• Alex: A catalog of electronic texts on the Internet provides author, title and subject access to many electronic texts found on the Internet. Its focus is American and English literature and western philosophy
• Center for Computer Analysis of Texts - Biblical, Early Christianity, Islam, Koresh or Gopher site. See CCAT's web page for further information about this center
• Great Books - Texts and Full Searchable Concordances - can key word search a variey of texts and see a list of words and occurrences in each text
• Concordances to various Scriptures including: Apocrypha, Bible, Book of Mormon, Quran and Tao Te Chung
• Internet Archives - the open access text archive includes almost 2,000 texts scanned by Canadian libraries, over 10,000 items in the million books project and over 7,000 items in Project Gutenberg
• Interpreting Ancient Manuscripts Web - study of ancient manuscripts upon which the New Testament is based. Greek focus with English transliteration
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• Internet Sacred Text Archives - good site for locating texts for a wide variety of religious traditions
• Latin Library
• National Library of Canada's collection of electronic religious texts
• Perseus Digital Library - includes Greek and Roman texts, Papyri, and Boyle's papers
• The Schoyen Collection - private collection of 650 manuscripts spanning 5,000 years, includes manuscripts from the Biblical texts, the Quran, Patristic Writings, Qumran, Zoroastian, Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, Taoism etc. The site provides a detailed index and description of the collection and a wealth of images of the manuscripts..
• University of Virginia Electronic Text Center - includes approximately 40,000 humanities texts; while the majority are available through the internet, many are only accessible to University of Virginia users
• Wiretap - religion section

• Bahai Academics Resource Library - good listing of links to primary and secondary texts
• Baha'i Writings
• Translations of Shaykhi, Babi and Baha'i Texts

• Asian Classics Input Project - Kanjur, Tanjur and native Tibetan classics
• Bibliography of Translations from the Chinese Buddhist Canon into Western Languages - good guide to where translations of specific texts can be found in books, theses and journal articles
• Bibliography of Jodo-Shinshu Scriptures in Western Language translations
• Buddhanet's e-books
• Buddhism Depot
• Buddhist Digital Library and Museum - produced by the Library of the National Taiwan University
• Buddhist Scriptures Information Retrieval - BUDSIR on the Internet
• Buddhist Studies - Texts Input/Translation Projects
• Chan: The Essence of all Buddhas - Lectures by the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua, translation by the Buddhist Text Translation Society
• Chinese Cultural Studies : Texts - includes Confucian, Daoist and Buddhist texts
• Chinese Buddhist Electronic Text Association
• CyberSangha: Buddhist Library - very large collection of Buddhist texts
• DFCT On-Line Translation Index - Dharma texts including morning and evening recitations, Song of Enlightenment and Kalama sutra
• Dhammapada - sayings of Buddha (scroll to bottom of pages) - translations by Richards, Beck and Wannapok
• Online Dharma Libraries
• Online Sutras from the Buddhist Digital Library and Museum
• Electronic Bodhidharma
• Other Theravada Sources - links to directories and texts
• Resources for East Asian Language and Thought by Charles Muller - Diamond Sutra, Sutra of the Perfect Enlightenment, Analects of Confucius etc.
• The International Dunhuang Project
• Pali Canon Online - Text is in Pali
• Pali Canon Tipitaka - Outline and explanation of the canon and English translations of selected texts
• Sanskrit Documents
• The Schoyen Collection - private collection of 650 manuscripts spanning 5,000 years, includes manuscripts from the Biblical texts, the Quran, Patristic Writings, Qumran, Zoroastian, Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, Taoism etc. The site provides a detailed index and description of the collection and a wealth of images of the manuscripts. See Collections 20 and 22 for the Buddhist material.
• Substantial Scholarly Sources for East Asian Buddhist Texts
• Taisho Tripitaka Index
• Theravada Text Archives - includes Bodhi Leaves and Wheel Publications and english translations of selected texts from the Vinaya Pitaka, and Sutta Pittaka (including Digha Nikaya, Majjhima Nikaya, Samyutta Nikaya, Anguttara Nikaya and Khudaka Nikaya )
• Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library - " The main foci of the literature section are cataloging of large collections, such as The Collected Tantras of the Ancients; digitization of texts either in the form of images or marked-up texts, as well as summary and analysis of texts within the realm of Tibetan and Himalayan Literature."
• Tibetan Buddhist Resource Centre - extensive lists of texts; many are available with a nominal fee
• Titus : Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text-Und Sprachmaterialien - Includes buddhist Sanskrit texts as well as Pali texts such as Buddhacarita, Lankavatarasutra, Causparisatsutra Sardulakarnavadana, Udanavarga, Abhisamayalamkara and Mahavamsa.
• Undanavarga - edited by Franz Bernhard
• Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra - Translated by Robert Thurman
• WAIS databases in Religion, Theology
  
  WAIS searchable documents, primarily focussed on Buddhism
• Zen Buddhist Texts - primary texts and those of the Southwest Zen Academy including "Beginner's guide to sitting"
• Lord Buddha, Philosophy - Please note this is a ZIP file
• Women in the Pali Canon - Culavedalla Sutta, The Therigatha, Bhikunni-Samyutta

• Analects of Confucius - Translated by Charles Muller
• Xunzi, Book 6: Contra Twelve Philsophers
• Chinese Cultural Studies : Texts - includes Confucian, Daoist and Buddhist texts
• Chinese Philosophy Page by Steven Brown - links to Confucian texts
• Great Learning - Translated by Charles Muller
• Doctrine of the Mean - Translated by Charles Muller
• Han Fei's Eminence in Learning and Five Vermin
• Song Xing Fragments
• Mencius - Translated by Charles Muller
• Electronic Scriptoral Texts for Buddhist, Confucian and Taoist Studies - Diamond Sutra, Sutra of the Perfect Enlightenment, Analects of Confucius etc.
• Confucianism and Taoism Digital Text Resources

• Astronomy and Antiquity of Vedic Culture
• Bhagavad Gita - Postscript file of the Sanskrit text
• Bhagavad Gita - translation by Sir Edwin Arnold
• Bhagavad Gita - translation by Edwin Arnold with concordance and word lists (alphabetical, frequency, inverse and length) - from Bibliotheca Religiosa IntraText
• Digital Shikshapatri
• The Upanishads - translated by F. Mac Muller with concordance and word Lists (alphabetical, frequency, inverse and length) - from Biblotheca Religiosa IntraText
• Sanskrit Manuscripts at University of Pennsylvania - a number of the manuscripts have been digitized and are available at this site
• Vedic texts at the University of Frankfurt archives - include Rgveda-Samhita, Pada-Patha, Samhita-Patha Aitareya-Brahmana, Kausitaki-Brahmana, Aitareya-Upanisad and Manu-Smrti
• Hymns of the Atharva-Veda - translated by Maurice Bloomfield with concordance and word lis ts (alphabetical, frequency, inverse and length) - from Bibliotheca Religiosa IntraText
• Hymns of the Samaveda - translated by Ralph T.H. Griffith with concordance and word lists (alphabetical, frequency, inverse and length) from Bibliotheca Religiosa IntraText
• The Rig Veda - translated by Ralph R.H. Griffith with concordance and word lists (alphabe tical, frequency, inverse and length) - from Bibliotheca Religiosa IntraText
• The Rig Veda transliterated Sanskrit with concordance and word lists (alphabetical, frequency, inverse and length) - from Bibliotheca Religiosa IntraText
• The Yajur Veda - translated by A. Berriedale with concordance and word lists (alphabetica l, frequency, inverse and length) from Bibliotheca Religiosa IntraText
• Hindu Scriptures - Ramayana, Bhagavad Gita, Mahabharata, Kural and other texts
• Virtual e-Text Archive of Indic Texts - includes texts such as the Bhagavad Gita and the Yogasutras of Patanjali, comprehensive guide
• Sanskrit Documents - texts in Devanagari display and transliteration format as well as dictionaries and pronounciation guides n
• Sanskrit Sutras - Amitabha Sutras, Vajracchedika-prajnaparamita sutras
• Tantrik Texts - including: Yoni Tantra, Ganapati Upanishad and Kaula Upanishad
• Veda and Dharma - "Veda, Vedic culture and its relation to present culture"

• Compendium of Muslim Texts - produced by the Muslim Students Association at the University of Southern California
• Concordances to various Scriptures including: Apocrypha, Bible, Book of Mormon, Quran and Tao Te Chung
• Holy Qur'an - English translation by Abdullah Usufali
• Holy Qur'an - listing of a number of editions and translations into English and other languages, links also to searching by topic and by key word.
• Islamic Inscriptions - commentary and texts
• Mandudui's introduction to the chapters of the Qur'an
• The Noble Qur'an - Summarized Version of At-Tabari, Al-Qurtubi and Ibn Kathirwith comments from Sahih Al-Bukhari
• The Qur'an (Irving's translation)
• The Quran (Yusuf Ali's translation)/ Search Ali's translation
• The Quran (E.H. Palmer's translation)
• Quran - translation of three versions (Yusufali, Pickthall, Shakir) Include index and search feature
• The Quran (Pickthall's translation) / Search Pickthall's translation
• Qu'ran - transcribed by the Muslim Students Association of Oregon State University with concordance and word list (alphabetical, frequency, inverse and length) from the Bibliotheca Religiosa IntraText
• The Quran (M.H. Shakir's translation) / Search Shakir's translations
• Qu'ran - Shakir's translation from the Electronic Text Center ar the University of Virginia
• Qur'an in Dutch, German, Albanian, Swahili, Spanish and French with concordance and word list (alphabetical, frequency, length) searching from Bibliotheca Religiosa IntraText
• Qur'an in Arabic - includes recitation
• Topical Index to the Quran
• Quran Browser and Concordance - allows searching by passage, word or word part, searches Pickthall, Yusufali, Shakir, Ali and Khalifa
• Qur'anic Manuscripts
• Hadith texts
• Hadith texts - searchable collection (Sahih Bukhari, Sahih Muslim (incomplete), Sunan Abu-Dawud (incomplete) and Malik's Muwatta)
• Tafsir of the Prophet (in book 60 of Bukhari)
• The Rubbayat of Omar Khayyam - translated by Edward FitzGerald with concordance and word lists (alphabetical, frequency, inverse and length) from Bibliotheca Religiosa IntraText
• Scriptures, Prophetic Traditions and related texts - very comprehensive site, includes links to French, Turkish, Spanish and Indonesian versions of the Quran.

• Jain Texts

• Babylonian Talmud - Soncino edition edited by Dr. Isidore Epstein
• Babylonian Talmud - Rodkinson's English translation of approximately 1/3 of the Talmud
• Center for Jewish-Christian Learning - "The Center for Christian-Jewish Learning is devoted to the multifaceted development and implementation of new relationships between Christians and Jews that are based not merely on toleration but on full respect and mutual enrichment" - .includes article archive and collection of official documents arranged by denominationally
• Dead Sea Scrolls /Article on carbon 14 dating of the Dead Sea Scrolls
• Dead Sea Scrolls - guide to critical editions as well as secondary material
• Digitized Book Repository (Jewish National and University Library) - includes approximately 100 books to date
• Early Jewish Writings - links to the Tanakh, Pseudepigrapha, Philo, Flavius Josephus
• Genizah (Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit) - Digitized fragments from the Cairo Genizah / Princeton Genizah Project site - requires Hebrew web fonts
• Guide for the Perplexed by Maimonides
• Guide to Chabad Literature
• Jewish Law
• Jewish Publication Society Bible in Hebrew
• JPS - The Hebrew Bible in English according to the JPS 1917 Edition
• Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian Mysticism - links to a number of documents
• Josephus's Works - English translation by William Whiston
• Josephus - Texts in Greek and English (Brill and Whiston translations). Can also search across the texts.
• Kabbalah
• Legends of the Jews by Ginzberg
• Nag Hammadi Library
• News about Jews - "digitized images of 259 American newspapers from the Abraham and Deborah Karp Collection of Early American Judaica. These newspapers span the years 1798-1898.
• Online Treasury of Talmudic Manuscripts - images of major manuscripts of the Talmud from the Vatican Library, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence, the Bibliotheque Nationale, the British Library etc.
• Pirqe Rabbi Eliezer Electronic Texts and Manuscripts
• Philo of Alexandria
• Primary Textual Witnesses to Tannaitic Literature - " The database is part of an extensive project under the directorship of Prof. Shamma Friedman, whose objective is to enable access online to an electronic searchable transcription of all the primary textual witnesses to Tannaitic Literature. This project is funded by the The Naftal - Yoffe Center for the Study and Dissemination of Oral Law, under the auspices of the Bar Ilan University - Faculty for Jewish Studies. Currently online are the Mekhilta Database and the Tosefta Database."
• Rabbinic Literature - guide to electronic images and transcriptions as well as print resources - compiled by the The Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary
• Responsa Project - "The Global Jewish Database (the Responsa Project) contains the world's largest electronic collection of Jewish texts in Hebrew ever recorded, which embody thousands of years of Jewish learning. The database includes numerous works from the Responsa Literature - rabbinic case-law rulings which represent the historical-sociological milieu of real-life situations. In addition, the database includes the Bible, the Talmud and their principal commentaries; works about Jewish law and customs; major the codes of Jewish law, such as Maimonides' Mishneh Torah and the Shulchan Aruch with its principal commentaries; midrashim, Zohar, etc…"
• Sefer Yetziraf - W.W. Westcott edition
• Seforim Online - mostly Hebrew texts
• Shulchan Aruch - summaries of parts of this text
• Spinoza's Theologico Political Treatise
• Talmud - images from the Bablylonian Talmud - Pergamenthandschrift, Frankreich (?) 1342 - Cod.hebr.95 from the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
• Talmud Guide - If you only have the title of the chapter of the Talmud, you can use this guide to determine which tractate the title is found in. Note the titles are listed in Hebrew.
• Talmud Tractates Abbreviations Guide
• Hebrewbooks.org - "Hebrewbooks.org was founded in order to preserve old American Hebrew books that are out of print and/or circulation. Many American Rabbis wrote seforim (Hebrew books) in the early part of the 20th century. They have long since passed away and in many instances so has their holy work. Currently our mission has expanded to include all Torah Seforim ever printed. At Hebrewbooks.org you will be able to view and print the entire Sefer online." - can search and browse by author and title. Note this also includes journals.
• WebShas - Guide to the places in the Talmud where issues are discussed - can search by keyword or subject
• Women's Jewish Archive Primary Sources - photogaphs, documents, speeches
• Full Hebrew text of the Tanach, Mishnah, Tosefta, Babylonian Talmud, Talmud Yerushalmi, Mishneh Torah le-Rambam

• Sri Guru Granth Sahib (English translation)
• Sri Guru Granth Sahib - searchable text in English, Devanagari, Gurmukhi and transliteration
• Translations of selected Sikh writings including: Lawan, Zafarnama, Anand

• The Analects by Lao Tse - translated by James Legge
• Chinese Cultural Studies : Texts - includes Confucian, Daoist and Buddhist texts
• Chinese Philosophy Page - includes translations of texts by Lao Tzu, Sun Tzu etc.
• Daoist Canon of the Ming Zhengtong era - index and pdf files for all available texts
• Electronic Scriptoral Texts for Buddhist, Confucian and Taoist Studies - Diamond Sutra, Sutra of the Perfect Enlightenment, Analects of Confucius etc.
• Confucianism and Taoism Digital Text Resources
• Taosim Depot - Contains 17 English translations of the Tao Te Ching as well as the original Chinese text
• Concordances to various Scriptures including: Apocrypha, Bible, Book of Mormon, Quran and Tao Te Chung
• Chinese Philosophy texts
• Taosim Information Page - provides a good listing of links to English translations of the Tao Te Ching
• Tao Te Ching - Translated by Charles Muller
• Tao Teh Ching Translations - includes translation by Stan Rosenthal and an interpolation by Peter Merel and a number of other translations
• Tao Te Ching - based on the project Gutenburg edition of the Tao Te Ching, taken from the public domain translation by James Legge
• Tao Teh King translated by James Legge
• Selections from the Tao Te Ching
• I Ching - Good list of links to English translations and information on this work
• Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" - Thigpen translation
• Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" - Lionel Giles translation with commentary
• Chuang-tzu - Good list of English translations, chinese text and source of information on this work

• Unification Home Page

• Avesta

• Atheism/Freethought resources
• Alchemical texts - primarily 16th to 18th century
• Advanced Papyrological Information System - index to holdings of a number of American universities. Provided digital images and records that provide information pertaining to the papyrus, including translations of texts
• Ancient Semitic Texts - Aramaic, Moabite, Phoenician, Ugarit etc.
• Cuneiform Digital Library
• Duke Papyrus Archive - texts about papyri from ancient Egypt and images of over 1,300 papyri. Can keyword search an browse by topic or language
• Egyptian Book of the Dead / Papyrus of Ani
• Egyptian Book of the Dead/ Papyrus of Ani - from University of Pennsylvania
• ETANA core texts - texts of the civilizations of the ancient Near East (Egypt, Assyria, Sumeria, Babylon etc.), includes both primary and secondary texts (Book of the Dead, Encyclopedia Biblica, Handbook of Egyption Relgion etc.)
• Folklore and mythology electronic texts
• Hieroglyphica - (hieroglyphic library of more than 6900 signs)
• Sites for the study of Gnosticism
• Gnostic Society Library
• Gnosis Archive - access to a broad range of resources relevant to Gnostic studies
• Koresh Manuscripts
• Leuven Database of Ancient Books - over 11,000 Greek and Latin Literary texts, can search by author, inventory, century, provenance, material. language, culture, religion etc.
• Marriage and Divorce Papyri
• Nag Hammadi Library
• Rosicrucian texts
• Secular Web Historical Documents / Modern Documents
• Matrix : a scholarly resources fo rthe study of women's religious communities from 400 to 1600 CE. Includes primary source material and secondary sources (articles and research)
• Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies - contains articles, bibliographies etc.
• Shaker Manuscripts On-Line
• Theosophy texts
• Ugaritic texts - texts from the Edinburgh Ras Shamra Project
• Urantia Book

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