📚 Buddha and Buddhism

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Books with buddha and buddhism on their catalogue record, first published between 1877 and 1959, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject buddha and buddhism in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 1,258 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Esoteric Buddhism	Alfred Percy Sinnett	1883	58
Budda, ego zhizn', uchenie	Hermann Oldenberg	1881	42
The Religion of the Samurai	Kaiten Nukariya	1913	40
The life of Buddha as legend and history	Edward Joseph Thomas	1927	38
Indian philosophy	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan	1923	37
Buddhacarita	Asvaghosa	1893	30
The history of Buddhist thought	Edward Joseph Thomas	1933	26
The essentials of Buddhist philosophy	Junjirō Takakusu	1935	25
The gospel of Buddha	Paul Carus	1894	24
Buddhism	Edward Conze	1951	24
What the Buddha taught	Walpola Rahula	1959	19
Chinese Buddhism	Joseph Edkins	1880	17
Buddhism	Christmas Humphreys	1951	17
Essays in Zen Buddhism	Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki	1927	16
In Ghostly Japan	Lafcadio Hearn	1899	15
An introduction to Zen Buddhism	Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki	1934	15
Buddha and the gospel of Buddhism	Ananda Coomaraswamy	1916	14
Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Religionssoziologie	Max Weber	1920	14
Buddhist wisdom books, containing the Diamond Sutra and the Heart Sutra	Edward Conze	1958	14
Buddhist India	Thomas William Rhys Davids	1903	13
Buddhist and Christian gospels	Albert J. Edmunds	1904	12
Indian thought and its development	Albert Schweitzer	1936	12
Myths of the Hindus & Buddhists	Margaret Elizabeth Noble	1913	11
Hinduism and Buddhism	Sir Charles Eliot	1921	11
The Buddhism of Tibet, or Lamaism	L. A. Waddell	1895	10
The soul of a people	Fielding Hall, H.	1899	10
The gods of northern Buddhism	Alice Getty	1914	10
An introduction to Mahayana Buddhism	William Montgomery McGovern	1922	10
A Buddhist Bible	Dwight Goddard	1938	10
Buddhism	Thomas William Rhys Davids	1877	9

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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