The Path of Purification: Visuddhimagga
10 best books like The Path of Purification: Visuddhimagga (Buddhaghosa): The 4-Hour Workweek, The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't, Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It, The Bullet Journal Method: Track the Past, Order the Present, Design the Future, In the Buddha's Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon, The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya, The Long Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Digha Nikaya, Great Disciples of the Buddha: Their Lives, Their Works, Their Legacy
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| ISBN | 0307353133 |
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| ISBN | 0140230122 |
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| ISBN | 0066620996 |
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Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
| Author | James C. Collins |
| ISBN | 0060566108 |
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| Author | Kelly McGonigal |
| ISBN | 1583334386 |
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In the Buddha's Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon
| Author | Bhikkhu Bodhi |
| ISBN | 0861714911 |
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...
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...
| Author | Maurice Walshe |
| ISBN | 0861711033 |
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...
| Author | Nyanaponika Thera |
| ISBN | 0861713818 |
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...
| 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...
| Author | Anālayo |
| ISBN | 1899579540 |
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...
