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• The Issue at Hand: Essays on Buddhist Mindfulness Practice (in multiple languages; c2001), by Gil Fronsdal (HTML and PDF files with commentary at insightmeditationcenter.org)
• Dhamma Texts (revised edition, c1991), by U Ba Khin (PDF at International Meditation Centre)
• A Guide to Buddhist Monasteries and Meditation Centres in Thailand (third edition, 1991), by Bill Weir (HTML at dharmanet.org)
• Basic Themes, by Phra Sutthithammarangsīkhamphīramēthačhān (Lī), trans. by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (HTML at Access to Insight)
• Buddhist Meditation, by Francis Story (HTML at Access to Insight)
• Buddhist Meditation and Depth Psychology, by Douglas M. Burns (HTML at Access to Insight)
• Buddho, by Phra Rātchanirōtrangsīkhamphīrapanyāwisit (Thēt), trans. by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (HTML at Access to Insight)
• The Craft of the Heart, by Phra Sutthithammarangsīkhamphīramēthačhān (Lī), trans. by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (PDF at Access to Insight)
• The Dhamma Teaching of Acariya Maha Boowa in London, by Phra Maha Boowa Nanasampanno (HTML at Access to Insight)
• Food for Thought, by Phra Sutthithammarangsīkhamphīramēthačhān (Lī), trans. by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (HTML at Access to Insight)
• Forest Meditations: The Verses of the Arahant Talaputa Thera, by Talaputa Thera, ed. by Bhikkhu Khantipalo (HTML at Access to Insight)
• A Guide to Awareness: Dhamma Talks on the Foundations of Mindfulness, by Somdet Phra Nyanasamvara, trans. by Phikkhu Ariyesako and Bhikkhu Kantasilo (PDF at buddhanet.net)
• Inner Strength: Sixteen Talks, by Phra Sutthithammarangsīkhamphīramēthačhān (Lī), trans. by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (HTML at Access to Insight)
• Keeping the Breath in Mind; and, Lessons in Samadhi, by Phra Sutthithammarangsīkhamphīramēthačhān (Lī), trans. by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (HTML at Access to Insight)
• Practical Advice for Meditators, by Bhikkhu Khantipalo (HTML at Access to Insight)
• The Progress of Insight (Visuddhiñana-katha): A Modern Treatise on Buddhist Satipatthana Meditation, by Mahā caññʻ Cha rā toʻ ʼA rhaṅʻ Sobhana, trans. by Nyanaponika Thera (HTML at Access to Insight)
• Satipatthana Vipassana, by Mahā caññʻ Cha rā toʻ ʼA rhaṅʻ Sobhana (HTML at Access to Insight)
• Straight from the Heart: Thirteen Talks on the Practice of Meditation, by Phra Maha Boowa Nanasampanno (HTML at Access to Insight)
• A Taste of Freedom, by Achaan Chah (HTML at Access to Insight)
• The Way of Mindfulness: The Satipatthana Sutta and Its Commentary, trans. by Soma Thera (HTML at Access to Insight)
• Anapana Sati: Meditation on Breathing, by Mahathera Nauyane Ariyadhamma (HTML at Access to Insight)
• The Essentials of Buddha Dhamma in Meditative Practice, by U Ba Khin (HTML at Access to Insight)
• Lay Buddhist Practice: The Shrine Room, Uposatha Day, Rains Residence, by Bhikkhu Khantipalo (HTML at Access to Insight)
• The Power of Mindfulness, by Nyanaponika Thera (HTML at Access to Insight)
• Protection Through Satipatthana, by Nyanaponika Thera (HTML at Access to Insight)
• Investigation for Insight, by Susan Elbaum Jootla (HTML at Access to Insight)
• Čharœ̄n wipatsanā : pēn phāwanāmaiyakuson tām bālī lǣ ʻatthakathā (Rōngphim Thai, 1910), by Somdet Phra Wannarat (Thap Phutthasiri) and William J. Gedney (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kammatthānakathā. (Rōngphim ʻAksō̜n Sīsawat, 1924), by William J. Gedney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rūpakammatthān ʻarūpakammatthān (Rōngphim Thai, 1912), by William J. Gedney and Somdet Phra Phutthakhōsāčhān (Čharœ̄n) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Withī samāthān thudong lǣ čhaturārakkhakammathān. (Rōngphim Sōphon Phiphatthanākō̜n, 1926), by William J. Gedney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maraṇasati. (Roṅ Bumb Kambuja Varokās, 1927), by William J. Gedney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dhyāna und Samādhi im mongolischen Lamaismus (Orient-Buchhandlung H. Lafaire, 1927), by Alekseĭ Matveevich Pozdneev (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nangsư̄phim lēm nī sadǣng withī čharœ̄n samatha phāwanā tām phrabālī lǣ ʻatthakathā pēn phāwanāmai kuson ʻan lœ̄t. (Rōngphim Phisānbannanit, 1909) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Vipassanā dīpanī : or, The manual of insight (Society for Promoting Buddhism in Foreign Countries, 1915), by Ledi Cha rā toʻ 1846 or 1847-1923 or 1924 Nāṇa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zenbyōron (Ikkatsusha, 1911), by Fuzan. Asano (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hyōshaku seiza no susume (Kōyūkan, 1908), by Jion Seigo, Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, and Sōen Shaku (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jing zuo fa jing yi (Yi xue shu ju, 1920), by Fubao Ding (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sammā Samādhi : being an exposition ... of Samahta-vipassanā, as discovered & attained by all Buddhas, based on the general teaching of ... Chao Khun, Mongkol-thepmuni ... ([Magness], 1906), by T. Magness (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Anapana Sati: Meditation on Breathing, by Mahathera Nauyane Ariyadhamma (HTML at Access to Insight)

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

• Steps Along the Path, by Phra Rātchanirōtrangsīkhamphīrapanyāwisit (Thēt), trans. by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (HTML at Access to Insight)

• Dhyāna und Samādhi im mongolischen Lamaismus (Orient-Buchhandlung H. Lafaire, 1927), by Alekseĭ Matveevich Pozdneev (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Samādhirāja-Sūtram (Buddhist Text Society of India, 1896), by Sarat Chandra Das (page images at HathiTrust)
• The inner life and the Tao-teh-king (Theosophical Pub. Co., 1912), by C. H. A. Bjerregaard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nian fo zhi zhi : [2 juan (Shang wu yin shu guan, 1922), by Shi Miaoye (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sammā Samādhi : being an exposition ... of Samahta-vipassanā, as discovered & attained by all Buddhas, based on the general teaching of ... Chao Khun, Mongkol-thepmuni ... ([Magness], 1906), by T. Magness (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Power of Mindfulness, by Nyanaponika Thera (HTML at Access to Insight)
• Protection Through Satipatthana, by Nyanaponika Thera (HTML at Access to Insight)

• Investigation for Insight, by Susan Elbaum Jootla (HTML at Access to Insight)
• Satipatthana Vipassana, by Mahā caññʻ Cha rā toʻ ʼA rhaṅʻ Sobhana (HTML at Access to Insight)
• Čharœ̄n wipatsanā : pēn phāwanāmaiyakuson tām bālī lǣ ʻatthakathā (Rōngphim Thai, 1910), by Somdet Phra Wannarat (Thap Phutthasiri) and William J. Gedney (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kānphičhāranā withī čhit kap rư̄ang čhamnūan 108 (Rōngphim Sīhong, 1927), by Lūang Wisāndarunkǭn (ʻAn) and William J. Gedney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Withī būchā phra wai phra, lǣ raksā sīn, lǣ čharœ̄n wipatsanā dōi sangkhēp (Rōngphim Mō̜m Rātchawong Nēt, 1897), by Thailand) Wat Sōmmanat Wihān (Bangkok and William J. Gedney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kammatthānakathā. (Rōngphim ʻAksō̜n Sīsawat, 1924), by William J. Gedney (page images at HathiTrust)

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