List of religious texts


The following is a non-exhaustive list of links to specific religious texts which may be used for further, more in-depth study.

Bronze Age

Ancient Egyptian religion

Etruscan religion

Main texts:
  • Ginza Rabba
  • *Right Ginza
  • *Left Ginza
  • Mandaean Book of John
  • Qulasta
Ritual texts:
Esoteric texts:
Historical texts:
  • Haran Gawaita
Others:
  • Incantation bowls
  • Lead rolls

    Manichaeism

  • Gospel of Mani
  • Treasure of Life
  • Pragmateia
  • The Book of Giants
  • Fundamental Epistle
  • Manichaean Psalter
  • Shabuhragan
  • Arzhang
  • Kephalaia, found in Coptic translation.

    Orphism

  • Derveni papyrus
  • Orphic literature
  • ''Orphic Hymns''

    East Asian religions

Confucianism

The Four Books and Five Classics:
The Thirteen Classics

Taoism

Zoroastrianism

Primary religious texts :
  • The Yasna, the primary liturgical collection, includes the Gathas.
  • The Visperad, a collection of supplements to the Yasna.
  • The Yashts, hymns in honor of the divinities.
  • The Vendidad, describes the various forms of evil spirits and ways to confound them.
  • shorter texts and prayers, the Yashts, the five Nyaishes, the Sirozeh and the Afringans.
There are some 60 secondary religious texts, none of which are considered scripture. The most important of these are:
  • The Denkard,
  • The Bundahishn,
  • The Menog-i Khrad,
  • The Arda Viraf Namak
  • The
  • The Rivayats, 15th–18th century correspondence on religious issues
For general use by the laity:
  • The Zend, various commentaries on and translations of the Avesta.
  • The Khordeh Avesta, Zoroastrian prayer book for lay people from the Avesta.

    Yarsanism

  • Kalâm-e Saranjâm

    Yazidi

The true core texts of the Yazidi religion that exist today are the hymns, known as qawls. Spurious examples of so-called "Yazidi religious texts" include the Yazidi Black Book and the Yazidi Book of Revelation, which are believed to have been forged in the early 20th century; the Yazidi Black Book, for instance, is thought to be a combination of genuine Yazidi beliefs and Western forgeries.

Indian religions

Buddhism

East Asian Mahayana:
Tibetan Buddhism:
Smriti:
In Purva Mimamsa:
In Vedanta :
In Yoga:
In Samkhya:
In Nyaya:
In Vaisheshika:
In Vaishnavism:
In Shaktism:
  • Shakta Tantras
In Kashmir Saivism:
In Pashupata Shaivism:
  • Pashupata-sutra of Lakulisha
  • Panchartha-bhashya of Kaundinya
  • Ganakarika
  • Ratnatika of Bhasarvajna
In Shaiva Siddhanta:
  • 28 Shaiva Agamas
  • Tirumurai
  • Meykandar Shastras
In Gaudiya Vaishnavism:
Krishna-karnamrita:
In Lingayatism:
In Kabir Panth:
  • poems of Kabir
In Dadu Panth:
  • poems of Dadu
In Ayyavazhi:
Akilattirattu Ammanai:
Arul Nool:
Digambara
Nonsectarian/Nonspecific:

Azalism (Religion of Bayan)

  • Writings of the Báb
  • *Persian Bayán 19,000 verses
  • *Arabic Bayán 500 verses
  • *Kitabul Asma the Largest Abrahimic Scripture composed of 25,000 pages of 60,000 revealed verses
  • *Risalat al Raj'a 170 verses
  • *Panj Sha'n 8360 verses
  • *Dalail Sab'aa 1100 verses
  • *Kitab al Haykal 160 verses
  • *Qayum al Asma 4700 verses
  • *Tafsir al basmalah 157 verses
  • *Tafsir al Qasida al Humyaryiah 1600 verses
  • *Kitab al Ruh 7000 verses
  • *Sahifah Qaimyiah
  • *Sahifah Baynal Haramayn
  • *Letters
  • *Khutab
  • *Ziyarat
  • *Dua
  • *Tafsir Surat al Kawthar
  • *Tafsir Surat al Qadr
  • *Tafsir Surat al Fatiha
  • *Tafsir Surat al A'sr
  • *Tafsir Surat al Baqara
  • *Tafsir Surat al Tawhid
  • *Nubwuah Khassah
  • *Kitab al Fihrist
  • *Another Kitab al Fihrist
  • *Lost Tafsir of Quran
  • Writings of Subh al Azal
  • Writings of the leaders after Subh al Azal
  • Writings of letters of livings
  • *Divan of Qurrat al Ayn
  • *Other writings by the letters of living
  • Hagiography
  • *Nuqtat al Kaf
  • *''Majlis Shahadat Hazrat Qaim Khurasani ''