Select Bibliography of Buddhist Resources
John Schroeder
St. Mary’s College of Maryland
General Buddhism
Burt, E.A. The Teachings of the Compassionate Buddha, (Mentor, 1985).
Buswell, Robert Jr. and Gimello, Robert. Paths to Liberation, (Kuroda Institue, 1992).
Conze, Edward. Buddhist Texts Through the Ages, (Philosophical Library, Inc. 1954).
_____. Mahayana Buddhism" in Thirty Years of Buddhist Studies, (The University of South Carolina
Press, 1968).
_____. Perfect Wisdom: The Short Prajnaparamitra Texts, (Buddhist Publishing Group, 1973).
_____. Buddhism: its Essence and Development, (Harper and Row, 1975).
Dhammapada. Lucian Stryk, trans., World of the Buddha, (Grove Press, 1968).
Griffiths, Paul J. On Being Mindless: Buddhist Meditation and the Mind-Body Problem, (Open Court,
1986).
Guether, Herbert V. Philosophy and Psychology in the Abhidharma, (Shambhala Publications, Inc. 1976).
Hirakawa, Akira. A History of Indian Buddhism: From Sakyamuni to Early Mahayana, Paul Groner,
trans., (University of Hawaii Press, 1990).
Horner, I.B. Book of Disciplines, (Luzac &Co., 1962).
_____. The Middle Length Sayings I, (Luzac &Co., 1967).
Mahathera, Nyanatiloka. Guide Through The Abhidhamma-Pitaka, (Buddhist Publication Society, 1983).
Matilal, B. M. Perception: An Essay in Classical Indian Theories of Knowledge, (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1986).
Matsanuga, Alicia. “Upaya in Mahayana Buddhist Philosophy,” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies,
1/1, (March 1974): p. 51-72.
Organ, Troy. "The Silence of the Buddha,” Philosophy East and West, Vol. 4
(1954): p. 125-140.
Prebish, Charles and Keown, Damien. (1994). Buddhism — the eBook (2004)
Pye, Michael. Skilful Means: A Concept in Mahayana Buddhism, (Duckworth, 978).
Rahula, Walpola. What the Buddha Taught, (Grove Press, Inc., New York, 1974).
Rhys-Davids. Dialogues of the Buddha: Sacred Books of the Buddhists, Vol. II, (London: Oxford
University Press, 1899).
Saddharma-Pundarika or The Lotus of the True Law, H. Kern, trans., Sacred Books of the East,
Vol. 21, (Motilal Banarsidass, 1989).
Schroeder, John Skillful Means: The Heart of Buddhist Compassion, University of
Hawaii Press, 2001
Shantideva. Guide to the Bodhisattava Path
Fyodor Stcherbatsky, Buddhist Logic, Vol. 1 (Leningrad: Academy of Sciences
_____. The Conception of Buddhist Nirvana, (Delhi: Motilal, 1968).
of the USSR, 1923).
Upayakausalya Sutra, Mark Tatz, trans., (Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 1994).
Vimalakirtinirdesa; The Holy Teaching of Vimalakirti, Robert Thurman, trans., (Penn State University
Press, 1986).
Warren, Henry Clarke. Buddhism in Translations, Harvard Oriental Series, Vol. III, (Cambridge: Harvard
University, 1986).
Williams, Paul, Mahayana Buddhism: The Doctrinal Foundations, (London: Routledge, 1989).
Madhyamika Buddhism
Aryadeva. Catuhsataka, Karen Lang, trans., (Narayana Press, 1986).
Candrakirti. Prasannapada, Mervyn Sprung, trans., Lucid Exposition of the Middle Way
(Boulder: Prajna Press, 1979).
Garfield, Jay. "Epoche and Sunyata: Skepticism East and West," Philosophy East and West, Vol. 40,
(1990): p. 295-307.
_____. The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nagarjuna’sMulamadhyamakakarika,
(Oxford University Press, 1995).
Gudmunsen, Chris.Wittgenstein and Buddhism, (The Macmillan Press Ltd. 1977).
Huntington, C.W. Jr. The Emptiness of Emptiness: An Introduction to Early Indian Madhyamika,
(Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1989).
Inada, Kenneth. Nagarjuna: A Translation of his Mulamadhyamakakarika with an Introductory Essay,
(Tokyo: The Hokuseido Press, 1970).
Kalupahana, David. Causality: The Central Philosophy of Buddhism, (The University Press of Hawaii,
1975).
_____. Buddhist Philosophy: A Historical Analysis, (University of Hawaii Press, 1976).
_____. Nagarjuna: The Philosophy of the Middle Way, (State University of
New York Press, 1986).
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Katz, Nathan. "Nagarjuna and Wittgenstein on Error," in Buddhist and Western Philosophy,. Nathan
Katz, ed., (New Delhi: Sterling, 1981).
Lindtner, Chr. Masters of Wisdom, (Dharma Publishing, 1986).
Loy, David. “The Paradox of Causality in Madhyamika,” International Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 25.
(1985): p. 63-72.
_____. “The Cloture of Deconstruction: A Mahayana Critique of Derrida,” International
Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 27 (1987): p. 59-80.
Murti, T.R.V. The Central Philosophy of Buddhism, (George Allen and Unwin Ltd. 1955).
Nagao, Gadjin M. Madhayamika and Yogacara, ( Albany: State University of New York, 1991).
Nagarjuna. Mulamadhyamakakarika, Jay L. Garfield, trans., The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle
Way: Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika (New York, Oxford University Press, 1995).
_____. Twelve Gate Treatise, Hsueh-li Cheng, trans., (D. Reidel Boston, 1982).
_____. Vigrahavyavartani, Bhattacharya, trans., The Dialectical Method of Nagarjuna, (Motilal
Banarsidass, 1978).
_____. Bodhisambhara(ka), Chr. Lindtner, trans., Masters of Wisdom, (Dharma Publishing, 1986
_____. Acintyastava,.Chr. Lindtner, trans., Master of Wisdom, (Dharma
Publishing, 1986).
Robinson, Richard. Early Madhyamika in India and China, (Madison, Wisconsin Press, 1967).
_____. "Did Nagarjuna Really Refute all Metaphysical Views?" Philosophy East and West, Vol. 22
(1972): 325-331.
_____. "Some Logical Aspects of Nagarjuna's System," Philosophy East and West, Vol. 27 (1977): p. 321.
Ruegg, David S. The Literature of the Madhyamika School of Philosophy in India, (Wiesbaden;
Otto Harrassowitz, 1981).
Schroeder, John: “Nagarjuna and the Doctrine of Skillful Means” Philosophy East and West,
2001.
Siderits, Mark. “Thinking on Empty: Madhyamaka Anti-Realism and Canons of
Rationality,” in
Rationality in Question, Shlomo Biderman, ed., (E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1989), p. 231-250.
_____. "Nagarjuna as Anti-Realist," Journal of Indian Philosophy, vol. 16 (1988): p. 311-325.
Streng, Frederick. Emptiness: A Study in Religious Meaning, (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1967).
Tuck, Andrew. Comparative Philosophy and the Philosophy of Scholarship, (Oxford University
Press, 1990).
Vasubandhu, Abhidharmakosabhasyam, Louis de La Vallee Poussin, trans., Leo M. Pruden, English
trans., (Asian Humanities Press, 1988).
Wood, Thomas. Nagarjunian Disputations: A Philosophical Journey Through an Indian Looking-Glass,
(University of Hawaii Press, 1994).
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The Central Philosophy of Buddhism, (Susil Gupta, India, Ltd. 1961).
Socially Engaged Buddhism
General and Introductory
Eppsteiner, F. (Ed.) (1988, 2nd ed.). The Path of Compassion: Writings on Socially Engaged Buddhism.
Berkeley: Parallax Press.
Jones, K. (1989). The Social Face of Buddhism: An Approach to Political and Social Activism. London:
Wisdom Publications.
_____. (2000). The New Social Face of Buddhism: A Call to Action. Boston. Wisdom Publication.
King, Sallie. (2005). Being Benevolence: The Social Ethics of Engaged Buddhism. University of Hawaii
Press.
Kotler, A. (Ed.) (1996). Engaged Buddhist Reader. Berkeley: Parallax Press.
Kraft, K. (Ed.) (1992). Inner Peace, World Peace: Essays on Buddhism and Nonviolence. Albany: State
University of New York Press.
_____. (1999). The Wheel of Engaged Buddhism: A New Map of the Path. . New York. Weatherhill.
Nhat Hanh, T. (1987). Being Peace. Berkeley: Parallax Press.
_____. (1991). Peace is Every Step. New York: Bantam Books.
_____. (1992). Touching Peace. Berkeley: Parallax Press.
Rothberg, D. (1992). “Buddhist Responses to Violence and War: Resources for a Socially Engaged
Spirituality”. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 32 (Fall): 41-75.
Twentieth Century Engaged Buddhism in Asia
Aung San Suu Kyi (1995). Freedom from Fear & Other Writings (rev. ed.). London: Penguin Books.
_____. (1997). Letters from Burma. London: Penguin Books.
Buddhadasa, Ajahn (1986). Dhammic Socialism, (edited by Donald Swearer). Bangkok: Thai InterReligious Commission for Devlopment.
Buddhadasa, Ajahn, (1971). Toward the Truth. Philadelphia: Westminster Press.
Dalai Lama (1990). A Policy of Kindness: An Anthology of Writings by and about the Dalai Lama. Ithaca,
NY: Snow Lion Publications.
_____.1999). Ethics for a New Mellenium. New York: Riverhead Books.
Ghosananda, S.P.M. ( 1992). Step by Step: Meditations on Wisdom and Compassion. Berkeley: Parallax
Press.
Macy, J. (1985). Dharma and Development: Religion as Resource in the Sarvodaya Self-Help Movement
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(rev. ed.). West Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press.
Nhat Hanh, T. (1967). Vietnam: Lotus in a Sea of Fire. New York. Hill and Wang.
_____. (1993). Love in Action: Writings on Nonviolent Social Change. Berkeley: Parallax Press.
Queen, C. & King, S. (Eds.) (1996). Engaged Buddhism: Buddhist Liberation Movements in Asia.
Albany: State University of New York Press.
Rahula, W. (1974). The Heritage of the Bhikkhu: A Short History of the Bhikkhu in Educational, Cultural,
and Political Life. New York: Grove Press.
Sivaraksa, S. (1992). Seeds of Peace. Berkeley: Parallax Press.
_____. “How Societies Can Practice the Precepts.” In For a Future to Be Possible: Commentaries on the
Five Wonderful Precepts, ed. Thich Nhat Hanh, 110–14. Berkeley, Calif.: Parallax Press, 1993..
_______. “True Development.” In Dharma Gaia: A Harvest of Essays in Buddhism and Ecology, ed.
Allan Hunt Badiner, 169–77. Berkeley, Calif.: Parallax Press, 1990.
_______. A Socially Engaged Buddhism. Bangkok: Thai Inter-Religious Commission for Development,
1988.
Skolimowski, Henryk. A Sacred Place to Dwell: Living with Reverence upon the Earth. Rockport, Mass.:
Element, 1993.
_______. “Eco-Philosophy and Buddhism: A Personal Journey.” Buddhism at the Crossroads 6,n
Contemporary Western Approaches to Engaged Buddhism
Aitken, R. (1984). The Mind of Clover: Essays in Zen Buddhist Ethics. San Francisco: North Point Press.
_____.. (1992). The Dragon who Never Sleeps: Verses for Zen Buddhist Practice. Berkeley: Parallax
Press.
Badiner, A. (1990). Dharma Gaia. Berkeley: Parallax Press.
Chavis, M. (1997). Altars in the street: A Neighborhood Fights to Survive. New York: Bell Tower.
Dresser, M. (Ed.) (1996). Buddhist Women on the Edge: Contemporary Perspectives from the Western
Frontier. Berkeley: North Atlantic Books.
Glassman, B., and Fields, R. (1996). Instructions to the Cook: A Zen Master’s Lessons in Living a Life
that Matters. New York: Bell Tower.
Gross, R. (1993). Buddhism after Patriarchy: A Feminist History, Analysis, and Reconstruction of
Buddhism. Albany: State University of New York Press.
Macy, J. (1983). Despair and Personal Power in the Nuclear Age. Philadelphia: New Society Publishers.
_____.. (1991). World as Lover, World as Self. Berkeley: Parallax Press.
Macy, Joanna, and Molly Young Brown. Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our
World. Gabriola Island, B.C.: New Society Publishers, 1998.
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Nhat Hanh, T., et al (1993). For a Future to be Possible: Commentaries on the Five Wonderful Precepts.
Berkeley: Parallax Press.
Queen, Christopher S. (2000). Engaged Buddhism in the West. Boston: Wisdom Publications.
Schumacher, E. F. “Buddhist Economics.” In Valuing the Earth: Economics, Ecology, Ethics, eds.
Herman E. Daly and Kenneth N. Townsend, 173–81. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1993.
Snyder, G. (1990). The Practice of the Wild. San Francisco: North Point Press.
_______. Six Sections from Mountains and Rivers without End. San Francisco, Calif.: Four Seasons
Foundation, 1976.
_______. Turtle Island. New York: New Directions Books, 1974.
Titmuss, C. (1995). The Green Buddha. Ed. G. Farrer-Halls. Totnes, Devon, England: Insight Books.
Women and Gender in Buddhism
Blackstone, Kathryn R. Women in the Footsteps of the Buddha: Struggle for Liberation in the
Therigatha. Curzon Critical Studies in Buddhism. Richmond, Surrey, UK: Curzon Press, 1999.
Boucher, Sandy. Opening the Lotus: A Woman's Guide to Buddhism. Boston: Beacon Press, 1997.
_____.. Turning the Wheel: American Women Creating the New Buddhism (387pp). San Francisco:
Harper and Row, 1988
Cabezón, José Ignacio, ed. Buddhism, Sexuality, and Gender. Albany: State University of New York
Press, 1992
Findly, Ellison Banks (editor). Women’s Buddhism, Buddhism’s Women: Tradition, Revision, Renewal.
Somerville, MA: Wisdom, 2000
Friedman, Lenore. Meetings with Remarkable Women: Buddhist Teachers in America. Boston:
Shambhala, 1987.
Friedman, Lenore and Moon, Susan. Being Bodies: Buddhist Women on the Paradox of Embodiment.
Boston: Shambhala, 1997
Gross, Rita M. Buddhism After Patriarchy: A Feminist History, Analysis, and Reconstruction of
Buddhism. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993.
_____.Soaring and Settling: Buddhist Perspectives on Social and Theological Issues. New York: Cassell
& Continuum, 1998.
Kabilsingh, Chatsumarn. Thai Women in Buddhism. Berkeley: Parallax Press, 1991.
Klein, Anne C. Meeting the Great Bliss Queen: Buddhists, Feminists, and the Art of the Self (307pp).
Boston: Beacon Press, 1995
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Paul, Diana. Women in Buddhism: Images of the Feminine in Mahayana Buddhism. Berkeley:
Univ. of Calif. Press, 1985.
Essays on Women and Buddhist Practice. New York: White Pine Press, 1986.
Shaw, Miranda. Passionate Enlightenment: Women in
Tantric Buddhism.. Princeton, 1994.
Tsomo, Karma Lekshe, ed. Buddhism Through American Women's Eyes. Ithaca (NY): Snow Lion
Publications, 1995.
Buddhism and Ecology
Aitken, Robert. The Practice of Perfection: The Paramitas from A Zen Buddhist Perspective. New York:
Pantheon, 1994.
_______. “Right Livelihood for the Western Buddhist.” In Dharma Gaia: A Harvest of Essays in
Buddhism and Ecology, ed. Allan Hunt Badiner, 227–32. Berkeley, Calif.: Parallax Press, 1990.
Reprinted in Primary Point 7, no. 2 (summer 1990): 19–22.
_______. “Gandhi, Dogen, and Deep Ecology.” In Deep Ecology: Living As If Nature Mattered, eds. Bill
Devall and George Sessions, 232–35. Salt Lake City, Utah: Peregrine Smith Books, 1985. Reprinted in
The Path of Compassion: Writings on Socially Engaged Buddhism, ed. Fred Eppsteiner, 86–92 (Berkeley,
Calif.: Parallax Press, 1988).
Batchelor, Martine and Brown, Kerry, eds. Buddhism and Ecology. Cassell, 1992
_______. “The Sands of the Ganges: Notes Toward a Buddhist Ecological Philosophy.” In Buddhism and
Ecology, eds. Martine Batchelor and Kerry Brown, 31–39. London: Cassell, 1992.
_______. “Buddhist Economics Reconsidered.” In Dharma Gaia: A Harvest of Essays in Buddhism and
Ecology, ed. Allan Hunt Badiner, 178–82. Berkeley, Calif.: Parallax Press, 1990.
_______. “Images of Ecology.” Primary Point 7, no. 2 (summer 1990): 9–11.
Badiner, AH. Dharma Gaia: A Harvest of Essays in Buddhism and Ecology: Paralax Press 1990
Batchelor M and Brown K. eds. Buddhism and Ecology: London: Cassell, 1990.
Gross, Rita. “Toward A Buddhist Environmental Ethic.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion
65, no. 2 (summer 1997): 333–53.
Halifax, Joan. The Fruitful Darkness: Reconnecting with the Body of the Earth. San Francisco, Calif.:
HarperSanFrancisco, 1993.
_______. “The Third Body: Buddhism, Shamanism, and Deep Ecology.” In Dharma Gaia: A Harvest of
Essays in Buddhism and Ecology, ed. Allan Hunt Badiner, 20–38. Berkeley, Calif.: Parallax Press, 1990.
Inada, Kenneth K. “Environmental Problematics.” In Nature in Asian Traditions of Thought: Essays in
Environmental Philosophy, eds. J. Baird Callicott and Roger T. Ames, 231–45. Albany, N.Y.: State
University of New York Press, 1989.
Jones, Ken. Beyond Optimism: A Buddhist Political Ecology. Oxford: Jon Carpenter, 1993.
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_______. “Getting Out of Our Own Light.” In Dharma Gaia: A Harvest of Essays in Buddhism
and Ecology, ed. Allan Hunt Badiner, 183–90. Berkeley, Calif.: Parallax Press, 1990.
_______. The Social Face of Buddhism: An Approach to Political and Social Activism. London: Wisdom
Publications, 1989.
_______. “Enlightened Ecological Engagement.” Buddhist Peace Fellowship Newsletter 10, nos. 3–4
(fall 1988): 32.
Schumacher, E. F. “Buddhist Economics.” In Valuing the Earth: Economics, Ecology, Ethics, eds.
Herman E. Daly and Kenneth N. Townsend, 173–81. MIT Press, 1993.
Tucker, Mary Evelyn, and Duncan Ryuken Williams, eds. Buddhism and Ecology: The
Interconnectedness of Dharma and Deeds. Harvard University Press, 1997.
Buddhism and Bioethics
Becker, C. B. 1990. Buddhist Views of Suicide and Euthanasia. Philosophy East and West 40 (4): 543–
55.
Harvey, P. 2000. An Introduction to Buddhist Ethics: Foundations, Values and Issues. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, pp. 286–310.
Hughes, J. J. and D. Keown. 1995. Buddhism and medical ethics: a bibliographic introduction. Journal of
Buddhist Ethics 2:105–124.
Ikeda, D. 1994. Unlocking the Mysteries of Birth and Death: Buddhism in the Contemporary World.
London: Warner Books.
Keown, Damien. Buddhism and Bioethics. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995.
_______. Buddhism and Abortion. London: Macmillan, 1998.
_______. eds. Buddhism and Human Rights. London: Curzon, 1998.
LaFleur, William. Liquid Life: Abortion and Buddhism in Japan. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University
Press, 1992.
Taniguchi, Shoyo. 1987. Biomedical Ethics from a Buddhist Perspective. The Pacific World: Journal of
the Institute of Buddhist Studies, n.s., 3:75–83.
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