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Books like What the Buddha Taught
The best books like What the Buddha Taught are The Dhammapada, Why Buddhism Is True, and The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching. What the Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula is about buddhism, suffering, the eightfold path. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Dhammapada
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Anonymous · Religion & Spirituality
The Dhammapada — Path of Truth or Path of the Dhamma — is the most widely read canonical Buddhist text in the world, a collection of 423 verses attributed to the Buddha and compiled from the Pali Canon.
Shares suffering and liberation with What the Buddha Taught.
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.
Shares buddhism and suffering with What the Buddha Taught.
Read the summary → - The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching
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The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching
Thich Nhat Hanh · Religion & Spirituality
The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching is Thich Nhat Hanh's comprehensive introduction to core Buddhist teachings, written with the warmth and accessibility that characterize all of his work.
Shares buddhism and suffering with What the Buddha Taught.
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- The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
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The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
Sogyal Rinpoche · Religion & Spirituality
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying is Sogyal Rinpoche's comprehensive introduction to the Tibetan Buddhist understanding of death and the dying process, written for a Western audience unfamiliar with the tradition.
Both dig into liberation.
Read the summary → - Insight Meditation: The Practice of Freedom
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Insight Meditation: The Practice of Freedom
Joseph Goldstein · Religion & Spirituality
Insight Meditation: The Practice of Freedom is Joseph Goldstein's distillation of vipassana — the Theravada Buddhist practice of direct investigation into the nature of mind and experience.
Shares mindfulness and liberation with What the Buddha Taught.
Read the summary → - Radical Acceptance
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Tara Brach · Religion & Spirituality
Tara Brach, a psychologist and Buddhist meditation teacher, wrote Radical Acceptance as a response to what she calls the trance of unworthiness — the pervasive background feeling that something is fundamentally wrong with us, that we are not enough.
Shares buddhism and mindfulness with What the Buddha Taught.
Read the summary → - The Power of Now
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Eckhart Tolle · Religion & Spirituality
The Power of Now is Eckhart Tolle's argument that the root of human suffering is identification with the stream of thought — the restless inner commentary that most people mistake for who they are.
Shares suffering and mindfulness with What the Buddha Taught.
Read the summary → - When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
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When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
Pema Chödrön · Religion & Spirituality
When Things Fall Apart is a collection of talks and essays by Pema Chödrön, an American Buddhist nun in the Tibetan tradition, addressing how to work with difficulty, loss, and uncertainty rather than escape them.
Shares buddhism and suffering with What the Buddha Taught.
Read the summary → - Dark Night of the Soul
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John of the Cross · Religion & Spirituality
Dark Night of the Soul is a systematic commentary on a short poem John of the Cross wrote while imprisoned in Toledo in 1577.
Both dig into suffering.
Read the summary → - Peace Is Every Step
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Thich Nhat Hanh · Religion & Spirituality
Peace Is Every Step is Thich Nhat Hanh's most accessible work — a short, warmly written invitation to bring mindfulness practice into the texture of daily life.
Both dig into mindfulness.
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.
Both dig into liberation.
Read the summary → - The Miracle of Mindfulness
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Thich Nhat Hanh · Religion & Spirituality
The Miracle of Mindfulness is Thich Nhat Hanh's introduction to mindfulness practice, originally written in Vietnamese as a letter to a fellow monk.
Both dig into mindfulness.
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Books like What the Buddha Taught: quick answers
What are the best books like What the Buddha Taught?
The best books like What the Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula are The Dhammapada by Anonymous, Why Buddhism Is True by Robert Wright, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche, Insight Meditation: The Practice of Freedom by Joseph Goldstein, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with What the Buddha Taught, such as buddhism, suffering, the eightfold path.
What should I read after What the Buddha Taught?
A natural next read after What the Buddha Taught is The Dhammapada by Anonymous. Shares suffering and liberation with What the Buddha Taught. Other strong choices are Why Buddhism Is True by Robert Wright, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche.
What books are similar to What the Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula?
What the Buddha Taught centers on buddhism, suffering, the eightfold path. Books with a similar feel include The Dhammapada by Anonymous, Why Buddhism Is True by Robert Wright, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche, Insight Meditation: The Practice of Freedom by Joseph Goldstein, Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
