THE HEART OF THE BUDDHA’S TEACHING. Copyright © 1998, 2015 by Unified Buddhist Church, Inc.
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Harmony Books, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.
Harmony Books is a registered trademark, and the Circle colophon is a trademark of Penguin Random House LLC.
A hardcover edition of this book was originally published in 1998 by Parallax Press.
It is here reprinted by arrangement with Parallax Press.
First Broadway Books trade paperback edition published 1999.
Significant portions of this text were translated by Sister Annabel Laity from the Vietnamese book, Trai tim cua But.
Edited by Arnold Kotler.
Figures by Gay Reineck.
eBook design adapted from printed book design by Legacy Media.
Index by Brackney Indexing Service.
Chinese characters courtesy of Rev. Heng Sure.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Nhat Hanh, Thich
The heart of the Buddha’s teaching: transforming suffering into peace, joy, and liberation: the four noble truths, the noble eightfold path, and other basic Buddhist teachings/by Thich Nhat Hanh.
p. cm.
Originally published: Berkeley, Calif.: Parallax Press, 1998.
ISBN 0–7679–0369–1 (pbk.)
1. Four Noble Truths. 2. Buddhism—Doctrines.
BQ4230.N53 1999
294.’34—dc21 98–10883
ISBN 9780767903691
eBook ISBN 9781101905739
To the reader:
Unless otherwise noted, the terms that appear in parentheses throughout the text are in Sanskrit. Sanskrit has been transliterated informally, without the diacritical marks. The 
and ś have been written as sh. Sanskrit and other foreign terms are italicized the first time they appear, and definitions are provided at that time. Textual sources are provided in full the first time they are cited; after that, only author and title are noted.
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