Traditions

Choose a tradition.

Each tradition page lists what Divine Reader holds, in which translation and language, and how complete it is.

The Torah — the five books of Moses — read in the JPS translation with the Hebrew Masoretic text alongside.

The complete Bible in the King James Version: 66 books, 1,189 chapters, with the translators' marginal notes kept separate from the text.

Twenty-six surahs of the Qur'an in Abdullah Yusuf Ali's English translation, with the Arabic Uthmani text alongside.

Selections from all eighteen chapters of the Bhagavad Gita in Sir Edwin Arnold's verse translation, The Song Celestial.

Short readings from each part of the Pali Canon — Vinaya, the five Nikayas and the Abhidhamma — retold in plain English.

The daily prayers (Nitnem): Japji Sahib and Anand Sahib from the Guru Granth Sahib, Jaap Sahib and Chaupai Sahib from the Dasam Granth.

All eighty-one chapters of the Tao Te Ching in James Legge's 1891 translation.

The Kojiki, Japan's oldest chronicle: the preface and seven condensed episodes from the Age of the Gods to the first emperors.

The Kitáb-i-Aqdas is planned; it will be added only with an authorised text.