Monographs
RSS FeedMonographs are books. They are distinct from booklets in that they were professionally published. They tend to be copyrighted, longer and more thoroughly edited than booklets, but this is not always the case.
| Name | Formats | Year | Author(s) | Featured In... | Date Added | Size | Publisher | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Comparative Study of the Majjhima-nikāya | 2011 | Bhikkhu Anālayo | The Majjhima Nikāya | 2020-09-10 16:43 | 1055 pages | 287 | Dharma Drum Publishing | |
| Great Disciples of the Buddha: Their Lives, Their Works, Their Legacy | 1997 | Ven. Nyanaponika Thera and Hellmuth Hecker | Characters in the EBTs | 2020-08-15 16:13 | 382 pages | 356 | Wisdom Publications | |
| The Art of Being Human: A Textbook for Cultural Anthropology | 2018 | Michael Wesch | The (Human) World | 2022-03-02 23:27 | 357 pages | 35 | New Prairie Press | |
| Living Buddhist Masters | 1977 | Jack Kornfield | Theravāda | 2020-10-29 10:26 | 320 pages | 346 | Unity Press | |
| The Life You Can Save | 2009 | Peter Singer | Buddhist Economics | 2020-12-15 09:44 | 259 pages | 6 | Random House | |
| Sexual Consent | 2019 | Milena Popova | Buddhist Ethics | 2020-12-15 14:34 | 218 pages | 50 | MIT | |
| Stillness Flowing: The Life and Teachings of Ajahn Chah | 2017 | Ajahn Jayasaro | Thai Forest Tradition | 2021-01-17 12:54 | 802 pages | 102 | Panyaprateep | |
| The Long Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Digha Nikaya | 1987 | Maurice Walshe | Digha Nikāya | 2020-09-12 13:20 | 656 pages | 201 | Wisdom Publications | |
| Introduction to Anthropology | 2022 | Jennifer Hasty, David G. Lewis, and Marjorie M. Snipes | The (Human) World | 2022-03-11 19:13 | 626 pages | 40 | Rice University | |
| The Madhyama Āgama: Volume 1 | 2013 | Marcus Bingenheimer, Bhikkhu Anālayo, and Roderick S. Bucknell | Madhyama Āgama | 2020-09-13 13:24 | 556 pages | 195 | Bukkyō Dendō Kyōkai | |
| Debt: The First 5000 Years | 2011 | David Graeber | The Social World | 2020-08-15 17:24 | 544 pages | 7 | Melville House | |
| Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea: The History and Discovery of the World’s Richest Shipwreck | 1998 | Gary Kinder | California | 2020-08-15 11:46 | 507 pages | 1 | Grove | |
| The Madhyama Āgama: Volume 3 | 2022 | Bhikkhu Anālayo and Roderick S. Bucknell | Madhyama Āgama | 2023-10-15 13:56 | 500 pages | 39 | Bukkyō Dendō Kyōkai | |
| The Poetry of Meng Haoran | 2021 | Paul W. Kroll | Chán Literature | 2022-08-24 13:55 | 468 pages | 26 | De Gruyter | |
| The Madhyama Āgama: Volume 2 | 2020 | Bhikkhu Anālayo and Roderick S. Bucknell | Madhyama Āgama | 2020-09-13 13:24 | 450 pages | 322 | Bukkyō Dendō Kyōkai | |
| The Madhyama Āgama: Volume 4 | 2023 | Bhikkhu Anālayo and Roderick S. Bucknell | Madhyama Āgama | 2024-04-15 16:18 | 450 pages | 27 | Bukkyō Dendō Kyōkai | |
| The Poetry of Hanshan (Cold Mountain), Shide, and Fenggan | 2017 | Paul Rouzer | Chán Literature | 2021-08-31 11:00 | 420 pages | 89 | De Gruyter | |
| Sects and Sectarianism: The Origins of Buddhist Schools | 2007 | Bhante Sujato | Early Sects | 2021-04-26 19:18 | 158 pages | 248 | The Corporate Body of the Buddha Education Foundation | |
| The Life of the Buddha | 1972 | Bhikkhu Ñāṇamoli Thera | The Buddha | 2021-01-08 19:09 | 359 pages | 501 | The Buddhist Publication Society | |
| Li Bo Unkempt | 2020 | Kidder Smith and Mike Zhai | Chán Literature | 2021-03-28 07:29 | 344 pages | 5 | punctum books | |
| Ends and Means: An Enquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization | 1937 | Aldous Huxley | Society | 2020-08-15 11:29 | 326 pages | 62 | Chatto & Windus | |
| The Buddhist Religion: A Historical Introduction | 1997 | Richard Robinson, Willard L. Johnson, and Ajahn Geoff Ṭhānissaro | Buddhism as a Religion | 2020-03-08 16:58 | 314 pages | 409 | Wadsworth | |
| The Connected Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Saṃyutta Nikāya | 2000 | Bhikkhu Bodhi | Saṃyutta Nikāya | 2020-09-12 15:13 | 2080 pages | 105 | Wisdom Publications | |
| A History of Buddhist Philosophy: Continuities and Discontinuities | 1992 | David J. Kalupahana | Buddhist Philosophy in Dialogue | 2021-04-23 09:35 | 304 pages | 52 | University of Hawai'i Press | |
| The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Aṅguttara Nikāya | 2012 | Bhikkhu Bodhi | The Aṅguttara Nikāya | 2020-09-12 15:40 | 1868 pages | 109 | Wisdom Publications | |
| Satipaṭṭhāna Meditation: A Practice Guide | 2018 | Bhikkhu Anālayo | Mindfulness | 2023-08-24 09:49 | 256 pages | 350 | Windhorse Publications | |
| News from True Cultivators: Letters to the Venerable Abbot Hua | 1983 | Rev. Heng Shure and Heng Chau | Pilgrimage | 2021-12-20 09:04 | 250 pages | 15 | Dharma Realm Buddhist University | |
| The Dhammapada: The Buddha’s Path of Wisdom | 1959 | Ācāriya Buddharakkhita | The Pāli Canon | 2020-07-25 16:43 | 124 pages | 310 | The Buddhist Publication Society | |
| The Navel of the Earth: The History and Significance of Bodh Gaya | 1996 | Bhante Shravasti Dhammika | Pilgrimage | 2021-04-16 13:28 | 241 pages | 75 | The Buddhist Publication Society | |
| Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits | 1993 | Bill Porter | Modern Chinese Buddhism | 2021-11-04 13:54 | 220 pages | 69 | Mercury House | |
| Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art | 1993 | Scott McCloud | Media Studies | 2023-06-06 16:28 | 216 pages | 4 | Kitchen Sink Press | |
| Architects of Buddhist Leisure: Socially Disengaged Buddhism in Asia’s Museums, Monuments, and Amusement Parks | 2017 | Justin Thomas McDaniel | Pilgrimage | 2021-04-12 09:48 | 214 pages | 14 | University of Hawai'i Press | |
| Biography of Shakyamuni Buddha | 2013 | Ven Master Hsing Yun | Buddhism 101 | 2020-03-08 16:58 | 214 pages | 1417 | Buddha's Light Publishing | |
| The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Majjhima Nikāya | 1995 | Bhikkhu Ñāṇamoli Thera and Bhikkhu Bodhi | The Majjhima Nikāya | 2020-09-11 15:42 | 1424 pages | 85 | Wisdom Publications | |
| The Miracle of Mindfulness | 1975 | Thích Nhất Hạnh | Buddhism 101 | 2020-03-08 16:58 | 109 pages | 4806 | The Buddhist Publication Society | |
| Proxies: The Cultural Work of Standing In | 2021 | Dylan Mulvin | Philosophy of Science | 2024-06-10 13:54 | 200 pages | 1 | MIT | |
| Virtually Amish: Preserving Community at the Internet’s Margins | 2022 | Lindsay Ems | Groups and Relationships | 2024-06-18 22:18 | 180 pages | 1 | MIT | |
| The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller | 1980 | Carlo Ginzburg | Religion | 2021-12-12 16:00 | 177 pages | 4 | Johns Hopkins | |
| The Dawn of Abhidharma | 2014 | Bhikkhu Anālayo | Early Indian Buddhism | 2021-04-23 09:35 | 172 pages | 162 | Hamburg | |
| Being Nobody, Going Nowhere: Meditations on the Buddhist Path | 1987 | Ayya Khema | Buddhism 101 | 2022-04-26 14:08 | 170 pages | 1981 | Wisdom Publications | |
| Citizen: An American Lyric | 2014 | Claudia Rankine | Society | 2020-08-15 11:29 | 160 pages | 5 | Graywolf | |
| Abhidharma Studies: Researches in Buddhist Psychology | 1949 | Ven. Nyanaponika Thera | Abhidhamma | 2024-07-16 07:15 | 142 pages | 24 | The Buddhist Publication Society | |
| The Genesis of the Bodhisattva Ideal | 2010 | Bhikkhu Anālayo | The Buddha | 2021-01-07 20:42 | 132 pages | 166 | Hamburg UP | |
| Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind | 1970 | Shunryū Suzuki Roshi | East Asian Buddhism | 2020-04-20 17:23 | 132 pages | 104 | Weatherhill | |
| Embodying Compassion in Buddhist Art: Image, Pilgrimage, Practice | 2015 | Karen Lucic | Mahāyāna | 2022-04-05 20:57 | 79 pages | 41 | The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center Vassar College | |
| Mindfulness in Plain English | 1991 | Bhante Gunaratana | Buddhist Meditation | 2020-06-27 11:31 | 104 pages | 3359 | Wisdom Publications | |
| Making Sense of World History | 2021 | Rick Szostak | Time | 2024-02-10 15:10 | 1400 pages | 12 | Routledge | |
| Research on the Saṃyukta-Āgama | 2020 | Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā | Saṃyukta Āgama | 2021-06-06 16:38 | 1007 pages | 40 | Dharma Drum Publishing | |
| World Regional Geography: People, Places, and Globalization | 2012 | Royal Berglee | Places | 2024-10-10 19:13 | 920 pages | 3 | Flat World | |
| Sociology: Understanding and Changing the Social World | 2011 | Steven E. Barkan | The Social World | 2022-12-09 15:20 | 902 pages | 12 | Flat World | |
| The Path to Freedom: Vimuttimagga | 2021 | Arahant Upatissa | Early Indian Buddhism | 2024-02-05 11:57 | 900 pages | 36 | The Centre of Buddhist Studies at the University of Hong Kong | |
| Communication in the Real World | 2013 | Richard G. Jones Jr | Communication Studies | 2023-08-12 11:16 | 809 pages | 36 | Flat World | |
| Dīrgha-āgama Studies | 2017 | Bhikkhu Anālayo | Dīrgha Āgama | 2020-09-14 18:27 | 672 pages | 159 | Dharma Drum Publishing | |
| Ekottarika-āgama Studies | 2016 | Bhikkhu Anālayo | Ekottarika Āgama | 2020-09-16 17:38 | 665 pages | 63 | Dharma Drum Publishing | |
| Indian Buddhism | 1970 | A. K. Warder | Early Indian Buddhism | 2021-04-25 06:55 | 600 pages | 111 | Motilal Banarsidass | |
| Madhyama-āgama Studies | 2012 | Bhikkhu Anālayo | Madhyama Āgama | 2020-09-13 13:24 | 600 pages | 84 | Dharma Drum Publishing | |
| Interpersonal Communication: A Mindful Approach to Relationships | 2020 | Jason S. Wrench, Narissra M. Punyanunt-Carter, and Katherine S. Thweatt | The Social World | 2022-10-10 00:25 | 570 pages | 64 | Milne Open Textbooks | |
| Early Buddhist Theory of Knowledge | 1963 | K. N. Jayatilleke | Pramāṇa | 2021-10-13 07:49 | 519 pages | 131 | George Allen & Unwin | |
| Dharma Rain: Sources of Buddhist Environmentalism | 2000 | Stephanie Kaza and Kenneth Kraft | Buddhism and Nature | 2023-05-31 17:12 | 491 pages | 21 | Shambhala Publications | |
| Saṃyukta-āgama Studies | 2015 | Bhikkhu Anālayo | Saṃyukta Āgama | 2020-09-15 19:55 | 490 pages | 102 | Dharma Drum Publishing | |
| Gaṇḍavyūha: The Quest for Awakening | 2019 | Bhikkhu Ānandajoti | Canonical Rebirth Stories | 2024-05-27 12:33 | 475 pages | 6 | Ehipassiko Foundation | |
| Along the Path: The Meditator’s Companion to Pilgrimage in the Buddha’s India and Nepal | 2013 | Kory Goldberg and Michelle Décary | Pilgrimage | 2021-04-12 09:48 | 453 pages | 22 | Pariyatti | |
| Pali Literature | 2004 | G. P. Malalasekera, Mabel Haynes Bode, and Hammalawa Saddhātissa | History of the Theravāda | 2024-04-16 14:35 | 451 pages | 12 | The Buddhist Publication Society | |
| The Sixth Patriarch’s Dharma Jewel Platform Sutra: A New Translation with the Commentary of Tripitaka Master Hua | 1977 | the Buddhist Text Translation Society | East Asian Buddhism | 2022-05-21 20:26 | 445 pages | 54 | Dharma Realm Buddhist Association | |
| Psychology: The Science of Human Potential | 2014 | Jeffrey C. Levy | The Inner World | 2022-09-07 14:15 | 445 pages | 11 | BC Campus | |
| Command and Persuade: Crime, Law, and the State across History | 2021 | Peter Baldwin | The State | 2024-06-03 09:22 | 444 pages | 2 | MIT | |
| The Group of Discourses | 1992 | K. R. Norman | Sutta Nipāta | 2024-09-09 16:08 | 421 pages | 4 | The Pali Text Society | |
| Revolution and Witchcraft: The Code of Ideology in Unsettled Times | 2023 | Gordon C. Chang | Ideology (General) | 2024-07-25 14:25 | 407 pages | 2 | Springer Nature | |
| Common Buddhist Text: Guidance and Insight from the Buddha | 2015 | Ven Brahmapundit and Peter Harvey | Buddhism as a Religion | 2021-11-04 13:54 | 397 pages | 1113 | Mahachulalongkorn | |
| The Buddha in the Jungle | 2003 | Kamala Tiyavanich | Thai Buddhism | 2021-10-23 16:18 | 380 pages | 20 | Silkworm | |
| An Introduction to Buddhism: Teachings, History and Practices | 2013 | Peter Harvey | Buddhism 101 | 2020-03-08 16:58 | 374 pages | 190 | Cambridge University Press | |
| Research on the Madhyama-Āgama | 2017 | Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā | Madhyama Āgama | 2020-09-13 13:24 | 373 pages | 22 | Dharma Drum Publishing | |
| An Early Chinese Commentary on the Ekottarika-Āgama | 2013 | Antonello Palumbo | Ekottarika Āgama | 2020-09-16 17:38 | 364 pages | 29 | Dharma Drum Publishing | |
| The Island: An Anthology of the Buddha’s Teachings on Nibbāna | 2009 | Ajahn Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro | Nibbāna: The Goal of Buddhist Practice | 2020-05-08 16:02 | 355 pages | 216 | Amaravati | |
| The Heart of Understanding: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra | 1987 | Thích Nhất Hạnh | An Introduction to Buddhist Philosophy | 2020-04-23 17:02 | 56 pages | 101 | Parallax Press | |
| Culture and Psychology: How People Shape and are Shaped by Culture | 2020 | Lisa D. Worthy, Trisha Lavigne, and Fernando Romero | Culture | 2022-09-19 11:27 | 340 pages | 127 | Glendale Community College | |
| Studies in Āgama Literature: With Special Reference to the Shorter Chinese Saṃyuktāgama | 2011 | Marcus Bingenheimer | Saṃyukta Āgama | 2020-09-15 19:55 | 332 pages | 37 | Dharma Drum Publishing | |
| What Makes Us Social? | 2023 | Chris Frith and Uta Frith | The Social World | 2024-06-04 14:02 | 328 pages | 7 | MIT | |
| Buddhist India | 1903 | T. W. Rhys Davids | Buddha's India | 2021-03-22 10:31 | 320 pages | 139 | T. Fisher Unwin | |
| Early Buddhist Transmission and Trade Networks: Mobility and Exchange within and beyond the Northwestern Borderlands of South Asia | 2011 | Jason Neelis | Medieval Buddhism | 2021-04-23 09:35 | 320 pages | 16 | Brill | |
| On Learning: A general theory of objects and object-relations | 2021 | David Scott | The Intellect | 2024-03-13 19:32 | 320 pages | 5 | UCL Press | |
| Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man | 1964 | Marshall McLuhan | Media Studies | 2024-05-23 12:32 | 318 pages | 86 | McGraw-Hill | |
| The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd | 2000 | Mary Rose O'Reilley | American Buddhist Literature | 2022-11-01 13:39 | 317 pages | 2 | Milkweed | |
| Monks and Magic | 1975 | B. J. Terwiel | Theravāda | 2023-06-08 13:37 | 312 pages | 7 | Curzon Press | |
| The Declaration Of Peace And Cessation Of War Handbook and Commentary | 2020 | Ciarán Burke and others | The State | 2022-02-24 20:55 | 308 pages | 69 | Heavenly Culture, World Peace, Restoration of Light | |
| Lost Kingdoms: Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Early Southeast Asia | 2014 | John Guy | History of the Theravāda | 2024-04-08 12:30 | 305 pages | 15 | The Metropolitan Museum of Art | |
| Imagining Head-Smashed-In: Aboriginal Buffalo Hunting on the Northern Plains | 2008 | Jack W. Brink | The Past | 2024-06-28 17:29 | 304 pages | 1 | Athabasca University Press | |
| In Search of Schrödinger’s Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality | 1984 | John Gribbin | Science | 2020-08-17 13:15 | 302 pages | 4 | Bantam | |
| Introduction to Human Geography | 2018 | David Dorrell, Joseph Henderson, Todd Lindley, and Georgeta Connor | The Wider World | 2023-02-02 20:05 | 276 pages | 11 | University of Georgia | |
| The Lotus and the Lion: Buddhism and the British Empire | 2008 | J. Jeffrey Franklin | Buddhism Comes West | 2022-06-18 14:15 | 273 pages | 6 | Cornell UP | |
| Language between God and the Poets: Maʿnā in the Eleventh Century | 2018 | Alexander Key | Languages | 2024-11-01 08:54 | 270 pages | 2 | University of California Press | |
| Nature and the Environment in Early Buddhism | 2015 | Bhante Shravasti Dhammika | Pāli Dictionaries | 2022-12-14 16:56 | 262 pages | 73 | The Buddhist Publication Society | |
| A Concise History of Buddhism | 1994 | Andrew Skilton | The History of Buddhism | 2023-11-01 13:57 | 260 pages | 59 | Windhorse | |
| Microhistories of Technology: Making the World | 2023 | Mikael Hård | The Wider World | 2024-07-29 16:09 | 258 pages | 1 | Springer Nature | |
| Middle Land, Middle Way: A Pilgrim’s Guide to the Buddha’s India | 1992 | Bhante Shravasti Dhammika | Pilgrimage | 2021-04-13 18:36 | 250 pages | 137 | The Buddhist Publication Society | |
| Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War | 2017 | Hito Steyerl | The Present | 2022-02-15 08:44 | 247 pages | 23 | Verso Books | |
| Aṅguttara Nikāya Anthology | 2007 | Ven. Nyanaponika Thera and Bhikkhu Bodhi | The Suttas | 2020-07-22 10:09 | 245 pages | 74 | The Buddhist Publication Society | |
| The Ascendancy of Theravāda Buddhism in Southeast Asia | 2010 | Prapod Assavavirulhakarn | History of the Theravāda | 2023-09-21 12:00 | 244 pages | 18 | Silkworm Books | |
| Buddhism with Open Eyes: Belief and Practice of Santi Asoke | 1997 | Marja-Leena Heikkilä-Horn | Thai Buddhism | 2023-10-05 12:45 | 238 pages | 4 | Fah Apai | |
| Research on the Dīrgha-Āgama | 2014 | Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā | Dīrgha Āgama | 2020-09-15 13:10 | 236 pages | 52 | Dharma Drum Publishing | |
| Research on the Ekottarika-Āgama | 2013 | Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā | Ekottarika Āgama | 2020-09-16 17:38 | 234 pages | 21 | Dharma Drum Publishing | |
| The Foundation History of the Nuns’ Order | 2016 | Bhikkhu Anālayo | Nuns | 2022-10-21 20:51 | 234 pages | 44 | verlag | |
| The Lotus Transcendent: Indian and Southeast Asian Art from the Samuel Eilenberg Collection | 1991 | Martin Lerner and Steven Kossak | The Buddhist Religion | 2022-04-02 11:39 | 234 pages | 9 | The Metropolitan Museum of Art | |
| The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains | 2010 | Nicholas Carr | Media Studies | 2024-06-29 16:24 | 229 pages | 3 | W. W. Norton | |
| The Balance of Personality | 2020 | Chris Allen | The Intellect | 2024-03-30 11:09 | 227 pages | 5 | Portland State University Library | |
| Pali Metre: A Contribution to the History of Indian Literature | 1967 | A. K. Warder | Poetry of the Pāḷi Canon | 2024-03-24 14:50 | 226 pages | 26 | The Pali Text Society | |
| Rewriting Buddhism: Pali Literature and Monastic Reform in Sri Lanka, 1157–1270 | 2020 | Alastair Gornall | History of the Theravāda | 2024-05-16 11:04 | 221 pages | 7 | UCL Press | |
| Buddhacarita: In Praise of Buddha’s Acts | 2009 | Charles Willemen | Early Indian Buddhism | 2024-05-09 14:40 | 216 pages | 10 | Bukkyō Dendō Kyōkai | |
| Along the Ancient Silk Routes: Central Asian Art from the West Berlin State Museums | 1982 | Herbert Härtel and Marianne Yaldiz | Medieval Buddhism | 2024-06-10 13:31 | 212 pages | 3 | Abrams | |
| Last Days of the Buddha: The Mahāparinibbāna Sutta | 1964 | Sister Vajirā and Francis Story | The Pāli Canon | 2021-01-16 07:35 | 46 pages | 202 | The Buddhist Publication Society | |
| Buddhist Pilgrimage | 2002 | Chan Khoon San | Pilgrimage | 2021-04-12 14:31 | 207 pages | 453 | Majujaya Indah | |
| Bullshit Jobs | 2018 | David Graeber | Labor | 2022-01-08 18:41 | 204 pages | 8 | Simon & Schuster | |
| A New Course in Reading Pāli | 1998 | James W. Gair and W. S. Karunatillake | The Pāli Language: Level 2 | 2020-12-26 17:44 | 202 pages | 1286 | Motilal Banarsidass | |
| The Poetry of Nature: Edo Paintings from the Fishbein-Bender Collection | 2018 | John T. Carpenter | Buddhism and Nature | 2023-09-07 17:53 | 201 pages | 12 | The Metropolitan Museum of Art | |
| Socially Engaged Buddhism | 2009 | Sallie B. King | Engaged Buddhism | 2021-05-24 08:18 | 200 pages | 36 | University of Hawai'i Press | |
| Society at the Time of the Buddha | 1966 | Narendra K. Wagle | Buddha's India | 2024-04-22 12:26 | 200 pages | 18 | Popular Prakashan | |
| A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes | 1988 | Stephen Hawking | Time | 2020-08-17 13:15 | 198 pages | 9 | Bantam Dell | |
| What the Buddha Taught | 1959 | Walpola Rahula | Buddhism 101 | 2020-03-08 16:58 | 192 pages | 4036 | Oneworld | |
| Consequences of Language: From Primary to Enhanced Intersubjectivity | 2022 | N. J. Enfield and Jack Sidnell | Languages | 2024-06-17 12:55 | 188 pages | 7 | MIT | |
| All Your Yesterdays: Extraordinary Visions of Extinct Life from a New Generation of Palaeoartists | 2012 | C. M. Koseman | The Biological Sciences | 2021-05-01 15:31 | 187 pages | 51 | Irregular Books | |
| A Philological Approach to Buddhism | 1997 | K. R. Norman | The Pāli Language | 2020-12-18 10:51 | 184 pages | 208 | SOAS | |
| Walking in the Sunshine of the Bhikkhunis: A Biography of Ranjani de Silva | 2021 | Suvira Bhikkhuni | Nuns | 2022-10-25 14:43 | 181 pages | 29 | Buddhist Cultural Center | |
| The Angels Won’t Help You | 2022 | M. H. Bowker | Psychology | 2024-06-05 16:44 | 175 pages | 5 | punctum books | |
| Transformation and Healing: Sutra on the Four Establishments of Mindfulness | 1990 | Thích Nhất Hạnh | Mindfulness | 2023-08-31 12:34 | 169 pages | 63 | Parallax Press | |
| From Craving to Liberation: Excursions into the Thought-world of the Pāli Discourses Volume 1 | 2009 | Bhikkhu Anālayo | Imagery in the Early Buddhist Texts | 2020-03-18 10:37 | 168 pages | 304 | The Buddhist Association of the United States | |
| Dhammapada: The Way of Truth | 2013 | Peter Feldmeier | Dhammapada | 2024-10-21 19:32 | 165 pages | 3 | The Buddhist Publication Society | |
| Notes of a Native Son | 1955 | James Baldwin | Race | 2022-12-06 07:12 | 165 pages | 2 | Beacon Press | |
| From Grasping to Emptiness: Excursions into the Thought-world of the Pāli Discourses Volume 2 | 2010 | Bhikkhu Anālayo | Imagery in the Early Buddhist Texts | 2020-03-18 10:37 | 160 pages | 278 | The Buddhist Association of the United States | |
| Metaphor and Literalism in Buddhism: The Doctrinal History of Nirvana | 2006 | Soonil Hwang | Nibbāna: The Goal of Buddhist Practice | 2020-07-22 10:09 | 157 pages | 88 | Routledge | |
| Explorations of Misfortune in the Buddha’s Life: the Buddha’s Misdeeds in His Former Lives and Their Remnants | 2009 | Stephan Hillyer Levitt | Canonical Rebirth Stories | 2024-05-16 11:11 | 153 pages | 8 | Buddhist Literature Society, Inc. | |
| Saints and Psychopaths | 1995 | William Hamilton | Buddhist Ethics | 2020-08-23 16:36 | 145 pages | 139 | Dharma Audio Network Associates | |
| Unsui: A Diary of Zen Monastic Life | 1983 | Giei Satō and Eshin Nishimura | Monastic Buddhism | 2023-06-12 16:56 | 144 pages | 23 | University of Hawai'i Press | |
| The Composition and Transmission of Early Buddhist Texts with Specific Reference to Sutras | 2021 | Mark Allon | Āgama Studies | 2022-09-15 10:17 | 141 pages | 45 | Numata Center for Buddhist Studies | |
| The Fin-de-Siècle World | 2014 | Michael Saler | The Present | 2024-03-01 21:57 | 718 pages | 2 | Routledge | |
| The Gentle Way of Buddhist Meditation | 2007 | Godwin Samararatne | Right Effort | 2023-10-20 19:04 | 120 pages | 20 | Inward Path Publisher | |
| Logic and Epistemology in Theravada | 1993 | Hegoda Khemananda | Abhidhamma | 2024-01-23 20:03 | 120 pages | 26 | Dharma Paryeshanalaya | |
| The Drama of the Commons | 2002 | National Research Counsel | Economics (General) | 2023-07-08 17:55 | 533 pages | 1 | National Academies Press | |
| East and Inner Asian Buddhism | 2014 | Mario Poceski | Mahāyāna | 2024-05-23 12:32 | 522 pages | 3 | John Wiley and Sons | |
| Regime of Obstruction: How Corporate Power Blocks Energy Democracy | 2021 | William K. Carroll | The Wider World | 2024-10-23 07:24 | 500 pages | 1 | Athabasca University Press | |
| Similes of the Buddha | 2009 | Hellmuth Hecker | Imagery in the Early Buddhist Texts | 2020-03-19 16:02 | 110 pages | 145 | The Buddhist Publication Society | |
| Gone to the Dogs in Ancient India | 2006 | Willem B. Bollée | Buddhism and Animals | 2024-07-08 09:00 | 108 pages | 4 | The Bavarian Academy of Sciences | |
| Women Under Primitive Buddhism: Laywomen and Almswomen | 1930 | I. B. Horner | The Buddhist Religion | 2023-01-26 20:48 | 380 pages | 87 | George Routledge & Sons | |
| The Saffron Road: A Journey with Buddha’s Daughters | 2015 | Christine Toomey | Nuns | 2022-11-12 16:41 | 370 pages | 3 | Portobello Books | |
| Buddhist And Vedic Studies: A Miscellany | 1994 | O. H. de A. Wijesekera | The Suttas | 2022-10-26 12:43 | 361 pages | 30 | Motilal Banarsidass | |
| Kamma and Its Fruit | 1975 | Ven. Nyanaponika Thera, Francis Story, Bhikkhu Ñāṇajīvako, Nina van Gorkom, and Leonard A. Bullen | Karma | 2024-02-15 16:31 | 96 pages | 29 | The Buddhist Publication Society | |
| The Canonical Book of the Buddha’s Lengthy Discourses Volume I | 2015 | Shohei Ichimura | 2020-09-14 18:27 | 344 pages | 76 | Bukkyō Dendō Kyōkai | ||
| Impermanence: Exploring continuous change across cultures | 2022 | Haidy Geismar, Ton Otto, and Cameron David Warner | Buddhism in Academia | 2022-09-22 11:24 | 341 pages | 11 | UCL Press | |
| Sri Lanka at the Crossroads of History | 2017 | Zoltán Biedermann and Alan Strathern | Sri Lanka | 2023-04-19 16:02 | 340 pages | 3 | UCL Press | |
| The Vision of Buddhism: The Space Under the Tree | 1989 | Roger Corless | Buddhism | 2022-02-26 07:12 | 329 pages | 10 | Paragon House | |
| Food Anxiety in Globalising Vietnam | 2019 | Judith Ehlert and Nora Katharina Faltmann | Food | 2023-02-24 14:46 | 320 pages | 1 | Springer Open | |
| Cherishing Life | 1983 | Bhikshuni Heng Ch'ih and Bhikshuni Heng Tao | Buddhism and Animals | 2024-09-06 19:32 | 312 pages | 1 | Dharma Realm Buddhist University | |
| The Canonical Book of the Buddha’s Lengthy Discourses Volume III | 2018 | Shohei Ichimura | 2020-09-14 18:27 | 306 pages | 39 | Bukkyō Dendō Kyōkai | ||
| In the Freud Archives | 1983 | Janet Malcolm | Groups and Relationships | 2024-06-10 13:54 | 90 pages | 3 | Alfred Knopf | |
| In the Hope of Nibbana: The Ethics of Theravada Buddhism | 1964 | Winston L. King | Buddhist Ethics | 2020-05-22 19:47 | 298 pages | 43 | Pariyatti | |
| Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects | 2012 | Jeffrey Jerome Cohen | The Wider World | 2023-06-07 17:10 | 295 pages | 7 | punctum books | |
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2022 | Kaitlyn Tiffany | The Social World | 2024-04-08 07:24 | 280 pages | 0 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
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2023 | Huaiyu Chen | Buddhism and Animals | 2023-10-05 12:45 | 271 pages | 0 | Columbia UP |
| A Meditator’s Life of the Buddha: Based on the Early Discourses |
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2017 | Bhikkhu Anālayo | The Buddhist Path | 2021-01-20 14:56 | 258 pages | 10 | Windhorse |
| Identity and Experience: The Constitution Of The Human Being According To Early Buddhism |
[recommended but under copyright]
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1996 | Sue Hamilton | Right View | 2023-05-26 15:20 | 218 pages | 33 | Luzan Oriental |
| The Journalist and the Murderer |
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1990 | Janet Malcolm | The Social World | 2024-04-24 20:38 | 80 pages | 0 | Vintage Books |
| In the Forest of Faded Wisdom: 104 Poems by Gendun Chopel |
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2009 | Donald S. Lopez Jr. | Modern Buddhism | 2022-02-26 07:12 | 201 pages | 7 | University of Chicago Press |
| Superiority Conceit in Buddhist Traditions |
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2021 | Bhikkhu Anālayo | The Buddhist Religion | 2021-03-08 15:48 | 192 pages | 12 | Wisdom Publications |
| Buddhism Goes to the Movies: An Introduction to Buddhist Thought and Practice |
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2014 | Ronald Green | The Buddhist Religion | 2022-02-24 09:51 | 158 pages | 6 | Routledge |
| The Scent of Time: A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering |
[recommended but under copyright]
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2017 | Byung-Chul Han | Time | 2024-01-28 17:21 | 68 pages | 21 | Polity Press |
| bell hooks’ Spiritual Vision: Buddhist, Christian, and Feminist |
[recommended but under copyright]
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2023 | Nadra Nittle | American Buddhism | 2024-05-16 11:21 | 127 pages | 0 | Fortress Press |
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2020 | Matty Weingast | American Buddhism | 2020-10-12 14:51 | 100 pages | 1 | Shambhala Publications |
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2012 | Thích Nhất Hạnh | Buddhist Ethics | 2021-02-17 20:28 | 13 pages | 9 | Parallax Press |