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Gautama Buddha -- Teachings

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• Buddhism in a Nutshell, by Narada Maha Thera (HTML at Access to Insight)
• Everyman's Ethics: Four Discourses of the Buddha, trans. by Narada Maha Thera (HTML at Access to Insight)
• The Gospel of Buddha, According to Old Records (Chicago: Open Court, 1898), ed. by Paul Carus (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Gospel of Buddha, Compiled From Ancient Records (Chicago and London: Open Court, 1917), ed. by Paul Carus, illust. by O. Kopetzky (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Lalita Vistara: Leben und Lehre des Çâkya-Buddha (2 volumes; text in Sanskrit and commentary in German; Halle a.S.: Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses, 1902-1908), ed. by Salomon Lefmann
  • Volume 1: page images at Hamburg
  • Volume 2: page images at Hamburg
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Udana, or, The Solemn Utterances of the Buddha, Translated from the Pali, trans. by Dawsonne Melanchthon Strong (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

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

• 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)
• Christ or Buddha?, by Annet C. Rich (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Gospel of Buddha, According to Old Records (Chicago: Open Court, 1898), ed. by Paul Carus (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Gospel of Buddha, Compiled From Ancient Records (Chicago and London: Open Court, 1917), ed. by Paul Carus, illust. by O. Kopetzky (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Maha Kassapa, Father of the Sangha, by Hellmuth Hecker, trans. by Nyanaponika Thera (HTML at Access to Insight)

• The Spoiled Buddha: A Play in Two Acts (Dublin: Talbot Press; London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1919), by Helen Waddell (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Siddhartha: An Indian Tale, by Hermann Hesse, trans. by Gunther Olesch, Anke Dreher, Amy Coulter, Stefan Langer, and Semyon Chaichenets (Gutenberg text)

• Barlaam and Ioasaph, by Saint John of Damascus, trans. by George Ratcliffe Woodward and Harold Mattingly (HTML at mcllibrary.org)

• The Fo-Sho-Hing-Tsan-King: A Life of Buddha, by Aśvaghoṣa, trans. by Dharmakṣema and Samuel Beal (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Matrceta's Hymn to the Buddha: An English Rendering of the Satapañcasatka, by Matrceta, trans. by Shravasti Dhammika
  • HTML at Access to Insight
  • PDF at buddhanet.net

• 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)

• The Edicts of King Asoka, by Asoka, trans. by Shravasti Dhammika
  • HTML at Access to Insight
  • HTML with commentary at Colorado State
• The Gateless Gate (1934 translation), by Huikai, trans. by Nyogen Senzaki and Paul Reps (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Buddhist Psychology: An Inquiry Into the Analysis and Theory of Mind in Pali Literature (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1914), by Caroline A. F. Rhys Davids (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)
• Dhammapada: Wisdom of the Buddha, trans. by Hariscandra Kaviratna (HTML at TUP)
• The Essentials of Buddha Dhamma in Meditative Practice, by U Ba Khin (HTML at Access to Insight)
• Food for the Heart, by Achaan Chah (HTML at Access to Insight)
• Gemstones of the Good Dhamma (Saddhamma-Maniratana): An Anthology of Verses from the Pali Scriptures, ed. by Shravasti Dhammika (HTML at Access to Insight)
• That the True Dhamma Might Last a Long Time: Readings Selected by King Asoka, by Asoka, ed. by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (HTML at Access to Insight)
• To Light a Fire: A Dhamma Discourse, by Webu Sayadaw, trans. by Roger Bischoff (HTML at Access to Insight)
• Virtue and Reality: Method and Wisdom in the Practice of Dharma, by Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, ed. by Nicholas Ribush (PDF at buddhanet.net)
• 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)
• Food for Thought, by Phra Sutthithammarangsīkhamphīramēthačhān (Lī), trans. by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (HTML at Access to Insight)
• Inner Strength: Sixteen Talks, by Phra Sutthithammarangsīkhamphīramēthačhān (Lī), trans. by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (HTML at Access to Insight)
• Investigation for Insight, by Susan Elbaum Jootla (HTML at Access to Insight)
• A Taste of Freedom, by Achaan Chah (HTML at Access to Insight)

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