A Rāmāyana Petition — PT 982 — A five-line Old Tibetan petition from the Dunhuang caves, written in the form of a formal betrothal document using characters from the Indian Rāmāyana. Three civilizations on one scroll — Chinese Buddhist on the recto, Tibetan bureaucratic-epic on the verso.
Bhagavad Gita — The Bhagavad Gita rendered into English blank verse by Sir Edwin Arnold — a dialogue between Prince Arjuna and Lord Krishna on duty, knowledge, devotion, and the nature of the soul.
Devi Mahatmya — The central scripture of Shakta Hinduism — the Goddess in three great forms destroys the demons that the gods cannot defeat. Translated from Sanskrit.
Introduction to Hinduism — A critical introduction to Hinduism — the problem of the name, the Vedic inheritance, the epics and Puranas, the six philosophies, the three great theisms, the bhakti revolution, the temple and the image, caste and liberation, and the modern encounter with modernity itself.
Rudrayamala Tantra — A major Shaiva Tantric text attributed to the revelation of Lord Shiva to Parvati — the first English translation from a Nepali palm-leaf manuscript.
The Long Tibetan Rāmāyaṇa — The most complete Old Tibetan Rāmāyaṇa from the Dunhuang caves — 276 lines spanning the cosmic backstory of Laṅkā, the origin of Rāvaṇa, the incarnation of Viṣṇu as Rāma, the birth of Sītā, the golden deer, the abduction, the alliance with Sugrīva, Hanumān's leap to Laṅkā, and the march to war. First English translation.
The Tibetan Rāmāyana — An Old Tibetan Rāmāyana fragment from the Dunhuang caves. Rāma's exile, the finding of Sītā, her abduction by the ten-headed demon, and the alliance with the monkey prince Sugrīva.
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