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Book publications


Basic books

 

BP 102S  The Buddha and His Teachings

 

Expositions & Studies

BP 413 Kamma and its Fruit

Meditation

BP 502S Mindfulness of Breathing (Anapanasati)

Reference

BP 611S Nyanaponika: A Farewell Tribute


Wheel Publications

Introductory

WH 4 The Greatest Adventure

WH 5 The Buddha - His Life & Teaching

 

WH 36/37 Buddhism and the Age of Science

WH 80/81 Dialogues on the Dhamma

WH 132/134 Touching the Essence

WH 152/154 A Buddhist Catechism

WH 206/207 Lay Buddhist Practice

WH 363/364 Two Dialogues on Dhamma

WH 394/396 Fundamentals of Buddhism

WH 423/424 Night and Morning with Bhikkhu Tissa

WH 428/430 The Buddha's Teaching In His Own Words

WH 433/434 The Buddha and His Dhamma


Specific Teachings

WH 01 The Seven Factors of Enlightenment

WH 06/07 The Four Sublime States

WH 12/13 The Case of Rebirth

WH 15 Dependent Origination

WH 34/35 The Four Noble Truths

WH 65/66 The Way of Wisdom

WH 105/106 The Four Nutriments of Life:
Selected Texts

WH 147/148/149 The Wheel of Birth and Death

WH 167/168/169 Rebirth Explained

WH 170 Mudita: The Buddha's Teachings on Unselfish Joy

WH 226/230 A Technique of Living

WH 251/253 The Roots of Good and Evil

WH 261 Buddhism and Death

WH 269 The Exposition of Non-Conflict

WH 367 Dana The Practice of Giving

WH 365/366 Metta: The Philosophy & Practice of Universal Love

WH 407/408 Nibbana as Living Experience
The Buddha and the Arahant


WH 425/427 The Message in the Teachings of Kamma, Rebirth and Samsara


The Three Marks of Existence

WH 11 Anatta and Nibbana

WH 20 The Three Signata

WH 94 The Truth of Anatta

WH 123 The Significance of the Four Noble Truths

WH 191/193
The Three Basic Facts of Existence II

WH 202/203/204 The Three Basic Facts of Existence
III

WH 435 The Real Facts of Life


Meditation and Mind Training

WH 19 The Foundations of Mindfulness

WH 21 Removal of Distracting Thoughts

WH 26
The Five Mental Hindrances & Their Conquest

WH 31/32 The Manual of Insight: Vipassana Dipani

WH 39/40 Purification of Character , Purification of View

WH 60 The Satipatthana Sutta and Its Application to Modern Life

WH 51
Taming the Mind (Discourses of the Buddha)

WH 88/89 Buddhist Meditation & Depth Psychology

WH 102/103 Buddhist Reflections on Death

WH 116 Practical Advice for Meditators

WH 121/122 The Power of Mindfulness

WH 189/190 The Buddha on Meditation

WH 194 A Guide to the Perplexed

WH 231 The Essentials of Buddha Dhamma in Meditation Practice

WH 234/235/236 The Miracle of Being Awake

WH 266 Wayfaring: A Manual for Insight Meditation

WH 271/272 Bag of Bones

WH 298/299/300 Thoughts of the Dhamma

WH 301/302 Investigation for Insight

WH 303/304
Contemplation of Feeling

WH 326/328 Directing to Self-Penetration

WH 329 The Therapeutic Action of Vipassana

WH 351/353 The Jhanas in Theravada Buddhist Meditation

WH 373/374 Looking Inward: Observations on the Art of Meditation

WH 388/389 Reading the Mind

WH 375/376 The Essential Practice - Part I

WH 384/385 The Essential Practice - Part II

WH 431/432 Manual of Mindfulness

WH 441 /442 The Way to the Happiness of Peace


Dharma Reflections

WH 23 The Ascetic Ideal   

WH 24/25 Live Now 

WH 52/53 Pathways of Buddhist Thought 
 

WH 77/78 Essays and Poems

 

WH 126 The Way of the Noble

 

WH 197 Buddhist Broadcast Talks

 

WH 205 The City of the Mind

 

WH 241/242 The Worn-Out Skin

 

WH 243/244 Forest Meditations
 

WH 259/260 Nourishing the Roots

 

WH 270 Three Symbolic Ways of Life   
 

WH 277/278 Transcendental Dependent Arising

 

WH 279 Inspiration from the Dhammapada
 

WH 339 / 341 The Tragic, the comic and the Personal

 

WH 372 The Scale of Good Deeds


Philosophy and Psychology

WH 22 Buddha the Healer

WH 50 Knowledge and Conduct

 

WH 127 Aspects of Reality
 

Wh 144/146 Schopenhauer and Buddhism

 

WH 180/181 Gods and the Universe 
 

WH 250 Concept and Meaning

 

WH 290/291 Buddhism in Psychotherapy


Ethics

WH 14 Everyman's Ethics

WH 55 The Five Precepts

WH 104 Early Buddhism and the Taking of life

WH 175/176
Ethics in Buddhist Perspective

WH 254/256 Life’s Highest Blessings - The Maha Mangala Sutta

 

WH 282/284 Going for Refuge; Taking the Precepts

WH 412/413 The Dhamma Theory


Faith and Devotion

WH 18 Devotion in Buddhism

WH 54 The Mirror of the Dhamma

WH 93 The Eight Marvellous and Wonderful Truths

WH 139 Prayer and Worship

WH 262 Faith in the Buddha's Teaching

WH 360/361 Matrceta's Hymn to the Buddha


Monastic Life

WH 27/28 Going Forth (A Call to Buddhist Monkhood)

WH 56
Ordination in Theravada Buddhism

WH 59
Stories of Old

WH 73 The Blessings of Pindapaata

WH 130/131 Aspects of Buddhist Social Philosophy

WH 349/350 Inspiration from Enlightened Nuns


Comparative Studies

WH 02 Vedanta and Buddhism

WH 16 Buddhism and Christianity

WH 117/119 Nirvana, Nihilism and Satori

WH 150/151 Brahmanism, Buddhism and
Hinduism

WH 216 The Buddhist Attitude to Other Religions

WH 275 / 276 Buddhism and Christianity
A Positive Approach


WH 380 The Buddha and Christ as
Religious Teachers



Biography

WH 33 Advice to Rahula

WH 70 / 72 Anagarika Dharmapala

WH 90 / 92 The Life of Sariputta

WH 115 Lives of the Disciples - Part I

WH 263/264 Maha Moggallana

WH 281
Colonel Olcott his Service to Buddhism

WH 292/293 Buddhist Women at the Time of the Buddha

WH 334
Anathapindika The Great Benefactor

WH 345 Maha Kassapa: Father of the Sangha

WH 420/422 Ananda Metteyya: The First British Emissary of Buddhism


Buddhist History and Culture

WH 42/43 Early Western Buddhists

WH 44 The Contribution of Buddhism to World Culture

WH 85/86 Buddhism in Thailand: Its Past & Present

WH 100 Buddhism in Sri Lanka: A Short History

WH 124/125 Buddhism in South India

WH 257 Meanderings of the Wheel of Dhamma

WH 386/387 The Edicts of Asoka

WH 399/401 Buddhism in Myanmar

WH 402/404 Buddhist Ceremonies and Rituals of Sri Lanka


Buddhism and Today's World

 

WH 03 Buddhism and Science

 

WH 41 Buddhism and Peace

WH 45/46 Escape to Reality

WH 199 Human Progress

WH 225 Buddhism & Sex

WH 265 Buddhism and Society

WH 285/286 Buddhism & Social Action

WH 316/317 Flight: An Existential Conception of Buddhism

WH 337/338 One Foot in the World Buddhist Approaches to Present-day Problems

WH 346/348 Buddhist Perspectives on the
Ecocrisis

WH 392/393 Violence & Disruption in Society

WH 397/398 A Simple Guide to Life

WH 438/440 Facing the Future


Women and Buddhism

WH 30 Women in Early Buddhist Literature

WH 280 The Position of Women in Buddhism

WH 443/445 Buddhist Women Meditators of Sri Lanka


Translations from the Pali Canon

WH 08 Kalama Sutta

WH 10 Sakka's Quest

WH 17 Three Cardinal Discourses of the Buddha

WH 48 / 49 The Discourse on the Snake Simile

WH 57/58 Knowers of Veda

WH 61/62 The Simile of the Cloth; Discourse on Effacement

WH 79 Kandaraka Sutta
Potaliya Sutta


WH 82 The Discourse Collection

WH 87 The Greater Discourse on Voidness

WH 98/99 Apannaka Sutta

WH 101 Elephant - Footprint Simile

WH 110 Ratthapala Sutta

WH 120 The Kutadanta Sutta: On True Sacrifice

WH 177 The Girimananda Sutta

WH 188 Ideal Solitude

WH 198 The Noble Quest

WH 248/249 The Buddha's Words on Kamma

WH 342/344 Gemstones of the Good Dhamma

WH 377/379 The Discourse on Right View Sammaditthi Sutta (MN 9)

WH 390/391 The Lion's Roar

WH 409 A Treatise on the Paramis


Buddhist Literature

WH 29 Light of Asia

WH 38 The Lamp of the Law

WH 47 Buddhism & the God-Idea

WH 95/97 Sixty Songs of Milarepa

WH 112 The Buddha's Last Bequest

WH 113 /114 Buddhist Commentarial Literature

WH 158/161 Edwin Arnold

WH 296 World's True Welfare

WH 313/315 Beginnings: The Pali Suttas

WH 419 The Buddha's Encounters with Mara

WH 436 The Therigatha


Bodhi Leaves


Introductory

BL 42 Buddhism: A Method of Mind Training

BL 86 Buddhism in Daily Life

 

BL 87 Buddhism as a Practical Teaching

 

BL 92 Radical Buddhism 
 

BL 102 Bhikkhu Tissa Dispels Some Doubts

 

BL 154 The Good Beautiful and the True


Specific Teachings

BL A5 The Three Refuges

BL A9 The Buddhist Concept of Mind

BL A14 How to Listen to Dharma

BL 36 Renunciation

BL 71 The Taste of Freedom

BL 75 Perfections of Buddhahood

BL 120 The Self-Made Private Prison


Kamma and Rebirth

BL 150 Five Visions of a Dying Man


Meditation and Mind Training

BL 15 Buddhist Meditation

BL 34 Protection through Satipatthana
 

BL 74 What Meditation Implies

 

BL 85 Beginning Insight Meditation 
 

BL 93 The Heart Awakened

 

BL 95 Meditating on No-Self 
 

BL 111 Our Real Home

 

BL 115 Anapanasati: Meditation on Breathing 
 

BL 122 To Light a Fire

 

BL 136 A Good Dose of Dhamma 
 

BL 137 The Benefits of Walking Meditation

 

BL 149 In the Presence of Nibbana 
 

BL 152 The Joy Hidden in Sorrow


Dhamma Reflections

BL 25 The Buddha's Practical Teaching

BL 68 The Elimination of Anger

 

BL 72 The Development of the Will
 

BL 73 Emancipation from the World

 

BL 78 The Concept of Peace
 

BL 79 Words Leading to Disenchantment

 

BL 96 To the Cemetery and Back 
 

BL 114 Going Into Homelessness

 

BL 124 Nothing Higher to Live For 
 

BL 131 Of Mindsets & Monkeypots

 

BL 134 A Journey into Buddhism 
 

BL 141 Detachment and Compassion in Early Buddhism

 

BL 145 Transmitting the Dhamma - The Role of the Teacher 
 

BL 155 Right Knowledge

 

BL 156 How Free is Freedom of Thought


Ethics

BL 109 Positive Response

BL 132 Ministering to the Sick and the Terminally Ill

 

BL 151 Parents and Children


Buddhism and Today's World

BL A2 Influence of Buddhism on a People

BL 26 Our Reactions to Dukkha

BL 123 Radical Therapy: Buddhist Precepts & the Modern World

BL 146 Globalization from a Buddhist Perspective

BL 148 Buddhism in a Value-Changing Society


Buddhist Culture

BL 57 The Story of the Mahinda

BL 133 A Taste of the Holy Life

BL 139 Buddhist Culture, The Cultured Buddhist


Buddhist Literature

BL 5 The Lesser Discourse on the Elephant's Footprint

BL 116 Essential Advice of the Kadampa Masters

BL 129 The Living Message of the Dhammapada

BL 143 Discourses of the Ancient Nuns

BL 158 Jataka Tales of the Buddha Part V

BL 135 Jataka Tales of the Buddha PART - I

BL 138 Jataka Tales of the Buddha PART - II

BL 142 Jataka Tales of the Buddha PART - III

BL 144 Jataka Tales of the Buddha PART - IV

BL 157 The Bodhisattva Concept


Other Titles

 

BL A 14 How To Listen To Dharma

 

BL 14 Pride and Conceit

BL 53 Why Buddhism? Why Theravada?

BL 110 The Buddha & Catch-22

BL 125 Prisoners of Karma: A Story

BL 140 The Healing of the Bull: A Story

BL 147 The Struggle of Letting Go: A Story


Other Publications

 

Buddhism Science and Education
Douglas M. Burns, M.D.

A Pioneer Western Buddhist
Dr. Paul Brunton, Ph.D.

The Buddha and His Message
Past, Present, and Future
Lecture on Vesak Day by Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi, United Nations, 15 May 2000

The Buddha's Teaching of Selflessness
Anattaa

An Essay, with extracts from the Sa.myutta-Nikaaya by Nyanatiloka Mahaathera

Ven. Nyanaponika Mahathera
A Hundred Years from Birth
by Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi

Does Rebirth Make Sense?
by Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi

Buddhism And Sound Pollution
Bhikkhu Nyanatusita

Language, Thought and Logical Paradoxes
by Douglas Burns