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10 best books like The Heart Sutra (Anonymous): The Way of the Bodhisattva, The Words of My Perfect Teacher, The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya, The Lotus Sutra: A Contemporary Translation of a Buddhist Classic, The Lotus Sutra, Taking the Path of Zen, Buddhist Wisdom: The Diamond Sutra and The Heart Sutra, A Flash of Lightning in the Dark of Night: A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, The Long Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Digha Nikaya, Essential Tibetan Buddhism

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...
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 Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya
AuthorBhikkhu Bodhi
This book offers a complete translation of the Majjhima Nikaya, or Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, one of the major collections of texts in the Pali Canon, the authorized scriptures of Theravada Buddhism. This collection--among the oldest records of the historical Buddha's original teachings--consists...
The Lotus Sutra: A Contemporary Translation of a Buddhist Classic
AuthorGene Reeves
ISBN0861715713
The Lotus Sutra is regarded as one of the world's great religious scriptures and most influential texts. It's a seminal work in the development of Buddhism throughout East Asia and, by extension, in the development of Mahayana Buddhism throughout the world. Taking place in a vast and fantastical cosmic...
The Lotus Sutra
AuthorAnonymous
ISBN0231081618
Since its appearance in China in the third century, The Lotus Sutra has been regarded as one of the most illustrious scriptures in the Mahayana Buddhist canon. The object of intense veneration among generations of Buddhists in China, Korea, Japan, and other parts of the world, it has had a profound impact...
Taking the Path of Zen
AuthorRobert Aitken
ISBN0865470804
There is a fine art to presenting complex ideas with simplicity and insight, in a manner that both guides and inspires. In Taking the Path of Zen Robert Aitken presents the practice, lifestyle, rationale, and ideology of Zen Buddhism with remarkable clarity.

The foundation of Zen is the practice...
Buddhist Wisdom: The Diamond Sutra and The Heart Sutra
AuthorEdward Conze
ISBN0375726004
A landmark publication when it first appeared in 1958, Buddhist Wisdom offered Western readers a unique combination of both The Diamond Sutra -- one of the cornerstone texts of Mahayana Buddhism -- and The Heart Sutra, perhaps the most important of all Buddhist texts, in a single authoritative volume....
A Flash of Lightning in the Dark of Night: A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life
AuthorDalai Lama XIV
ISBN0877739714
Compassion is the guiding principle of the bodhisattvas, those who vow to attain enlightenment in order to liberate all sentient beings from the suffering and confusion of imperfect existence. To this end, they must renounce all self-centered goals and consider only the well-being of others. The...
The Long Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Digha Nikaya
AuthorMaurice Walshe
ISBN0861711033
This book offers a complete translation of the Digha Nikaya, the long discourses of the Buddha, one of the major collections of texts in the Pali Canon, the authorized scriptures of Theravada Buddhism. This collection--among the oldest records of the historical Buddha's original teachings, given...
Essential Tibetan Buddhism
AuthorRobert A.F. Thurman
ISBN0785808728
An accessible introduction to this rich spiritual tradition through its own vibrant literature, much of it only recently available in the West. Here are teachings about the Buddha, subsequent Buddhas, and our Buddhist nature; prayer texts and meditation techniques; the stories of hermits and yogis;...
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...
A Buddhist Bible
AuthorDwight Goddard
ISBN0807059110
A wide selection of readings from Pali, Sanskrit, Chinese, Tibetan, and modern sources intended to provide the reader with a foundation in classical Buddhist thought.

The first book to bring together the key texts of modern Buddhism.

In the last hundred years, the world, especially...
The Flower Ornament Scripture: A Translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra
AuthorThomas Cleary
ISBN0877739404
Known in Chinese as Hua-yen and in Japanese as Kegon-kyo, the Avatamsaka Sutra, or Flower Ornament Scripture, is held in the highest regard and studied by Buddhists of all traditions. Through its structure and symbolism, as well as through its concisely stated principles, it conveys a vast range of...
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...
The Diamond That Cuts Through Illusion: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Diamond Sutra
AuthorThich Nhat Hanh
ISBN0938077511
The Diamond That Cuts Through Illusions presents a dialogue between the Buddha and his disciple Subhuti which illuminates how our minds construct limited categories of thought. It offers us alternative ways to look at the world in its wholeness so we can encounter a deeper reality; develop reverence...
The Holy Teaching of Vimalakirti: A Mahayana Scripture
AuthorAnonymous
ISBN0271006013
This book presents the major teachings of Mah y na Buddhism in a precise, dramatic, and even humorous form. For two millennia this S tra, called the jewel of the Mah y na S tras, has enjoyed immense popularity among Mah y na Buddhists in India, central and southeast Asia, Japan, and especially China, where...
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...
Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen
AuthorShunryu Suzuki
ISBN0060957549
Practising the true spirit of Zen.

Not Always So is based on Shunryu Suzuki's lectures and is framed in his own inimitable, allusive, paradoxical style, rich with unexpected and off–centre insights. Suzuki knew he was dying at the time of the lectures, which gives his thoughts an urgency...
Crooked Cucumber: The Life and Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki
AuthorDavid Chadwick
ISBN0767901053
Shunryu Suzuki is known to countless readers as the author of the modern spiritual classic Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. This most influential teacher comes vividly to life in Crooked Cucumber, the first full biography of any Zen master to be published in the West. To make up his intimate and engrossing...
Zen Training: Methods and Philosophy
AuthorKatsuki Sekida
ISBN0834801140
I don't pretend to understand most of this book. It was a heavy read, at times plodding - and yet I'm glad to have had the chance to read it. Certain passages struck me:

Someday you will have this kind of experience. And one day, when you emerge from it, rising from your seat, stepping across the doorsill,...
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