The Japanese Historical Text Initiative

The Japanese Historical Text Initiative (JHTI) is a rapidly expanding database made up of historical texts dating back more than 1200 years. The original version of every paragraph in every text is cross-tagged with its English translation, making it possible for any researcher to see, on the same screen, both the original and English translation of any word or phrase appearing in any JHTI text.

Ancient Chronicles
Ancient Gazetters
Ancient Relgio-Civil code
Medieval Chronicles and Tales
Medieval and Early  Modern Interpretive Histories
Religion and Polity in the Modern State

http://supercluster.cias.kyoto-u.ac.jp/berkeley/jhti/

Buddhism Links: Kenyon College

Buddhist Links

Asian Studies Program

Joseph Adler

This is an extensive list of links updated as of June 2017

These are the categories:

General

Traditions

Texts 

South Asia

News

Ethics and Dialogs

Buddhism and Arts

Centers and Temples

http://www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/Religion/Fac/Adler/Reln260/links260.htm

Cambodian Buddhism in the United States: a book

from the publisher website:

Summary
The first comprehensive anthropological description of the Khmer Buddhism practiced by Cambodian refugees in the United States over the past four decades. Cambodian Buddhism in the United States is the first comprehensive anthropological study of Khmer Buddhism as practiced by Khmer refugees in the United States. Based on research conducted at Khmer temples and sites throughout the country over a period of three and a half decades, Carol A. Mortland uses participant observation, open-ended interviews, life histories, and dialogues with Khmer monks and laypeople to explore the everyday practice of Khmer religion, including spirit beliefs and healing rituals. This ethnography is enriched and supplemented by the use of historical accounts, reports, memoirs, unpublished life histories, and family memorabilia painstakingly preserved by refugees. Mortland also traces the changes that Cambodians have made to religion as they struggle with the challenges of living in a new country, learning English, and supporting themselves. The beliefs and practices of Khmer Muslims and Khmer Christians in the United States are also reviewed. Carol A. Mortland is a retired professor and the coeditor (with David W. Haines) of Manifest Destinies: Americanizing Immigrants and Internationalizing Americans, and (with May M. Ebihara and Judy Ledgerwood) Cambodian Culture Since 1975: Homeland and Exile. for more information: http://www.sunypress.edu/p-6439-cambodian-buddhism-in-the-unite.aspx

University of Pennsylvania Research in Buddhist Studies

"Buddhist Studies has a long history at the University of Pennsylvania with special focus on Indian, Chinese, and Japanese Buddhist traditions and more recently on Buddhism in Southeast Asia. Religious Studies graduate and undergraduate students specializing in Buddhist Studies are overseen byJustin McDaniel. The program’s special strengths in this area are in Theravada Buddhism, Pali and Buddhist-Hybrid Sanskrit literature, Buddhism in Laos and Thailand, Japanese Buddhism, early Chinese Buddhism and Taoism, ritual and magic, Buddhist monasticism and education, Manuscript Studies/Codicology, Material Culture, and Buddhist art (especially Thai, Indian, and Japanese). Both anthropological and textual approaches are highly encouraged."

https://www.sas.upenn.edu/religious_studies/research/buddhist-studies

Sandalwood and Carrion: Smell in Indian Religion and Culture - a book

"ABSTRACT

This book explores the topic of smell in pre-modern Indian religion and culture. The book provides a comprehensive study of all aspects of smell, covering a period from the turn of the Common Era to the early second millennium CE, and referring to a wide range of sources from poetry to medical texts. In pre-modern South Asia, smells mattered. The sophisticated arts of perfumery that developed in temples, monasteries and courts relied on exotic aromatics, connecting olfactory aesthetics to long-distance ocean trade. A sophisticated religious discourse on the goals of life emphasized that the pleasures of the senses were a valid end in themselves. Fragrances and stinks were also an ideal model for describing other values, be they aesthetic or ethical, and in a system where karmic results often had a sensory impact—where evil often literally stank—the ethical and aesthetic are often difficult to distinguish. Sandalwood and Carrion explores smell in pre-modern India from many perspectives, covering such topics as philosophical accounts of smell perception, odors in literature, the history of perfumery in India, the significance of sandalwood in Buddhism, as well as the question of why people offered perfumes to the gods."

http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199916306.001.0001/acprof-9780199916306

Love and Liberation: Autobiographical Writings of the Tibetan Buddhist Visionary Sera Khandro - a book

"Sarah H. Jacoby's analysis focuses on the status of the female body in Sera Khandro's texts, the virtue of celibacy versus the expediency of sexuality for religious purposes, and the difference between profane lust and sacred love between male and female tantric partners. Her findings add new dimensions to our understanding of Tibetan Buddhist consort practices, complicating standard scriptural presentations of male subject and female aide. Sera Khandro depicts herself and Drimé Özer as inseparable embodiments of insight and method that together form the Vajrayana Buddhist vision of complete buddhahood. By advancing this complementary sacred partnership, Sera Khandro carved a place for herself as a female virtuoso in the male-dominated sphere of early twentieth-century Tibetan religion."

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/love-and-liberation/9780231147682