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The Long Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Digha Nikaya

10 best books like The Long Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Digha Nikaya (Maurice Walshe): Food for the Heart: The Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah, The Lotus Sutra: A Contemporary Translation of a Buddhist Classic, The Lotus Sutra, The Heart Sutra, A Flash of Lightning in the Dark of Night: A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā, The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma, The Flower Ornament Scripture: A Translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra, The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch, Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism

Food for the Heart: The Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah
AuthorAjahn Chah
ISBN0861713230
Renowned for the beauty and simplicity of his teachings, Ajahn Chah was Thailand's best-known meditation teacher. His charisma and wisdom influenced many American and European seekers, and helped shape the American Vipassana community. This collection brings together for the first time Ajahn...
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...
The Heart Sutra
AuthorAnonymous
ISBN1593760825
The short text of The Heart Sutra is Buddhism in a nutshell. It has had the most profound and wide-reaching influence of any text in Buddhism. Its full title, Prajna Paramita Hrdaya Sutra, "The Sutra of the Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom," explains that this sutra contains the essence of the Buddha’s...
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 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 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...
Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism
AuthorJohn Powers
ISBN1559390263
Ommmm, I want to immerse myself in the robed peace of the Tibetan monks. Here's a paraphrased excerpt from the Introduction of this book: A lotus is born in the muck and mud at the bottom of a swamp, but when it emerges on the surface of the water and opens its petals, a beautiful flower appears, unstained...
Great Disciples of the Buddha: Their Lives, Their Works, Their Legacy
AuthorNyanaponika Thera
ISBN0861713818
A perennial favorite, Great Disciples of the Buddha is now relaunched in our best-selling Teachings of the Buddha series.

Twenty-four of the Buddha's most distinguished disciples are brought to life in ten chapters of rich narration. Drawn from a wide range of authentic Pali sources, the...
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...
The Connected Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Samyutta Nikaya
AuthorBhikkhu Bodhi
ISBN0861713311
This volume offers a complete translation of the Samyutta Nikaya, The Connected Discourses of the Buddha, the third of the four great collections in the Sutta Pitaka of the Pali Canon. The Samyutta Nikaya consists of fifty-six chapters, each governed by a unifying theme that binds together the Buddha's...
The Life of the Buddha: According to the Pali Canon
AuthorBhikkhu Ñaṇamoli
ISBN1928706126
This unique biography presents the Buddha's revolutionary solution for humanity that leads to the end of ill will, craving and delusion. Though born a prince surrounded by luxuries, Gotama the Buddha was transformed by realizing that no one escapes unhappiness. He spent the remainder of his life...
Satipaṭṭhāna: The Direct Path to Realization
AuthorAnālayo
ISBN1899579540
This book helps to fill what has long been a glaring gap in the scholarship on Early Buddhism, offering us a detailed textual study of the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta, the foundational Buddhist discourse on meditation practice.

With painstaking thoroughness, Ven. Anālayo marshals the suttas...
One Dharma: The Emerging Western Buddhism
AuthorJoseph Goldstein
ISBN0062517015
The Dharma Of Freedom

Joseph Goldstein has written an ambitious, short book which attempts to synthesize the wisdom and teachings of various Buddhist traditions and which offers thoughts on the possible future course of Buddhism in the West. The book is also a practitioner's guide and a manual...
The Path of Purification: Visuddhimagga
AuthorBuddhaghosa
ISBN1928706002
One of Buddhism’s foundational texts, the Visuddhimagga is a systematic examination and condensation of Buddhist doctrine and meditation technique. The various teachings of the Buddha found throughout the Pali canon are organized in a clear, comprehensive path leading to the final goal of nibbana,...
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