What to Read After The Dhammapada
Readers who loved The Dhammapada by Gil Fronsdal keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Dhammapada is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Dhammapada
Cutting through spiritual materialism
The heart of the Buddha's teaching
What the Buddha taught
The Way of the Bodhisattva
A Flash of lightning in the dark of night
Not Always So
The Heart Sutra
The Diamond Sutra and the Sutra of Hui-Neng
The way of Chuang Tzu
The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha
The Three pillars of Zen
Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
Zen Buddhism
Teachings of the Buddha
What makes you not a Buddhist
Food for the Heart
Meditation in action
The myth of freedom and the way of meditation
Awakening the Buddha Within
Mindfulness in Plain English
Hagakure
Walden and Other Writings
Buddhist boot camp
Zen mind, beginner's mind