Interface in Babylon ; The silk route : the axis of the Axial Age ; The extant Avesta : pieces of a jigsaw puzzle ; The fraternal twins of world religions : monism for monotheists -- Book two : the Taoist testament. Introduction : Magi in China and intellectual ferment in Eurasia at the middle of the first millennium BCE / by Victor H. Mair ; Preface : magic and iMagination ; Tao Te Ching / translated by Victor H. Mair -- Book three : the Confucian testament. Introduction : the Indian origins of Buddhism / by Sarvapelli Radhakrishnan ; Preface : the path of the teachings ; Dhammapada / translated by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan -- Book five : the Hindu testament. Introduction : reciprocal illumination / by Arvind Sharma ; Preface / with notes from Mahatma Mohandas Ghandi ; Bhagavad Gita / translated by Mohandas Ghandi -- Book six : the Z factor. Introduction : the texts / by David Bruce ; Preface : new frontiers in scriptural studies ; Israel in exile : God as Israel's only redeemer ; Jesus as a Zoroastrian Saoshyant, the redeemer of the world ; Chinvat Bridge : the final judgment : Zoroastrian scriptures and "previous relations" corrected and confirmed in the Quran -- Book seven : the "Dead zee scrolls". Introduction : searching for the "Dead zee scrolls" / by Richard Freund ; Preface : a model for the twenty-first centry ; Among the ruins : tablets and cylinders ; From Aurel Stein to Mary Boyce and beyond : controversies in the twentieth century and resolution in the twenty-first ; Epilogue : the resurrection of Zoroaster : a prophet from the East for the twenty-first century -- Appendix. Images of the original Eastern testaments and tantalizing hints of things to come.
"Four Testaments brings together four foundational texts from world religions--the Tao Te Ching, Dhammapada, Analects of Confucius, and Bhagavad Gita--inviting readers to experience them in full, to explore possible points of connection and divergence, and to better understand people who practice these traditions"--
9781442265783 1442265787 9781441219749 1441219749
40026257029
9E49EF46-18ED-4730-A67E-14BBF9A36887 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
2016006183
Sacred books.
Religions--Relations.
Livres sacrés.
Religions--Relations.
RELIGION--Comparative Religion.
RELIGION--Buddhism--Sacred Writings.
RELIGION--Confucianism.
RELIGION--Hinduism--Sacred Writings.
RELIGION--Taoism (see also PHILOSOPHY--Taoist)
Interfaith relations
Religion
Religions
Sacred books
Asia--Religion.
Asie--Religion.
Asia
Electronic books.
Electronic book.
BL70
208/.2