An edition of Four testaments (2016)

Four testaments

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

Four testaments
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An edition of Four testaments (2016)

Four testaments

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

"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"--

Four Testaments brings together four foundational texts from world religionsthe Tao Te Ching, Dhammapada, Analects of Confucius, and Bhagavad Gitainviting readers to experience them in full, to explore possible points of connection and divergence, and to better understand people who practice these traditions. Following Brian Arthur Browns award-winning Three Testaments: Torah, Gospel, Quran, this volume of Four Testaments features essays by esteemed scholars to introduce readers to each tradition and text, as well as commentary on unexpected ways the ancient Zoroastrian tradition might connect Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Hinduism, as well as the Abrahamic faiths. Four Testaments aims to foster deeper religious understanding in our interconnected and contentious world. -- Provided by publisher.

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English
Pages
479

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Table of Contents

Contents
Foreword by Francis X. Clooney, SJ, Director of the Harvard Center for Study of World Religions
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
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 Glasse
Exordium: What We Once Knew, by Karl Friedrich Geldner
Preface: Why the Z Factor Matters
Through the Mists of Time: 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: A Prelude to the Babylonian Interface between Proto Vedic and Proto Semitic Religions
The Silk Route: The Axis of the Axial Age
The Extant Avesta: A Few Pieces of the 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 MillenniumBCE by Professor 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: Innovation vs.Tradition by Jacqueline Mates-Muchin, Senior Rabbi, Temple Sinai, Oakland
Preface: Fireworks East and West
The Analects: translated by James Legge
Book Four The Buddhist Testament
Introduction: The Indian Origins of Buddhism by Professor Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Oxford
Preface: King Akbars Perfect Religion
Dhammapada: translated by S. Radhakrishnan
Book Five The Hindu Testament
Introduction: Reciprocal Illumination by Professor Arvind Sharma, Birks Professor in Comparative Religion, McGill University
Preface: With Notes from Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi
Bhagavad Gita: translated by Gandhi
Book Six The Z Factor
Introduction: Eastern Influence in Western Texts by Dr. David Bruce
Preface: New Frontiers in Scriptural Studies
Israel in Exile: God as Israels Only Redeemer
Up from the River Again, With a Promise of Paradise: Jesus as a Zoroastrian Saoshyant, the Redeemer of the World
Chinvat Bridge The Final Judgement: Zoroastrian Scriptures and {28}Previous Revelations

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Titles
Bhagavadgītā. English., Tipiṭaka. Suttapiṭaka. Khuddakanikāya. Dhammapada. English.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
208/.2
Library of Congress
BL70 .F67 2016, BL70.F67 2016

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvi, 479 pages
Number of pages
479

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27216031M
ISBN 10
1442265779
ISBN 13
9781442265776
LCCN
2016003911
OCLC/WorldCat
937368198

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