What to Read After The Heart of Understanding
Readers who loved The Heart of Understanding by Thích Nhất Hạnh keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Heart of Understanding 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 Heart of Understanding
The Heart Sutra
Not Always So
The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha
Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
Essence of the Heart Sutra
Cave in the Snow
The Diamond Sutra and the Sutra of Hui-Neng
The diamond that cuts through illusion
Freedom in exile
Old Path White Clouds
Breathe! You Are Alive
Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness
Transformation and healing
Cutting through spiritual materialism
Being peace
The Way of the Bodhisattva
The heart of the Buddha's teaching
Nothing Special
Meditation in action
The path to enlightenment
The middle way
What makes you not a Buddhist
Taming the Tiger Within
Present Moment Wonderful Moment