The Lotus Sutra: A Contemporary Translation of a Buddhist Classic

8 best books like The Lotus Sutra: A Contemporary Translation of a Buddhist Classic (Gene Reeves): Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver, The Nature of the Beast, The Dhammapada, A Rule Against Murder, The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya, The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma, Mahayana Buddhism: The Doctrinal Foundations, The Life of the Buddha: According to the Pali Canon

Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

Author	Mary Oliver
ISBN	0399563245

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career.
Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted...

The Nature of the Beast

Author	Louise Penny
ISBN	1250022088

Hardly a day goes by when nine-year-old Laurent Lepage doesn't cry wolf. From alien invasions, to walking trees, to winged beasts in the woods, to dinosaurs spotted in the village of Three Pines, his tales are so extraordinary no one can possibly believe him. But when the boy disappears, the villagers...

The Dhammapada

Author	Anonymous
ISBN	0938077872

The Dhammapada (Pāli; Prakrit: धम्मपद Dhammapada; Sanskrit: धर्मपद Dharmapada) is a collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form and one of the most widely read and best known Buddhist scriptures. The original version of the Dhammapada is in the Khuddaka Nikaya,...

A Rule Against Murder

Author	Louise Penny
ISBN	0312377029

"What happened here last night isn't allowed," said Madame Dubois.
It was such an extraordinary thing to say it stopped the ravenous Inspector Beauvoir from taking another bite of his roast beef on baguette.
"You have a rule against murder?" he asked.
"I do. When my husband and I bought...

The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya

Author

Bhikkhu 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 Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Author	Bodhidharma
ISBN	0865473994

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...

Mahayana Buddhism: The Doctrinal Foundations

Author	Paul S Williams
ISBN	0415025370

As the back of the book will tell you, the 1989 publication of this work’s first edition made quite a stir and, I quote, “It is still unrivalled.” Indeed, it has become a foundational text for courses on Mahayana Buddhism at the university level, and since almost two decades of burgeoning scholarship...

The Life of the Buddha: According to the Pali Canon

Author	Bhikkhu Ñaṇamoli
ISBN	1928706126

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...