Fantastic free ebooks

[logidelic]

Hi all,

I just got my Kindle and am excited at the wealth of freely available Buddhist ebooks out there. The problem is that there are too many to choose from! Therefore, I thought I'd start a thread seeking personal recommendations of specific fantastic free ebooks.

I'll start things going by recommending Food for the Heart (Ajahn Chah). Actually I read this just recently in print (which has a lot more content than the ebook so probably worth the purchase anyway). This was my first real exposure to Ajahn Chah and I loved it. Simple, applicable, inspiring.

(This is my first post here, so I apologize if I broke a rule or if this is in the wrong forum, etc.)

[David2]

Maybe you could just download a lot of them... and read in every book the first pages. Then you can decide if you read on or delete it again.

(Sorry that I cannot give you a recommendation, but at the moment I am not reading any ebooks -- though I am planning to buy a reader and do it, too.)

[Viscid]

All of Chah's books are excellent: http://www.ajahnchah.org/index2.htm

[James the Giant]

EDIT: I have updated the links to the new December 2012 version

I love dipping into the suttas, often at random. I don't like paying for ebooks, so I converted the whole of Access To Insight's Tipitaka to both EPUB and MOBI formats.

Here's the Epub version, 12.4 Megabytes
http://www.mediafire.com/?q5pf18k3e8n18d9

And here's the MOBI version, for kindle, 18.5 Megabytes.
http://www.mediafire.com/?62cyhi48zc2ctwt

It's a quick and dirty conversion using Calibre auto-convert, but it works.
The hyperlinks within the book work fine, but there are also links to other pages of Access To Insight that aren't in the Tipitaka, so they are basically dead links unless you have internet access on your ebook.

[Euclid]

I'm not sure how the format for ebooks works, but what-buddha-taught.net has a huge wealth of free buddhist publications in the form of PDFs, and occasionally in straight HTML

[Thaibebop]

Thanks for sharing everyone,
cheers!

[Platypus]

Not as much an e-book, but an online book,
I have the paper copy too.
http://www.buddhanet.net/budsas/ebud/bu ... each00.htm

[BKh]

I have compiled a list of Sutta e-books(epub/mobi) here, although not all are free:

http://readingfaithfully.org/book-sourc ... bi-kindle/

I'm surprised that Bhante Anandajoti's huge collection of epub/mobi English Sutta translations have not (to my knowledge) been mentioned on the forums. All of his English Sutta translations are available in a bundle on this page:

http://www.ancient-buddhist-texts.net/d ... /index.htm

Of special note is the anthology Buddhist Wisdom Verses because it includes translations of many Jataka verses. If you enjoy his work, please do drop him an e-mail.

[BKh]

I just uploaded an e-book of the Dhammapada by Ven. Buddharakkhita. The text was taken from Access To Insight.

It's about half way down on this page:
http://readingfaithfully.org/book-sourc ... bi-kindle/


Any feedback on formatting would be most welcome.

BKh

[christopher:::]

Wings to Awakening: An Anthology from the Pali Canon, by Thanissaro Bhikkhu

The Teachings of Ajahn Chah (All available Dhammatalks by Ajahn Chah)

[hikerbob]

I'm not sure how the format for ebooks works, but what-buddha-taught.net has a huge wealth of free buddhist publications in the form of PDFs, and occasionally in straight HTML

As of this date, September 9, 2011,
what-buddha-taught.net recently considerable expanded their offerings
and another valuable site is
http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma5/ebooks.html

[Dmytro]

Hi,

Sadhu! directory http://dhamma.ru/sadhu/ has a wide choice of good books.

Best wishes, Dmytro

[BKh]

Ajahn Thanissaro's Dhammapada translation and the anthology Into the Stream have just come out as e-books. They, along with many other books, can be found here:
http://www.dhammatalks.org/ebook_index.html

And Ven. Yuttadhammo has created e-pubs for Cowel's Jataka translation. They can be found here:
http://yuttadhammo.sirimangalo.org/2010 ... ollection/
They convert well to .mobi using Calibre.

The OP seemed to be asking specifically about e-books in the Kindle sense of the word, not just electronic texts in general.

[BKh]

There is now a version of Ajahn Viradhammo's The Stillness of Being available as a Kindle and Epub book.

(these are temporary links until it gets posted on the Tisarana website)

Epub:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/52341497/Stillness_of_Being.epub
Mobi/Kindle
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/52341497/Stillness_of_Being.mobi

There is also a version on the Tisarana website as pdf, for those without e-book readers:
http://tisarana.ca/includes/server.php?act=books

[BKh]

Just noticed that Ajahn Thanissaro's anthology Beyond Coping is now available as an epub, mobi/Kindle as well as PDF. For those who aren't familiar, this is a sizable anthology on the topic of old age, sickness and death.

http://dhammatalks.org/ebook_index.html

You can view the same text on Access to Insight here:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/study/beyondcoping/index.html

[BKh]

I've mentioned these in other threads, but I'll put them here as well to keep this updated...

Epub and Kindle: Acharya Buddharakkhita's Dhammapada, two versions, one with English only, one with English and Pali:
http://readingfaithfully.org/canonical- ... b-pdf-mp3/

Epub and Kindle: Venerable Narada's translation is here:
http://readingfaithfully.org/canonical- ... arada-pdf/

Epub: Bhikkhu Pesala has published an edited version of Ven. Narada's translation. It includes the Pali as well as summaries of the commentary stories. Also a hyperlinked index of the stories. A pdf, epub, and html version can be found here:
http://www.aimwell.org/Books/Suttas/Dha ... apada.html

There is now a free e-book version of Fausboll's translation of the Sutta Nipata here:
http://readingfaithfully.org/book-sourc ... ndle-epub/

Kindle and epub: Psalms of the Sisters, Mrs. C.A.F. Rhys Davids 1909 translation of the Therigatha along with the verse origin stories. This edition, like the original, also contains a translation of the Bhikkhunisamyutta, the fifth book of the Samyutta Nikaya.
http://readingfaithfully.org/book-sourc ... ndle-epub/

Ajahn Thanissaro's complete Udana translation:
http://dhammatalks.org/ebook_index.html

Enjoy!

[leddar9947]

i have converted the book "Knowing & Seeing" by Pa Auk Sayadaw from the .pdf format to .doc format, so that anyone interested can convert it in .epub format.
The OCR software made some errors in the identification of some diacritical marks, but i hope that this .doc version can still be useful.

[BKh]

Now out as epub and mobi/Kindle:

Mindful of the Body: A Study Guide. This study guide focuses on the primary sutta in the Pali Canon dealing with the contemplation of the body: The Discourse on Mindfulness Immersed in the Body (MN 119). Early Buddhism teaches that the body can be used to develop mindfulness and concentration, which in turn can be used to free the mind of its attachments to the body. Then the mind and body can live in peace.

http://dhammatalks.org/ebook_index.html