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Sources on
Buddhism
| I am not a practicing Buddhist and have no
institutional connection with Buddhism. At the same time, I think
that Buddhist thought is a most valuable resource for those willing
and able to understand and use it.
Those who know about Buddhism mostly from
books, as I do, are not well thought of in the Buddhist world. In my
defense I will say that in an ad-hoc way I have practiced certain
disciplines and austerities which are somewhat rare in the world of
today, and will also note that criticisms of the bureaucratic
and authoritarian development of scholastic and academic Buddhism do
not apply to me. Nonetheless, I can make no real claim to be a
Buddhist.
Below are the books I've found most useful
in my studies. Some are primary texts and translations, some are
commentaries, and some are secondary works. I have found a number of
these books (*) powerfully illuminating -- readers will note a
contemporary western slant to these. Others are mostly
informational, and a few are listed as dubious examples to be
avoided.
My longer
bibliography on Chinese culture
My general
philosophy bibliography |
Balasooriya, Somaratna et al, eds.,
Buddhist Studies in Honor of Walpola Rahula, Gordon Fraser, 1980.
Chang, Garma C.C., The Buddhist
Teaching of Totality, Penn State, 1971.
Chin-kang pan-jo po-lo-mi ching,
Shanghai, 1984.
Chou Yi-liang, "Tantrism in China",
Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, vol. 8, March 1945,
pp. 241--332.
*Cleary, Thomas, No Barrier,
Bantam, 1993.
Conze, Edward, tr., The Perfection
of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Verses & its Verse Summary, Four Seasons,
1973
Conze, Edward, The Large Sutra on
Perfect Wisdom, California, 1975.
Conze, Edward, Thirty Years of
Buddhist Studies, U. So. Carolina, 1968.
Conze, Edward, Vajracchedika
Pajnaparamita, Roma, 1957.
Conze, Edward,
Buddhist Scriptures, Penguin, 1959.
*Cook, Francis, Hua-yen Buddhism,
Penn State, 1977.
Doherty, Gerald,
"Form Is Emptiness: Reading the Diamond
Sutra"
Eastern Buddhist: Views & Reviews,
n.s.16-2,
1983, pp.
114-123
Fang Tung-mei (Thomé),
Hua-yen-tsung Chieh-hsueh (2 vols), Taipei, 1981.
*Gudmunsen, Chris, Wittgenstein and
Buddhism, Harper, 1977.
de Harlez, M.C., "Vajracchedika",
Journal Asiatique, 8 ser. 18, Nov-Dec 1981.
Fa Tsang (ed. Fang Li-t'ian),
Hua-yen chin-shih-tzu chang chiao-yi, Beijing, 1987.
Jayatilleke, Early Buddhist Theory
of Knowledge, Motilal Banarsidass, 1980, (repr. of Allen and Unwin,
1963).
Lopez, Donald, Elaborations on
Emptiness, Princeton, 1996.
Magliola, Robert, Derrida on the
Mend, Purdue University Press, 1984.
Mistry, Freny, Nietzsche and
Buddhism, de Gruyter, 1981.
Mu Soeng, tr./comm., The Diamond
Sutra, Wisdom Publications, 2000.
Mu Soeng, tr./comm., Heart Sutra,
Primary Point, 1991.
Muller, Max, Buddhist Mahayana
Texts, Part II, Motilal Banarisdass, 1965 (reprint from 1894).
*Nishitani, Keiji, Religion and
Nothingness, California, 1982.
*Odin, Steve, Process Metaphysics
and Hua-yen Buddhism , SUNY, 1982.
Price, A.F. and Wong, Mou-lam, trs.,
The Diamond Sutra and the Sutra of Hui Neng, Shambhala, 1969.
*Red Pine (Bill Porter), The Diamond
Sutra, Counterpoint, 2001.
Schterbatskoy, Th., "History of Materialism in India", pp.
32-41 in Studies in the History of Indian Philosophy, ed.
Chattopadhyaya, Humanities Press, l980.
Soothill, William, and Hodous, Lewis,
A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms, Fo Kuang, Kaohsiung Taiwan,
1962 (reprint of 1934).
*Streng, Frederick, Emptiness,
Abingdon, 1967.
Thich Nhat Hanh, The Diamond that
Cuts Through Illusion, Parralax, 1992.
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