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The Issue At Hand: Essays On Buddhist Mindfulness Practice - Gil Fronsdal
The Noble Eightfold Path: Way to the End of Suffering - Bhikkhu Bodhi
Unhindered: A Mindful Path Through the Five Hindrances - Gil Fronsdal
Warm Hand to Warm Hand: Dharma Writings from New IMC Teachers - Edited by Kim Allen & Kodo Conlin
Steps to Liberation: The Buddha’s Eightfold Path - Gil Fronsdal
Emptiness: A Practical Guide for Meditators - Guy Armstrong
Satipaṭṭhāna: The Direct Path to Realization - Bhikkhu Anālayo
The Wings to Awakening: An Anthology from the Pāli Canon - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
The Island: An Anthology of the Buddha’s Teachings on Nibbāna - Ajahn Pasanno & Ajahn Amaro
The Sublime Attitudes: A Study Guide on the Brahmavihāras - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
Compassion and Emptiness in Early Buddhist Meditation - Bhikkhu Anālayo
Suttas: The Discourses of the Buddha
The Dhammapada: A Translation of the Buddhist Classic with Annotations - Gil Fronsdal, tr.
In the Buddha’s Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pāli Canon - Bhikkhu Bodhi, ed.
Noble Truths, Noble Path: The Heart Essence of the Buddha's Original Teachings - Bhikkhu Bodhi
The Buddha’s Teachings on Social and Communal Harmony: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pāli Canon - Bhikkhu Bodhi
The Long Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Dīgha Nikāya - Maurice Walshe
The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: A New Translation of the Majjhima Nikāya - Bhikkhu Nanamoli & Bhikkhu Bodhi
The Connected Discourses of the Buddha: A New Translation of the Saṃyutta Nikāya - Bhikkhu Bodhi
The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha: A Complete Translation of the Aṇguttara Nikāya - Bhikkhu Bodhi
Udāna: Exclamations - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu, tr.
Itivuttaka: This Was Said by the Buddha - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu, tr.
Poems of the First Buddhist Women: A Translation of the Therīgāthā - Charles Hallisey
Verses of the Senior Monks: An approachable translation of the Theragāthā - Bhikkhu Sujato
The Buddha Before Buddhism: Wisdom from the Early Teachings - Gil Fronsdal
Sutta Nipāta: The Discourse Group - Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu, tr.
Zen: Zazen, Precepts, and the Practice of Awakening
A White Tea Bowl: 100 Haiku from 100 Years of Life - Mitsu Suzuki
Being Upright: Zen Meditation and Bodhisattva Precepts - Tenshin Reb Anderson
Waking Up to What You Do: A Zen Practice for Meeting Every Situation with Intelligence and Compassion - Diane Eshin Rizzetto
Taking the Path of Zen - Robert Aitken
Soto Zen: An Introduction to Zazen - Sotoshu Sumucho
Opening the Hand of Thought: Foundations of Zen Buddhist Practice - Kosho Uchiyama
Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind - Shunryu Suzuki
Becoming Yourself: Teachings on the Zen Way of Life - Shunryu Suzuki
Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen - Shunryu Suzuki
Crooked Cucumber: The Life and Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki - David Chadwick
Seeing One Thing Through: The Zen Life and Teachings of Sojun Mel Weitsman - Sojun Mel Weitsman
Cultivating the Empty Field: The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi - Taigen Dan Leighton
Book of Serenity: One Hundred Zen Dialogues - Thomas Cleary
Transmission of Light: Zen in the Art of Enlightenment by Zen Master Keizan - Thomas Cleary, tr.
Entering the Mind of Buddha: Zen and the Six Heroic Practices of Bodhisattvas - Tenshin Reb Anderson
The Shamanic Bones of Zen: Revealing the Ancestral Spirit and Mystical Heart of a Sacred Tradition - Zenju Earthlyn Manuel
Timeless Spring: A Soto Zen Anthology - Thomas Cleary
Treasury of the True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen's Shobo Genzo - Kazuaki Tanahashi, tr.
Dogen's Extensive Record: A Translation of the Eihei Koroku - Eihei Dōgen; Taigen Dan Leighton & Shohaku Okumura, tr.