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Latest Arrivals

Just added to the library:

How Water Shaped Humanity (2021) – Giulio Boccaletti
  • Added 30th December 2024
Dharmadinnā Becomes a Nun: A Story of Ordination by Messenger from the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya Translated from the Tibetan Version (2017) – Fumi Yao
  • Added 30th December 2024
Buddhadhamma: The Laws of Nature and their Benefits to Life (2021) – Bhikkhu P. A. Payutto
  • Added 29th December 2024
The Transformation of Buddhism During British Colonialism (1999) – Yarina Liston
  • Added 29th December 2024
Navigating Groundlessness: An Interview Study on Dealing With Ontological Shock and Existential Distress Following Psychedelic Experiences (2024) – Eirini K. Argyri, Jules Evans, David Luke, Pascal Michael, Katrina Michelle and others
  • Added 29th December 2024
New Books in Geography (2008)
  • Added 28th December 2024
A Tour of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station (2021) – Joe Horneman
  • Added 28th December 2024
General Chapman’s Last Stand (2018) – Malcolm Gladwell
  • Added 28th December 2024
Tree Ordination as Invented Tradition (2011) – Avery Morrow
  • Added 28th December 2024
Orality, Memory, and Spiritual Practice: Outstanding Female Thai Buddhists in the Early 20th Century (2014) – Martin Seeger
  • Added 28th December 2024

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Recently Published

Within the last couple years.

Affective Entanglements: Human-Nonhuman Relations in Buddhist Ecologies of Feeling (2024) – Frederik Schröer
How Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it) (2024) – Jason Slaughter
Himalayan Buddhism as Human Geological Agency: Rethinking the Novelty of “The Anthropocene” (2024) – Alice Millington
Translations of the Chinese Bhikkhunī Vinayas (2024) – Vimalañāṇī Bhikkhunī
Value Capture (2024) – C. Thi Nguyen
Of Ancestors and Ghosts: How Preta Narratives Constructed Buddhist Cosmology and Shaped Buddhist Ethics (2024) – Adeana McNicholl
Buddhism Between Religion and Philosophy: Nāgārjuna and the Ethics of Emptiness (2024) – Rafal K. Stepien
“Perhaps I’m Not a Global Citizen but a Global Listener Now”: The Ethics of Study Abroad in Buddhist Spaces (2024) – Amy Paris Langenberg
Why So Many People Need Glasses Now (2023) – Christophe Haubursin
Buddhist Narrative and Non-Narrative Sources on the Salvation of the Patricidal King Ajātaśatru (2023) – Juan Wu (呉娟)
Effect of Exercise for Depression: Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis of Randomised Controlled Trials (2024) – Michael Noetel, Taren Sanders, Daniel Gallardo-Gómez, Paul Taylor, Borja del Pozo Cruz and others
Theravada Buddhism in the Anthropocene: The Role of the Radical Virtuosi (2024) – Prabhath Sirisena
Reciting Buddhist Texts: Long Suttas of the Dīghanikāya in Performance (2024) – Sarah Shaw
The Women Who Ruled China (2024) – Stephanie Balkwill
The Comprehensive Index of Pāli Suttas (2024) – Reading Faithfully
Shown by the Marron’s Claw: Ecological Receptivity as Mindful Praxis (2024) – Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko
The Nun of Milan: A Gandharan Bhikṣuṇī Figurine in the Civico Museo Archeologico (2024) – Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā and Giovanni Verardi
Reiki and the Subtle Body (2024) – Justin B. Stein
The Deaths of Effective Altruism (2024) – Leif Wenar
Making Sense of Mind Only: Why Yogacara Buddhism Matters (2024) – William S. Waldron
The Madhyama Āgama: Volume 4 (2023) – Bhikkhu Anālayo and Roderick S. Bucknell
Aśoka and the Use of Writing in Ancient India (2024) – Ingo Strauch
The Illusion of Moral Decline (2023) – Adam Mastroianni and Daniel T. Gilbert
The Krononauts (2023) – Ben Naddaff-Hafrey
Code Switching Between Ontologies (2023) – Kin Cheung and C. Pierce Salguero
Social media is making you angry: You have to ignore it (2023) – Rebecca Jennings
How ‘Being Animal’ Could Help Us Be Better Humans (2023) – Melanie Challenger
The Freeways Considered as Earth Gods (2023) – Dana Gioia and Major Jackson

Featured Selections

A couple works are selected as the cream of the crop each year.

2022

Daily Sutta Emails (2022) – Reading Faithfully
Why Do Men Rule the World? (2022) – Alice Evans
On deeds of war both bright and dark (2022) – Bhante Sujato
Digital Pāḷi Dictionary (2022) – Bhikkhu Bodhirasa
Belief Traps: Tackling the Inertia of Harmful Beliefs (2022) – Marten Scheffer, Denny Borsboom, Sander Nieuwenhuis, and Frances Westley

2021

I Catch Sight of the Now (2021) – Jorie Graham
The Story of Jīvaka (2021)
Fulfilling Buddha’s Vision (2021) – Warangkana Chomchuen
Viññāṇa anidassana: The State of Boundless Consciousness (2021) – Bhikkhu Sunyo
Living at the End of Our World (2021) – Daniel Sharrell, Dorothy Fortenberry, Sam Adler-Bell, and Matthew Sitman
To Offer Sweet Fruit to the Ghost (2021) – John Paul Martinez and Ada Limón
Besaydoo (2021) – Yalie Saweda Kamara and Ada Limón

2020

Local Food: The Moral Case (2020) – Helena de Bres
Tilling the Fields of Merit: The Institutionalization of Feminine Enlightenment in Tibet’s First Khenmo Program (2020) – Jue Liang and Andrew S. Taylor
Enlightenment (2020) – Bhante Yuttadhammo
How to Be Depressed (2020) – Matthew Sitman
A Year Dot (2020) – dg nanouk okpik and Jenny Xie
Future of the Human Climate Niche (2020) – Chi Xu, Timothy A. Kohler, Timothy M. Lenton, Jens-Christian Svenning, and Marten Scheffer

2019

Sexual Consent (2019) – Milena Popova
Disengaged Buddhism (2019) – Amod Lele
The Mindful Elite (2019) – Jaime Kucinskas
Why don’t We Translate Spells in the Scriptures?: Medieval Chinese Exegesis on the Meaning and Function of Dhāraṇī Language (2019) – Ryan Richard Overbey
He’s Still Neutral (2019) – Phoebe Judge
Mary Foster: Patron of Buddhism (2019) – Bhante Shravasti Dhammika
The Day the Dinosaurs Died (2019) – Douglas Preston
Buddhist Mythology: The Sacred and the Profane (2019) – Bhante Sujato

2018

Studying Buddhist Scripture (2018) – Charles Hallisey
To Be, or Not to Be (2018) – Masha Gessen
Selections from the Majjhima Nikāya (2018) – Bhikkhu Ñāṇamoli Thera and Bhikkhu Bodhi
How to Cultivate Concentration (2018) – Mipham Rinpoche
The Green Pill (2018) – Melanie Joy
The Art of Being Human: A Textbook for Cultural Anthropology (2018) – Michael Wesch
An Imperfect Alliance: Feminism and Contemporary Female Buddhist Monasticisms (2018) – Amy Paris Langenberg
The Chithurst Story: Before and Beyond (2018) – George Sharp
Dhammapuja (2018) – Mark Tutton
‘I’m Not Getting Anywhere with my Meditation …’: Effort, Contentment and Goal-directedness in the Process of Mind-training (2018) – Ajahn Amaro
Of Beggars and Buddhas: The Politics of Humor in the Vessantara Jataka in Thailand (2018) – Katherine A. Bowie

2017

Mindfulness for the Whole Family (2017) – Sumi Loundon Kim
We’ve Been Here All Along (2017) – Funie Hsu
A History of the Bhikkhuni Order (2017) – Mindy Zlotnick and Donna McCarthy
Love (2017) – Damon Krukowski
Every Breath You Take: Physiology and the Ecology of Knowing in Meditative Practice (2017) – Jeremy Wasser

2016

Feasibility of a mindfulness-based intervention to address youth issues in Vietnam (2016) – Thao N. Le and Don T. Trieu
Michael Faraday’s The Chemical History of a Candle (2016) – Alex Black, Don DeCoste, and Bill Hammack

2015

The Liberative Role of Jhānic Joy (Pīti) and Pleasure (Sukha) in the Early Buddhist Path to Awakening (2015) – Keren Arbel
The Buddha Smiles: Humor in the Pali Canon (2015) – Ajahn Geoff Ṭhānissaro
Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong (2015) – Ocean Vuong
Embodying Compassion in Buddhist Art: Image, Pilgrimage, Practice (2015) – Karen Lucic
Becoming Bhikkhunī?: Mae Chis and the Global Women’s Ordination Movement (2015) – Lisa J. Battaglia
Skt. dāyāda- ‘Eating Away at the Inherited/Entrusted’: The Transformation of Inherited Indo-European Phraseology in the Buddhist Legend of Ajātaśatru (2015) – Olav Hackstein

2014

The Science Delusion (2014) – Curtis White
An Interview with Dr. Jim Tucker (2014) – Dr. Jim Tucker, Ajahn Brahmali, and Bhante Sujato
War and Peace (2014) – Bhikkhu Bodhi and Ajahn Geoff Ṭhānissaro
Analysis of the Bhikkhu-Pātimokkha: A translation of the Mahā-Vibhaṅga from the Vinaya-Piṭaka (2014) – Bhante Suddhāso
Saving Buddhism: The Impermanence of Religion in Colonial Burma (2014) – Alicia Turner
gTer ­ston and­ Tradent: Innovation­ and ­Conservation­ in­ Tibetan Treasure­ Literature (2014) – Robert Mayer
Evil Creatures (2014) – Bhante Sujato
Skilful Desires (2014) – Ajahn Jayasaro
Types of Meditation (2014) – Bhante Yuttadhammo

2013

Drums and Bells (2013) – Qing De Monastery
Thoughts on Practice and Why We Do It (2013) – Pascal Auclair
From the Oral Tradition (2013) – Nyarong Tertön Sogyal Rinpoche
Defining Engaged Buddhism: Traditionists, Modernists, and Scholastic Power (2013) – Victor Gerard Temprano
Back to Nature (2013) – Bhante Yuttadhammo

2012

MN 12: Māhasīhanāda Sutta Study (2012) – Ajahn Brahm
Mindfulness According to Early Buddhist Sources (2012) – Bhikkhu Anālayo
The Wheel (2012) – SOHN
Far From the Madding Strife for Hollow Pleasures: Meditation and Liberation in the Śrāvakabhūmi (2012) – Florin Deleanu
Heirs to the Dhamma (2012) – Bhante Yuttadhammo
Sleep Well: Sleeping Practices in Buddhist Disciplinary Rules (2012) – Ann Heirman
Our Real Home (2012) – Ajahn Chah and Ajahn Amaro

2011

Digital Pāli Reader (2011) – Bhante Yuttadhammo
Four Futures (2011) – Peter Frase
A Comparative Study of the Majjhima-nikāya (2011) – Bhikkhu Anālayo
Mahāpajāpatī’s Going Forth in the Madhyama-āgama (2011) – Bhikkhu Anālayo
Anti-Catholicism and Protestant Reformism in the History of Western Imagery of the Buddhist Monk: Some Roots of the Modernist Monk (2011) – Laura Harrington
Stirring and Stilling: A Liturgy of Cambodian Dharma Songs (2011) – Trent Walker

2010

On Love (2010) – Ajahn Jayasaro
Arahants, Bodhisattvas, and Buddhas (2010) – Bhikkhu Bodhi
Re-Evaluating Zhu Fonian’s Shizhu duanjie jing (T309): Translation or Forgery? (2010) – Jan Nattier

2009

How to Meditate: A Beginner’s Guide to Peace (2009) – Bhante Yuttadhammo
MN 26 Ariyapariyesanā Sutta: The Noble Search (2009)
The Life You Can Save (2009) – Peter Singer
Absorption: Human Nature and Buddhist Liberation (2009) – Johannes Bronkhorst

2008

Dealing with Difficult People (2008) – Ajahn Brahm
Rebirth and the In-between State in Early Buddhism (2008) – Bhante Sujato
Anything You Synthesize (2008) – The American Dollar

2007

SuttaCentral (2007) – Bhante Sujato
Addressing the American Problem by Modeling Cognitive Development (2007) – Zachary Stein
Sects and Sectarianism: The Origins of Buddhist Schools (2007) – Bhante Sujato
The Ritual of Arhat Invitation during the Song Dynasty: Why did Mahāyānists Venerate the Arhat? (2007) – Ryan Bongseok Joo

2006

SN 22.86 Anuradha Sutta: Anuradha (2006) – Joseph Goldstein
Purity of Heart (2006) – Ajahn Geoff Ṭhānissaro
MA 25 水喻: Discourse on the Five Ways of Putting an End to Anger (2006)
Ud 1.10 Bāhiya Sutta: The Discourse about Bāhiya (2006) – Sarah Doering
Samādhi (Concentration) (2006) – Bhikkhu Anālayo

2005

Arahattamagga, Arahattaphala: The Path to Arahantship (2005) – Luangta Maha Boowa
Apsarases: The Buddhist Conversion of the Nymphs of Heaven (2005) – Linda Covill
Gifts He Left Behind: The Dhamma Legacy of Phra Ajaan Dune Atulo (2005) – พระ โพธินันทมุนี

2004

Have you come here to die? (2004) – Ajahn Brahm
MN 22 Alagaddūpama Sutta: The Simile of the Water Snake (2004)
School Among Glaciers (2004) – Dorji Wangchuk
Free Will: No Such Thing (2004) – Ajahn Brahm

2003

Wisdom Develops Samādhi: A Guide to the Practice of the Buddha’s Meditation Methods (2003) – Luangta Maha Boowa

2001

The Buddhist Monastic Code (2001) – Ajahn Geoff Ṭhānissaro
Stūpa, Sūtra, and Śarīra in China, c. 656–706 CE (2001) – T. H. Barrett

1999

Looking for the Vinaya: Monastic Discipline in the Practical Canons of the Theravada (1999) – Anne M. Blackburn

1997

The Economy of Gifts (1997) – Ajahn Geoff Ṭhānissaro
Cosmology and Meditation: From the Aggañña-Sutta to the Mahāyāna (1997) – Rupert Gethin
Great Disciples of the Buddha: Their Lives, Their Works, Their Legacy (1997) – Ven. Nyanaponika Thera and Hellmuth Hecker
Ud 1.1 Paṭhama Bodhi Sutta: The First Discourse Upon Awakening (1997)

1996

Mother Earth Mother Board (1996) – Neal Stephenson
Tenzo Kyōkun: Instructions for the Cook (1996) – Dōgen Zenji
The Vinaya: Legal System or Performance-Enhancing Drug? (1996) – Andrew Huxley
Buddhism and Society in the Medieval Estate System (1996) – Kuroda Toshio

1995

Thig 14.1 Subhājīvakambavanikā Therīgāthā: Subhā of Jīvaka’s Mango Grove (1995)
[Selected Verses from the] Mulamadhyamakakarika (1995) – Nāgārjuna and Rev. Yin Shun
Time Being (1995) – Dōgen Zenji

1994

Hakuin’s Song of Zazen (1994)

1993

That the True Dhamma Might Last a Long Time: Readings Selected by King Asoka (1993) – Ajahn Geoff Ṭhānissaro

1992

Who Am I Really?: Impermanence as an Inner Reality (1992) – Ayya Khema

1991

Early Buddhism: A Conversation with Kalupahana (1991) – Richard K. Payne and David J. Kalupahana
What Work Is (1991) – Philip Levine
You Can Have It (1991) – Philip Levine

1989

A Life of Inner Quality (1989) – Luangta Maha Boowa

1985

Heartwood of the Bodhi Tree: The Buddha’s Teaching on Voidness (1985) – Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu

1984

The Symbolism of the Early Stūpa (1984) – Peter Harvey

1982

Putting Cruelty First (1982) – Judith Shklar
The Doctrine of the Buddha-Nature in the Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa-Sūtra (1982) – Ming-Wood Liu

1980

The Purpose of Practicing Meditation (1980) – Mahāsi Sayadaw

1977

Living Buddhist Masters (1977) – Jack Kornfield
The Mindful Way (1977)

1975

The Miracle of Mindfulness (1975) – Thích Nhất Hạnh

1972

Should Trees Have Standing: Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects (1972) – Christopher D. Stone

1959

The Dhammapada: The Buddha’s Path of Wisdom (1959) – Ācāriya Buddharakkhita

1948

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) – The United Nations

1943

Comprehensive Guide for First Aid and CPR (1943) – The Canadian Red Cross