Omnia Global Foundation · A research instrument for the 21st century

A public map of how humanity has answered its oldest questions.

Omnia Global Foundation builds five open, citation-grade research instruments for the comparative study of religious and philosophical traditions worldwide — permanent public goods for scholars, translators, educators, policymakers, and serious readers everywhere.

19
Traditions covered
95
Doctrinal sub-questions
14
Original languages
1,033
Source citations
Our Mission

Not synthesis. Cartography.

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We are not building a single answer. We are building the most precise, accessible, and citable map of the many answers humanity has given to its deepest questions — and the conditions under which those answers can finally meet each other on the same page.

Religious traditions are not interchangeable, and the most valuable comparative work resists the temptation to flatten their differences. Omnia Global Foundation is built on the conviction that humanity's deepest dialogue requires precise tools — not premature synthesis.

Five Projects

A unified research infrastructure.

Each project stands alone as a public resource, but together they constitute the first integrated research environment for cross-tradition comparative scholarship — analytical grid, conceptual vocabulary, textual evidence room, translation pipeline, and computational toolkit.

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Project 01 · Live Database

The Doctrines Database

Connected directly to the live working dataset. Filter by dimension, family, or sub-question text. The underlying spreadsheet contains 1,805 cells across 19 traditions and 95 sub-questions, with 889 citations rendered in their original scripts.

Live database connected

The full 19 × 95 matrix, 1,033 citations across 14 languages, and the Citation Index with clickable source links — open in Google Sheets, edit collaboratively, cite individual cells in academic publications.

View Live Database →
Abrahamic + Ancestor (10): Zoroastrianism, Judaism, OT, Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant, Evangelical, Sunni, Shia, Bahá'í
Indian (6): Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism, Theravada, Mahayana, Vajrayana
East Asian (3): Daoism, Confucianism, Shinto
Below: the complete underlying spreadsheet. The interactive table above shows a 20-question preview across all 19 traditions. The full 95-question × 19-tradition database with bilingual content (English + Chinese) and 1,033 citations is the live Google Sheet embedded below.

The Complete Working Database

The full source-of-truth spreadsheet — 3 sheets, 1,805 comparison cells, 1,033 citations with original-language text and online source links. Editable for the editorial board; permanently citable for researchers.

Project 02 · Sample Entry

The Lexicon.

Every core concept gets one entry per tradition — native script, transliteration, etymology, primary-source occurrences, semantic field, and explicit notes on what is gained or lost in any cross-tradition translation.

"Sin" / "Suffering" / "Ignorance" — One human problem, seven names
Lexicon Entry · 14 language traditions · 8 framings
Judaism
Chet · חֵטְא
חֵטְא
Literally "missing the mark." Sin as deviation from the commandments; relational — a breach of covenant, not an ontological state. Repair through teshuvah (return) always possible.
Christianity (NT)
Hamartia · ἁμαρτία
ἁμαρτία
Greek translation of chet but with new ontological depth in Pauline theology — humanity born into a state of sin, requiring redemption through Christ.
Islam
Dhanb · ذَنْب
ذَنْب · خَطِيئَة
Sin as violation of the divine command; nature (fitra) remains essentially good. Forgiveness through repentance (tawbah). No original sin doctrine.
Hinduism
Pāpa · पाप
पाप
Negative karmic action — accumulates as material residue on the soul. Not relational toward a personal God; more like a debt to the cosmic order. Resolved across lifetimes.
Buddhism
Avidyā · अविद्या
अविद्या · दुक्ख
Root condition is not sin but ignorance — fundamentally mistaking the impermanent for permanent, the no-self for a self. From this misperception arise suffering and the three poisons.
Zoroastrianism
Druj · 𐬛𐬭𐬎𐬘
𐬛𐬭𐬎𐬘
"The Lie" — a cosmic force opposing Asha (Truth). Not a personal fall but ongoing choice to align with disorder. Likely historical ancestor of Abrahamic concepts of evil as opposing principle.
Daoism
Wéi · 為
為 · 偽
There is no "sin" — but there is wéi (forced action, artifice) and wěi (the fake, the contrived). Problem is not transgression of law but departure from Dao's natural flow.
Shinto
Kegare · 穢れ
穢れ
Not moral transgression but ritual impurity — a state of pollution washed away through purification (harae). Concept of "sin" largely absent; "uncleanness" central.
Cross-Tradition Notes
Incommensurability
These eight terms are not synonyms. Chet, hamartia, dhanb describe relational violation. Pāpa describes ontological accumulation. Avidyā describes cognitive error. Druj describes cosmic opposition. Wéi describes departure from naturalness. Kegare describes ritual pollution. Translating "sin" into any of these flattens the philosophical landscape.
Project 03 · Live Preview

The Parallel Canon.

Three passages, one question: how does the cosmos begin? Read the original languages alongside scholarly translations. The full platform extends to 100+ texts across 14 languages with verse-level cross-linking.

Genesis 1:1–3
Hebrew · Tanakh
בְּרֵאשִׁית בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ׃ וְהָאָרֶץ הָיְתָה תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ וְחֹשֶׁךְ עַל־פְּנֵי תְהוֹם וְרוּחַ אֱלֹהִים מְרַחֶפֶת עַל־פְּנֵי הַמָּיִם׃ וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים יְהִי אוֹר וַיְהִי־אוֹר׃
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light."
John 1:1–4
Koine Greek · New Testament
Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ Λόγος, καὶ ὁ Λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν Θεόν, καὶ Θεὸς ἦν ὁ Λόγος. οὗτος ἦν ἐν ἀρχῇ πρὸς τὸν Θεόν. πάντα δι' αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο.
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him."
Tao Te Ching, ch. 1
Classical Chinese · Daoism
道可道,非常道。
名可名,非常名。
無名天地之始;
有名萬物之母。
"The Tao that can be spoken of is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name. The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth; the named is the mother of all things."
A note on this comparison: Three "in the beginning" texts. Each opens with creation, yet what is created and how differ at the deepest level. Genesis: God creates by speech. John: Logos as a person, prior to creation, through whom creation occurs. Tao Te Ching: the unnameable precedes, the named follows. The platform makes such close reading possible at scale.
Project 05

The Digital Humanities Toolkit.

Open-source software, pre-trained models, and curated datasets — purpose-built for the unique challenges of ancient languages and theological texts.

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Multilingual Religious-Text Embeddings

Pre-trained vector representations specifically tuned on classical religious corpora — Hebrew, Greek, Sanskrit, Pali, Classical Arabic, Classical Chinese, Avestan, Tibetan, Latin.

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Cross-Lingual Text Alignment

Tools for aligning parallel passages across traditions and translations — making side-by-side comparison computationally tractable.

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Citation Extraction and Parsing

Automated identification of canonical references in scholarly writing — "Quran 2:255," "BG 4.7," "Talmud Shabbat 31a" parsed into structured form.

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Concept-Network Visualization

Tools for mapping how key concepts relate within and across traditions — revealing semantic clusters, surprising adjacencies, and patterns of borrowing.

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OCR for Ancient Scripts

Improved character recognition for Hebrew, Arabic, Devanagari, Tibetan, and Classical Chinese — enabling digitization of currently inaccessible manuscript collections.

# Example: compare concepts across traditions from globaldoctrines import Lexicon, Embeddings lex = Lexicon.load() emb = Embeddings.load("multilingual-religious-v2") # Get all terms for "the human problem" terms = lex.cross_tradition( concept="human_problem", traditions=["judaism", "christianity", "islam", "buddhism", "hinduism", "daoism"] ) # Compute semantic distance distances = emb.distance_matrix(terms) # → chet ↔ hamartia: 0.12 (close) # → avidya ↔ chet: 0.84 (far) # → wei ↔ kegare: 0.67 (medium) # Generate cross-citation map graph = lex.build_graph(terms, threshold=0.3) graph.to_html("problem_concepts.html")
Available as: Python package · Jupyter notebooks · REST API · pre-trained models on Hugging Face.