Buddhism
Related: About this forumThought some may find this of some use here:
http://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htmWelcome to the largest freely available archive of online books about religion, mythology, folklore and the esoteric on the Internet. The site is dedicated to religious tolerance and scholarship, and has the largest readership of any similar site on the web.
And the Buddhism section:
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/index.htm
Magoo48
(5,536 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,011 posts)The Straight Story
(48,121 posts)Lots of really old books scanned in, link is to a folklore search:
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=folklore%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts
Here is a search on Tibetan:
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=tibetan%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts
Things like:
Tibetan-English Folktales
This illustrated bilingual (English and Tibetan) lower intermediate level textbook consists of 65 lessons. Each lesson has a vocabulary list and a Tibetan folktale in both English and Tibetan. Various exercises are included for each lesson. This book is very popular with Tibetan students because of their familiarity with the cultural context of the folktales.
Language Pathways: A Tibetan & English Reader (1) (The text) for the audio files go to: http://www.archive.org/details/LanguagePathwaysATibetanEnglishReader1 For volume 2 of this series, go to: http://www.archive.org/details/LanguagePathwaysATibetanEnglishReader2
Richly illustrated bilingual (English and Tibetan) intermediate level textbook featuring 40 units. Dialogues, sentence patterns, texts, common expressions, grammar points, activities, and exercises constitute each unit. The book includes an English-Tibetan word list with approximately 1,700 items. Free audio files for these stories can be found on Internet Archive, starting with the first five at http://www.archive.org/details/EnglishForTibetanSpeakers--audioFilesunits1-5Of40Units.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,011 posts)I practically live there.
On the link of your previous post, I found
Manners, Customs, and Observances:
Their Origin and Significance
by Leopold Wagner
[1894]
which sells for 30.00 on Amazon
yet is FREE at the site.
I have at least 2 lifetimes of pdf books already collected...sigh
The Straight Story
(48,121 posts)Love me some good books!
dixiegrrrrl
(60,011 posts)Will dig thru the 3 discs of pdf books and share in the near future...
I like Social History, a lot.
Here is one:
Mayhew's London..
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=Mayhew%27s%20London%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts
silverweb
(16,402 posts)[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Thank you!
marasinghe
(1,253 posts)also adding a few links to - mainly - Theravada sites & literature, onto your thread.
a) 2 links to the same book written by a respected Theravada monk. This book is stated to be not inconsistent with Mahayana, Vajrayana, and, of course, Theravadhin teachings. In fact, the 2nd URL below, is from a Mahayana website - which also has a Vietnamese translation available; and the book was translated into Chinese in Hong Kong, for Mahayana adherents. There are internal links to other writings, within these two websites. (In passing & in disclosure of personal interest: the writer was a friend of my uncle; both members of (heavens forbid!) the university students' socialist international; they marched in public protests during their student days in the 1940's - the Venerable Rahula dressed in his novice monk's robes. After taking his final ordination as a member of the Sangha, he dropped the politics & concentrated on the Dhamma.)
http://buddhasociety.com/online-books/what-buddha-taught-walpola-rahula-9
http://www.quangduc.com/English/basic/68whatbuddhataught.html
b) The Access to Insight website:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/
c) The Buddhist Publication Society of Sri Lanka Online Library:
http://www.bps.lk/onlinelibrary.html
d) The Dharmanet is a non-sectarian website, with online literature from several of the traditions:
http://dharmanet.org/learning.htm
Ruby the Liberal
(26,330 posts)marasinghe
(1,253 posts)b/t/w: i noticed some of those webpages - with scanned copies of documents - have a few typos, due to the OCR software misinterpreting characters. so, you will have to use context & common sense, in reading.
Ruby the Liberal
(26,330 posts)Just glad they took the time to bring them online!