Buddhist Mahayana Texts, Part I And II (SBE - Sacred Books Of The East, Volume 49)

The Sacred Books of the East (SBE) series, comprising fifty volumes, was issued by the Oxford University Press between 1879 and 1910. It has translations of key sacred texts of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, and Islam. The series was edited by the famous linguist and scholar of comparative religion, Max Müller. He wrote three of the volumes, and collaborated on three others. The SBE has been designated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as part of the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works.

Buddhist Mahayana Texts, Part I and II (SBE - Sacred Books of the East, Volume 49)

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As of September 2008, we have now reached a key milestone, completing and posting substantial etexts of all of the original 49 volumes of the SBE. This has been a ten-year project. The first volumes, the Upanishads (SBE 1 and 15), were originally scanned in 1997, two years before the inception of sacred-texts. All of these etexts, with the exception of volume 25, were prepared at sacred-texts, or by volunteers. At this point, future work on this project will involve bringing the older etexts up to current standards, and the completion of SBE 50, the General Index.

The difficulties of turning these books into etexts were enormous, and required great care and diligence. These volumes represent some of the most difficult work in the field of etext preparation. Two of the main problems are the use of italics in transliteration and the extensive footnotes. Optical character recognition (OCR) software can produce an approximate transcript of this specialized typography, but stock HTML cannot is not equipped to display it. We had to invent a software technology (STML, Sacred Texts Markup Language) to produce the HTML versions of these texts, in addition to proofing them.

Volume Title Translator year published 1 * The Upanishads, Part 1 of 2 Chandogya Upanishad. Talavakara (Kena) Upanishad. Aitareya Upanishad. Kausitaki Upanishad. Vajasaneyi (Isa) Upanishad. Dover edition in print. Max Müller 1879 2 * The Sacred Laws of the Aryas, part 1 of 2 The sacred laws of the Aryas as taught in the school of Apastamba, Gautama, Vâsishtha, and Baudhâyana. pt. I. Apastamba and Gautama. (The Dharma Sutras) Georg Bühler 1879 3 * The Sacred Books of China, part 1 of 6. Part I of The Texts of Confucianism. The Shû king. The religions portions of the Shih king. The Hsiâo king. James Legge 1879 4 * The Zend-Avesta, part 1 of 3 The Vendîdâd. James Darmesteter 1880 5 * Pahlavi Texts, part 1 of 5 The Bundahis, Bahman Yast, and Shayast La-Shayast. E. W. West 1880 6 * The Qur'an, Part 1 of 2: Chapters I-XVI E. H. Palmer 1880 7 * The Institutes of Visnu Julius Jolly 1880 8 * The Bhagavadgita With the Sanatsugâtiya and the Anugitâ Kâshinâth Trimbak Telang 1882 9 * The Qur'an, part. 2 of 2: Chapters XVII-CXIV E. H. Palmer 1880 10 * The Dhammapada and The Sutta-Nipâta,. a collection of discourses; being one of the canonical books of the Buddhists, translated from Pâli; and The Dhammapada, a collection of verses, translated from Pâli F. Max Müller (Dhammapada) V. Fausböll (Sutta-Nipata) 1881 11 * Buddhist Suttas The Mahâ-parinibbâna Suttanta, The Dhamma-kakka-ppavattana Sutta, The Tevigga Suttanta, The Âkankheyya Sutta, The Ketokhila Sutta, The Mahâ-Sudassana Suttanta, The Sabbâsava Sutta. Out of print Dover edition [1969]. T. W. Rhys Davids 1881 12 * The Satapatha-Brahmana, part 1 of 5. Books I and II according to the text of the Mâdhyandina school. Julius Eggeling 1882 13 * Vinaya Texts, part 1 of 3 The Patimokkha. The Mahavagga, I-IV. T. W. Rhys Davids and Hermann Oldenberg 1881 14 * The Sacred Laws of the Aryas, part 2 of 2. The sacred laws of the Aryas as taught in the school of Apastamba, Gautama, Vâsishtha, and Baudhâyana. pt. II. Vâsishtha and Baudhâyana. Georg Bühler 1882 15 * The Upanishads, part 2 of 2 Katha Upanishad. Mundaka Upanishad. Taittiriya Upanishad. Brhadaranyaka Upanishad. Svetasvatara Upanishad. Prasña Upanishad. Maitrayani Upanishad. Dover edition in print. Max Müller 1884 16 * The Sacred Books of China, part 2 of 6 Part II of The Texts of Confucianism. The Yi King: (I Ching). Dover edition in print. James Legge 1882 17 * Vinaya Texts, part 2 of 3 The Mahavagga, V-X, the Kullavagga I-II. T. W. Rhys Davids and Hermann Oldenberg 1882 18 * Pahlavi Texts, part 2 of 5 The Dâdistân-î Dinik and the Epistles of Mânûskîhar. E. W. West 1882 19 * The Fo-sho-hing-tsan-king, a life of Buddha, by Asvaghosha Bodhisattva; translated from Sanskrit into Chinese by Dharmaraksha, A. D. 420 Samuel Beal 1883 20 * Vinaya Texts, part 3 of 3 The Kullavagga, IV-XII. T. W. Rhys Davids and Hermann Oldenberg 1885 21 * The Saddharma-Pundarika or The Lotus of the True Law Out of print Dover edition [1963]. H. Kern 1884 22 * Gaina Sûtras, part 1 of 2 translated from the Prâkrit. The Âkârânga sûtra. The Kalpa sûtra. Out of print Dover edition. Hermann Jacobi 1884 23 * The Zend-Avesta, part 2 of 3 The Sîrôzahs, Yasts, and Nyâyis. James Darmesteter 1883 24 * Pahlavi Texts, part 3 of 5 Dinai Mainög-i khirad, Sikand-Gümanik Vigar, Sad Dar. E. W. West 1884 25 The Laws of Manu Translated, with extracts from seven commentaries. Out of print Dover edition. Georg Bühler 1886 26 * The Satapatha-Brahmana, part 2 of 5, Books III-IV according to the text of the Mâdhyandina school. Julius Eggeling 1885 27 * The Sacred Books of China, part 3 of 6 Part III of the texts of Confucianism. The Lî Kî, part 1 of 2. James Legge 1885 28 * The Sacred Books of China, part 4 of 6 Part IV of the texts of Confucianism. The Lî Kî, part 2 of 2. James Legge 1885 29 * The Grihya-sutras; rules of Vedic domestic ceremonies. part 1 of 2 Sankhyayana-Grihya-sutra. Asvalayana-Grihya-sutra. Paraskara-Grihya-sutra. Khadia-Grihya-sutra. Hermann Oldenberg 1886 30 * The Grihya-sutras; rules of Vedic domestic ceremonies. part 2 of 2 Gobhila, Hiranyakesin, Apastamba (Olderberg); Yajña Paribhashasutras (Müller). Hermann Oldenberg, Max Müller 1892 31 * The Zend-Avesta, part 3 of 3 The Yasna, Visparad, Afrînagân, Gâhs, and miscellaneous fragments L. H. Mills 1887 32 * Vedic Hymns, part 1 of 2 Hymns to the Maruts, Rudra, Vâyu, and Vâta., with a bibliographical list of the more important publications on the Rig-veda. Max Müller 1891 33 * The Minor Law-Books: Narada and Brihaspati. (Part 1 of 1). Julius Jolly 1889 34 * The Vedanta-Sutras, part 1 of 3. commentary by Sankaracharya, part 1 of 2. Adhyâya I-II (Pâda I-II). G. Thibaut 1890 35 * The Questions of King Milinda, part 1 of 2 Milindapañha. Out of print Dover edition [1963]. T. W. Rhys Davids 1890 36 * The Questions of King Milinda, part 2 of 2 Milindapañha. Out of print Dover edition [1963]. T. W. Rhys Davids 1894 37 * Pahlavi Texts, part 4 of 5: Contents of the Nasks. E. W. West 1892 38 * The Vedanta-Sutras, part 2 of 3. commentary by Sankaracharya, part 1 of 2. Adhyâya II (Pâda III-IV)-IV. G. Thibaut 1896 39 * The Texts of Taoism, Part 1 of 2. The Sacred Books of China, part 5 of 6 Also: The Tâo teh king (Tao te Ching): The writings of Kwang-tze, books I-XVII. Dover edition in print. James Legge 1891 40 * The Texts of Taoism, Part 2 of 2. The Texts of Taoism, Part 2 of 2. Includes The Writings of Kwang Tse, books XVII-XXXIII, The Thâi-shang tractate of actions and their retributions, other Taoist texts, and the Index to vols. 39 and 40. Dover edition in print. James Legge 1891 41 * The Satapatha-Brahmana, part 3 of 5. Books V, VI, VII. according to the text of the Mâdhyandina school. Julius Eggeling 1894 42 * Hymns of the Atharva-Veda Togther With Extracts From the Ritual Books and the Commentaries. M. Bloomfield 1897 43 * The Satapatha-Brahmana, part 4 of 5, Books VII, IX, X. according to the text of the Mâdhyandina school. Julius Eggeling 1897 44 * The Satapatha-Brahmana, part 5 of 5. Books XI, XII, XIII, XIV. according to the text of the Mâdhyandina school. Julius Eggeling 1900 45 * Gaina Sûtras, part 2 of 2 translated from Prâkrit. The Uttarâdhyayana Sûtra, The Sûtrakritânga Sûtra. Out of print Dover edition. Hermann Jacobi 1895 46 * Vedic Hymns, part 2 of 2 Hymns to Agni (Mandalas I-V). Hermann Oldenberg 1897 47 * Pahlavi Texts, part 5 of 5Marvels of Zoroastrianism. E. W. West 1897 48 * The Vedanta-Sutras, vol 3 of 3. with the commentary of Râmânuja. G. Thibaut 1904 49 * Buddhist Mahâyâna Texts pt. 1. The Buddha-karita of Asvaghosha, translated from the Sanskrit by E. B. Cowell. pt. 2. The larger Sukhâvatî-vyûha, the smaller Sukhâvatî-vyûha, the Vagrakkedikâ, the larger Pragñâ-pâramitâ-hridaya-sûtra, the smaller Pragñâ-pâramitâ-hridaya-sûtra, translated by F. Max Müller. The Amitâyur dhyâna-sûtra, translated by J. Takakusu. Dover edition in print. E. B. Cowell, F. Max Müller and J. Takakusu. 1894 50 * General index to the names and subject-matter of the sacred books of the East. J.M. Winternitz, with a preface by A. A. Macdonell 1910 Index of Translators of the Sacred Books of the East Notes on public domain status of the SBE All volumes of the SBE were originally published in the UK prior to the 1923 cutoff for the public domain in the US (by the 1998 US copyright law). This means that the SBE is in the public domain in the US in its entirety. Since sacred-texts is hosted in the United States by a US citizen, this site follows US copyright law, and all of the SBE texts are candiates for conversion to etext. If you are a US citizen, you can use any of the works in the SBE freely, for any purpose, without asking anyone's permission or paying anyone a fee.

This is a list of editions of SBE texts currently in print and available through Amazon.com. By purchasing a book through these links you can help sacred-texts continue its work. Note that some of the Legge books are reprints of a series of Chinese Classics which significantly overlap the work he did for the SBE. Also, we have not actually seen some of the versions below; they may be edited or abridged versions of the SBE texts. All of the Dover versions, however, are exact reproductions of the originals. Reprints of some other SBE volumes are available in out of print Dover versions; they can often be found at used bookstores. Volume Title Author Price Publisher 49 Buddhist Mahayana Texts (Sacred Books of the East) E. B. Cowell $12.95 Dover 4, 23, 31 The Zend Avesta of Zarathustra James Darmesteter $7.95 Holmes Pub Group 11 Buddhist Suttas: Major Scriptural Writings from Early Buddhism T. W. Rhys-Davids $27.95 Book Tree 39 Texts of Taoism, vol 1. James Legge $10.95 Dover 40 Texts of Taoism, vol 2. James Legge $10.95 Dover (n/a) Confucian Analects, the Great Learning and the Doctrine of the Mean. James Legge $14.95 Dover 16 I Ching: The Sacred Books of China: The Book of Changes James Legge $7.95 Dover 39 Tao Te Ching (Dover Thrift Editions) by Lao-Tzu James Legge $1.00 Dover (n/a) The Works of Mencius James Legge $14.95 Dover 1 The Upanishads, volume 1 F. Max Müller $11.95 Dover 15 The Upanishads, volume 2 F. Max Müller $11.95 Dover 10 Wisdom of the Buddha: The Unabridged Dhammapada (Dover Thrift Editions) F. Max Müller $1.00 Dover 8 The Anugita K.T. Telang $16.00 Wizards Bookshelf The special contents of this page are copyright 1997-2008 J.B. Hare., All Rights Reserved. For permission to reproduce contact the copyright holder. Hold the world's wisdom in the palm of your hand. 2ff7e9595c