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Alphabetical by Author:

Abelsen, Peter

◦ Schopenhauer and Buddhism

Allon, Mark

◦ The Oral Composition and Transmission of Early Buddhist Texts

Baer, Ruth A.

◦ Measuring Mindfulness

Barclay, Winston F.

◦ On Words and Meaning: The Attitude Toward Discourse in the Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra

Barns, Gina L.

◦ An Introduction to Buddhist Archaeology

Bastow, David

◦ The Mahā-vibāṣā Arguments for Sarvāstivāda

Batchlor, Martine

◦ Meditation and Mindfulness

Bechert, Heinz

◦ The Date of the Buddha Reconsidered

Bodhi

◦ What Does Mindfulness Really Mean? A Canonical Perspective

Bond, George D.

◦Self or No-Self in Theravāda Buddhism (reviews):

Selfless Persons: Imagery and Thought in Theravāda Buddhism, by Steven Collins. Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp. 323

Self and Non-Self in Early Buddhism, by Joaquín Pérez Remón. The Hague: Mouton Publishers, 1980 Pp. 412

◦ The Development and Elaboration of the Arahant Ideal in the Theravāda Buddhist Tradition

◦ Theravāda Buddhism’s Meditations on Death and the Symbolism of Initiatory Death

Boucher, Daniel

◦ Gāndhāri and the Early Chinese Buddhist Translations Reconsidered: The Case of the Saddharmapuṇḍarīkasūtra

Brancaccio, Pia

◦ The Buddhist Caves at Aurangabad: The Impact of the Laity

Brereton; Joel P

◦ “Tat Tvam Asi” in Context

Brekke, Torkel

◦ The Early Saṃgha and the Laity

Bronkhorst, Johannes

◦ Did the Buddha Believe in Karma and Rebirth?

Bucknell, Roderick S.

◦ Conditioned Arising Evolves: Variation and Change in Textual Accounts of the Paṭicca-samuppāda Doctrine

◦ Reinterpreting the Jhānas

◦ The Buddhist Path to Liberation: An Analysis of the Listing of Stages

Burns, Charlene

◦ “Soul-Less” Christianity and the Buddhist Emperical Self: Buddhist-Christian Convergence”

Burnett, Richard

◦ Mindfulness in Schools: Learning lessons from the adults – secular and Buddhist

Burton, David

◦ Knowledge and Liberation: Philosophical Ruminations on a Buddhist Conundrum

Bush, Mirabai

◦ Mindfulness in Higher Education

Caillat, Colette

◦ Gleanings from a Comparative Reading of Early Canonical Buddhist and Jaina Texts

Châu, Thích Thién

◦ The Literature of the Pudgalavādins

Carrier, Richard

◦ Proving a Negative

Ching, Julia

◦ Paradigms of the Self in Buddhism and Christianity

Collins, Steven

◦ On the Very Idea of the Pali Canon

Connolly, Peter

◦ The Vitalistic Antecedents of the Ātman-Brahman Concept

Comans, Michael

◦ The Question of the Importance of Smādhi in Modern and Classical Advaita Vedānta

Coseru, Christian

◦ Buddhist ‘Foundationalism’ and the Phenomenology of Perception

Crosby, Kate

◦ The Sutta on Understanding Death in the Transmission of Borān Meditation from Siam to the Kandyan Court

Cousins, Lance Selwyn

◦ Aspects of Esoteric Southern Buddhism

◦ How Buddhism Began: The Conditioned Gensis of the Early Teachings by Richard F. Gombrich (Review)

◦ Pāli Oral Literature

◦ The Dating of the Historical Buddha: A review article

◦ The ‘Five Points’ and the Origins of the Buddhist Schools

◦ The Origins of Insight Meditation

◦ Samatha-yāna and Vipassanā-yāna  

◦ Sākiyabhikkhu/Sakayabhikkhu/Śākyabhikṣu: A Mistaken link to Mahāyāna?

◦ Vitakka/Vitarka and Vicāra: Stages of Smādhi in Buddhism and Yoga

Cox, Collett

◦ Derpendent Origination: Its Elaboration in Early Sarvāstivādin Abhidharma Texts

Crangle, Edward F.

◦ A Comparison of Hindu and Buddhist Techniques of Attaining Samādhi

◦ Concerning the Truth About Ultimate Things

Davidson, Ronald M.

◦ An Introduction to the Standards of Scriptural Authenticity in Indian Buddhism

Deleanu, Florin

◦ Mindfulness of Breathing in the Dhyāna Sūtras

Derrett, J. Duncan M.

◦ Consolation and a Parable: Two Contacts between Ancient Greece and Buddhists

Dreyfus, George

◦ Is Mindfulness Present-Centered and Non-Judgmental? A Discussion of the Cognitive Dimensions of Mindfulness

Dunne, John

◦ Toward an Understanding of Non-Dual Mindfulness

Emavardhana, Tipawadee

◦ Changes in Self-Concept, Ego Defence Mechanisms, and Religiosity Following Seven-Day Vipassanā Meditation Retreats

Federman, Asaf

◦ What Kind of Free Will did the Buddha Teach?

◦ What Buddhism Taught Cognitive Science about Self, Mind and Brain

◦ Literal Means and Hidden Meanings: A New Analysis of Skillful Means

Feldman, Cristina

◦ Compassion in the Landscape of Suffering

Fennell, Melanie

◦ Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: Culture clash or Creative Fusion?

Findly, Ellison Banks

◦ Ānanda’s Hindrance: Faith (saddhā) in Early Buddhism

Freiberger, Oliver

◦ The Buddhist Canon and the Canon of Buddhist Studies

Fronsdal, Gil

◦ Insight Meditation in the United States: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness

Garfield, Jay L.

◦ Dependent Arising and the Emptiness of Emptiness: Why did Nāgārjuna Start with Causation?

Gethin, Rupert

◦ He Who Sees Dhamma Sees Dhammas: Dhamma in Early Buddhism

◦ On the Practice of Buddhist Meditation According to the Pāli Nikāyas and Exegetical Sources

◦ On Some Definitions of Mindfulness

Ghosh, Bhajagovinda

◦ Upanishadic Terms in Buddhism

Giles, James

◦ The No-Self Theory: Hume, Buddhism, and Personal Identity

Gilkey, Langdon

◦ The Christian Understanding of Suffering

Giustarini, Giuliano

◦ A Note on Saḷāyatanas in the Pāli Nikāyas

Gokhale, Balkrishna Govind

◦ Early Buddhism and the Urban Revolution

Gombrich, Richard Francis

◦ Ancient Indian Cosmology

◦ Buddhist Karma and Social Control

◦ Feminine Elements of Sinhalese Buddhism

◦ How the Mahāyāna Began

◦ Fifty Stanzas of a Thief

◦ “Merit Transference” In Sinhalese Buddhism: A Case Study of the Interaction Between Doctrine and Practice

◦ Reccovering the Buddha's Message

◦ The Duty of a Buddhist: according to the Pāli scriptures

◦ The Significance of Former Buddhas in the Theravādin Tradition

Griffiths, Paul

◦ Concentration or Insight: The Problematic of Theravāda Buddhist Meditation-Theory

Grossmann, Paul

◦ Mindfulness by Any Other Name…: Trials and Tribulations of Sati in Western Psychology and Science

Hamilton, Sue

◦ Anattā: A Different Approach

Harrison, Paul M.

◦ Relying on the Dharma and not the Person: Refection on Authority and Transmission in
Buddhism and Buddhist Studies

◦ Searching For the Origins of the Mahāyāna: What are we looking for?

◦ Who Gets to Ride in the Great Vehicle? Self-Image and Identity Among the Followers of the Early Mahāyāna

Hartranft, Chip

◦ Did the Buddha Teach Satipaṭṭhāna?

Harvey, Peter

◦ “Freedom of the Will” in the Light of Theravāda Buddhist Teachings

◦ “Signless” Meditations in Pāli Buddhism

◦ The Mind-Body in Pāli Buddhism: A Philosophical Investigation

◦ The Symbolism of the Early Stūpa

Heirman, Ann

◦ Some Remarks on the Rise of the bhikṣuṇīsaṃgha and on the Ordination Ceremony for

bhikṣuṇīs according to the Dharmaguptaka Vinaya

◦ What Happened to the Nun Maitreyī? 

Hershock, Peter D.

◦ Person as Narration: The Dissolution of ‘Self’ and ‘Other’ in Ch’an Buddhism

Hodge, Sterphen

◦ Chinese for Pāḷi Students : Introduction

Johansson, Rune E.A.

◦ Citta, Mano, Viññāṇa – A psychosemantic Investigation

Jones, Dhivan Thomas

◦ New Light on the Twelve Nidānas

Jurewicz, Joanna

◦ Playing with Fire: The pratītyasamutpāda from the perspective of Vedic thought

Kabat-Zinn, Jon

◦ Mindfulness: Diverse Perspectives on its Meaning, Origins, and Multiple Applications at the Intersection of Science and Dharma

◦ Some Reflections on the Origins of MBSR, Skillful Means, and the Trouble with Maps

Kalupahana, David J. ( In Memoriam: David J. Kalupahana - 1933-2014)

◦ A Buddhist Tract on Empiricism

◦ The Buddha’s “Middle Way” as a Vehicle of Culture

◦ The Buddhist conceptions of "subject" and "object" and their moral implications

◦ The Buddhist conception of time and temporality

◦ The Buddhist Tantric Deconstruction and Reconstruction: Their Sūtra Origin

◦ The Early Buddhist Notion of the Middle Path

◦ The Notion of Suffering in Early Buddhism compared with some reflections of early Wittgenstein

Kawanami, Hiroko

◦ The Religious Standing of Burmese Buddhist Nuns (thilá-shin): The Ten Precepts and Religious Respect Words

Kearney, Patrick

◦ Still Crazy after all these Years: Why Meditation isn’t Psychotherapy

Kheminda Thera

◦ Path, Fruit and Nibbāna

Kieffer-Pülz, Petra

◦ Rules for the sīmā Regulation in the Vinaya and its Commentaries and their Application in Thailand

Kosuta, Matthew

◦ Theravada Emptiness: The Abhidhammic theory of Ajaan Sujin Boriharnwanaket

Kuan, Tse-fu

◦ Clarification on Feelings in Buddhist Dhyāna/Jhāna Meditation

◦ Rethinking Non-self: A New Perspective from the Ekottarika Āgama

◦ Saññā and Sati

Lamotte, Étienne

◦ Conditioned Co-production and Supreme Enlightenment

◦ Religious Suicide in Early Buddhism

Lancaster, Lewis R.

◦ The Oldest Mahāyāna Sūtra: Its significance for the study of Buddhist development

Lewis, Joy Manné

◦ (review): Selfless Persons: Imagery and Thought in Theravāda Buddhism. Ix, 323pp. Cambridge (University Press)

Liu, Jiahe

◦ Early Buddhism and Taoism in China (A.D. 65 – 420)

Loy, David R.

◦ Awareness Bound and Unbound: Realizing the Nature of Attention

◦ The Nonduality of Life and Death: A Buddhist View of Repression

Luyster, Robert W.

◦ The Concept of the Self in the Upaniṣads: Its Origin and Symbols 

Maex, Edel

◦ The Buddhist Roots of Mindfulness Training: A Practitioners View

Malalasekera, G.P.

◦ The Status of the Individual in Theravāda Buddhism

Martin, Raymond

◦ Would It Matter All That Much if There Were No Selves?

Muller, Charles

◦ Innate Enlightenment and No-thought: A Response to the Critical Buddhist Position on Zen

Myers, Michael W.

◦ Tat tvam asi as Advadic Metaphor

Nakamura, Hajime

◦ The Theory of ‘Dependent Origination’ in its Incipient Stage

Nicholson, Hugh

◦ The Spirit of Contradiction in the Buddhist Doctrine of Not-Self

Nizamis, Khristos

◦ ‘I’ without ‘I am’: On the Presence of Subjectivity in Early Buddhism, in the Light of Transcendental Phenomenology

◦ The Mind’s ‘I’ in Meditation: Early Pāḷi Buddhadhamma and Transcendental Phenomenology in Mutual Reflection

Norman, Kenneth Roy

◦ A Note on Attā in the Alagaddūpama Sutta

◦ Aspects of Early Buddhism

◦ On Translating from Pāli

◦ Pāli Philology and the Study of Buddhism

◦ Theravāda Buddhism and Brahmanical Hinduism: Brahmanical Terms in a Buddhist Guise

◦ The Four Noble Truths

◦ The Nine Treasures of the Cakravartin

◦ The Origin of Pāli and its Position among the Indo-European Languages

◦ The Pāḷi Language and the Theravādin Tradition (from: A History of Indian Literature Vol. VII. Facs. 2. Pāli Literature. 1983

◦ The Pratyeka-Buddha in Buddhism and Jainism

◦ Why Are the Four Noble Truths Called “Noble”

Olendzki, Andrew

◦ The Construction of Mindfulness

Paññobhāsa Bhikkhu

◦ Essay on the Aggregates of the Mind

Prebish, Charles S.

◦ Cooking the Buddhist Books

Priestley, Leonard

◦ Pudgalavāda Buddhist Philosophy

Radich, Michael

◦ Immortal Buddhas and their indestructible embodiments: The advent of the concept of vajrakāya

Rāhula, Walpola

◦ A Comparative Study of Dhāyanas according to Theravāda, Sarvāstivāda and Mahāyāna

Ratnayaka, Shanta

◦ The Bodhisattva Ideal of Theravāda

Reat, Noble Ross

◦ Karma and Rebirth in the Upaniṣads and Buddhism

Reference Lists:

◦ References to Early Buddhism Resources

Rhi, Juhyung

◦ Some Textual Parallels for Gandhāran Art: Fasting Buddhas, Lalitavistara, and Karuṇāpuṇḍarīkai

Robinson, Richard H.

◦ Some Buddhist and Hindu Concepts of Intellect-Will

Ruegg, David Seyfor

◦ The Kalawān Copper-plate Inscription: Early Evidence for Mahāyāna-type Thinking?

Rupp, George

◦ The Relationship Between Nirvāṇa and Samsāra: An Essay on the Evolution of Buddhist Ethics

Salgado, Nirmala S.

◦ Ways of Knowing and Transmitting Religious Knowledge: Case Studies of Theravāda Buddhist Nuns

Salomon, Richard

◦ A New Kharoṣṭhī Inscription

◦ On an Alleged Reference to Amitābha in a Kharoṣṭhī Inscription on a Gandhāran Relief

◦ The Senior Manuscripts: Another Collection of Gandhāran Buddhist Scrolls

Salzberg, Sharon

◦ Mindfulness and Loving-Kindness

Santorelli, Saki F.

◦ ‘Enjoy Your Death’: Leadership Lessons Forged in the Crucible of Organizational Death and Rebirth Infused with Mindfulness and Mastery

Schopen, Gregory

◦ The Inscription on the Kuṣān Image of Amitābha and the Charakter of the Early Mahāyāna in India

◦ The Lay Ownership of Monasteries and the Role of the Monk in Mūlasarvāstivādin Monasticism

◦ The Mahāyāna and the Middle Period of Indian Buddhism: Through a Chinese Looking-glass

Seeger, Martin

◦ The Bhikkhunī-ordination controversy in Thailand

Sharf, Robert H.

◦ Buddhist Modernism and the Rhetoric of Meditative Experience

◦ On the Allure of Buddhist Relics

◦ Ritual

◦ The Idolization of Enlightenment: On the Mummification of Ch'an Masters in Medieval China

◦ The Rhetoric of Experience and the Study of Religion

Sharma, Arvind

◦ A Note on the Use of the Word Hīnayāna

◦ An Inquiry into the Nature of the Distinction Between the History of Religion and the Phenomenology of Religion

◦ Is Anubhava a Pramāṇa According to Śaṅkara?

◦ Rune E.A. Johansson’s Analysis of Citta: A Criticism

Shulman, Eviatar

◦ Early Meanings of Dependent-Origination

◦ Mindful Wisdom: The Sati-paṭṭhāna-sutta on Mindfulness, Memory, and Liberation

◦ Nuns, Laywomen, Donors, Goddesses: Female Roles in Early Buddhism

◦ Scriptural Authenticity and the Śrāvaka Schools: An Essay towards an Indian Perspective

Shults, Brett

◦ On the Buddha's Use of Some Brahmanical Motifs in Pali Texts

Singh, Sanghasen

◦ Prakrit Versus Sanskrit: A Case Study of Pāli (Māgadhī) and Ardhamāgadhī

Sircar, D.C.

◦ Some Problems of Textual Study

Skilling, Peter

◦ Eṣā Agrā: Images of Nuns in (Mūla-)Sarvāstivādin Literature

◦ Scriptural Authenticity and the Śrāvaka Schools: An Essay towards an Indian Perspective

So, Hoang Trong

◦ On the Form of Existence of Theravāda Buddhism in Vietnam

Stuart-Fox, Martin

◦ Jhāna and Buddhist Scholasticism

Strenski, Ivan

◦ On Generalized Exchange and the Domestication of the Sangha

Sugunasiri, Suwanda H. J.

◦ The Whole Body, Not Heart, as 'Seat of Consciousness': The Buddha's View

Sujato

◦ Nibbana is not viññāṇa, it just isn’t

◦ Sects and Sectarianism: The Origins of Buddhist Schools

Taber, John A.

◦ The Mīmāṃsā theory of self-recognition

Teasdale, John D.

◦ How does Mindfulness Transform Suffering? I: The Nature and Origins of Dukkha

Véliz, Carissa

◦ Equivocalities of the Definition and Practice of Mindfulness

Von Hinüber, Oskar

◦ Buddhist Law According to the Theravāda-Vinaya: A survey of Theory and Practice

◦ Buddhist Law According to the Theravāda Vinaya II: Some Additions and Corrections

◦ Hoary Past and Hazy Memory: On the History of Early Buddhist Texts

Walser, Joseph

◦ The Origin of the Term ‘Mahāyāna’ (The Great Vehicle) and its Relationship to the Āgamas

Wallace B. Alan

◦What did the Buddha really mean by “mindfulness”

Williams, David M.

◦ The Translation and Interpretation of the Twelve Terms in the Paṭiccasamuppāda

Wiltshire, Martin G.

◦ The “Suicide” Problem in the Pāli Canon

Wayman, Alex

◦Who Understands the Four Alternatives of the Buddhist Texts?

Wynne, Alexander

◦ Early Evidence for the ‘no self’ doctrine? A note on the second anātman teaching of the Second Sermon

◦ Miraculous Transformation and Personal Identity: A note on The First anātman Teaching of the Second Sermon

◦ On the Sarvāstivādins and Mūlasarvāstivadins           

◦ The ātman and its negation: A conceptual and chronological analysis of early Buddhist Thought

◦ The Historical Authenticity of Early Buddhist Literature: A Critical Evaluation

◦ The Oral Transmission of the Early Buddhist Literature

Young, Katherine K.

◦ The Issue of the Buddha as Vedagū, with Reference to the Formation of the Dhamma and the Dialectic with the Brahmins

Yün-Hua, Jan

◦ Problems of Tao and Tao Te Ching

Zeuschner, Robert B.

◦ The Meaning of “Hinayāna” in Northern Ch’an

Zysk, Kenneth G.

◦ Studies in Traditional Indian Medicine in the Pāli Canon: Jīvaka and Āyurveda

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 
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