Essential Buddhist Texts for Laypeople 在家必讀內典 (1931) 
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-  Compiled by Ōuyáng Jiàn 歐陽漸
 -  Requested by Dài Jìtáo 戴季陶
  
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 Published Editions:
-  Nánjīng 南京: Chinese Inner Studies Institute 支那內學院, July 1931
 -  Táiběi 臺北: 中華大典編印會中華學術院佛學研究所, 1972
 -  Táiběi: 新文豐, 1975
 -  A volume based on this text, 在家教徒必讀經典, was published in the PRC in 1994
  
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Essential Buddhist Texts for Laypeople 在家必讀內典 was a compilation of Buddhist scriptural texts intended for laypeople. More than 100,000 copies have been printed to date.[1]
 Contents
For canonical texts, their location in the Taishō canon is given. English titles where given are based on those in the Digital Dictionary of Buddhism.
-  Introduction by Ōuyáng Jiàn (Read it here: 在家必讀內典序)
 
-  Essential reading for men 男子必讀者七種:
-  [佛說]父母恩重難報經 
 -  大方便佛報恩經 - 孝養品 (Great Skillful Means Sūtra on the Buddha's Repayment of Kindness - Filial Nurturing) (T3.156b23)
 -  佛說孛經[抄] (T17.729a03)
 -  [佛說]演道俗業經 (T17.820)
 -  善生經 (Also known as 優婆塞戒經 Sūtra on Upāsaka Precepts) (T1488)
 -  十善業道經 (T15.600)
 -  優婆塞戒經 - 受戒品 (T24.1047a25)
 
 
-  Essential reading for women 女子必讀者七種:
-  [佛說]鹿母經 (T3.455a16)
 -  銀色女經 (T3.450a11)
 -  玉耶女經 [also called 玉耶經] (T2.865c19)
 -  [佛說]長者法志妻經 (T14.944b19)
 -  [佛說]七女經 (T14.907c10)
 -  [佛說]月上女經 (T14.615b03)
 -  優婆夷淨行法門經 (T14.951b20)
 
 
-  Essential reading for men and women 男女所共讀:
 
 References
-  Chén Tiānxí 陳天錫. Zēngdìng Dài Jìtáo (Chuánxián) xiānshēng biānnián zhuàn jì 增訂戴季陶(傳賢)先生編年傳記. Jìndài Zhōngguó shǐliào cóngkān xùbiān 近代中國史料叢刊續編, Vol. 43. [Taibei xian, Yonghe]: Wenhai chubanshe, [1967?], 122-123.