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What Makes You Not a Buddhist

10 best books like What Makes You Not a Buddhist (Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse): The Art of Happiness, Awakening the Buddha Within: Eight Steps to Enlightenment, The Dhammapada, What the Buddha Taught, Being Peace, Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening, How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life, The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness, The Way of the Bodhisattva, No Time to Lose: A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva

The Art of Happiness
AuthorDalai Lama XIV
ISBN1573221112
Nearly every time you see him, he's laughing, or at least smiling. And he makes everyone else around him feel like smiling. He's the Dalai Lama, the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet, a Nobel Prize winner, and an increasingly popular speaker and statesman. What's more, he'll tell you that happiness...
Awakening the Buddha Within: Eight Steps to Enlightenment
AuthorSurya Das
ISBN0767901576
Lama Surya Das, the most highly trained American lama in the Tibetan tradition, presents the first comprehensive book of Western Buddhism for the modern-day spiritual seeker.
Buddhism offers a profound yet practical path to enlightenment. In this loving and generous book, the American-born...
The Dhammapada
AuthorAnonymous
ISBN0938077872
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,...
What the Buddha Taught
AuthorWalpola Rahula
ISBN0802130313
This indispensable volume is a lucid and faithful account of the Buddha’s teachings. “For years,” says the Journal of the Buddhist Society, “the newcomer to Buddhism has lacked a simple and reliable introduction to the complexities of the subject. Dr. Rahula’s What the Buddha Taught fills...
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...
Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening
AuthorStephen Batchelor
ISBN1573226564
A national bestseller and acclaimed guide to Buddhism for beginners and practitioners alike

In this simple but important volume, Stephen Batchelor reminds us that the Buddha was not a mystic who claimed privileged, esoteric knowledge of the universe, but a man who challenged us to understand...
How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life
AuthorDalai Lama XIV
ISBN0743453360
As human beings, we all share the desire for happiness and meaning in our lives. According to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the ability to find true fulfillment lies within each of us. In this very special book, the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet, Nobel Prize winner, and bestselling author helps...
The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness
AuthorYongey Mingyur
ISBN0307346250
For millennia, Buddhists have enjoyed the limitless benefits of meditation. But how does it work? And why? The principles behind this ancient practice have long eluded some of the best minds in modern science. Until now.

In this groundbreaking work, world-renowned Buddhist teacher Yongey...
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...
No Time to Lose: A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva
AuthorPema Chödrön
ISBN1590301358
Over the years, Pema Chödrön's books have offered readers an exciting new way of living: developing fearlessness, generosity, and compassion in all aspects of their lives. In this new book, she invites readers to venture further along the path of the "bodhisattva warrior," explaining in depth...
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...
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,...
Rebel Buddha: On the Road to Freedom
AuthorDzogchen Ponlop
ISBN1590308743
There’s a rebel within you. It’s the part of you that already knows how to break free of fear and unhappiness. This rebel is the voice of your own awakened mind. It’s your rebel buddha—the sharp, clear intelligence that resists the status quo. It wakes you up from the sleepy acceptance of your...
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...
Confession of a Buddhist Atheist
AuthorStephen Batchelor
ISBN0385527063
Written with the same brilliance and boldness that made Buddhism Without Beliefs a classic in its field, Confession of a Buddhist Atheist is Stephen Batchelor’s account of his journey through Buddhism, which culminates in a groundbreaking new portrait of the historical Buddha.

Stephen...
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
AuthorSogyal Rinpoche
“A magnificent achievement. In its power to touch the heart, to awaken consciousness, [The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying] is an inestimable gift.”
—San Francisco Chronicle

A newly revised and updated edition of the internationally bestselling spiritual classic, The Tibetan...
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