Directory 1,237 records
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Across 13 traditions, and 533 in none yet.
841–960 of 1,237
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533 of these sit in no collection yet, so they appear under All and under no tradition.
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Akdamut Piyyut for Shavuot be Meir ben Yitzchak -
Christianity Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr Sacred Song composed by Nikolaus Decius with lyrics by Nikolaus Decius - South Asian traditions Amritabindu Upanishad Hindu text on Yoga
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Anuttarayoga Tantra Category of Tibetan Buddhist texts - Iranian traditions Arzhang Disappeared holy book of the Manichaean religion
- Judaism Birkat haMinim Curse on heretics which forms part of Jewish rabbinical liturgy
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Christianity Čajniče Gospel Oldest gospel written in medieval Bosnia - Buddhist traditions Cariyapitaka A part of Khuddaka Nikaya in the Pali Canon; a short hagiographic work of 35 verse accounts of the Buddha's former lives when he as a bodhisattva exhibited perfections, which are prerequisites to buddhahood
- Buddhist traditions Cheng Weishi Lun Discourse on Yogacara by the early Tang dynasty monk Xuanzang; framed around Vasubandhu's work Triṃśikā-vijñaptimātratā
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Christianity Christ lag in Todes Banden Song -
Christ the Lord Is Risen Today Christian hymn, Easter song by Charles Wesley -
Codex Cospi Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican pictorial manuscript
- Commonitory V century Christian treatise
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Christianity Da pacem Domine Sacred Song -
Christianity Dejlig er jorden Christian hymn written by Bernhard Severin Ingemann -
Christianity Den blomstertid nu kommer Swedish Christian summer song - Judaism Eduyot
- Epistle to the Son of the Wolf Bahá'í text, last major work of Bahá'u'lláh, written in 1891
- Buddhist traditions Fire Sermon Part of the Pali Buddhist Canon (SN 35.28)
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Gems of Divine Mysteries Arabic text by Baháʼu'lláh, founder of the Baháʼí Faith - Gospel of the Four Heavenly Realms Lost gnostic text on esoteric cosmology, probably framed in the form of a dialogue between Jesus and the Apostles
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Christianity Großer Gott, wir loben dich German hymn by Ignaz Franz, based on Te Deum -
Christianity Just as I Am Evangelical himn - South Asian traditions Kathashruti Upanishad A Hindu text on spirituality, monastic life, renunciation
- Buddhist traditions Kevaḍḍha Sutta One of 34 suttas in the Digha Nikaya
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Buddhist traditions Kṣitigarbha Bodhisattva Pūrvapraṇidhāna Sūtra Sutra in Mahāyāna Buddhism - Christianity Lasst uns froh und munter sein German Christmas carol
- Islam Lex Mahumet pseudoprophete Translation or paraphrase of the Quran into Latin; earliest European translation of the Quran
- Libellus de Nativitate Sanctae Mariae
- Little Hours Christian minor canonical hours
- Buddhist traditions Mahayana-sutra-alamkara-karika Buddhist philosophical work attributed to Maitreya-nātha, written in verse, that presents the Mahayana path from the Yogacara perspective
- Mandaean Book of John Book of scripture ascribed to John the Baptist
- South Asian traditions · Buddhist traditions Mandala 10 Tenth mandala of the Rigveda
- Marsanes Gnostic text
- Midrash Rabba Part of or the collective whole of specific aggadic midrashim on the books of the Torah and the Five Megillot
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Christianity Now Thank We All Our God Christian hymn by Martin Rinkart -
Christianity O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig Psalm -
Oberon Epic poem by Christoph Martin Wieland - Norse and Germanic Oddrúnargrátr Poem
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Ofudesaki Main scripture of the Tenrikyo religion - Christianity Parable of the empty jar Parable of Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas: “The kingdom […] is like a […] woman who was carrying a jar full of meal. While she was walking […] the handle […] broke and the meal emptied out […] When she reached her house, she […] found it empty.”
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Judaism Pardes Rimonim Book dealing with the Kabbalah, it was written by the otoman rabbi Moses Cordovero. -
Roza Mira Religious text by Daniil Andreyev -
South Asian traditions Rudrakshajabala Upanishad Upanishadic Hindu scripture - Samadhiraja Sutra Sutra in Mahāyāna Buddhism
- South Asian traditions Savitri Upanishad Minor Upanishad of Hinduism
- Judaism Shehecheyanu Jewish prayer
- Some Answered Questions Bahá'í text containing ʻAbdu'l-Bahá's views on religion, philosophy and science
- Sörla þáttr 14th-century Norse work
- South Asian traditions Tantraloka Treatise by Abhinavagupta about tantrism
- Testimony of Truth Christian Gnostic text
- Christianity The Grain of Wheat Parable of Jesus on resurrection: “еxcept a grain of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.” (John 12:24)
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The Witch-Cult in Western Europe Book by Margaret Murray - Thought of Norea Sethian Gnostic text
- Three Steles of Seth Gnostic text
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Treatise on the Response of the Tao Taoist book by Li Ying-Chang - Buddhist traditions Ullambana Sutra Sutra in Mahāyāna Buddhism
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Christianity Wer nur den lieben Gott läßt walten German hymn - South Asian traditions Yoga Kundalini Upanishad Hindu text on Yoga
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East Asian traditions Zhengao Tao Hongjing’s collection of poetry and prose from the Shangqing revelations, supposedly given to Yang Xi by Perfected Ones from 364 to 370 - Buddhist traditions Aggañña Sutta 27th Sutta of the Digha Nikaya collection about the beginning of the Earth and the birth of social order (including castes)
- Anno Dracula 1992 novel by Kim Newman
- South Asian traditions Apastamba Dharmasutra One of the oldest Dharma texts of Hinduism
- Apocryphon of Ezekiel Jewish text written between 50BCE−70CE asserting bodily resurrection
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Arabic Bayán Text by the Báb, written ca. 1848 - Armenian Infancy Gospel
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Aruch HaShulchan Book about Jewish law written by Yechiel Michel Epstein -
Ancient Egypt Assessors of Maat The 42 judges before whom the deceased stands trial in the afterlife, in accordance with Ancient Egyptian religion (Kemetism; Neterism). / Wikimedia list article -
Norse and Germanic Atlakviða Poem in the Poetic Edda - Norse and Germanic Atlamál Poem
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Bazmavep Armenian scientific journal - Beit Yosef Commentary on Arba'ah Turim
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Christianity Blott en dag Christian hymn written by Lina Sandell - Bogurodzica Orthodox prayer
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Christianity Book of Bartholomew Pseudepigraphic work - Mesoamerica and the Andes Borgia Group Group of religious pre-Columbian documents from central Mexico
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Chaplet of Saint Michael Catholic chaplet -
Codex Vaticanus B Pre-Columbian Middle American pictorial manuscript - Deuteronomy Rabbah Midrash
- Buddhist traditions Dharmaskandha
- Duos habet et bene pendentes Medieval legend
- Enigmatic Book of the Netherworld Two-part ancient Egyptian funerary text inscribed on the second shrine of the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun
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Gennady's Bible 1499 manuscript of the Bible in Church Slavonic - South Asian traditions Gopatha Brahmana Religious text in Hinduism
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Harima Fudoki Ancient Japanese Provincial Gazeteer -
Hlöðskviða Old Norse heroic poem -
Buddhist traditions Humane King Sutra Mahayana sutra, probably composed in China, found in Taisho No. 245 and 246 -
Christianity Ich steh an deiner Krippen hier German Christmas hymn by Paul Gerhardt -
Italian Chronicles 1855 short story collection by Stendhal - South Asian traditions Jabali Upanishad Shaiva Hindu text
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Kanzul Iman Sunni urdu translation of The holy Quran - Buddhist traditions Kāraṇḍavyūhasūtra Sutra in Mahāyāna Buddhism
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Christianity Kimer, I klokker! Psalm - Buddhist traditions Long Scroll of the Treatise on the Two Entrances and Four Practices Chan Buddhist text
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Christianity Lord, Take My Hand and Lead Me Christian hymn - South Asian traditions Mahishasura Mardini Stotra Hindu hymn in praise of Durga
- South Asian traditions Mantrika Upanishad Minor Upanishad of Hinduism
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Mater Verborum 1240 Latin dictionary - Christianity Matthew 7:13 Parable of the Strait Gate
- Mekhilta
- South Asian traditions Naradaparivrajaka Upanishad A Hindu text on spirituality, monastic life, renunciation
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South Asian traditions Nāradasmṛti Dharmaśāstra text from ancient India - Buddhist traditions Niddesa Part of the Khuddaka Nikaya of the Pali Canon; a commentary on parts of the Suttanipata; has 2 parts:Mahā-Niddesa (a commentary on Atthaka Vagga) and Cūḷa-Niddesa (commenting on the Parayana Vagga and Khaggavisana Sutta)
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Christianity Nun freut euch, lieben Christen g'mein Lutheran hymn by Martin Luther -
Christianity O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde groß Sacred Song -
Christianity Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 1224 Papyrus fragment with Greek writing - Buddhist traditions Patisambhidamagga The 12th book of Khuddaka Nikaya in the Pali Canon; comprises 30 chapters on different topics, of which the first, on knowledge, makes up about a third of the book
- Prologue Snorri Sturluson's literary work
- Norse and Germanic Reginsmál Eddic poem
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Buddhist traditions Samantabhadra Meditation Sutra Mahāyāna Buddhist sutra associated with the Threefold Lotus Sutra - Samkhyapravachana Sutra Hindu sutra
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Iranian traditions Shabuhragan Sacred book of the Manichaean religion, written by the founder Mani - Shi'ur Qomah Midrashic text, part of the Heichalot; records, in anthropomorphic terms, the secret names and measurements of God’s corporeal limbs and parts, in the form of teachings of Metatron to Rabbi Yishmael, who transmits it to his students and Rabbi Akiva
- South Asian traditions Sita Upanishad Goddess-related Hindu text
- Snøfrid Svåsesdotter Wife of King Harald Fairhair
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Christianity St. Peter in Chains Christian feast -
Buddhist traditions Sutra of Filial Piety Sutra, attributed to a translation by Kumārajīva but actually composed in China, that synthesizes Confucianism and Buddhist teachings and refutes the criticism that monasticism undermines filial piety - Tafsir Qomi Tafsir by Ali Ibn Ibrahim Qomi
- South Asian traditions Tejobindu Upanishad Hindu text on Yoga