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• A Buddhist Bible (first edition, 1932), ed. by Dwight Goddard (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Buddha's "Way of Virtue": A Translation of the Dhammapada from the Pali Text (London: John Murray, 1920), trans. by W. D. C. Wagiswara and Kenneth J. Saunders (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Buddhism in Translations (1896), ed. by Henry Clarke Warren (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Buddhist Scriptures: A Selection Translated From the Pali With Introduction (London: John Murray, 1913), ed. by E. J. Thomas (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Dhammapada: The Buddha's Path of Wisdom, trans. by Acharya Buddharakkhita (HTML at Access to Insight)
• The Dhammapada; The Sutta-Nipata, trans. by F. Max Müller and V. Fausbøll (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Itivuttaka: This Was Said by the Buddha, trans. by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (HTML at Access to Insight)
• Psalms of the Sisters (London: Pali Text Society, 1909), by Caroline A. F. Rhys Davids (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Questions of King Milinda, trans. by T. W. Rhys Davids (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Vinaya Texts (3 volumes; from the Sacred Books of the East series), trans. by T. W. Rhys Davids and Hermann Oldenberg
  • Part I: HTML at sacred-texts.com
  • Part II: HTML at sacred-texts.com
  • Part III: HTML at sacred-texts.com
• The Buddha's Words on Kamma: Four Discourses of the Buddha from the Majjhima Nikaya, trans. by Nanamoli Thera (HTML at Access to Insight)
• Dhammapada, trans. by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (HTML at Access to Insight)
• The Dhammapada, trans. by F. Max Müller (Gutenberg text)
• The Dhammapada, trans. by John Richards (text at Coombs-papers)
• The Five Mental Hindrances and Their Conquest: Selected Texts from the Pali Canon and the Commentaries, trans. by Nyanaponika Thera (HTML at Access to Insight)
• The Jataka: or, Stories of the Buddha's Former Births (6 volumes; 1895-1907), ed. by Edward B. Cowell, trans. by Robert Chalmers, W. H. D. Rouse, H. T. Francis, and Robert Alexander Neil (multiple formats at archive.org and sacred-texts.com)
• The Jātaka, Together With Its Commentary: Being Tales of the Anterior Births of Gotama Buddha (7 volumes, in Pali with some English notes; 1877-1897), ed. by V. Fausbøll, contrib. by Dines Andersen
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII: multiple formats at archive.org

• Buddhist Mahayana Texts, trans. by Edward B. Cowell, F. Max Müller, and J. Takakusu (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Saddharma-Pundarîka: or, The Lotus of the True Law, trans. by Hendrik Kern (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• A Buddhist Manual of Psychological Ethics of the Fourth Century B.C.: Being a Translation, Now Made for the First Time from the Original Pali, of the First Book in the Abhidhamma Pitaka, Entitled, Dhamma-Sangani (Compendium of States or Phenomena) with Introductory Essay and Notes (London: Royal Asiatic society, 1900), contrib. by Caroline A. F. Rhys Davids (multiple formats at archive.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Noble Eightfold Path: The Way to the End of Suffering (second edition, 1994), by Bhikkhu Bodhi (HTML at Access to Insight)
• Dhamma Texts (revised edition, c1991), by U Ba Khin (PDF at International Meditation Centre)
• Romanticism and Buddhism (2007), ed. by Mark Lussier (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• Amitabha: A Story of Buddhist Theology (Chicago: Open Court, 1906), by Paul Carus (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Arya Dharma of Sakya Muni, Gautama Buddha; or, The Ethics of Self Discipline, by Anagarika Dharmapala (HTML and PDF at arfalpha.com)
• Buddhism and Immortality (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1908), by William Sturgis Bigelow (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Buddhist Catechism (42nd edition; Chennai: "Theosophist" Office; London and Varanasi: The Theosophical Publishing Society, 1908), by Henry Steel Olcott (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Dharma, or The Religion of Enlightenment: an Exposition of Buddhism (third edition; Chicago: Open Court, 1896), by Paul Carus (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Heart Released: The Teachings of Phra Ajaan Mun Bhuridatta Thera, by Phikkhu Bhuridatta, trans. by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (HTML at Access to Insight)
• The Path of Light (New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., 1909), by Santideva, trans. by Lionel D. Barnett (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Refuge: An Introduction to the Buddha, Dhamma, and Sangha, by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (HTML at Access to Insight)
• The Wheel of Birth and Death, by Bhikkhu Khantipalo (HTML at Access to Insight)
• The Edicts of King Asoka, by Asoka, trans. by Shravasti Dhammika
  • HTML at Access to Insight
  • HTML with commentary at Colorado State
• Gleanings in Buddha-Fields: Studies of Hand and Soul in the Far East (1897), by Lafcadio Hearn
  • illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Life of Buddha, According to the Legends of Ancient India, by A.-Ferdinand Herold, trans. by Paul C. Blum (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Mystical Chorus: Jung and the Religious Dimension, by Donald Broadribb, contrib. by Marilyn Holly and Norma Lyons (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Oriental Religions and Their Relation to Universal Religion: India (2 volumes; London: Trubner and Co., 1879), by Samuel Johnson
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Udana, or, The Solemn Utterances of the Buddha, Translated from the Pali, trans. by Dawsonne Melanchthon Strong (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Lands of the Thunderbolt: Sikhim, Chumbi and Bhutan (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1923), by Lawrence John Lumley Dundas Zetland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sacred Places in China (Cincinnati: Press of the Western Methodist Book Concern, c1911), by Carl F. Kupfer (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• A Taste of Freedom, by Achaan Chah (HTML at Access to Insight)
• Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Religionssoziologie (3 volumes in German; Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1920-1921), by Max Weber
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Hinduismus und Buddhismus): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (Das Antike Judentum): multiple formats at archive.org

• Si-Yu-Ki: Buddhist Records of the Western World (2 volumes; London, Truübner and Co., 1884), by approximately 596-664 Xuanzang, trans. by Samuel Beal
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• Si-Yu-Ki: Buddhist Records of the Western World (popular edition, 2 volumes in 1; London: K. Paul, Trench, Truübner and Co., ca. 1884), by approximately 596-664 Xuanzang, trans. by Samuel Beal (page images at HathiTrust)

• Chinese Buddhism: A Volume of Sketches, Historical, Descriptive, and Critical (popular edition; London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1893), by Joseph Edkins (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Religion of the Chinese (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1910), by J. J. M. de Groot
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Report of the Inaugural Conference (Colombo, Sri Lanka: World Fellowship of Buddhists, ca. 1950), by World Fellowship of Buddhists (PDF at wfbhq.org)

• Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Grammar and Dictionary (2 volumes; New Haven: Yale University Press; London: G. Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1953), by Franklin Edgerton (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Bhikkus' Rules, A Guide for Laypeople: The Theravadin Buddhist Monk's Rules Compiled and Explained, by Phikkhu Ariyesako (HTML at Access to Insight)

• The Creed of Buddha, by Edmond Holmes (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Essential Practice: Dhamma Discourses of Venerable Webu Sayadaw, by Webu Sayadaw, trans. by Roger Bischoff
  • part 1: HTML at Access to Insight
  • part 2: HTML at Access to Insight
• The Five Mental Hindrances and Their Conquest: Selected Texts from the Pali Canon and the Commentaries, trans. by Nyanaponika Thera (HTML at Access to Insight)
• Going to Refuge; Taking the Precepts, by Bhikkhu Bodhi (HTML at Access to Insight)
• The Manuals of Buddhism: The Exposition of the Buddha Dhamma, by Mahathera Ledi Sayadaw (HTML at webcom.com)
• The Mind Like Fire Unbound: An Image in the Early Buddhist Discourses, by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (HTML at Access to Insight)
• The Removal of Distracting Thoughts, trans. by Soma Thera (HTML at Access to Insight)
• Things as They Are: A Collection of Talks on the Training of the Mind, by Phra Maha Boowa Nanasampanno (HTML at Access to Insight)
• Three Cardinal Discourses of the Buddha, trans. by Nanamoli Thera (HTML at Access to Insight)
• The Way to Nirvana: Six Lectures on Ancient Buddhism as a Discipline of Salvation (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1917), by Louis de La Vallée Poussin (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Buddhist Reflections on Death, by V. F. Gunaratna (HTML at Access to Insight)
• The Dhamma Teaching of Acariya Maha Boowa in London, by Phra Maha Boowa Nanasampanno (HTML at Access to Insight)
• Dhammapada: Wisdom of the Buddha, trans. by Hariscandra Kaviratna (HTML at TUP)
• Renunciation, by T. Prince (HTML at Access to Insight)
• To Light a Fire: A Dhamma Discourse, by Webu Sayadaw, trans. by Roger Bischoff (HTML at Access to Insight)
• To the Last Breath: Dhamma Talks on Living and Dying; and Directions for Insight: Six Dhamma Talks on Centering the Mind in Non-Attachment, by Phra Maha Boowa Nanasampanno and Ko. Khaosuanluang (HTML at Access to Insight)
• The Way of Wisdom: The Five Spiritual Faculties, by Edward Conze (HTML at Access to Insight)
• The Buddha's Words on Kamma: Four Discourses of the Buddha from the Majjhima Nikaya, trans. by Nanamoli Thera (HTML at Access to Insight)
• Food for the Heart, by Achaan Chah (HTML at Access to Insight)
• Becoming Your Own Therapist: An Introduction to the Buddhist Way of Thought, by Thubten Yeshe, ed. by Nicholas Ribush (PDF at buddhanet.net)
• Make Your Mind an Ocean: Aspects of Buddhist Psychology, by Thubten Yeshe, ed. by Nicholas Ribush (PDF at buddhanet.net)

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