Reading Materials

Titles by Topic

Buddhist books for youth/teens

• Blue Jean Buddha: Voices of Young Buddhists
  Sumi Loundon, ed.
• Buddha in Your Backpack
  Franz Metcalf
• The Buddha’s Apprentices
  Sumi Loundon
• Dharma Punx
  Noah Levine
• Just Say Om
  Soren Gordhamer
• Pure Heart, Enlightened Mind
  Maura O’Halloran
• Wide Awake: A Buddhist Guide for Teens
  Diana Winston

Socially engaged Buddhism

• Buddhist Peacework
  David Chappell, ed.
• Dharma Rain
  Kenneth Kraft & Stephanie Kaza, eds.
• Engaged Buddhism in the West
  Chris Queen, ed.
• Peace is Every Step
  Thich Nhat Hanh

Women and Buddhism

• Buddhism After Patriarchy
  Rita Gross
• The First Buddhist Women
  Susan Murcott, tr.
• Meeting the Great Bliss Queen
  Anne C. Klein
• Women’s Buddhism, Buddhism’s Women
  Ellison Findly, ed.

Interfaith

• The Good Heart
  His Holiness the Dalai Lama
• The Jew in the Lotus
  Rodger Kamenetz
• Living Buddha, Living Christ
  Thich Nhat Hanh
• Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism and Christianity
  B. Alan Wallace

Buddhism and psychology

• Buddhist Practice on Western Ground: Reconciling Eastern Ideals & Western Psychology
  Harvey Aronson
• The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion: Freeing Yourself from Destructive Thoughts and Emotions
  Christopher Germer
• Mindfulness and Psychotherapy
  Christopher Germer, Ronald Siegel and Paul Fulton (eds)
• The Principles of Buddhist Psychology
  David Kalupahana
• Thoughts Without a Thinker
  Mark Epstein

Mindfulness-based practices and programs in medicine, psychology, neuroscience and society

• Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness
  Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Contemplative Science: Where Buddhism & Neuroscience Converge
  B. Alan Wallace
• Destructive Emotions
  Daniel Goleman
• Heal Thy Self: Lessons on Mindfulness in Medicine
  Saki Santorelli
• Healing Emotions
  Daniel Goleman
• The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret & Science of Happiness
  Mingyur Rinpoche
• The Mindful Brain
  Daniel J. Siegel
• The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion: Freeing Yourself From Destructive Thoughts and Emotions
  Christopher Germer
• The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself From Chronic Unhappiness
  Mark Williams, John Teasdale, Zindel Segal, and Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression
  Zindel Segal, Mark Williams, and John Teasdale
• Mindfulness and Psychotherapy
  Christopher Germer, Ronald Siegel, and Paul Fulton (eds.)
• Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves
  Sharon Begley

Other books on mindfulness

• Full Catastrophe Living
  Jon Kabat-Zinn
• A Gradual Awakening
  Stephen Levine
• Wherever You Go, There You Are
  Jon Kabat-Zinn

Other widely-read dharma books

• The Art of Happiness
  His Holiness the Dalai Lama
• Awakening Loving-kindness
  Pema Chödrön
• Buddhism Without Beliefs
  Stephen Batchelor
• Confession of a Buddhist Athiest
  Stephen Batchelor
• Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
  Chogyam Trungpa
• Ethics for the New Millenium
  His Holiness the Dalai Lama
• Great Disciples of the Buddha
  Nyanaponika Thera & Hellmuth Hecker
• The Heart of the Revolution
  Noah Levine
• The Meditative Mind
  Daniel Goleman
• The Miracle of Mindfulness
  Thich Nhat Hanh
• One Robe, One Bowl
  Ryokan (Stevens, tr.)
• Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
  Sogyal Rinpoche
• When Things Fall Apart
  Pema Chödrön
• The Wisdom of No Escape
  Pema Chödrön
• Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
  Suzuki Roshi