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Sacred Writings Books

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33 booksApril 2, 2026

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1. The Dhammapada
Dr. Max Muller, F. Max Müller
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2. Dhammapada
Gautama Buddha
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3. Dhammapada
Gautama Buddha
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4. Zen Roots
Red Pine
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5. The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment (volume 1)
Tsongkhapa, Joshua Cutler
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6. The Essential Buddhadhamma
Bhikkhu P. A. Payutt, Bruce Evans
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7. Samatha and Vipasyana
B. Alan Wallace, Eva Natanya
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8. Buddhism
His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Thubten Chodron
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9. The Complete Nyingma Tradition From Sutra to Tantra, Books 19 and 20
Choying Tobden Dorje, Heidi L. Nevin
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10. The Lankavatara Sutra
Red Pine
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11. Nyingma: Mahayoga, Anuyoga, and Atiyoga, Part Two
Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye, Padmakara Translation Group
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12. The Diamond Sutra
Red Pine, Anonymous
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13. Three Zen Sutras
Red Pine
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14. Awakening of the Heart
Thich Nhat Hanh
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Shelf signal: Buddhist Practice & Ritual
15. The Perfection of Wisdom Tradition
Gareth Sparham, Ngok Loden Sherab
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16. The Precious Treasury of Essential Instructions
Longchenpa, Dilgo Khyentse
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Shelf signal: Tibetan Buddhism
17. Meditation on Emptiness
Jeffrey Hopkins, His Holiness the Dalai Lama
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18. The Suttanipata
Bhikkhu Bodhi
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19. Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
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20. Emptiness
Guy Armstrong
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Shelf signal: Theravada Buddhism
21. The Enlightened Mind
Stephen Mitchell
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22. The Four Noble Truths
The Dalai Lama, Dalai Lama XIV
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23. In This Very Life
Sayadaw U Pandita, Kate Wheeler
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24. Voices of Siam
Bruce Evans, Buddhadasa Bhikku
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