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Latest Arrivals

Just added to the library:

‘Epithets of the Mantra’ in the Heart Sutra (2017) – Jayarava Attwood
  • Added 12th July 2026
Craftsmanship and Materials: Painted Bodhisattva Sculptures in the Fengguo Temple Dated to the Year 1020 in Yi County, Northeast China (2021) – Jiahang Song, Wei Xiang, Shaojun Yan, Weiqiang Zhou, and Linyan Ma
  • Added 12th July 2026
On Pure Land Buddhism and Ch’an/Pure Land Syncretism in Medieval China (2002) – Robert H. Sharf
  • Added 6th July 2026
The Buddhas of the Three Times and the Chinese Origins of the Heart Sutra (2018) – Jayarava Attwood
  • Added 6th July 2026
The Legacy of Genghis Khan: Courtly Art and Culture in Western Asia, 1256–1353 (2002) – Linda Komaroff and Stefano Carboni
  • Added 6th July 2026
The Power of Publishing in Early Modern Tibetan Buddhism (2026) – Benjamin Nourse
  • Added 6th July 2026
A Gift from the Buddhist Monastery: The Role of Buddhist Medical Practices in the Assimilation of the Opium Poppy in Chinese Medicine during the Song Dynasty (960–1279) (2019) – José Antonio Cantón Álvarez
  • Added 6th July 2026
Ambiguity of Avalokiteśvara and the Scriptural Sources for the Cult of Kuan-Yin in China (1997) – Yü Chün-fang (于君方)
  • Added 6th July 2026
Objectless Loving-Kindness & Compassion: Why Anārambaṇā Maitrīkaruṇā Became Unique to Bodhisattvas (2020) – Tsering Dorji
  • Added 6th July 2026
Masterpieces of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1993)
  • Added 6th July 2026

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Recently Published

Items published this year or last year.

Religion, Gender, and Politics in Medieval Sri Lanka: The Reconstruction of Buddhist Kingship, ca. 1070–1215 (2026) – Bruno M. Shirley
Religion, Gender, and Politics in Medieval Sri Lanka (2026) – Bruno M. Shirley
Mission Majjhima (2026) – Clear Mountain Monastery
You are being misled about renewable energy technology (2026) – Alec Watson
Literature for Little Bodhisattvas: Making Buddhist Families in Modern Taiwan (2026) – Natasha Heller
Near Light We Shine: Buddhist Charity in Urban Vietnam (2026) – Sara Swenson
How One Company Secretly Poisoned The Planet (2025) – Derek Muller
What does Elon Musk want? (2025) – Gary Stevenson

Featured Selections

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

2024

Your Mind Is Being Fracked (2024) – D. Graham Burnett and Ezra Klein
The Comprehensive Index of Pāli Suttas (2024) – Reading Faithfully
W.S. Merwin’s “To the New Year” (2024) – Joanne Diaz and Abram Van Engen

2023

The Word For Man Is Ishi (2023) – Ben Naddaff-Hafrey
The Illusion of Moral Decline (2023) – Adam Mastroianni and Daniel T. Gilbert
Interpersonal Karma: A Note (2023) – Justin R. Ritzinger
BDK English Tripiṭaka Middle-Length Discourses (Series) – Bhikkhu Anālayo and Roderick S. Bucknell

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
On Tyranny (2022) – Timothy Snyder

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
A Tour of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station (2021) – Joe Horneman
The End of the World as We Know It (2021) – Aviva DeKornfeld, Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi, and Ira Glass

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
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) – M. 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
The Tulku System in Tibetan History (2018) – Ruth Gamble

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
The Global Refugee Crisis: Regional Destabilization and Humanitarian Protection (2017) – Sarah Kenyon Lischer
Zen Forms: Customs and Rituals and Why They Matter (2017) – Domyo Burk

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
Hermits 隱士 (2015) – Bill Porter and Shiping He
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
Social Stigmas of Buddhist Monastics and the Lack of Lay Buddhist Leadership in Colonial Korea (1910–1945) (2014) – 김환수 (Hwansoo Kim)

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
Spiritual Friendship (2013) – Hāsapañño Bhikkhu

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

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
Caturārakkhā Bhāvanā: The Four Protective Meditations (2006)

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
Amongst White Clouds (2005) – Edward A. Burger

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

2002

Warming from Fossil Fuels (2002) – Ken Caldeira and Martin I. Hoffert

2001

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)
A Tree in a Forest: A Collection of Ajahn Chah’s Similes (1994) – Ajahn Chah

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