religious texts

Confucius, civil service, collection of speeches and discussions, influence on morals in society, "ren"

• The Analects

• Avesta

• Vedas

• Tao Te Ching

non-canonical, Catholics and Orthodox (recognize), Jewish and Protestants (lower authority), Septuagint, Vulgate Bible, Luther's Bible

• Talmud

• Hadiths

• Apocrypha

• Bhagavad Gita

codification of Jewish oral law, Mishnah (the laws themselves), Gemara (scholarly commentary on the Mishnah), developed in two Judaic centers: Palestine and Babylonia

• Apocrypha

• Talmud

• the Bible

• Book of Mormon

1830, Joseph Smith, Moroni, "reformed Egyptian", gold plates, 600 BC, Lamanites, Nephites

• Yijing

• The Qur'an

• The Analects

• Book of Mormon

"The Way and Its Power", Daoism, Lao Tzu, Warring States/late Zhou, instructs in the ways of Daoism

• Tao Te Ching

• Yijing

• The Doctrine of the Means

• Mencius

"I Ching"/"Book of Changes", 1500-1000 BC, dragon-emperor Fuxi, eight trigrams from a turtle shell, yin/yang, survived Shi Huangdi

• Yijing

• Great Learning

• Vedas

• Summer and Autumn Annals

Four hymn-books: Rig, Sama, Yajur, Atharva, Brahmana and Aranyakas, written in archaic form of Sanskrit, 1500-1200 BC, Indra, Varuna, Agni,

• Ramayana

• Vedas

• Mahabharata

• Kalidasa

"Vedanta", Sanskrit, 900-500 BC, partly poetry/mainly prose, atman, Brahman, moksha, Vishnu and Shiva, karma, meditation

• Vedas

• Talmud

• Upanishads

• Hadiths

"The Song of God", Sanskrit, poem from Book Six of Mahabharata, 1st to 2nd century, Arjuna and Krishna (avatar of Vishnu), preaches main tenets of Hinduism

• Book of Mormom

• Shivashna

• The Torah

• Bhagavad Gita

"Zend-Avesta", sacred scripture of Zoroastrianism, Gathas, Visparat, Vendidad, Yashts, Khurda, Sassanid Persian Dynasty, 200-640 AD, struggle between Ahura Mazda and Angra Mainyu

• Avesta

• The Qur'an

• Vedas

• Vulgate Bible