Download or read book The Sacred Books of China: Volume 1 of 6 written by Max Muller and published by Sacred Books of the East. This book was released on 2018-11 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sacred Books of China - Volume 1 of 6. The Sacred Books of the East (SBE) series, comprising fifty volumes, was issued by the Oxford University Press between 1879 and 1910. It has translations of key sacred texts of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, and Islam. The series was edited by the famous linguist and scholar of comparative religion, Max Müller. He wrote three of the volumes, and collaborated on three others. The SBE has been designated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as part of the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works.