Helpful Books

Mahayana Buddhist Sutras

• The Three Pure Land Sutras – BDK
• The Surangama Sutra – BDK
• The Lotus Sutra – BDK
• The Lankavatara Sutra
• The Teaching for Bhadrapala Sutra
• The Pratyutpanna Samadhi Sutra – BDK
• The Surangama Samadhi Sutra – BDK
• A Day in the Life: the Empty Bowl & Diamond Sutras – Red Pine
• The Formation of Ch’an Ideaology in China and Korea: The Vajrasamadhi Sutra
• The Sutra of Hui Neng (The Platform Sutra)
• The Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment
• The Avatamsaka Sutra
• The Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra
• Perfect Wisdom – Edward Conze
• The Heart of Prajnaparamita Sutra
• The Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines – Edward Conze
• The Dharani Entering Into Nonconceptuality – Translated by the Dharmachakra Translation Committee

Zen and Daoism

• The Tao of Pooh – Benjamin Hoff
• Hsin Hsin Ming
• Dropping Ashes on the Buddha – Zen Master Seung Sahn
• The Compass of Zen – Zen Master Seung Sahn
• Wanting Enlightenment Is a Big Mistake: Teachings of Zen Master Seung Sahn – Zen Master Seung Sahn
• The Zen Teachings of Bodhidharma – Red Pine
• Zen Roots: The First Thousand Years – Red Pine
• The Zen Teaching of Huang Po – John Blofeld
• Zen Teaching of Instantaneous Awakening – John Blofeld
• Yung-chia’s Song of Enlightenment – Red Pine
• The Tao of Zen – Ray Grigg
• Handbooks for Taoist Practice Vol I-III – Louis Komjathy
• Daode Jing – Louis Komjathy
• Lao-Tzu’s Tao Te Ching – Red Pine
• Ching Jing Sutra – Joy Tianyun Wu, PH.D
• Stillness of Mind, Clarity of Spirit – Jong Orsborn A.P.
• Zhuangzi: The Complete Writings – Brook Ziporyn
• Lieh Tzu – Eva Wong
• Wen Tzu – Thomas Cleary
• Sitting In Oblivion – Livia Kohn
• Tao and Longevity – Huai-Chin Nan
• Vitality, Energy, Spirit: A Taoist Sourcebook – Thomas Cleary
• Taoist Yoga – Lu K’uan Yu
• China Root: Taoism, Ch’an, and Original Zen – David Hinton
• Internal Elixir Cultivation – Robert James Coons
• The Great Tao – Dr. Stephen T. Chang
• Mud and Water: The Collected Teachings of Zen Master Bassui – Arthur Braverman
• Unborn: The Life and Teachings of Zen Master Bankei – Norman Waddell
• The Secrets of Chinese Meditation – Lu K’uan Yu
• The Chan Handbook – Buddhist Text Translation Society
• Daoist Dietetics: Food for Immortality – Livia Kohn

Pure Land Buddhism

• The Seekers Glossary of Buddhism
• Horizontal Escape (Pure Land Buddhism in Theory and Practice)
• Pure Land Pure Mind – J.C. Cleary
• Going Home to the Pure Land – Shi Wuling
• Pure-land Zen, Zen Pure-land – Yin Kuang

Theravada Buddhism

• Heartwood of the Bodhi Tree – Bhuddadasa Bhikkhu
• Seeing With The Eye of Dhamma – Bhuddadasa Bhikkhu
• The Gradual Training: The Buddha’s Step-by-Step Guide for Awakening – Leigh Brasington
• What You Might Not Know about Jhana & Samadhi – Kumāra Bhikkhu
• Mindfulness, Bliss, and Beyond – Ajahn Brahm
• Wisdom Develops Samadhi – Acariya Maha Boowa Nanasampanno
• Small Boat Great Mountain – Amaro Bhikkhu
• The Sound of Silence – Ajahn Sumedho
• Arahattamagga Arahattaphala – Acariya Maha Boowa Nanasampanno and Bhikkhu Dick Silaratano

Miscellaneous

• I Am Boundlessness – Ilie Cioara
• Life is Eternal Newness – Ilie Cioara
• The Wonderous Journey – Ilie Cioara
• The Silence of the Mind – Ilie Cioara
• Ways of Attending – Iain Mcgilchrist
• Yoga In The Kashmir Tradition – Billy Doyle
• Spiritual Discourses of Shri Atmananda – Nitya Tripta
• Shift Into Freedom – Loch Kelly
• Sparks – James Low
• Simply Being – James Low
• Living Silence – Silvia Ostertag
• Happiness Beyond Thought: A Practical Guide to Awakening – Gary Weber
• The Law of Attention: Nada Yoga and the Way of Inner Vigilance – Edward Salim Michael
• Dreams of Awakening – Charlie Morley
• The Posture of Meditation – Will Johnson