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Śamatha (Buddhism)

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• Samatha phāwanā (Rōngphim Thai, 1923), by Supreme Patriarch Pun and William J. Gedney (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kammatthānakathā. (Rōngphim ʻAksō̜n Sīsawat, 1924), by William J. Gedney (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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• 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)
• Khlōng thāi lǣ kham wisatchanā. (Rōngphim Sōphon Phiphatthanākō̜n, 1927), by William J. Gedney (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bapphatham (Rōngphim Bamrungnukūnkit, 1923), by Phra Sāsanasōphon (Čhǣm) and William J. Gedney (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pakirana kathā. (Rōngphim Nangsơ̄phim Thai, 1924), by William J. Gedney (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pāsangsakathā kap thatsanawisutthisūt ʻattāʻanattāsūt kāyačhittasūt plǣ phrō̜m thang phanranā. (Rōngphim Bamrungnukūnkit, 1928), by William J. Gedney (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Thammawiphāk tō̜ paritchēt thī 2 mūat ʻatirēk thasaka (s.n.], 1921), by Prince Wachirayānnawarōrot and William J. Gedney (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A manual of Buddhist philosophy; vol. 1: Cosmology (K. Paul, Trench, Trubner;, 1923), by William Montgomery McGovern (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Esoteric Buddhism (Trübner & Co., 1883), by A. P. Sinnett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Śikshā-samuccaya : a compendium of Buddhist doctrine (John Murray, 1922), by 7th cent Śāntideva, W. H. D. Rouse, and Cecil Bendall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Systems of Buddhistic thought (University of Calcutta, 1912), by Sōgen Yamakami (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Konpon Bukkyō (Hakubunkan, 1910), by Masaharu Anesaki (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bukkyō tetsuri (Yūhikaku Shobō, 1911), by Katsuhiko Kakehi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lian mo bian yi lu : [8 juan]. (1915), by Emperor of China Yongzheng (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The noble eightfold path (Philosophical Research Society, 1947), by Manly Palmer Hall and Philosophical Research Society (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bukkyō taii. (Kōyūkan, 1907), by Tokunō Oda (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Shūyō to kenkyū (Seiretsudō, 1905), by Eun Maeda (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kinsei Bukkyō shūsetsu (Hiroya Kokusho Kankōkai, 1922), by Yūtarō Hiroya (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bukkyō gairon (Iwanami Shoten, 1926), by Daiei Kaneko (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bhadantabuddhaghosamahātherena viracine Visuddhimaggo (Dr. Charles Alwis Hewavitarne, Sirinatha Kumaradasa Moonasinghe, 1920), by Buddhaghosa, Mahagoda Ñāṇissara, and Pamunuwé Buddhadatta (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Buddhism : being a sketch of the life and teachings of Gautama, the Buddha (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge ;, 1920), by T. W. Rhys Davids (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buddhistischer Katechismus zur Einführung in die Lehre des Buddha Gotamo. (C.A. Schwetschke und Sohn, 1902), by Bhikshu Subhadrā (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Butsuda no hikari (Jōdoshū Dairoku Kyōmusho, 1903), by Shintō Kuroda (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Christus und Buddha in ihrem himmlischen Vorleben (Mayer, 1898), by W. Ph. Englert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Śikshā-samuccaya : a compendium of Buddhist doctrine (J. Murray, for the Govt. of India, 1922), by Santideva, W. H. D. Rouse, and Cecil Bendall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Phraphiksu Pātimōk bō̜ribūn : thang ʻat læ plǣ. (Hō̜samut Wichirayān, 1920), by Hō̜samut hǣng Chāt (Thailand) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Daham ratna mālaya (Vidyasagara Press, 1905), by W. A. De Silva (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• ʾAmatamagga niddesa cā tamʻʺ (Haṃsāvatī Sa taṅʻʺ cā tuikʻ, 1904), by Thera Cārinda (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bukkyō gairon (Iwanami Shoten, 1929), by Daiei Kaneko (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bukkyō ingaritsu (Tetsugaku Shoin, 1896), by Yūhō Kasuga (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prajná páramitá. (Asiatic Society, 1888), by Pratāpacandra Ghosha (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dhammaṃputtakaṃ : phrū caṅʻ phroṅʻ́ matʻ so kyamʻ̋ cā taññʻ̋. (s.n. , 1815) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shinri gensoku (Fukutomi Kunzō, 1906), by Tamaki Nakamura (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Konpon Bukkyō kōwa (Chūō Shuppansha, 1918), by Gyokusen Hosaka (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nihon Daizōkyō. kaidai (Nihon Daizōkyō Hensankai, 1921), by Seigai Ōmura and Gishō Nakano (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The life of the Buddha and the early history of his order, derived from Tibetan works in the Bkah-hgyur and Bstanhgyur, followed by notices on the early history of Tibet and Khoten. (K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1907), by William Woodville Rockhill, Bunyiu Nanjio, and Ernst Leumann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Creed of Buddha (John Lane Company;, 1911), by Edmond Holmes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Gospel of Buddha : according to old records (Open Court Pub. Co., 1910), by Paul Carus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Budda no shōgai to shisō (Kōshisha Shobō, 1922), by Richard Pischel and Shigenobu Suzuki (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Budda ron (Tetsugaku Shoin, 1899), by Ninjō Emi and Toganoo Collection (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tsūzoku kōwa Bukkyō yōgi (Sekibunsha, 1905), by Totsudō Katō (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Buddhistische Evangelien : eine Auswahl von Texten aus den heiligen Büchern der Buddhisten (Schatzkammerverlag Hans Fändrich, 1980), by Karl Seidenstücker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The way to Nirvāṇa : six lectures on ancient Buddhism as a discipline of salvation (AMS Press, 1979), by Louis de La Vallée Poussin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bukkyō tetsugaku shisō taikei (Shinkōsha, 1924), by Shōshi Mitsui (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le dharma; l'énoncé de la doctrine bouddhique. ([Imp. E. Roland], 1902), by E. Nepveu (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The gospel of Buddha (Open Court Pub. Co., 1915), by Paul Carus (page images at HathiTrust)

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