Buddhism/Bibliography

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A wide range of books in this field can be obtained through Wisdom Books.

Works of scholars

For the general reader

• Bechert & Gombrich, World of Buddhism, Thames & Hudson, London, 1984: written by 11 scholars; includes nearly 300 illustrations, 82 in colour; "by far the most scholarly and comprehensive survey of Buddhism for the general reader." (Eliade, ed, Encyclopedia of Religion, Macmillan, 1987, volume 2, page 382)
• Lopez, Buddhism, Penguin/Story of Buddhism, Harper, San Francisco, 2001

Textbooks

• Prebish & Keown, Introducing Buddhism, 2nd ed, Routledge, 2010
• Cantwell, Buddhism, Routledge, 2010
• Mitchell, Buddhism, 2nd ed, Oxford University Press, 2008; review of 1st ed in Philosophy East and West, volume 54
• Olson, The Different Paths of Buddhism, Rutgers University Press, 2005
• Habito, Experiencing Buddhism, Orbis Books, Maryknoll, New York, 2005; Table of contents
• Robinson et al, Buddhist Religions, 5th ed, Wadsworth, Belmont, California, 2004: the s is new to this edition; "perhaps the most popular of all introductory textbooks on Buddhism" (Routledge Encyclopedia of Buddhism, page 629); review (Journal of the American Academy of Religion, volume 74, number 3, September 2006, pages 765-70) also makes brief comments on several other books in this list
• Klostermaier, Buddhism, Oneworld Pub, 1999; Introduction
• Gethin, Foundations of Buddhism, Oxford University Press, 1998
• Keown, Buddhism, Oxford University Press, 1996
• Harvey, Introduction to Buddhism, Cambridge University Press, 1990

Reference

• Chapter 8 in Penguin Handbook of the World's Living Religions, 3rd edition, 2010
• Kitagawa & Cummings, Buddhism & Asian History, Macmillan, 1989: selected articles from Encyclopedia of Religion, 15 vols, Macmillan, New York, 1987
• Encyclopedia of Buddhism, 2 vols, Macmillan, 2004: written by over 200 scholars
• Encyclopedia of Buddhism, Routledge, 2007: written by 23 scholars

Research

• Williams, Buddhism, 8 vols, Routledge, 2005: reprints of papers by many scholars, 1958-2003

Compilations of Buddhist writings

• Morgan, Path of the Buddha, Ronald Press, New York, 1956; reprint Motilal, Delhi, distributed by Wisdom Books: the editor travelled round the East asking leading Buddhists to recommend contributors; he ended up with 7 Japanese professors, 3 Theravada monks and a Tibetan official
• Lopez, Buddhist Scriptures, Penguin Classics, 2004: a broad selection of Buddhist literature