Buddhist texts and study materials across Pali, Gandhari, Sanskrit, Mahayana, Zen, and Tibetan traditions.
Folders
Gandhari — Gandhari Buddhist manuscripts from the northwest: early sutras, verse collections, Abhidharma fragments, avadanas, and bodhisattva materials. (28)
Mahayana Sutras — Major Mahayana sutras and short scriptural texts centered on emptiness, bodhisattva practice, Buddha-nature, and devotional transmission. (4)
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. (16)
Sanskrit — Sanskrit and Sanskritic Buddhist literature, including Indian Buddhist poetry, biography, philosophy, and Mahayana scripture. (3)
Tibetan — Tibetan Buddhist translations, scholastic treatises, devotional texts, letters, praises, ritual works, and Dunhuang Buddhist materials. (261)
Zen — Chan and Zen Buddhist texts, practice literature, and later Zen reception. (1)
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 guide to the Buddhist shelf: early Pali materials, Gandhari manuscripts, Mahayana sutras, Sanskrit literature, Tibetan scholastic and ritual texts, and later anthologies.
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