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Buddhism: A Selected Bibliography

Patrick S. O’Donnell

Department of Philosophy

Santa Barbara City College (2008)

Although a selected bibliography, this is nonetheless a rather long list commensurate with the immense number of titles available on Buddhism. The categories employed are subject to the liabilities and qualifications intrinsic to any such categorization. Some of the more philosophically analytical titles not beholden to a specific Buddhist school of thought I’ve placed in the Miscellany section.

1. General 6. Buddhism in Asia

2. The Theravāda Tradition 7. Buddhism outside Asia

3. The Mahāyāna Tradition 8. Social & Political Topics

4. Ch’an/Zen Buddhism 9. Buddhism and the Arts

5. Tibetan Buddhism 10. Miscellany

1. – General (Introductory, Survey, Early History, Texts from the Pāli Canon):

Akira, Hirakawa. A History of Indian Buddhism: From Śākyamuni to Early Mahāyāna. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 1990.

Allen, George Francis. The Buddha’s Philosophy. New York: Macmillan, 1959.

Armstrong, Karen. The Buddha. New York: Penguin Putnam, 2001.

Arnold, Sir Edwin. The Light of Asia or The Great Renunciation…. Boston, MA: Roberts

Brothers, 1890.

Bahm, A.J. Philosophy of the Buddha. New York: Harper & Row, 1958.

Bays, Gwendolyn. The Voice of the Buddha: The Beauty of Compassion (translation of the

Lalitavistara Sūtra), 2 Vols. Berkeley, CA: Dharma Publ., 1983.

Bechert, Heinz and Richard Gombrich, eds. The World of Buddhism: Monks and Nuns in Society and Culture. London: Thames and Hudson, 1984.

Beyer, Stephan B. The Buddhist Experience: Sources and Interpretations. Encino, CA: Dickensen, 1974.

Blackstone, Kathryn R. Women in the Footsteps of the Buddha: Struggles for Liberation in the

Therigatha. London: Curzon, 1998.

Bodhi, Bhikkhu. The Connected Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Samyutta Nikāya. Boston, MA: Wisdom Publications, 2000.

Bodhi, Bhikkhu. Nourishing the Roots: Essays in Buddhist Ethics. Kandy, Sri Lanka: Buddhist Publication Society, 1990.

Bodhi, Bhikkhu, ed. Dāna: The Practice of Giving—Selected Essays. Kandy, Sri Lanka: Buddhist Publication Society.

Bodhi, Bhikkhu and Mahāthera Nārada. A Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma. The Abhidhamma Sangaha of Ācarya Anuruddha. Kandy, Sri Lanka: Buddhist Publication Society, 1993.

Bucknell, R.S. and Martin Stuart-Fox. The Twilight Language: Explorations in Buddhist Meditation and Symbolism. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 1986.

Buddhadāsa Bikkhu (Phra Thepwisutthimethi). Heartwood of the Bodhi Tree: The Buddha’s

Teaching on Voidness. Boston, MA: Wisdom, 1994.

Burtt, E.A. The Teachings of the Compassionate Buddha. New York: New American Library, 1955.

Carrithers, Michael. The Buddha. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1983.

Carrithers, Michael. The Buddha: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University

Press, 2001.

Carter, John Ross and Malinda Palihawadana, trans. The Dhammapada. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Chakravarti, Uma. The Social Dimensions of Early Buddhism. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Cheetham, Eric. Fundamentals of Mainstream Buddhism. Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1994.

Cleary, Thomas. Buddhist Yoga: A Comprehensive Course. Boston, MA: Shambhala, 1995.

Coleman, James William. The New Buddhism: The Western Transformation of an Ancient

Tradition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Collins, Steven. Nirvana and Other Buddhist Felicities: Utopias of the Pali Imaginaire. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Conze, Edward. Buddhism: Its Essence and Development. New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1965.

Conze, Edward. Buddhist Meditation. New York: Harper and Row, 1969.

Conze, Edward. Buddhist Thought in India. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press,

1967.

Conze, Edward. A Short History of Buddhism. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1980.

Conze, Edward, ed. Buddhist Texts through the Ages. New York: Harper & Row, 1964.

Coomaraswamy, Ananda. Buddha and the Gospel of Buddhism. New York: Harper & Row,

1964.

de Silva, Lily. Nibbāna as Living Experience. Kandy, Sri Lanka: Buddhist Publication Society, 1996.

de Silva, Padmasiri. An Introduction to Buddhist Psychology. Lanham, MD: Rowman and

Littlefield, 3rd ed., 2001.

Dharmasiri, Gunapala. Fundamentals of Buddhist Ethics. Antioch, CA: Golden Leaves, 1989.

Dutt, Sukumar. Buddhist Monks and Monasteries of India. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1962.

Dutt, Sukumar. Early Buddhist Monachism. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1984.

Easwaran, Eknath, trans. The Dhammapada. Tomales, CA: Nilgiri Press, 1986.

Eckel, Malcolm David. Buddhism: Origins, Beliefs, Practices, Holy Texts, Sacred Places. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Garrett, John. Tales and Teachings of the Buddha: The Jataka Stories in Relation to the Pali Canon. London: Allen & Unwin, 1979.

Gethin, Rupert. The Foundations of Buddhism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Goddard, Dwight, ed. A Buddhist Bible. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1970.

Goldstein, Joseph. The Experience of Insight: A Simple and Direct Guide to Buddhist Meditation. Boulder, CO: Shambhala, 1983.

Gombrich, Richard F. How Buddhism Began: The Conditioned Genesis of the Early Teachings.

London: Athlone, 1996.

Griffiths, Paul J. On Being Buddha: The Classical Doctrine of Buddhahood. Albany, NY: State

University of New York Press, 1994.

Grimm, George. The Doctrine of the Buddha: The Religion of Reason and Meditation. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 3rd ed., 1982.

Guenther, Herbert V. Philosophy and Psychology in the Abhidharma. Berkeley, CA: Shambhala, 1976.

Hamilton, Sue. Early Buddhism: A New Approach—The I of the Beholder. Richmond: Curzon Press, 2000.

Harris, Elizabeth J. What Buddhists Believe. Oxford, England: Oneworld Publ., 1998.

Harvey, Peter. An Introduction to Buddhism: Teachings, History and Practices. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Harvey, Peter. An Introduction to Buddhist Ethics: Foundations, Values and Issues. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Heine, Steven and Charles S. Prebish, eds. Buddhism in the Modern World: Adaptations of an Ancient Tradition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Holt, John C. Discipline: The Canonical Buddhism of the Vinayapitaka. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1981.

Horner, I.B. Milinda’s Questions. Oxford, UK: Pali Text Society, 1990.

Horner, Isaline B. Women Under Primitive Buddhism. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1930.

Humphreys, Christmas. Buddhism. London: Penguin Books, 1951.

Humphreys, Christmas. Studies in the Middle Way: Being Thoughts on Buddhism Applied.

Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 1996.

Ireland, John D. The Udāna and Itivuttaka: Two Classics from the Pāli Canon. Kandy, Sri Lanka: Buddhist Publication Society, 1997.

Iyer, Raghavan, ed. The Dhammapada with The Udanavarga. Santa Barbara, CA: The

Pythagorean Sangha & Concord Grove Press, 1986.

Jacobson, Nolan Pliny. Buddhism: The Religion of Analysis. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1974.

Jayatilleke, K.N. Early Buddhist Theory of Knowledge. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1963.

Jayatilleke, K.N. Ethics in Buddhist Perspective. Kandy, Sri Lanka: Buddhist Publication Society, 1972.

Jayatilleke, K.N. The Message of the Buddha. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1975.

Jones, John Garrett. Tales and Teachings of the Buddha: The Jataka Stories in Relation to the Pali Canon. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1979.

Kalupahana, David J. Buddhist Philosophy: A Historical Analysis. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 1976.

Kalupahana, David J. A History of Buddhist Philosophy: Continuities and Discontinuities. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 1992.

Kalupahana, David J. The Principles of Buddhist Psychology. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1987.

Kalupahana, David J. and Indrani Kalupahana. The Way of Siddhartha: A Life of the Buddha. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1987.

Karetsky, Patricia Eichenbaum. The Life of the Buddha: Ancient Scriptural and Pictorial Traditions. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1992.

Keown, Damien. Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Keown, Damien. Contemporary Buddhist Ethics. London: Curzon Press, 2000.

Keown, Damien. The Nature of Buddhist Ethics. London: Macmillan, 1992.

Khemā, Ayyā. Being Nobody, Going Nowhere: Meditations on the Buddhist Path. Boston, MA: Wisdom, 1987.

Kirthisinghe, B.P. and M. P. Amarasuriya. Colonel Olcott: His Service to Buddhism. Kandy, Sri Lanka: Buddhist Publication Society, 1981.

Kitagawa, Joseph M. and Mark D. Cummings, eds. Buddhism and Asian History. New York: Macmillan, 1987.

Kloppenborg, Ria. The Paccekabuddha: A Buddhist Ascetic. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1974.

Kloppenborg, Ria. The Sūtra on the Foundation of the Buddhist Order (Catusparisatsūtra). Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1973.

Klostermaier, Klaus K. Buddhism: A Short Introduction. Oxford, England: Oneworld, 2000.

Kohn, Michael H. trans. The Shambhala Dictionary of Buddhism and Zen. Boston, MA:

Shambhala, 1991.

Kohn, Sherab Chodzin. Awakened One: A Life of the Buddha. Boston, MA: Shambhala, 2000.

Kornfield, Jack, ed. Teachings of the Buddha. Boston, MA: Shambhala, revised ed., 1995.

Kuan, Tse-fu. Mindfulness in Early Buddhism: New Approaches through Psychology and Textual Analysis of Pali, Chinese and Sanskrit Sources. New York: Routledge, 2008.

Lamotte, Étienne (Sara Webb-Boin, trans.). History of Indian Buddhism. Louvain-Paris: Peeters Press, 1988.

Ling, Trevor O. The Buddha: Buddhist Civilization in India and Ceylon. New York: Charles

Scribner’s Sons, 1973.

Lopez, Donald S., Jr., ed. Buddhism in Practice. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,

1995.

Lopez, Donald S., Jr. The Story of Buddhism: A Concise Guide to Its History and Teachings.

New York: HarperSanFrancisco, 2001.

Mascaró, Juan, trans. The Dhammapada: The Path of Perfection. London: Penguin, 1973.

Mitchell, Donald W. Buddhism: Introducing the Buddhist Experience. New York: Oxford

University Press, 2002.

Mizuno, Kogen (Richard L. Gage and Charles S. Terry, trans.). Basic Buddhist Concepts.

Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1987.

Murcott, Susan. The First Buddhist Women. Berkeley, CA: Parallax Press, 1991.

Nakamura, Hajime. Gotama Buddha: A Biography Based on the Most Reliable Texts. Tokyo:

Kosei Publ., 2001.

Nakamura, Hajime. Indian Buddhism: A Survey with Bibliographical Notes. Delhi: Motilal

Banarsidass, 1996.

Ñānamoli, Bhikkhu and Bhikkhu Bodhi, trans. The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha:

A Translation of the Majjhima Nikāya. Boston, MA: Wisdom Publications, 1995.

Nārada, Thera. The Dhammapada: Pāli Text and Translation with Stories in Brief and Notes. Kuala Luampur, Malaysia: The Buddhist Missionary Society, 3rd ed., 1978.

Nyānaponika, Mahāthera. Pathways of Buddhist Thought. London: Allen & Unwin, 1971.

Payutto, Bhikkhu P.A. Good, Evil and Beyond: Kamma in the Buddha’s Teaching. Bangkok: Buddhadhammā Foundation, 1993.

Potter, Karl H., ed. Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies, Vol. VII: Abhidharma Buddhism to

150 A.D. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1997.

Potter, Karl H., ed. Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies, Vol. VIII: Buddhist Philosophy from 100 to 350 A.D. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1999.

Powers, John. A Concise Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Oxford, England: Oneworld Publ., 2000.

Prebish, Charles S. The A to Z of Buddhism. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2001.

Prebish, Charles S., ed. Buddhism: A Modern Perspective. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1975.

Prebish, Charles S., ed. Buddhist Monastic Discipline: The Sanskrit Prātimoksa Sūtras of the

Mahāsāmghikas and Mūlasarvāstivādins. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State

University Press, 1975.

Pye, Michael. The Buddha. London: Duckworth, 1979.

Radhakrishnan, S., trans. The Dhammapada. London: Oxford University Press, 1959.

Rahula, Walpola. What the Buddha Taught. New York: Grove Press, 1974.

Ray, Reginald A. Buddhist Saints in India: A Study in Buddhist Values and Orientations. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Reat, Noble Ross. Buddhism: A History. Berkeley, CA: Asian Humanities Press, 1994.

Rewatadhamma, Bhadanta. The First Discourse of the Buddha: Turning the Wheel of Dhamma, Boston, MA: Wisdom Publications, 1997.

Reynolds, Frank E. Guide to Buddhist Religion. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1981.

Rhys Davids, T.W., trans. The Questions of King Milinda. 2 Vols. New York: Dover, 1963.

Robinson, Richard H. and Willard Johnson. The Buddhist Religion. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1982.

Ronkin, Nora. Early Buddhist Metaphysics: The Making of a Philosophical Tradition. New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005.

Sadakata, Akira. Buddhist Cosmology, Philosophy and Origins. Tokyo: Kosei, 1997.

Saddhatissa, Hammalawa. Buddhist Ethics: The Path to Nirvana. London: Wisdom, 1987.

Saddhatissa, Hammalawa. The Buddha’s Way. New York: Braziller, 1972.

Saddhatissa, Hammalawa. The Life of the Buddha. New York: Harper & Row, 1976.

Sangharakshita, Maha Sthavira. The Eternal Legacy: An Introduction to the Canonical Literature of Buddhism. London: Tharpa, 1985.

Sangharakshita, Maha Sthavira. A Survey of Buddhism: Its Doctrines and Methods through the Ages. London: Tharpa Publ., revised ed., 1987.

Schumann, Hans Wolfgang. Buddhism: An Outline of Its Teachings and Schools. Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1973.

Sharma, Arvind. The Philosophy of Religion: A Buddhist Perspective. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Shaw, Sarah. Buddhist Meditation: An Anthology of Texts from the Pāli Canon. New York: Routledge, 2006.

Strong, John S. The Buddha: A Short Biography. Oxford, England: Oneworld Publ., 2001.

Strong, John S. The Experience of Buddhism: Sources and Interpretation. Belmont, CA:

Wadsworth, 2nd ed., 2001.

Swearer, Donald K. Buddhism and Society in Southeast Asia. Chambersburg, PA: Anima Books, 1981.

Tashi Tsering, Geshe (Gordon Mcdougall, ed.). The Four Noble Truths (Foundations of Buddhist Thought, Vol. 1). Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publ., 2005.

Thanissaro, Bhikkhu. The Buddhist Monastic Code: The Patimokkha Training Rules Translated and Explained. Valley Center, CA: Metta Forest Monastery, 1994.

Thera, Nyanaponika. The Four Sublime States: Contemplations on Love, Compassion, Sympathetic Joy, and Equanimity. Kandy, Sri Lanka: Buddhist Publication Society, 2006.

Thera, Nyanaponika. The Heart of Buddhist Meditation. New York: Samuel Weiser, 1973.

Thera, Nyanaponika and Bhikkhu Bodhi, trans. and ed. Numerical Discourses of the

Buddha: An Anthology of Suttas from Anguttara Nikāya. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2000.

Thera, Nyanaponika and Hellmuth Hecker (Bhikkhu Bodhi, ed.). Great Disciples of the

Buddha: Their Lives, Their Work, Their Legacy. Boston, MA: Wisdom, 1997.

Thera, Piyadassi. The Buddha: His Life and Teaching. Kandy, Sri Lanka: Buddhist Publication Society, 1990.

Thera, Piyadassi. Dependent Origination (Paticca Samuppāda). Kandy, Sri Lanka: Buddhist Publication Society, 1998.

Thomas, Edward J. The Life of Buddha as Legend and History. London: Routledge & Kegan

Paul, 3rd ed., 1949.

Tsomo, Karma Lekshe. Sisters in Solitude: Two Traditions of Buddhist Monastic Ethics for Women. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1996.

Tsomo, Karma Lekshe, ed. Sakyadita: Daughters of the Buddha. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion, 1989.

Vetter, Tillman. The Ideas and Meditative Practices of Early Buddhism. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1988.

Walshe, M. O’ C. Buddhism and Death. Kandy, Sri Lanka: Buddhist Publication Society, 1978.

Walshe, M. O’ C. Buddhism and Sex. Kandy, Sri Lanka: Buddhist Publication Society, 1986.

Walshe, Maurice, trans. The Long Discourse of the Buddha: A Translation of the Digha Nikāya. Boston, MA: Wisdom Publications, 1995.

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