Buddhist texts and study materials across Pali, Gandhari, Sanskrit, Mahayana, Zen, and Tibetan traditions.
Folders
Chinese — A doorway to Chinese Buddhist history, institutions, practice, and religious life in primary texts, translations, and historical studies. (1)
Gandhari — Gandhari Buddhist manuscripts from the northwest: early sutras, verse collections, Abhidharma fragments, avadanas, and bodhisattva materials. (28)
Japanese — Primary texts, translations, and historical studies concerning Japanese Buddhist traditions, institutions, teachers, and devotional life. (1)
Mahayana Sutras — Major Mahayana sutras and short scriptural texts centered on emptiness, bodhisattva practice, Buddha-nature, and devotional transmission. (4)
Modern Buddhist Education and Reform — Historical works from Buddhist educational, institutional, and reform movements of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. (1)
Overview and Anthologies — Modern anthologies, retellings, and introductory presentations of Buddhism that shaped English-language Buddhist reception. (5)
Pali — Pali Buddhist scripture, early Buddhist discourse literature, monastic discipline, Jataka material, and classic Theravada translations. (35)
Sanskrit — Sanskrit and Sanskritic Buddhist literature, including Indian Buddhist poetry, biography, philosophy, and Mahayana scripture. (4)
Tibetan — Tibetan Buddhist translations, scholastic treatises, devotional texts, letters, praises, ritual works, and Dunhuang materials, including a growing set of independent Degé Tengyur translations with complete Tibetan sources. (285)
Zen — Chan and Zen Buddhist texts, practice literature, and later Zen reception. (2)
Pages
Glossary — A shelf-specific slice of the Good Works Glossary for Buddhist terms.
Introduction to Buddhism — A critical introduction to Buddhism — from the Sramana wanderers of the Ganges plain to the ten thousand Buddhisms of the present day. Genealogical, scholarly, and situated within the Tianmu dharma lineage.
Reader's Guide to Buddhism — A holdings-led guide to Buddhist manuscripts, discourses, monastic law, ritual, philosophy, devotion, narrative, translation, reform, and modern reception through deliberately competing reading routes.