Some of Our Favorite Books on Buddhism

Bhikkhu Bodhi
The Noble Eightfold Path
The present book aims at contributing towards a proper understanding of the Noble Eightfold Path by investigating its eight factors and their components to determine exactly what they involve. I have attempted to be concise, using as the framework for exposition the Buddha's own words in explanation of the path factors, as found in the Sutta Pitaka of the Pali Canon.

Buddha, Dhamma, Dukkha, Four Noble Truths, Mindfulness, Noble Eightfold Path, Right Action, Right Concentration, Right Effort, Right Intention, Right Livelihood, Right Mindfulness, Right Speech, Right View, Sati, Suffering,

Mahathera Henepola Gunaratana
Mindfulness In Plain English
People do not respond to very stern and rigid language especially when we try to teach something which normally people don't engage in during their daily life. Meditation appears to them as something that they cannot always do. As more people turn to meditation, they need more simplified instructions so they can practice by themselves without a teacher around. This book is the result of requests made by many meditators who need a very simple book written in ordinary colloquial language.

Five Hindrances, Insight Meditation, Noble Eightfold Path, Right Concentration, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, Seven Enlightenment Factors, Vipassana,

Nyanatiloka
The Word of The Buddha
The Word of the Buddha was the first strictly systematic exposition of all the main tenets of the Buddha's Teachings presented in the Master's own words as found in the Sutta-Pitaka of the Buddhist Pali Canon. While it may well serve as a first introduction for the beginner, its chief aim is to give the reader who is already more or less acquainted with the fundamental ideas of Buddhism, a clear, concise and authentic summary of its various doctrines, within the framework of the all-embracing 'Four Noble Truths'.

Buddha, Dhamma, Four Noble Truths, Kamma, Noble Eightfold Path, The Five Precepts, The Threefold Refuge,

K. Sri Dhammananda
What Buddhists Believe?
This book is written with a specific aim in mind: to introduce the original teaching clearly and without recourse to exaggeration, cultural implications or disparaging of particular schools of Buddhism, so that the reader can understand the Buddha Dhamma its modern context. There is a growing interest in Buddhism the world over because many informed people have grown rather weary of religious dogmatism and superstition, on one hand, and greed and selfishness arising from materialism, on the other. Buddhism can teach humanity to walk the Middle Path of moderation and have a better understanding on how to lead a richer life of peace and happiness.

Buddha, Dukkha, Four Noble Truths, Kamma, Nibbana, Noble Eightfold Path, Suffering,

Walpola Rahula
What Buddha Taught
I have tried in this little book to address myself first of all to the educated and intelligent general reader, uninstructed in the subject, who would like to know what the Buddha actually taught. For his benefit I have aimed at giving briefly, and as directly and simply as possible, a faithful and accurate account of the actual words used by the Buddha as they are to be found in the original Pali texts of the Tipitaka.

Buddha, Dhamma, Four Noble Truths, Kamma, Mindfulness, Nibbana, Noble Eightfold Path, Sati, Seven Enlightenment Factors, Suffering, The Five Precepts, The Threefold Refuge,