The eight canons
Where the words come from, and where to read them in full. Each canon is served from a real published edition, and which edition depends on the language you are reading in.
- Christian Scripture
The Christian Bible: the Hebrew scriptures together with the writings of the early church.
- Hebrew Wisdom
The Tanakh: the Hebrew Bible, in the order and the divisions that Jewish tradition gives it.
- Apocrypha
The deuterocanonical books, held as scripture by Catholic and Orthodox Christians.
- Buddhism
The early Buddhist discourses, preserved in Pali as the teaching of the Buddha and his community.
- Taoism
The Tao Te Ching, the short book of verses at the root of Taoist thought.
- Hindu & Vedic
The Bhagavad Gita, a conversation about duty and detachment, set on the edge of a battlefield.
- Stoic Philosophy
The Stoic writings of the Roman period, on what is and is not within a person’s control.
- Secular ReflectionNot in this language yet
The essay tradition: writers examining how to live, making no appeal to the divine.