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BookStephen Batchelor
Stephen Batchelor presents Buddhism as an agnostic way of life organized around awakening, ethical response, attention, and the four tasks rather than assent to rebirth, cosmology, or institutional authority. Drawing on his formation as a monk and later departure from orthodoxy, he reframes dharma for modern secular and religiously uncertain readers.
BookEknath Easwaran
Easwaran translates and introduces a widely read collection of verses on mind, conduct, attention, and liberation attributed to the Buddha.
BookThich Nhat Hanh
Thích Nhất Hạnh presents central Buddhist teachings—including the Four Noble Truths, the Noble Eightfold Path, the Three Dharma Seals, the Three Doors of Liberation, and the Seven Factors of Awakening—as interlocking ways of understanding suffering and cultivating compassion, joy, and freedom. Written from his Vietnamese Thiền and Plum Village lineage, the book connects doctrine to mindfulness practice and ordinary life.
BookBhikkhu Bodhi
A thematic anthology of discourses from the Pali Canon with introductions by a major Theravada translator.
Guy Newland
Newland uses contemporary examples to explain emptiness as taught through Tsongkhapa’s Tibetan Gelug interpretation of Madhyamaka Buddhism.
BookThich Nhat Hanh
Vietnamese Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh brings mindfulness, compassion, community, the Holy Spirit, Eucharist, and the living Christ into conversation from a Buddhist standpoint shaped by friendship with Christians. Rather than constructing a systematic synthesis, he reflects on practices and symbols that can help traditions recognize life and peace in one another.
Community / DestinationSecular Buddhist Network
An online hub for secular Buddhist teaching, practice, and discussion.
Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche; translated and arranged by Lama Shenpen Hookham
A Tibetan Buddhist teacher presents several understandings of emptiness as progressive contemplative views to be studied and tested in meditation.
Podcast EpisodeThich Nhat Hanh with Krista Tippett
Thich Nhat Hanh speaks simply about mindfulness, compassion, war, anger, and bringing spiritual practice into the conflicts of ordinary life.
BookShantideva; translated by the Padmakara Translation Group
A classic Mahayana poem and practice text on compassion, patience, wisdom, and the bodhisattva commitment.
BookWalpola Rahula
Sri Lankan Buddhist monk and scholar Walpola Rahula presents a compact account of teachings he regards as central to the Buddha's message, including the Four Noble Truths, the Noble Eightfold Path, no-self, meditation, karma, and the relation of Buddhist practice to ordinary life. His exposition draws heavily on Pali texts and includes translated selections intended to let readers encounter early sources directly.