Although ancient civilizations have produced hand-crafted texts for hundreds to thousands of years, a foremost printed scripture for wide distribution to the people was The Diamond Sutra, a Buddhist scripture, printed in the year AD 868.

Texts
Sacred texts of various religions:

Ayyavazhi The Akilattirattu Ammanai The Arul Nool Bahá'í Faith A Kitáb-i-Aqdas Kitáb-i-�qán and numerous more writings including ones from either more faiths Buddhism A Tipitaka or Pali canon & more Buddhist texts Christianity - The Bible (also known as a Holy Writ) Catholicism The Bible, The Apocrypha Mormonism A Bible Book of Mormon Pearl of Great Price Doctrine and Covenants Confucianism A Analects of Confucius likewise A I Ching Discordianism A Principia Discordia although this may not exist as avowedly for each sect. Falun Gong The Zhuan Falun Hinduism Shruti Smriti Islam A Qur'an Ahadith Jainism Tattvartha Sutra Judaism A Hebrew Bible (Tanakh = Torah) Nevi'im Ketuvim) Mandaeanism A Ginza Rba Manichaeism A Arzhang Mohism The Mozi Various New Age religions may regard any of the ensuing texts when elysian: A Course in Miracles (ACIM) Conversations with God The Urantia Book Oahspe Swedenborgianism A Bible The writings of Emanuel Swedenborg Some besides assume the total of posthumously promulgated manuscripts of Swedenborg to besides become sacred. Rastafari movement A Bible a Holy Piby Samaritanism A Samaritan Pentateuch Satanism The Satanic Bible Sikhism A Guru Granth Sahib A Dasam Granth Sahib Taoism The Tao-te-ching The I Ching Thelema The Holy Books of Thelema especially Liber Al vel Legis Zoroastrianism A Zend-Avesta

Views
Attitudes to sacred texts differ. A select few religions produce written texts widely freely available, when others hang on to that sacred secrets must remain hidden from either about a loyal & a initiate. Virtually all religions promulgate policies defining a restricts of the sacred texts & controlling or even forbidding changes & additions. Translations of texts may receive official blessing, however an original sacred language typically has de facto, absolute or even exclusive paramouncy. A select few religions produce texts available costless or even inside subsidized form; others dem& payment and a nonindulgent observance of copyright.

Information to scriptures benefit from either standardisation: a Guru Granth Sahib (of Sikhism) always appears by using standardised home enumeration when a Abrahamic religions & their offset pop up to favour chapter and verse pointers.