Asian Antiquity

The Vedanta-Sutras

by Bādarāyaṇaandadi Shankara and Bādarāyaṇa And Adi Shankara Read by Jeffrey Allen Stumpf 5
The Vedanta Sutras, or Brahma Sutras as they are also known, is a Sanskrit text attributed to the sage Badarayana (also known as Vyasa) writ…

From Bangkok to Bombay

by Frank G. Carpenter Read by BettyB 4.3
Another entry in Carpenter's geographical reader series with information on the peoples, cultures, and everyday life of this Asian area. - …

The Nō Plays of Japan

by Varioustranslated Byarthur Waley and Varioustranslated By Arthur Waley Read by Expatriate 5
Noh (Nō), or Nogaku—derived from the Sino-Japanese word for "skill" or "talent"—is a major form of classical Japanese mu…

Shakuntala

by Kalidasa Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Ryder originally did a close to literal translation of this 4th or 5th century play by the poet Kalidasa. Quite unwieldly with 7 acts and ov…

Diamond Sutra and Heart Sutra

by Unknowntranslated Bywilliam Gemmellandsamuel Beal, Translated Bywilliam Gemmellandsamuel Beal, Unknowntranslated By William Gemmell And Samuel Beal and Unknowntranslated By William Gemmell Read by Geoffrey Edwards 4.4
The Diamond Sutra is a Mahāyāna (Buddhist) sutra from the genre of Prajñāpāramitā ('perfection of wisdom') sutras. The Diamond Sūtra …

The Chinese Dragon

by Luther Newton Hayes Read by David Wales 4
The subject of this little book [1923] is of general interest to people who are acquainted with things Chinese. The dragon has played a larg…

Kojiki

by No Yasumaro Ō, no Are Hieda and no Yasumaro Ō Read by Geoffrey Edwards 4.1
Of all the mass of Japanese literature, which lies before us as the result of nearly twelve centuries of book-making, the most important mon…

The Book of Changes

by Confucius 孔子 Read by Geoffrey Edwards
The Book of Changes (Traditional: 易經; Simplified: 易经; Legge: Yî King, Wade-Giles: I Ching; Pīnyīn: Yìjīng; Bopomofo: ㄧˋㄐㄧㄥ; Kor…