Literature of the World Religions

The City of Port Phillip awarded a Community Grant for 2010-11 to the Carmelite Library to build up permanent resources in the foundation writings, that is the Scriptures, of the world religions.

This includes the best contemporary English translations of Buddhacarita and Dhammapada (Buddhism), Bible and Apocrypha (Christianity), Bhagavad Gita and Ramayana (Hinduism), Tanakh and Talmud (Judaism), Qu'ran and Hadith (Islam), Adi Granth and Kabir (Sikhism), as well as many of the great classics of ancient cultural religious teaching such as the Chinese Tao Te Ching. Records of Australian Indigneous teaching and myth have been added.

This project is one expression of the commitment of the Carmelite Library and the Carmelite Centre to the objectives of Port Phillip's Multifaith Network. Books purchased from the Grant are on display in the Library, but they are also available for loan. You are welcome to talk about this initiative with the librarians.