Sentences with phrase «great sacred literatures»

What is needed by the ordinary student, it seems to the writer, is a single volume which will provide an adequate, if not an exhaustive, discussion of the great sacred literatures in non-technical language, so that he may better understand and appreciate what the anthologies so generously provide him.

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For there is much religious literature that is not regarded as sacred; and a great deal of the content of so - called sacred literature is not necessarily directly religious at all, though indirectly it is usually in some way linked up with religion.

Though the doctrine of reincarnation was worked out in much greater detail in subsequent Hindu sacred literature, it is expressed in the Lipanishads in rudimentary form thus:

With the Upanishads we come to the end of the Veda, and also the end of the sruti sacred literature, with the exception of the Bhagavad Gita, which if not universally so recognized is, by great numbers of Indians, ranked along with the most sacred Vedic literature.

We conclude the discussion of Babylonian sacred literature with only a brief mention of the omen texts, of which a great many have been unearthed.

I've had the benefit of exposure to the richness of Western culture: to great literature, and poetry, and sacred music.

Yet a great part of the extensive body of sacred Buddhist literature purports to be the record of what he did and said.