What to Read After The Heart Sutra
Readers who loved The Heart Sutra by Red Pine keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Heart Sutra 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 Sutra
The Way of the Bodhisattva
Tibetan Book of the Dead
The Upanishads (Penguin Classics)
Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
What the Buddha taught
The Three pillars of Zen
In the Buddha's words
The Diamond Sutra and the Sutra of Hui-Neng
Zen Buddhism
The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha
The Heart of Understanding
Not Always So
Chuang Tzu
Old Path White Clouds
The Tibetan yogas of dream and sleep
Taking the Path of Zen
The Wisdom of No Escape
Dhammapada
The Wisdom of No Escape and the Path of Loving Kindness
The Tibetan book of living and dying
The Dhammapada
The heart of the Buddha's teaching
No Time to Lose
Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma