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Best Buddhist Books for Beginners: My Top 8 Picks Best Buddhist Books for Beginners: My Top 8 Picks

With his engaging writing style, the author explains all the moving parts involved in meditation, theory and practice alike. These five books will be more than enough to get you started in learning about Buddhism, and putting that knowledge into direct practice.If you're looking for a one-stop place to explore and understand Buddhism (and make sense out of life), you'll find it here. When New Directions decided to publish the first English translation of Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha in 1951, it could not have foreseen the enormous impact it would have on American culture. Mindfulness as a practice has gained popularity lately as a stress/self-management techniqu

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Subscribe to the monthly newsletter to receive time-honored teachings and insights from Buddhist philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience. Understanding fear, and how to avoid having your life shaped and driven by it, will be essential in your practice. Thubten Chodron is especially skilled in presenting Buddhist philosophy and practices in ways that are easily accessible and practical for Buddhists who live in the Western world.The Short March to Wisdom: For young children, this eBook provides moral explanations, and some study/exercises, to help teach Buddhism and Buddhist concepts in an easy to understand manner. The book that led me to Buddha and Dhamma about 7 – 8 years back was Pankaj Mishra’s An End to Suffering. For Tsoknyi Rinpoche, therein lies the key to one of the tradition’s most cherished concepts, bodhicitta [awakened heart-mind]. Jack Kornfield, a psychologist, learned Buddhism as a monk in the Theravada monasteries of Thailand, India and Burma. To continue offering you the opportunity to acquire knowledge in an easy and practical way, we have created a selection of free books on Buddhism.

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Another resource is the Buddha Educational Foundation which has many publications online, and that can also be sent to you. Having studied under wise spiritual teachers, the author salutes their humility as one of the principal qualities of enlightenment. Each little chapter is broken up nicely so you can jump to a situation you are facing, or easily include one in your daily practice very easily and quickly. Walpola Rahula (1907-1997) was a Theravada monk and scholar of Sri Lanka who became a professor of history and religions at Northwestern University.If you would like to change your settings or withdraw consent at any time, the link to do so is in our privacy policy accessible from our home page. No-Nonsense Buddhism for Beginners is a beautiful gift to all levels of practitioners--from those who are just beginning to explore Buddhism, to long-time Buddhists who would like to brush up on their knowledge.