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10 best books like The Diamond Sutra (Anonymous): The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation, Being Peace, The Way of the Bodhisattva, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism, The Three Pillars of Zen, What Makes You Not a Buddhist, In the Buddha's Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon, The Words of My Perfect Teacher, The Life of Milarepa, The Zen Teaching of Huang Po: On the Transmission of Mind

The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
AuthorThich Nhat Hanh
ISBN0767903692
“If there is a candidate for ‘Living Buddha’ on earth today, it is Thich Nhat Hanh.”
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Being Peace
AuthorThich Nhat Hanh
ISBN0938077007
Being Peace

I keep Thich Naht Hanh's books in my book case
but anymore I do not read them.

I think of him often, ever since he had a stroke.
He made it though, but I can't find out how he is.
As far as I know he is still alive
and still a very wise but old man.

Some days...
The Way of the Bodhisattva
AuthorŚāntideva
ISBN1590300572
One of the great classics of Mahayana Buddhism, The Way of the Bodhisattva ( Bodhicharyavatara) is a guide to cultivating the mind of enlightenment, and to generating the qualities of love, compassion, generosity, and patience. Presented in the form of a personal meditation in verse, it outlines...
Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
AuthorChögyam Trungpa
ISBN1570629579
In this modern spiritual classic, the Tibetan meditation master Chögyam Trungpa highlights the commonest pitfall to which every aspirant on the spiritual path falls prey: what he calls spiritual materialism. The universal tendency, he shows, is to see spirituality as a process of self-improvement—the...
The Three Pillars of Zen
AuthorPhilip Kapleau
ISBN0385260938
Through explorations of the three pillars of Zen--teaching, practice, and enlightenment--Roshi Philip Kapleau presents a comprehensive overview of the history and discipline of Zen Buddhism.  An established classic, this 35th anniversary edition features new illustrations and photographs,...
What Makes You Not a Buddhist
AuthorDzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
ISBN1590304063
Dzongsar Khyentse is one of the most creative and innovative young Tibetan Buddhist lamas teaching today. The director of two feature films with Buddhist themes (the international sensation The Cup and Travelers and Magicians), this provocative teacher, artist, and poet is widely known and admired...
In the Buddha's Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon
AuthorBhikkhu Bodhi
ISBN0861714911
The works of the Buddha can feel vast, and it is sometimes difficult for even longtime students to know where to look, especially since the Buddha never explicitly defined the framework behind his teachings. Designed to provide just such a framework, In the Buddha's Words is an anthology of the Buddha's...
The Words of My Perfect Teacher
AuthorPatrul Rinpoche
ISBN1570624127
My favorite quote so far...

There is not a single being in samsara, this immense ocean of suffering, who in the course of time without beginning has never been our father or mother. When they were our parents, these beings' only thought was to raise us with the greatest possible kindness, protecting...
The Life of Milarepa
AuthorTsangnyön Heruka
ISBN0140193502
The Life of Milarepa is the most beloved story of the Tibetan people amd one of the greatest source books for the contemplative life in all world literature. This biography, a true folk tale from a culture now in crisis, can be read on several levels: a personal and moving introduction to Tibetan Buddhism,...
The Zen Teaching of Huang Po: On the Transmission of Mind
AuthorHuang Po
ISBN0802150926
This complete translation of the original collection of sermons, dialogues, and anecdotes of Huang Po, the illustrious Chinese master of the Tang Dynasty, allows the Western reader to gain an understanding of Zen from the original source, one of the key works in its teachings; it also offers deep and...
Crazy Wisdom
AuthorChögyam Trungpa
ISBN1570628947
Chögyam Trungpa describes "crazy wisdom" as an innocent state of mind that has the quality of early morning—fresh, sparkling, and completely awake. This fascinating book examines the life of Padmasambhava—the revered Indian teacher who brought Buddhism to Tibet—to illustrate the principle...
The Diamond Sutra and The Sutra of Hui-Neng
AuthorHui-Neng
ISBN0877730059
The Diamond Sutra, composed in India in the 4th century CE, is one of the most treasured works of Buddhist literature & is the oldest existing printed book in the world. It's known as the Diamond Sutra because its teachings are said to be like diamonds that cut away all dualistic thought, releasing...
The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā
AuthorNāgārjuna
ISBN0195093364
The Buddhist saint Nagarjuna, who lived in South India in approximately the second century CE, is undoubtedly the most important, influential, and widely studied Mahayana Buddhist philosopher. His many works include texts addressed to lay audiences, letters of advice to kings, and a set of penetrating...
The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
AuthorBodhidharma
ISBN0865473994
A fifth-century Indian Buddhist monk, Bodhidharma is credited with bringing Zen to China. Although the tradition that traces its ancestry back to him did not flourish until nearly two hundred years after his death, today millions of Zen Buddhists and students of kung fu claim him as their spiritual...
The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch
AuthorHui-Neng
ISBN0231083610
The "Platform Sutra" records the teachings of Hui-neng, the Sixth Patriarch, who is revered as one of the two great figures in the founding of Ch'an (Zen) Buddhism. This translation is the definitive English version of the eighth-century Ch'an classic.

Phillip B. Yampolsky has based his...
Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dogen
AuthorDōgen
Eihei Dogen (1200-1253), among the first to transmit Zen Buddhism from China to Japan and founder of the important Soto School, was not only a profoundly influential and provocative Zen philosopher but also one of the most stimulating figures in Japanese letters.

Kazuaki Tanahashi, collaborating...
The Heart of Understanding: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra
AuthorThich Nhat Hanh
ISBN0938077112
No one but Thay could make the Abhidharma technicalities and mind-bending paradoxes of emptiness of the Heart Sutra read like simple breathing while looking at clouds. The highest wisdom, prajnaparamita, in Thay's hands shows you its immediacy and practicality for everyday living. After reading...
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