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What is your favorite Buddhist book?

graceleegracelee Veteran
edited April 2011 in Buddhism Basics
What is your favorite Buddhist book? and why?

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  • beingbeing Veteran
    edited April 2011
    "Mindfulness in Plain English" as an instructional book, because I haven't read many.

    "Phra Farang: An English Monk in Thailand" as an entertaining and inspirational story, because I haven't read many.

    *_*
  • YacababyYacababy
    Thich Nhat Hahn " The heart of the Buddha's teaching" and " destructive emotions" Dalai Lama
  • AnupassīAnupassī
    "Rude Awakenings" and "The Great Patient One," by Nick Scott & Ajahn Sucitto. It's the story of their six month-long pilgrimage through northern India and Nepal.

    http://cittaviveka.org/talks.htm Available for free download here.

    Complete with fruit bats and Ajahn Sucitto nearly being murdered by bandits!
  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
    Oh, Must I choose - ?!
    Of the many (many!) I have read, then I guess it would have to be -

    The Tibetan Book of Living & Dying. It's what brought me to Buddhism.
  • ownerof1000oddsocksownerof1000oddsocks Veteran
    That's probably the first serious book I read too- I think I liked it back then.

    Before that I had fifty broken sticks, a companion copy of the e-ching to help find lost cats, and a copy of libernull and psychonaut- both equally entertaining and useless.

    I also like the art of happiness by dalai lama- he says some pretty basic stuff that makes a lot of sense.
  • zenffzenff Veteran
    “The Blue Cliff Record” – the translation from Cleary & Cleary.
    I was so exited when I could get my hands on it, fifteen years ago or more.

    It is a classic koan-collection with comments, so not every one is going to appreciate it.
    But I remember getting a good laugh from my younger brother when he just read the name of the first chapter: “The Highest Meaning of the Holy Truths”.

    When I’m on vacation I usually take it with me.
  • fivebellsfivebells Veteran
    edited April 2011
    Wake Up To Your Life, because it got me started on serious Buddhist practice. Uses very clear language to explain where the path leads, why the results are desirable, how it works, and how to follow it.
  • Malachy12Malachy12
    "Hardcore Zen"
    "The Universe in a Single Atom" and "The Quantum and the Lotus"
    "The Little Zen Campanion"
    "Zen Mind Beginners Mind"(This one needs some pictures or jokes)
    "Ramona Quimby" (helps when I'm reading Zen Mind Beginners Mind)
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