Buddhist Sacred Texts

This volume contains Sangharakshita's translations of several Pali suttas, including the Dhammapada, the 'best known and best loved of all Buddhist...

This book addresses the thorny issue regarding the authenticity of the Yulanpen Stra, the scriptural source for the Yulanpen Festival or Hungry Gho...

The Gandharan Buddhist Texts series presents editions, translations, and studies of the British Librarys unique collection of Buddhist manuscripts ...

The Vessantara Jataka is the tale of Buddha's last life, before he was reborn as the historical Buddha 2,500 years ago. In this earlier existence a...

In February 2018, Kiko Matthews set out to row solo and unsupported, 3000 miles across the Atlantic. She not only added her name to the handful of ...

Eknath Easwaran, translator of the best-selling edition of the Dhammapada, sees this powerful scripture as a perfect map for the spiritual journey....

Buddhist intellectual discourse owes its development to a dynamic interplay between primary source materials and subsequent interpretation, yet sch...

In the early 400s, numerous Indian and Central Asian Buddhist meditation masters (chanshi) traveled to China, where they established the first endu...