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Four testaments : Tao Te Ching, Analects, Dhammapada, Bhagavad Gita : sacred scriptures of Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Hinduism

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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.

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Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield, [2016]

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xvi, 479 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

"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"--

Uniform Title

Bhagavadgītā. English.
Tipiṭaka. Suttapiṭaka. Khuddakanikāya. Dhammapada. English.

Alternative Title

Tao Te Ching.
Analects.
Bhagavad Gita.
Dhammapada.

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Sacred works.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-463) and index.

Contents

Foreword by Francis X. Clooney, SJ, Director of the Harvard Center for Study of World Religions -- 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 Religion: 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, Professor of Chinese, Philadelphia University -- Preface: Magic and iMagination -- Tao Te Ching / translated by Victor H. Mair -- Book Three: The Confucian Testament -- Introduction: Tradition versus Innovation / by Jacqueline Mates-Muchin, Senior Rabbi, Temple Sinai, Oakland -- Preface: Fireworks East and West -- Analects / translated by James Legge -- Book Four: The Buddhist Testament -- Introduction: The Indian Origins of Buddhism / by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Oxford -- Preface: The Path of Teachings -- Dhammapada / translated by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan -- Book Five: The Hindu Testament -- Introduction: Reciprocal Illumination / Arvind Sharma, Birks Professor in Comparative Religion, McGill University -- Preface: With Notes from Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi -- Bhagavad Gita / translated by Mohandas Gandhi -- 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 Judgement : Zoroastrian Scriptures and "Previous Revelations" 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 Century -- 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.

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