Jesus Sutras

Alternate Labels

• Jesus Sutras, The

Related Labels

• Sutra on Almsgiving of the World-Honored One, Part Three (一神(天)論(世尊布施論第三).
• Sutra on the Oneness of Heaven (一天論第一).
• Sutra on the Origin of Origins (大秦景教宣元本經)
• Sutra of Hearing the Messiah (序聽迷詩所經)
• Da Qin Hymn of Perfection of the Three Majesties (大秦景教三威蒙度贊).
• The Sutra of Ultimate and Mysterious Happiness.(志玄安樂經)
• Let Us Praise (大秦景教大聖通真歸法贊)
• The Xi’an Stele

Web Links

• Wikipedia: Jesus Sutras
• The Saint Pachomius Library: Jesus Sutras
• The original texts of the Jesus Sutras in the Taisho Tripitaka: 序聽迷詩所經
• The original texts of the Jesus Sutras in the Taisho Tripitaka: 景教三威蒙度讚
• Tombstone Carvings from AD 86: Did Christianity Reach China In the First Century? [02-20-03] by Wei-Fan Wang, Retired Professor, Nanjing Theological Seminary
• The Jesus Sutras: An Ancient Message for a Post-Modernist Future by Martin Palmer
• The Cross and the Lotus by Lau Hua Teck
• Meet Taoist-Buddhist Jesus by Thomas Moore
• Nestorian Tablet: Eulogizing the Propagation of the Illustrious Religion in China, with a Preface, composed by a priest of the Syriac Church, 781 A.D.

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The name “Jesus Sutras” applies to a number of ancient Chinese Christian texts, most of Nestorian origin.