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Books like The Dhammapada
The Dhammapada by Anonymous is about mind, suffering, ethics. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- What the Buddha Taught
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Walpola Rahula · Religion & Spirituality
What the Buddha Taught is widely considered the best short introduction to early Buddhism in the English language.
Read the summary → - The Bhagavad Gita
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Anonymous · Religion & Spirituality
The Bhagavad Gita — the Song of the Lord — is an episode embedded in the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata, composed between the 5th and 2nd centuries BCE.
Read the summary → - Tao Te Ching
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Laozi · Philosophy
The Tao Te Ching is one of the most translated texts in world literature and the foundational scripture of Taoism.
Read the summary → - Why Buddhism Is True
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Robert Wright · Religion & Spirituality
Why Buddhism Is True is Robert Wright's argument that modern evolutionary psychology and neuroscience provide independent confirmation for core Buddhist claims about the mind, suffering, and the nature of the self.
Read the summary → - A History of God
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Karen Armstrong · Religion & Spirituality
A History of God is Karen Armstrong's account of how the idea of God has changed over four thousand years across Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, with excursions into Hinduism and Buddhism.
Read the summary → - A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
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A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
Eckhart Tolle · Religion & Spirituality
A New Earth is Eckhart Tolle's follow-up to The Power of Now, applying the same framework of presence and ego-transcendence to a broader account of human dysfunction and its transformation.
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