Nazarbayev University LibGuides: World Religions: Buddhism

What's on the shelves?

Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road

In the contemporary world the meeting of Buddhism and Islam is most often imagined as one of violent confrontation. Indeed, the Taliban's destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001 seemed not only to reenact the infamous Muslim destruction of Nalanda monastery in the thirteenth century but also to reaffirm the stereotypes of Buddhism as a peaceful, rational philosophy and Islam as an inherently violent and irrational religion.

Buddhism in America

Buddhism in America provides the most comprehensive and up to date survey of the diverse landscape of US Buddhist traditions, their history and development, and current methodological trends in the study of Buddhism in the West, located within the translocal flow of global Buddhist culture.

Buddhist and Islamic Orders in Southern Asia

Over the last few decades historians and other scholars have succeeded in identifying diverse patterns of connection linking religious communities across Asia and beyond. Yet despite the fruits of this specialist research, scholars in the subfields of Islamic and Buddhist studies have rarely engaged with each other to share investigative approaches and methods of interpretation.

Buddhists, Shamans, and Soviets

History in the Soviet Union was a political project. From the Soviet perspective, Buryats, an indigenous Siberian ethnic group, were a "backwards" nationality that was carried along on the inexorable march towards the Communist utopian future. When the Soviet Union ended, the Soviet version of history lost its power and Buryats, like other Siberian indigenous peoples, were able to revive religious and cultural traditions that had been suppressed by the Soviet state.

Classical Buddhism, neo-Buddhism and the question of caste

This book examines the interface between Buddhism and the caste system in India. It discusses how Buddhism in different stages, from its early period to contemporary forms—Theravāda, Mahāyāna, Tantrayāna and Navayāna—dealt with the question of caste. It also traces the intersections between the problem of caste with those of class and gender.

The Enlightened Gene

Eight years ago, in an unprecedented intellectual endeavor, the Dalai Lama invited Emory University to integrate modern science into the education of the thousands of Tibetan Buddhist monks and nuns in exile in India. This project, the Emory Tibet Science Initiative, became the first major change in the monastic curriculum in six centuries. Eight years in, the results are transformative.

Ebooks

Yulie, L. (Ed.). (2015). Buddhism. BRILL.
Buddhist scholars on both sides of the Pacific are paying attention to the relationship between Buddhism and Daoism, the question of indigenous scriptures, the social and ritualistic dimension of Buddhism revealed in artistic creations and the interaction and mutual influences between Chinese and the larger Buddhist world.
Humphreys, C. (2012). Exploring Buddhism. Taylor & Francis Group.
The Buddhist field of knowledge is now so vast that few can master all of it, and the study and application of its principles must be a matter of choice. One may choose the magnificent moral philosophy of Theravada, the oldest school, or the Zen training of Japan; or special themes such as the doctrine of No-self, the Mahayana emphasis on compassion or the universal law of Karma and Rebirth.

Databases

Cambridge eBooks
More than 2,500 eBooks from Cambridge University Press. Subject areas include: English language learning and teaching, History, Sociology, Medicine, Physics, Math, and many more.
Credo Reference
A collection of 600 reference titles (dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, handbooks, manuals, biographies, quotations, fact finders) from world-known publishers in all major subject areas.
Use Credo Reference to aid in researching essential subjects and topics of interest while continuing to expand on critical background knowledge with trusted reference content.
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JSTOR Archives Collection
Established in 1997, JSTOR is the largest provider of archived academic information. JSTOR provides both breadth of coverage spanning across 50 disciplines but what is even more important and rare, it tries to have complete runs of journals preserving journal pages exactly the way they looked when they were published.
Project MUSE
Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social sciences content; since 1995, its electronic journal collections have supported a wide array of research needs at academic, public, special, and school libraries worldwide.
Ebook Central Academic Complete
This is a multidisciplinary database with full-text books.

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A-Z List of Databases

Journals

Buddhist-Christian Studies
Buddhist-Christian Studies is a scholarly journal devoted to Buddhism and Christianity and their historical and contemporary interrelationships.
Canadian Journal of Buddhist Studies
A scholarly peer-reviewed, open access, online publication covering all aspects of Buddhist Studies.
Contemporary Buddhism
An international, Thomson Reuters-indexed journal that publishes articles on the current state and influence of Buddhism.
Journal of Buddhist Ethics
The Journal of Buddhist Ethics is the first academic journal dedicated entirely to Buddhist ethics.
Journal of Buddhist Philosophy
The Journal of Buddhist Philosophy provides a forum for the academic discussion of Buddhist philosophy, which emerges as an independent discipline.
Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies
The JIABS publishes articles concerning all areas of Buddhism, and lays emphasis on original research based on primary sources.
Pacific World: Journal of the Institute of Buddhist Studies
an annual, open-access, and anonymous peer-reviewed journal in English devoted to the dissemination of historical, textual, critical and interpretive studies on Buddhism generally, and Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism particularly, to both academic and lay readerships.

Useful Links

About Buddha
A website that includes life and teachings of Buddha.
ATLA: Websites on Religion: Buddhism
The Atla Websites on Religion LibGuide is a growing, selective, annotated collection of web resources for the study of religion.
BuddhaNet
A non-sectarian organization, offering its services to all Buddhist traditions in an effort to help make the Buddha's teachings freely available to all.

World Religions: Buddhism

Introduction

What's on the shelves?

Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road

Buddhism in America

Buddhist and Islamic Orders in Southern Asia

Buddhists, Shamans, and Soviets

Buddhist Women Across Cultures

Classical Buddhism, neo-Buddhism and the question of caste

The Enlightened Gene

Imagination and narrative: lexical and cultural translation in Buddhist Asia

Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road

Buddhism in America

Buddhist and Islamic Orders in Southern Asia

Buddhists, Shamans, and Soviets

Buddhist Women Across Cultures

Classical Buddhism, neo-Buddhism and the question of caste

The Enlightened Gene

Imagination and narrative: lexical and cultural translation in Buddhist Asia

Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road

Ebooks

Databases

Relevant Links

Journals

Useful Links

Reference