Reading List

Dalai Lama, How to Practise. London:Rider Books. 2002

Life of the Buddha: http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=P2NLQGrbf5U

Goldstein, Joseph, Insight Mediation, The Practice of Freedom. Dublin: Newleaf,

1993.

Harvey, Peter. An Introduction to Buddhism : teachings, history, and practices. New

York : Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Rahula, W. What the Buddha Taught. London: the Gorden Fraser Gallery Ltd, 1978.

Robinson, R., Johnson, W., The Buddhist Religions, A historical introduction. New

York: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1997.

Schumann, H.W. The Historical Buddha. London: Arkana Penguin Books, 1989.

Thich Nhat Hanh; Living Buddha, Living Christ. New York, Riverhead Books.

1995.

Thich Nhat Hanh; Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha,

Parallax Press, 1991

Yin-shun; transl. Yeung, W.H,. The Way to Buddhahood. Boston: Wisdom

Publications, 1998.

釋衍空, 《生命的出路—智者的足跡和開導》; 東蓮覺苑, 2005.

Harris, Sam. The End of Faith

http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=J3YOIImOoYM&feature=related

References and Internet Resources

Encyclopaedia of Buddhism, eds., Robert E. Buswell, Jr., Ed. New York: Macmillan

Reference USA, 2003. 982 pp. 2 vols. This encyclopedia describes the Buddhist world

view, basic teachings and practices of Buddhism, as well as its different schools and

sects. This Encyclopedia needs subscription, so use it through HKU Electronic

Recourses.

Encyclopedia of Religion. Lindsay Jones, Ed. 2nd ed. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA,

2005. 10735 pp. 15 vols. This Encyclopedia needs subscription, so use it through HKU

Electronic Recourses.

Encyclopædia Britannica Online. This Encyclopædia needs subscription, so use it

through HKU Electronic Recourses.

Digital Dictionary of Buddhism, eds., Charles Muller. This is an internet based

dictionary similar to Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms, by Soothill and Hodous, but

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has much more entries. If you know the Chinese Buddhist technical terms, but do not

know how to translate it into English, please visit Muller’s DDB website address:

http://www.acmuller.net/ddb/ Users can access the search function with the user ID

of "guest" (case-sensitive, no quotes), leaving the password area blank allowing 20

searches in a 24 hour period. To search Sanskrit and other terms containing diacritics,

type in the term in simple ascii.

A Dictionary of Buddhism, eds., Damien Keown. This Dictionary needs subscription, so

use it through HKU Electronic Recourses.

Accesstoinsight. This is a website entirely dedicated to the teaching of Theravada

Buddhism including the Pali Canon, Theravada text archive and sources. Most of the

Pali texts are translated into English for free distribution. Website address:

www.accesstoinsight.org/

Journal of Buddhist Ethics. This is a web based academic journal for free distribution.

Web address: http://www.jbe.gold.ac.uk/

Taisho Edition of Chinese Tripitaka. If you can read classical Chinese and wish to refer

to the original Chinese texts, please visit http://www.cbeta.org/index.htm. This website

includes volumes 1-55 & 85 of Taisho Edition of Chinese Tripitaka.

Buddhist Digital Library and Museum. There is a good collection of academic articles

some with full texts in both Chinese and English. It is a good place to relevant academic

articles for your study. Website address: http://buddhism.lib.ntu.edu.tw/BDLM/

Buddhasasana. You can find many full text articles on Buddhism in English, but not all

of them are academic so you have to be selective. The website address is:

http://www.saigon.com/~anson/ebud/ebidx.htm

The Internet Sacred Text Archive. You can find the old texts of almost all major religions

in the world in this site and you can also copy the full texts if you wish. For instance,

you can find the Sacred Books of the East. Website address:

http://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm

Mahayana Buddhist Sutras in English. In this site you can find some popular

Chinese Mahayana texts in English translation. Website address:

http://www4.bayarea.net/~mtlee/

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JSTOR The Scholarly Journal Archive. This Archive needs subscription, so use it

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