📚 Buddhism

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Books with buddhism on their catalogue record, first published between 1880 and 2010, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject buddhism in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 49,106 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
The Religion of the Samurai	Kaiten Nukariya	1913	40
Indian philosophy	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan	1923	37
Bodhicaryavatāra	Śāntideva	1920	33
The Way of Zen	Alan Watts	1957	31
The art of happiness	His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso the XIV Dalai Lama	1998	31
Buddhacarita	Asvaghosa	1893	30
Buddhist Mahayana Texts	Edward B. Cowell	1894	25
Buddhism	Edward Conze	1951	24
Freedom in exile	His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso the XIV Dalai Lama	1990	23
When Things Fall Apart	Pema Chödrön	1997	23
Zen mind, beginner's mind	Shunryū Suzuki	1970	20
The Spirit of Zen	Alan Watts	1936	19
What the Buddha taught	Walpola Rahula	1959	19
Zen Buddhism & psychoanalysis	Erich Fromm	1960	18
Chinese Buddhism	Joseph Edkins	1880	17
Buddhism	Christmas Humphreys	1951	17
Essays in Zen Buddhism	Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki	1927	16
An introduction to Zen Buddhism	Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki	1934	15
The Tibetan book of living and dying	Sogyal Rinpoche	1992	15
The art of power	Thích Nhất Hạnh	2007	15
Mahayana Buddhism	Beatrice Lane Suzuki	1948	14
The Buddha and his Dhamma	B. R. Ambedkar	1970	13
Phép lạ của sự tỉnh thức	Thích Nhất Hạnh	1976	13
What makes you not a Buddhist	Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse	2006	12
Tibetan yoga	Bernard Bromage	1952	11
Mindfulness for dummies	Shamash Alidina	2010	11
The Essence Of Buddhism	P. Lakshmi Narasu	1907	10
Concentration and meditation	Christmas Humphreys	1968	10
Shambhala	Chögyam Trungpa	1984	10

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

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