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THE GOOD WORKS LIBRARY at TIANMU dot ORG is now OFFICIALLY The LARGEST FREE ONLINE LIBRARY for sacred texts, religious texts, and theology ON THE INTERNET, that's right folks WE BEAT SACRED-TEXTS!
This is the first update in a month and boy we've been busy, not only have we been archiving already existing things, we've published over 500 translations that have -never before been seen in English-, we've also liberated hundreds of texts that -did- have translations but were paywalled!
Additionally, many of you asked and so we have added epub downloads and md downloads to -every single page-. You can now simply press the download button on a page and immediately get an epub version to view on your phone or tablet or computer software!
We also added a plain view for e-readers that is HTML only.
We also added reader mode, with a dark mode, light mode, AND now an OLED mode.
Here's an incomplete but long list of everything we've done thus far:
First English translations ever — 61 chapters of the Mandaean Book of John, direct from Classical Mandaic
First English translations ever — 35+ Old Tibetan Dunhuang manuscripts: divination oracles, royal charters, Silk Road legal documents, cosmological prophecy, a Uyghur Khagan's diplomatic letter
First English translation ever — Attar's Book of the Chosen (Mokhtar-nama): all 50 chapters, 1,679 quatrains, from Classical Persian
First free English translation — Attar's Book of Secrets (Asrar-nama): all 22 sections, 3,297 couplets, from Classical Persian — the poem Attar gave the boy Rumi at Nishapur
First English translation ever — The Flashes (Lavayeh) by Eyn al-Qozat Hamadani: all 177 chapters of Sufi mystical philosophy, from Classical Persian (the philosopher executed at 33)
First English translation ever — The Valadnama by Sultan Walad: the Rumi inner circle's testimony, from Classical Persian
First English translations ever — Khaqani Shirvani's Prison Qasidas: 5 qasidas, 292 couplets, from Classical Persian
First English translations ever — 89 Syriac hymns: Ephrem of Syria's complete Hymns on Nisibis (49) and the Odes of Solomon (40)
First English translations ever — 5 complete Icelandic rímur cycles: Víglundirímur, Þorsteinsrímur Uxafæti, Arnljótirímur, Skanderbegsrímur (an Albanian hero epic written in Iceland in 1861), Óláfsrímur Tryggvasonar B & C
First English translations ever — 11+ Tibetan Buddhist philosophical treatises from the Tengyur: Nagarjuna, Chandrakirti, Dignāga, Dharmottara, Bhāvya
First free English translation — The Tibetan Rāmāyana (PT 983): the Indian epic in Old Tibetan from the Dunhuang caves
First free English translations — 27 Gandhāri Buddhist texts, the largest free Gandhāri library on the internet, including the earliest surviving Buddhist commentary in any language and the oldest Arapacana acrostic poem
The complete Nag Hammadi Library (57 texts), Pistis Sophia (153 chapters), and the Corpus Hermeticum — the Gnostic canon, complete
The Dead Sea Scrolls — 259 texts across 11 genre categories, fully archived
27+ Yiguandao texts — the most comprehensive English-language archive of the third-largest religion in Taiwan
291 texts from 14 newly opened traditions: African diaspora, Australian Aboriginal, Pacific Islander, Native American, Jain, Sikh, Rastafari, Neopagan, Masonic, Swedenborg, Islamic, Theosophy, and more
The Greek classical canon: Aeschylus (7 plays), Sophocles (7 plays), Euripides (19 plays), Plato's Dialogues (23), Plotinus' Enneads (54 tractates), Homeric Hymns, the Epic Cycle, Virgil, Ovid, Marcus Aurelius, Lucretius, Apuleius
Robert Fludd's complete English works — Mosaicall Philosophy and Doctor Fludds Answer, from EEBO-TCP
Henry More's complete 1651–1659 corpus — Enthusiasmus Triumphatus, Observations on Anthroposophia, The Second Lash, Mastix's Letter — the full More–Vaughan theological debate
Jacob Boehme's Mysterium Magnum — his 78-chapter commentary on Genesis, 1.9 million characters
Proto-socialist sacred texts — a new tradition: Winstanley, Babeuf, Blanqui, Owen (25 texts, the theology of the commons)
The complete Nag Hammadi Library (57 texts) fully internally cross-linked — every parallel text, every related tractate, every manuscript variant connected bidirectionally
Syriac Jingjiao — the Tang Dynasty Chinese Christian texts, in Syriac
Plotinus' Enneads — all 6 Enneads, 54 tractates, one of the largest single texts in the entire archive
