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Suggested Books on Buddhism

Compiled by Ekoji Buddhist Sangha 


Jodo Shin and Chinese Pure Land Buddhism

The Three Pure Land Sutras
A Study and Translation from Chinese by Hisao Inagaki in collaboration with Harold Stewart. Kyoto, 1994.

A Miscellany on the Shin Teaching of Buddhism
D.T. Suzuki

The Bodhisattva of Compassion: The Mystical Tradition of Kuan Yin
John Blofeld

Letters of Shinran: A translation of Mattosho
translated by Yoshifumi Ueda. Kyoto

Everyday Suchness
Gyomay M. Kubose

Jodo Shin group page
 


Zen Buddhism

Zen Mind, Beginners Mind
Shunryu Suzuki

Not Always So
Shunryu Suzuki

Opening the Hand of Thought
Kosho Uchiyama

From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment

Kosho Uchiyama

Everyday Zen
Charlotte Joko Beck

Being Upright
Tenshin Reb Anderson

The Miracle of Mindfulness
Thich Nhat Hanh

Taking the Path of Zen
Robert Aitken

Moon in a Dewdrop
Dogen Zenji (Kazuaki Tanahashi, editor)

Cultivating the Empty Field

Huangzhi (Taigen Daniel Leighton, translator)

Faces of Compassion: Bodhisattva Archetypes and Their Modern Expression
Taigen Daniel Leighton

Zen group page
 

Kagyu Shenpen Tharchin/Tibetan

The Great Path of Awakening
Focuses on awakening compassion and on realization of the nature of things. It shows how to cultivate altrusim and provides the means for putting everday life on the Great Path of liberation for all beings.

Chenrezig, Lord of Love
Bokar Rinpoche.

Gently Whispered
Kalu Rinpoche

The Dharma
Kalu Rinpoche

KST group page
 

Vipassana Meditation and Theravadin Buddhism

What the Buddha Taught
Wapola Rahula

Mindfulness in Plain English
Bhante Gunaratana

Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness
Bhante Gunaratana

Buddha's Ancient Path
Pidyadassi Thera

Seeking the Heart of Wisdom
Jack Kornfield & Joseph Goldstein

In This Very Life
Sayadaw U Pandita

Being Nobody, Going Nowhere
Ayya Khema

Vipassana group page

 

Richmond Meditative Inquiry Group

Books By Toni Packer:

The Work of This Moment
Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1990

The Light of Discovery
Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1995

The Wonder of Presence
Shambala Publications, 2002

Suggested Related Reading:

The Zen Teachings of Huang Po
Translated by John Blofeld

One Robe, One Bowl: The Zen Poetry of Ryokan
Translated by John Stevens

The Sutra of Hui Neng
(sometimes known as The Platform Sutra)

The Awakening of Intelligence
J. Krinshnamurti

Think On These Things
J. Krishnamurti

Thought As A System
David Bohm

I Am That
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Meditative Inquiry group page


 

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