Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness – Walking the Buddha’s Path, by Henepola Gunaratana
Soon after Mindfulness in Plain English was published, several of my friends and students asked me to write a book about the Buddha’s path to happiness in the same straightforward style. This book is my response. Mindfulness in Plain English was a meditation manual, a guide for students in the practice of mindfulness meditation.
Seeking the Heart of Wisdom – The Path of Insight Meditation by Joseph Goldstein
In Seeking the Heart of Wisdom Goldstein and Kornfield present the central teachings and practices of insight meditation in a clear and personal language. The path of insight meditation is a journey of understanding our bodies, our minds, and our lives, of seeing clearly the true nature of experience. The authors guide the reader in developing the openness and compassion that are at the heart of this spiritual practice.
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[PDF] Basic Buddhist Doctrines by Thien Phuc – The full 8 volumes
In the myriad of documents, books and records of the Buddha’s talks, there are no words written by the enlightened one called Sakyamuni Buddha during his forty-five years of walking and teaching in northeast India. He spoke his messages of living a life of loving-kindness and compassion to kings, high intellectuals and the poor and ignorant, and their gaining the wisdom to achieve salvation from the rounds of birth and death, and for each person to lead others to achieve that wisdom. Texts written in the Pali and Sanskrit languages purport to contain the teachings of this Sixth Century, Before Common Era (B.C.), Indian enlightened one.
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The Basic Teachings of The Buddha
This is one of the clearest and most detailed introductions to the fundamental teachings of Buddhism available in English. In simple and lucid language the author explains the doctrines and concepts which form the common bedrock of Buddhism as they have been preserved by the Theravada school. The first part of the work is devoted to the life of the Buddha. The remainder of the book explains in detail the Buddha’s teachings, the final chapter showing the relevance of Buddhism to the problems of modern life.
The teachings of the Buddha to Laypeople
In this work, all the discourses addressed to lay people in the four main nikāyas of the Pāli Canon, and…
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[En] A Reference Guide to Buddhist Studies
Based on the second Koryŏ edition of the canon, the shukusatsu version is generally recognized as the most accurate modern edition available. Although one must provide citations to the Taishō edition as a standard operating procedure, whenever possible one should also consult this edition. A few texts are found only in this edition, most notably, the most complete collection (10 vols.) of yinyi 音義 (Jpn. ongi; i.e., traditional Chinese glossaries of Sanskrit terms transliterated into Chinese).
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[Vi-En] The Four Noble Truths by The 14th Dalai Lama
The Four Noble Truths are the very foundation of the Buddhist teaching, and that is why they are so important. In fact, if you don’t understand the Four Noble Truths, and if you have not experienced the truth of this teaching personally, it is impossible to practise Buddha Dharma….
The Basic Teachings of The Buddha by Ven. Narada Maha Thera
The remainder of the book explains in detail the Buddha’s teachings, the final chapter showing the relevance of Buddhism to the problems of modern life.
