Three Holy Books
Which are the three holy books? This guide explains the Torah, Bible and Quran, why the grouping is a popular framing, and how Hindu scripture differs.
Which are the three holy books? This guide explains the Torah, Bible and Quran, why the grouping is a popular framing, and how Hindu scripture differs.
What is The Serpent Grail by Philip Gardiner and Gary Osborn? This guide explains its serpent-cult thesis, its claims about the Grail and elixir, and how to read it critically.
Learn the story of Holy Week, the final days of Jesus’s life in Christian tradition, from Palm Sunday through Easter, with differences across Western and Eastern churches.
Learn how Adi Shankara’s commentary on the Taittiriya Upanishad shapes its three valli, key teachings on Brahman, and the editions and translations to read.
A guide to the thirteen principal Upanishads: the texts, their Vedic schools, the ten-or-thirteen question, core ideas such as Brahman and Atman, and sources for further study.
A sourced guide to the Threefold Lotus Sutra, the three Mahayana Buddhist texts that form one unit, their Chinese and Japanese names, key themes, and the traditions that study them.
A reader’s guide to The Upanishads: Katha, Prashna, Mundaka by Sri M, covering the three texts, their themes, editions and metadata, and how to read them with tradition and scholarship in mind.
Learn what The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying by Jeremy Taylor teaches about preparing for death, its structure, its Christian context, and how it compares with Hindu teachings on dying.
Learn what the sacred scripture of the Jews is, how the Tanakh, Torah, Mishnah and Talmud differ, and how Jewish tradition and modern scholarship approach these texts.
A guide to S. Radhakrishnan’s 1953 book The Principal Upanishads: its structure, the texts it translates, its introduction, editions, and how to read it with care.