Asian Antiquity
The Vedanta-Sutras
The Vedanta Sutras, or Brahma Sutras as they are also known, is a Sanskrit text attributed to the sage Badarayana (also known as Vyasa) writ…
Shri Dnyaneshwar
An overview of the life of Shri Dnyaneshwar and his devoted family. Dnyaneshwar was a 13th-century Indian poet and yogin. He commentated the…
Folk Tales From the Far East
“You are right, Sahib,” said the fairy. So she told me the delightful tales that are found in this book. I hope you will enjoy them as I did…
Kojiki
Of all the mass of Japanese literature, which lies before us as the result of nearly twelve centuries of book-making, the most important mon…
Shakuntala
Ryder originally did a close to literal translation of this 4th or 5th century play by the poet Kalidasa. Quite unwieldly with 7 acts and ov…
The Book of Changes
The Book of Changes (Traditional: 易經; Simplified: 易经; Legge: Yî King, Wade-Giles: I Ching; Pīnyīn: Yìjīng; Bopomofo: ㄧˋㄐㄧㄥ; Kor…