Important Works

• Rigveda, meaning "hymns of supreme sacred knowledge," is the foremost collection or Samhita made up of 1,028 hymns.
• The oldest of the Vedas, Rigveda contains strong, energetic, non-speculative hymns, often comparable to the psalms in the Old Testament.
• Dhammapada, meaning "Way of Truth," is an anthology of basic Buddhist teaching in a simple aphoristic style.
• These verses of Dhammapada are compared with the Letters of St. Paul in the Bible or that of Christ’s Sermon on the Mount.
• Upanishads, meaning "sitting at the feet of the teacher," are the most important philosophical doctrine is the concept of a single supreme being, the Brahman, and the knowledge is directed toward reunion with it by the human soul, the Atman or Self.