Buddhist, Confucian, and Daoist E-texts, Indexes, and Bibliographies

The page includes:

1. Translations
2. Digital indexes
3. Specialized Bibliographies
4. CJK scriptural e-texts



Maintained by Charles Muller, University of Tokyo
http://www.acmuller.net/digitexts.html

Zen Bibliography (2014)

A selective bibliography created for a Religious Studies course at Kenyon College by Professor Joseph Adler
Topics included:

General

China

Japan

Dogen

Monastic life

Arts

Korea

Vietnam

Women

America

Modern philosophy

Ethics

http://www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/Religion/Fac/Adler/Reln360/Zen-bib.htm

Buddhanet's World Buddhist Directory

A directory of Buddhist resources searchable by geographic location and keyword terms.  Also available as a phone app.

http://www.buddhanet.info/wbd/

The Face of the Buddha: a book

"Taking up a teaching appointment in Tokyo in 1931, the English poet and literary critic William Empson found himself captivated by the Buddhist sculptures of ancient Japan, and spent the years that followed in search of similar examples all over Korea, China, Cambodia, Burma, India, and Ceylon, as well as in the great museums of the West. Compiling the results of these wide-ranging travels into what he considered to be one of his most important works, Empson was heartbroken when he mislaid the sole copy of the manuscript in the wake of the Second World War. The Face of the Buddha remained one of the great lost books until its surprise rediscovery sixty years later, and is published here for the first time. The book provides an engaging record of Empson's reactions to the cultures and artworks he encountered during his travels, and presents experimental theories about Buddhist art that many authorities of today have found to be remarkably prescient. It also casts important new light on Empson's other works, highlighting in particular the affinities of his thinking with that of the religious and philosophical traditions of Asia."

For table of contents and other details:

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-face-of-the-buddha-9780199659678?prevSortField=8&sortField=8&start=40&resultsPerPage=20&q=buddhism&facet_narrowbytype_facet=Academic%20Research&prevNumResPerPage=20&lang=en&cc=us#

Digital Dictionary of Buddhism

Edited by A. Charles Muller

Established July, 1995: Updated monthly

DDB Entry Total (2017/5/31): 67,801

From the Introduction:

Introduction

The Digital Dictionary of Buddhism [DDB] is a compilation of Chinese ideograph-based terms, texts, temple, schools, persons, etc. found in Buddhist canonical sources. The Chinese-Japanese-Korean-Vietnamese/English Dictionary [CJKV-E] is a compilation of Chinese ideographs, as well as ideograph-comprised compound words, text names, person names, etc., found primarily in the Confucian and Daoist classics. It also includes vocabulary from Neo-Confucian texts, as well as other philosophical and historical sources. Its information on individual ideographs is intended to be comprehensive, containing pronunciations and meanings from ancient and modern sources from the Sinitic cultural sphere including China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. Modern-day compound words are included incidentally, but the coverage of modern materials is not intended to be comprehensive.

http://www.buddhism-dict.net/ddb/

Buddhist eLibrary

"The Buddhist eLibrary is an initiative of Buddhanet.net, run by the Buddha Dharma Education Association Inc. (BDEA), which is located at the Bodhi Tree Forest Monastery, NSW Australia, currently in partnership with Mahachulalongkorn University, International Buddhist College (IBC), and the Buddhist Maha Vihara (BMV).

Primarily, the eLibrary is a Digital Resource Library of Buddhist study material that can be freely downloaded via the World Wide Web. Further, as it expands, it aims to develop a web-based interactive learning environment to disseminate the Teachings of the Buddha Dharma."

"The Buddhist eLibrary has been setup to support the study and practice of the Buddha´s Teachings in all Buddhist traditions. As the eLibrary develops we hope eventually to include the cultures and languages they represent as well.

Therefore, we seek your ongoing involvement and support in developing this resource so that the eLibrary can comprehensively cater for all who use its resources, whether for academic use or just general interest.
 

We do not charge or restrict the use of the content, so whether you are new to the Buddha´s Teachings or wish to expand your knowledge, please feel free to make use of the material that is offered."

http://www.buddhistelibrary.org/en/index.php?lang=english

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