Asian Religions (Buddhism, Hinduism, Chinese Religions)
Online (web):
- Internet Sacred Text Archive: Buddhism
- Internet Sacred Text Archive: Hinduism
- Internet Sacred Text Archive: Confucianism and Traditional Chinese Beliefs
- Internet Sacred Text Archive: Taoism
- Internet Sacred Text Archive: I Ching
- Internet Sacred Text Archive: Shinto and Japanese Religions
- The Analects (Lun Yu) (attributed to Confucius)
- The Fundamentals of the Middle Way (Mulamadhyamaka-Karika) [a foundational text of the Madhyamaka School of Mahayana Buddhism]
- nothingistic.org (includes works by Confucius, Laozi, and Mencius)
- The Mahabarata (requires user registration to view)
- Mahayana Buddhist Sutras in English
- The Nilamata Purana [a Hindu scripture]
- The Twenty Verses [a foundational text of Yogacara Buddhism]
- Yoga Sutras of Patanjali [the foundational text of Hindu Yoga]
- Access to Insight: Readings in Theravada Buddhism
Online (SJSU):
- Leaman, Oliver, ed. Eastern Philosophy: The Key Readings. London: Routledge, 2000.
Books in the King Library:
- The Pali Canon [Theravada Buddhist Scriptures]. Oxford: Pali Text Society, 1997-2005. [King Ethnic Studies Reference 5th Floor BQ1332.E54 D38 1997]
- Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East, 12 vols. New York: Parke, Austin & Lipscomb, 1917. [King Reference 2nd Floor PJ 408 .S3]
Christianity
Online (web):
- Center for Reformed Theology and Apologetics (all the content on this site is potentially primary in nature, but see especially the link to Historic Church Documents)
- sermonindex.net (access Christian sermons in video, text, or audio formats)
- BibleGateway.com (a tool for reading and researching scripture online; provides advanced searching capabilities, which allow readers to find and compare particular passages in scripture based on keywords, phrases, or scripture reference)
- Christian Classics Ethereal Library (writings by the Church Fathers and other classic Christian writings)
- The Dead Sea Scrolls at the Gnostic Society Library
- Book Illuminations from the Reichenau Monastery (Bavarian State Library)
- The Bible [Latin Vulgate], with King James translation
Books in the King Library:
- Bettenson, Henry Scowcroft. The Early Christian Fathers; A Selection from the Writings of the Fathers from St. Clement of Rome to St. Athanasius. London, New York: Oxford University Press, 1956. [King 6th Floor BR63 .B4]
- Charles, R. H., ed. The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament in English. 2 Vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968. [King Reference 2nd Floor BS1692 1968]
- Pritchard, James B., ed. Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1969. [King Reference 2nd Floor BS1180 .P83 1969]
- Richardson, Cyril Charles. Early Christian Fathers. Philadelphia: Westminister Press, 1953. [King 6th Floor BR60 .R5]
Islam
Online (web):
- Al-Islam.org (Shi'a)
- IslamiCity.com (Sunni)
- Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement: Religious Texts
- Islam and islamic Studies Resources (links to both primary and secondary source materials)
- Islamic Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- The Koran (proximity and boolean searching enabled)
Books in the King Library:
- Abdel Haleem, M.A.S., trans. The Qur'an. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. [King 6th Floor BP109 2004]
- Ali, A. Yusuf, trans. The Holy Qur'an. Indianapolis: American Trust Pubns. for the Muslim Student's Association of the United States and Canada, 1977. [King 6th Floor BP109 1977x]
- Khalifa, Rashad, trans. Quran: The Final Testament. Tucson: Islamic Productions, 1989. [King Reference 2nd Floor BP109 .K44 1989]
- Sells, Michael, trans. Approaching the Qur'an: The Early Revelations. Ashland, OR: White Cloud Press, 1999. [King Nonfiction 3rd Floor 297.1226 Quran]
Judaism
Online (web):
- Babylonian Talmud, digitized Parchment Manuscript, France (?) 1342 (Bavarian State Library)
- The Dead Sea Scrolls at the Gnostic Society Library
- Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement: Religious Texts
- Navigating the BIBLE II (Journey into the world of the Jewish Bible)
Books in the King Library:
- The Dead Sea Scriptures, with introd. and notes by Theodor H. Gaster. Garden City, N.Y. Anchor Books, 1976. [King Reference 2nd Floor BM487 . A363]
- Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures [The new JPS translation according to the traditional Hebrew text]. Philadelphia, PA: The Jewish Publication Society, 1985. [King Reference 2nd Floor BS895 .J4 1985a]
- The Talmud [Talmud Bavli]: the Steinsaltz Edition. Commentary by Adin Steinsaltz. New York: Random House, 1989- [King Reference 2nd Floor BM499.5 .E4 1989]