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Introductions and general texts

• Bechert, H., & Gombrich, R. (Eds.). (1991). The world of Buddhism. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0500276285

• Gethin, R. (1998). The foundations of Buddhism. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0192892231

• Harvey, P. (1990). An introduction to Buddhism: Teachings, history and practices. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521313333

• Sangharakshita (2001). A Survey of Buddhism (ninth edition). Windhorse Publications. ISBN 0904766934

• Williams, P., & Tribe, A. (2000). Buddhist thought: A complete introduction to the Indian tradition. London: Routledge. ISBN 0415207010

Nikaya Buddhism

• Histories
  • Early Indian Buddhism
    • Warder, A. K. (2000). Indian Buddhism. Motilal Banarsidass. ISBN 8120817419

Nikaya Buddhism is a general term for those schools of Buddhism that accept only the class of sutras collected in the Pāli Canon as authentic. ...

Mahayana Buddhism (General)

• Primary texts
  • Santideva (2002), The Bodhicaryavatara (trans. Kate Crosby and Andrew Skilton), Windhorse Publications. ISBN 1899579494
  • Prajñāparamitā literature
    • Conze, Edward. Buddhist Wisdom : The Diamond Sutra and The Heart Sutra. ISBN 0375726004
  • Early East Asian Buddhism
    • . Muller, A. Charles. The Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment: Korean Buddhism's Guide to Meditation. Albany: SUNY Press, 1999.

• Secondary texts
  • Williams, P. (1989). Mahayana Buddhism: The doctrinal foundations. London: Routledge. ISBN 0415025370

Relief image of the bodhisattva Guan Yin (Avalokitesvara) from Mt. ... Eberhart (Edward) Julius Dietrich Conze (1904 - 1979) was born in London of mixed German, French, and NetherlandsDutch ancestry. ... Charles Muller is a translator specializing in East Asian philosophical texts. ... Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment Buddhist Sūtra, original Chinese title is Yuanjue jing; 1 fasc. ...

Madhyamaka

• See Translations of Nagarjuna

Madhyamaka is a Buddhist philosophical tradition that asserts that all phenomena are empty of self-nature or essence (Sanskrit: Svabhāva), that they have no intrinsic, independent reality apart from the causes and conditions from which they arise. ... Jump to: navigation, search A statue depicting Nagarjuna Nāgārjuna (నాగార్జునా in Telugu, 龍樹 in Chinese) (c. ...

Zen

• Primary Texts
  • Rinzai
    • Watson, Burton, tr. (1999). The Zen Teachings of Master Lin-Chi. Columbia University Press. ISBN 0231114850
  • Soto
    • Waddell and Abe, trs. (2002) The Heart of Dogen's Shobogenzo. State Univ of New York Press. ISBN 0791452425

• Histories
  • Dumoulin, Heinrich. A History of Zen Buddhism.

• Western writings on Zen
  • Merton, Thomas. Mystics and Zen Masters.
  • Janwillem van de Wetering
    • (1971) The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0312207743
    • (1975) A glimpse of nothingness: Experiences in an American Zen Community. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0312209452
    • (1999) Afterzen: Experiences of a Zen Student Out on His Ear, St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0312272618

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Children's Books

• • Janwillem van de Wetering. (1978) Little Owl: An Eightfold Buddhist Admonition. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0395264561

Janwillem van de Wetering (Middle name: Lincoln; February 12, 1931 -, who uses Janwillem Vandewetering as a pen and reference name), is the author of a number of works in English and Dutch; he is particularly noted for his detective fiction. ...

Misc.

• Books that mention Buddhism or Buddhist thinkers
  • Michael H. Hart, The 100, Carol Publishing Group, July 1992, paperback, 576 pages, ISBN 0806513500

Michael H. Hart is an astrophysicist who has worked for NASA and been a professor of astronomy and physics at a college in Maryland, USA. He holds degrees in physics, astronomy, and law and is the author of the best selling book, The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential... Jump to: navigation, search In 1978, Michael H. Hart published a book called The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History. ...

Buddhist publishers

Several publishers specialise in books on Buddhism

• Dharma Publishing
• Shambhala Publications
• Snow Lion Publications
• Windhorse Publications
• Tharpa Publications
• Wisdom Publications