Selected Books on Buddhism



Below you find a list of books, in English and German, of Buddhist resource books, Sūtras/Suttas and Śastras, as well as a few academic papers concerning different aspects of Buddhism.






English:
General Reading:


Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms
Fa-Hsien (Faxien) 519 CE/James Legge (tr.) 1886
www.gutenberg.org 2006 [EBook #2124]
view e-book (322k)

Buddhist India
Rhys-Davis, T. W.
Motilal Banaridass 1903/1993
ISBN 81-208-0425-2

The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism - It's Fundamentals & History
Dudjom Rinpoche
Wisdom Publications, Sommerville, MA 1991
ISBN0-86171-199-9

Light of Liberation - A history of Buddhism in India
Crystal Mirror Series No. 8
Tarthang Tulku (ed.)
Dharma Publishing, Berkeley 1992
ISBN 0-89800-242-7

Holy Places of thr Buddha
Crystal Mirror Series No. 9
Tarthang Tulku (ed.)
Dharma Publishing, Berkeley 1994
ISBN 0-89800-244-3

Machig Labdrön and the foundations of Chöd
Jérôme Edou
Snow Lion Pubrications 1996
ISBN: 1-55939-039-5

Timeless Rapture
Inspired Verse of the Shangpa Masters
Jamgon Kongtrul
Tsadra Foundation 2003
ISBN: 1-55939-204-5


Sūtras/Suttas and Shastras:

The Diamond Sutra and the Sutra of Hui Neng
Prince, A. F./ Mou-Lam, W. (tr.)
Shambhala 1969
ISBN 0-87773-005-9

The Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines & Its Verse Summary
Edward Konze
Four Seasons Foundation
ISBN 0-87704-049-4

Buddha's Lions - The Lives of the Eighty-Four Siddhas
Tibetan Translation Series No. 8
Abhayadatta
Dharma Publishing, Berkeley 1979
ISBN 0-913546-61-5

Buddhist Wisdom Books - The Diamond and the Heart Sutra
Edward Konze
Unwin Paperbacks
ISBN 0-04-294090-7

Life of Krsnācārya/Kānha
Tāranātha
Tempelman, D. (tr.)
Library of Tibetan works and archives, Dharamsala 1989
ISBN 81-85102-70-8

The Lalitavistara Sūtra - The Voice of the Buddha
The Beauty of Compassion - Vol. 1
Dharma Publishing, Berkeley 1983
ISBN 0-913546-86-0

The Lalitavistara Sūtra - The Voice of the Buddha
The Beauty of Compassion - Vol. 2
Dharma Publishing, Berkeley 1983
ISBN 0-913546-87-0


Academic works:

Japanese Buddhism - A critical appraisal
Shoko Watanabe
Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai, 1964

In the Beginning ... Guanding (561-632) and the Creatinon of the Early Tiantai
Linda Penkower
Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies
2000, v. 23, p. 245-296



German:

Auf den Spuren des Buddha Gotama - Ein Pilgerfahrt zu den historischen Stätten
Schumann, H. W.
Walter Verlag 1992
ISBN 3-530-79989-0

Buddhistische Bilderwelt
Ein Ikonographisches Handbuch des Mahayana- und Tantrayana- Buddhismus
Schumann, H. W.
Eugen Dieterichs Verlag 1997
ISBN 3-424-00897-4

Der historische Buddha - Leben und Lehre des Gotama
Schumann, H. W.
Eugen Dieterichs Verlag 1999
ISBN 3-424-01472-9

Lexikon des Buddhismus
Keown, Damien
Patmos Verlag 2003
ISBN 3-491-72488-0


Sūtras/Suttas und Śastras:

Der Kostbare Schmuck der Befreiung
Dschetsün Gampopa
Theseus Verlag 2000
ISBN 3-89620-081-X







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