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Gutenberg's Buddhist holdings are thin, so this shelf leans on the Sacred Books of the East volumes that carry the Pali canon and the Mahayana sutras — transcribed on Wikisource where that exists, scanned on the Internet Archive where it does not.

The Pali tradition
Title Credited to Download
Dhammapada, a Collection of Verses; Being One of the Canonical Books of… F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller (tr.) EPUB · Kindle · Text
The Buddha's Path of Virtue: A Translation of the Dhammapada F. L. (Frank Lee) Woodward (tr.) EPUB · Kindle · Text
Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1 Robert Cæsar Childers (tr.); T. W. Rhys (Thomas William Rhys) Davids (tr.) EPUB · Kindle · Text
Jataka tales Ellen C. Babbitt EPUB · Kindle · Text
More Jataka Tales Ellen C. Babbitt EPUB · Kindle · Text
Sacred Books of the East: an anthology Internet Archive EPUB · PDF · Text
Buddhist Suttas (SBE 11) Internet Archive EPUB · PDF · Text
The Questions of King Milinda, Part I (SBE 35) Internet Archive EPUB · PDF · Text
The Questions of King Milinda, Part II (SBE 36) Internet Archive EPUB · PDF · Text
  • Dhammapada, a Collection of Verses; Being One of the Canonical Books of… — Max Müller's Dhammapada — the best-known Buddhist text in English.
  • The Buddha's Path of Virtue: A Translation of the Dhammapada — Woodward's translation of the same verses, forty years later.
  • Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1 — Rhys Davids on the Jataka birth-stories.
  • Jataka tales — Babbitt's Jataka retellings for children.
  • Sacred Books of the East: an anthology — Vedic hymns, Zend-Avesta, Dhammapada and Upanishads in one volume — the quickest way to sample the series.
  • Buddhist Suttas (SBE 11) — Rhys Davids. Includes the Mahaparinibbana Sutta, the account of the Buddha's death.

Mahayana and East Asian Buddhism
Title Credited to Download
The Saddharma-Pundarika, or Lotus Sutra (SBE 21) Wikisource EPUB
Buddhist Mahayana Texts (SBE 49) Internet Archive EPUB · PDF · Text
The Tibetan Book of the Dead Wikisource EPUB
The Religion of the Samurai: A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline… Kaiten Nukariya EPUB · Kindle · Text
Buddhist Psalms translated from the Japanese of Shinran Shonin Shinran; L. Adams (Lily Adams) Beck (tr.) EPUB · Kindle · Text
A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms: Being an account by the Chinese monk… Faxian; James Legge (tr.) EPUB · Kindle · Text
  • The Saddharma-Pundarika, or Lotus Sutra (SBE 21) — Kern's translation of the central Mahayana scripture.
  • Buddhist Mahayana Texts (SBE 49) — The Pure Land sutras and Ashvaghosha's life of the Buddha.
  • The Tibetan Book of the Dead — Evans-Wentz's 1927 Bardo Thodol, the edition that made the text famous in the West.
  • The Religion of the Samurai: A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline… — Nukariya on Zen, 1913.
  • Buddhist Psalms translated from the Japanese of Shinran Shonin — Shinran's Pure Land hymns, translated by Beatrice Lane Suzuki.
  • A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms: Being an account by the Chinese monk… — Fa-hsien's 5th-century travel record — a pilgrim's account of Buddhist India.

Lives and introductions
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The Light of Asia Edwin Arnold EPUB · Kindle · Text
The Gospel of Buddha, Compiled from Ancient Records Paul Carus EPUB · Kindle · Text
The Essence of Buddhism E. (Emanuel) Haldeman-Julius (ed.) EPUB · Kindle · Text
The Life of Buddha and Its Lessons Henry Steel Olcott EPUB · Kindle · Text
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Charles Eliot EPUB · Kindle · Text
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 Charles Eliot EPUB · Kindle · Text
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 Charles Eliot EPUB · Kindle · Text
  • The Light of Asia — Edwin Arnold's verse life of the Buddha, 1879. A Victorian bestseller.
  • The Gospel of Buddha, Compiled from Ancient Records — Paul Carus's compilation, arranged like a gospel.

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