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Curated Collection
Primary sources from five wisdom traditions, in their original languages alongside English translations. From a 975 AD Chinese woodblock sutra to Jung in the original German.
975 AD
A Song dynasty woodblock Dharani Sutra, one of the earliest surviving examples of printed Buddhist scripture in the world.
1115 CE
A manuscript of three Ghazali treatises copied just four years after the philosopher's death, among the closest witnesses to his original text.
These texts are part of a growing collection of 1,200+ digitized primary sources spanning alchemy, Hermetica, Kabbalah, natural philosophy, and now the contemplative traditions.
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