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Unabridged

Lectures by professor Grant Hardy, University of North Carolina at Asheville

Disc 1: 1. Reading other people's scriptures --

2.

Hinduism and the Vedas --

3.

What is heard: Upanishads --

4.

What is remembered: epics --

5.

Laws of Manu and Bhagavad Gita --

6.

Related traditions: Sikh scriptures -- disc 2: 7. Judaism: people of the book --

8.

Five books of Torah --

9.

Prophets and writings --

10.

Apocrypha and Dead Sea scrolls --

11.

Oral Torah: Mishnah and Talmud --

12.

Related traditions: Zoroastrian scriptures -- disc 3: 13. The three baskets of buddhism --

14.

Vinaya and Jakata --

15.

Theravada Sutras --

16.

Mahayana Sutras --

17.

Pure land Buddhism and Zen --

18.

Tibetan Vajrayana -- disc 4: 19. Related traditions: Jain scriptures --

20.

Five Confucian classics --

21.

Four books of neo-Confucianism --

22.

Daoism and the Daodejing --

23.

Three caverns of Daoist scriptures --

24.

Related traditions: Shinto and Tenrikyo -- disc 5: 25. Christian testaments Old and New --

26.

Gospels and Acts --

27.

Letter and Apocalypse --

28.

Apocryphal gospels --

29.

Related traditions: Mormon scriptures --

30.

Islam and scriptural recitation -- disc 6: 31. Holy Qur'an --

32.

Hadith and Sufism --

33.

Related traditions: Baha'i scriptures --

34..

Abandoned scriptures: Egyptian and Mayan --

35.

Secular scriptures: U.S. Constitution --

36.

Heavenly books, earthly connection