Recommended Reading Lists
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Ottawa Public Library Booklist The Ottawa Public Library has a large collection of books on Buddhism that can be borrowed by local residents. The following pathfinder outlines a core list of works on Theravada Buddhism ranging from the Buddha’s own discourses to contemporary writings by monastics and lay authors: Buddhist Books at the Ottawa Public Library Reading List from Ajahn Sona Recommended
Readings for Beginners Many of the items are available through the OBS Library and at the Ottawa Public Library. Check the OBS Online Library Catalogue or the Ottawa Public Library Catalogue for a wide selection of Dhamma Books and Cassettes. A lot of the items are available free from the Access To Insight and BPS websites. A full list of BPS publications can be sent upon request. Write to: The
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Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Recommended Reading List for Beginners... Meditation-Introduction to Insight Meditation. Amaravati Publications, Amaravati Buddhist Centre, Great Gaddesden, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire HPl 3BZ, England. ISBN 1-870205-03-0. -Mindfulness in Plain English. Ven.Gunaratana; Wisdom Publications. -Calm and Insight. A Buddhist Manual for Meditators. Bhikkhu Khantipalo, Curzon Press, London. ISBN0-7007-0141-9 Buddhist Teachings and Practice -The Power of Mindfulness. Ven.Nyanaponika; The Wheel Publication No.121/122; Buddhist Publication Society (BPS), Kandy, Sri Lanka. -The Word of the Buddha. Nyanatiloka Thera, BPS (BP 201S), Kandy Sri Lanka. -Going for Refuge. Taking the Precepts. Bhikkhu Bodhi. The Wheel Publication (WH), No.282/283/284. -The Noble Eightfold Path. Bhikkhu Bodhi, BPS (BP 1055). -The Buddha and His Teachings. Narada Mahathera. BPS (BP 102S). -Metta. The Philosophy and Practice of Universal Love. Acariya Buddharakkhita. BPS (WH 365/366).
-Dana: The Practice of Giving. Bhikkhu Bodhi, Ed., BPS (WH 367/369). -Kamma and Its Fruit. Nyanaponika Thera, BPS (BP 413S). Suttas-Everyman's Ethics. Narada Mahathera, BPS (WH 14). -The Scale of Good Deeds. Susan Elbaum Jootla, BPS (WH 372). -The Buddha's Teaching
In His Own Words. Bhikkhu Nanamoli, BPS
(WH 428/430). Recommended Mainstream Theravada Readings... -Buddhist Dictionary, manual of terms and doctrines. Nyanatiloka, BPS -The Word of the Buddha. Nyanatiloka, BPS (BP 201 S) -Path to Deliverance. Nyanatiloka, BPS (BP 202 S) -The Road to inner freedom. Nyanatiloka (ed.), BPS -The Power of mindfulness. Nyanatiloka, BPS (WH 121/122) ISBN 955-9219-22-7 -The Heart of Buddhist meditation. Nyanatiloka, BPS (BP 509 S) -The Vision of Dhamma. Nyanatiloka, BPS (BP 414 S) -The Buddha and his teachings. Narada, BPS (BP 102 S) ISBN 955-24-0025-2 -The Buddha's ancient path. Piyadassi, BPS (BP 103 S) -The Life of the Buddha according to the Pali canon. Nanamoli, BPS (BP 101 S) -The Noble Eightfold Path. Bhikkhu Bodhi, BPS (BP 105 S) -The Middle length discourses of the Buddha. Bhikkhu Nanamoli and Bhikkhu Bodhi (trans.) BPS (BP 218 H); also available from Wisdom Publications, Boston, MA (1995) ISBN 0-86171-072X -The Long discourses of the Buddha. Maurice Walshe (trans.) BPS (BP 219 H); also available from Wisdom Publications, Boston, MA (1987) ISBN 0-86171-030-4 -Mindfulness in plain English. Ven. Henepola Gunaratana, Wisdom Publications (1993) ISBN 0-86171-064-9 -The Jhanas (in Theravada Buddhist meditation). Ven. Henepola Gunaratana, BPS (WH 351/353) ISBN 955-24-0035X -The Path of serenity and insight. Ven. Henepola Gunaratana -What the Buddha taught. Walpola Rahula. Grove/Atlantic, NY (1972 rev.ed.) ISBN 0802130313 -The Four foundations of mindfulness. Ven. U Silananda, Wisdom Pub. (1990) ISBN 0-8171-092-4 -The Wings to awakening. Thanissaro Bhikkhu. Dhamma Dana Publications, Barre, MA, (1996) -Being nobody, going nowhere. Ayya Khema, Wisdom Pub., (1987) ISBN 0-86171-052-5 -Meditation = awareness. Ven. Dr. M. Vajiragnana. Request from: overseas@bvdaedu.org.tw -Great disciples of the Buddha. Nyanaponika Thera & Hellmuth Hecker, BPS (BP 417 S) -Twenty cases suggestive of reincarnation. 2nd ed., Ian Stevenson, MD, University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, ISBN 0-8139-0872-8 -In this very life. Sayadaw U Pandita, Wisdom Pub., ISBN 0-86171-0940 -A Still forest pool: the insight meditation of Ajahn Chah. 4th ed. (1991) Jack Kornfield & Paul Breiter, Quest Books, ISBN 0-8356-0597-3 -Rebirth as doctrine and experience. Francis Story, BPS -The Itivuttaka, the Buddha's sayings. John D. Ireland (trans.) BPS -The Udana, inspired utterances of the Buddha. John D. Ireland (trans.) BPS Loving-kindness: the revolutionary art of happiness. Sharon Salzberg, Shambhala, 1995 ISBN 1570621764 -The Path of purification. Buddhaghosa, Bhikkhu Nanamoli, 5th ed., BPS -The Path of freedom. By the Arahant Upatissa, BPS -A Comprehensive manual of Abhidhamma. Acariya Anurnddha. Bhikkhu Bodhi (ed.), BPS -The Path of discrimination. Bhikkhu Nanamoli (trans.), 2nd ed., The Pali Text Society, Oxford 1997, ISBN 0-86013-349-4 -Buddhist monastic life. Mohan Wijayaratna, Cambridge U. Press, 1990, ISBN 0-521-36708-5 -The Seven contemplations of insight, a treatise on insight meditation. Ven. Matara Sri Nanarama Mahathera, BPS -The Question of King Milinda. N. Mendis (trans.) BPS -The All-embracing net of views. Bhikkhu Bodhi (trans), BPS -The Discourse of right view. Bhikkhu Bodhi (trans), BPS -The Great discourse on causation. Bhikkhu Bodhi (trans), BPS -The Root of existence. Bhikkhu Bodhi (trans), BPS -The Lion's roar, two discourses of the Buddha. Bhikkhu Bodhi (trans), BPS
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