Editorial Reviews 
The publisher, Beacon Press , February 22, 1999 
About a "A Buddhist Bible" 
First published in 1932, "A Buddhist's Bible" has introduced many beginning students to Zen Buddhism, including the Beat Generation's most famous storyteller, Jack Kerouac. Since Kerouac's days on the road, Dwight Goddard's broadly inclusive selection of Mahayana, Pali, and Tibetan texts has offered generations of American readers an accessible introduction to the practice of Zen that has flowered in this country. This anthology is one of the building blocks of Buddhist practice in the West. In this edition, a new foreword by the distinguished Buddhist teacher and writer Robert Aitken reintroduces Goddard's classic, highlights the book's continuing contributions to Zen Buddhism in America, and offers new revelations about Dwight Goddard, the enigmatic compiler of "A Buddhist Bible." 

The New York Times hailed "A Buddhist Bible" as "a full and comprehensive selection of of some of the great Scriptures of Buddhism and the world....To Mr Goddard, it was evidently a labor of love." Predilection Magazine lauds "A Buddhist Bible" as a work "designed to evoke the religious fervor of the original writers and to awaken a similar faith in the reader....Goddard's "Bible" remains a highly individual and scholarly achievement." And Reader's Review says: "[A Buddhist's Bible] cannot be superseded in its forthright presentation of the texts themselves in direct simple eloquence translation." 

A comprehensive primer for the practicing Buddhist as well as those wanting an introduction to the religion, "A Buddhist Bible" will inspire and humble its readers.