buddhism
Tibetan
The All-Pervading Melodious Drumbeat
ར་ལོ་ཙཱ་བའི་རྣམ་ཐར་ཀུན་ཁྱབ་སྙན་པའི་རྔ་སྒྲ།
Ra Yeshe Senge · Tibetan · 13th century
Long-Form Journalism (Memoir, Firsthand Account, or Reportage)
1 translation
Barlaam and Josaphat
Barlaam et Josaphat
Gui de Cambrai · Old French · c. 1220-1225
Novel
1 translation
Dhammapada
धम्मपद
Unknown · Pali · first written down c. 2nd century BC
Religious Book / Scripture / Mystic or Occult Text
1 translation
Great Storage of Scriptures (Chinese Buddhist canon)
大藏經
Zhisheng · Classical Chinese · c. 730 (compilation of Kaiyuan Catalogue)
Religious Book / Scripture / Mystic or Occult Text
1 translation
Hōjōki
方丈記
Kamo no Chōmei · Classical Japanese · 1212
Nonfiction Book (Treatise, History, Biography, or Book-Length Essay)
1 translation
Jātaka
ජාතක
Unknown · Pali · 5th centry BC - 3rd century AD
Poetry Collection
2 translations
Journey to the West
西遊記
Wu Cheng'en · Classical Vernacular Chinese · 1592
Novel
2 translations
Siddhartha
Siddhartha: Eine Indische Dichtung
Hermann Hesse · German · 1922
Novel
3 translations
Tibetan Book of the Dead
བར་དོ་ཐོས་གྲོལ
Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche) · Tibetan · written c. 9th century, discovered in the 1300s.
Religious Book / Scripture / Mystic or Occult Text
1 translation