American Buddhism
A Bibliography on Buddhist Traditions and Schools
in the U.S.A. and Canada
June 1999
by Martin Baumann
Note:
During the past two decades, research on Buddhism in North America has
expanded tremendously. This bibliography is meant to serve as a preliminary
guide to the main scholarly accounts on the history, development and state
of affairs of Buddhism in the U.S.A. and Canada. It is not intended to
provide an exhaustive listing of studies. This has already been done for
Buddhism in Australia (by Michelle Spuler,
http://www.vuw.ac.nz/religion/spuler/biblio.htm) and for Buddhism in Europe
(by myself, http://www.rewi.uni-hannover.de/for.htm). Rather, mainly
important books and articles are compiled herein. These are added by some
few practitioners' observations or memoires and occasionally followed by
references to web-pages, videos and films. These listings certainly remain
incomplete and suggestions for further entries are gratefully appreciated.
The bibliography is structured in a threefold way:
* Section 1 lists studies surveying generally Buddhism in North America.
* Section 2 delineates 'American Buddhism' according to the variety of
Buddhist traditions and schools. This section is arranged roughly in
accordance with a tradition's appearance in North America.
* Section 3 refers to issues at stake in the history and adaptation of
Buddhism in North America.
1. General Studies. Surveying American Buddhism
1. Basic Books and Editions
Fields, Rick. How the Swans Came to the Lake. A Narrative History
of Buddhism in America. 1981. 2nd ed., rev. and updated 1988. 3rd
ed., rev. and updated. Boulder, CO: Shambhala Publ., 1992.
Layman, Emma. Buddhism in America. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1976.
Prebish, Charles S. American Buddhism. North Scituate, Mass.:
Duxbury Press, 1979.
Prebish, Charles S. Luminous Passage. The Practice and Study of
Buddhism in America. Berkeley: University of California Press,
1999.
Prebish, Charles S. and Kenneth K. Tanaka (eds.); The Faces of
Buddhism in America. Berkeley: University of California Press
1998.
Seager, Richard Hugh, Buddhism in America. Columbia Series on
Contemporary American Religions. New York: Columbia University
Press, 1999.
Williams, Duncan Ryuken and Christopher S. Queen (eds.). American
Buddhism: Methods and Findings in Recent Scholarship. Richmond,
UK: Curzon Press, 1999.
2. Directories and Compilation of University Theses
Lorie, Peter and Hillary Foakes (eds.). The Buddhist Directory:
The Total Buddhist Resource Guide. Boston: Tuttle, 1997.
Morreale, Don (ed.), The Complete Guide to Buddhist America. Sante
Fe, 2nd ed., rev. and updated. Bosotn, London: Shambhala, 1998
(first ed. New Mexico: John Muir Publications, 1988)
Williams, Duncan Ryuken. "Dissertations and Thesis on American
Buddhism." In Duncan Ryuken Williams and Christopher S. Queen
(eds.), American Buddhism: Methods and Findings in Recent
Scholarship. Richmond, UK: Curzon Press, 1999, 262-266. [75
titles]
Williams, Duncan Ryuken. "North American Dissertations and Theses
on Topics Related to Buddhism." In In Duncan Ryuken Williams and
Christopher S. Queen (eds.), American Buddhism: Methods and
Findings in Recent Scholarship. Richmond, UK: Curzon Press, 1999,
267-311. [some 850 titles]
"DharmaNet's US Guide to Dharma Centres" [on-line] (17 May, 1999)
URL http://www.dharmanet.org/Dir/Usa
3. Further Books and Articles
Albanese, Catherine L. America: Religions and Religion. 2nd ed.
Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 1992, 310-318.
Batchelor, Stephen. The Awakening of the West: The Encounter of
Buddhism and Western Culture. Berkeley: Parallax Press, 1994.
Baumann, Martin. "Buddhism in the West: Phases, Orders and the
Creation of an Integrative Buddhism." Internationales Asienforum
27, 3-4 (1996), 345-362.
Baumann, Martin. "The Dharma has come West. A Survey of Recent
Studies and Sources." Journal of Buddhist Ethics 4 (1997),
194-211, http://jbe.la.psu.edu/4/baum2.html. Repr. Critical Review
of Books in Religion 10 (1997), 1-14.
Cabezón, José. "Buddhist Studies as a Discipline and the Role of
Theory." Journal of the International Association of Buddhist
Studies 18, 2 (Winter 1995), pp. 231-68.
Coleman, Graham (ed.). A Handbook of Tibetan Culture: A Guide to
Tibetan Centres and Resources Throughout the World. London: Rider,
1993.
Cox, Harvey. Turning East: The Promise and Peril of the New
Orientalism. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1977.
Eck, Diana L. (with the Pluralism Project at Harvard University).
On Common Ground: World Religions in America. New York: Columbia
University Press CD-Rom, 1997.
Ellwood, Robert S. "Buddhism in the West." In Mircea Eliade (ed.),
Encyclopedia of Religion. New York: Macmillan, 1987, Vol. 2,
436-439.
Fields, Rick. "The Future of American Buddhism." The Vajradhatu
Sun 9, 1 (1987), 1, 22, 24-26.
Fields, Rick. "Confessions of a White Buddhist." Tricycle: The
Buddhist Review 4, 1 (1994), 54-56.
Hunter, Louise. Buddhism in Hawaii. Honolulu: University of Hawaii
Press, 1971.
Jackson, Carl T. The Oriental Religions and American Thought.
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1981.
Jackson, Carl T. "The Influence of Asian upon American Thought: A
Bibliographical Essay." American Studies International 22 (1984),
3-31.
Kornfield, Jack. "Is Buddhism Changing North America?" In Don
Morreale (ed.), Buddhist America: Centers, Retreats, Practices.
Sante Fe, New Mexico: John Muir Publications, 1988, xi-xxviii,
repr. in the 2nd ed., 1998,
Lancaster, Lewis R. "Buddhism in the United States: The Untold and
Unfinished Story." Shambhala Review 5, 1-2 (1976), 23-25.
Macy, Joanna. "The Balancing of American Buddhism," Primary Point
3, 1 (February 1986).
Prebish, Charles S. "Reflections of the Transmission of Buddhism
to America." In Jacob Needleman and George Baker (eds.),
Understanding the New Religions. New York: Seabury Press, 1978,
153-72.
Prebish, Charles S. "Karma and Rebirth in the Land of the
Earth-Eaters." In Ronald W. Neufeldt (ed.), Karma and Rebirth:
Post Classical Development. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New
York Press, 1986.
Prebish, Charles S., "Ethics and Integration in American
Buddhism." Journal of Buddhist Ethics 2 (1995), 125-139.
Rapaport, Al (ed.). Buddhism in America: The Official Record of
the Landmark Conference on the Future of Buddhist Meditative
Practices in the West. Boston: Tuttle, 1997.
Rawlinson, Andrew. The Book of Enlightened Masters: Western
Teachers in Eastern Traditions. Chicago and La Salle: Open Court,
1997.
Seager, Richard Hughes. "Buddhist Worlds in the U.S.A: A Survey of
the Territory." In Duncan Ryuken Williams and Christopher S. Queen
(eds.), American Buddhism: Methods and Findings in Recent
Scholarship. Richmond, UK: Curzon Press, 1999, 238-261.
Strain, Charles R. "The Pacific Buddha's Wild Practice: Gary
Snyder's Environmental Ethic." In Duncan Ryuken Williams and
Christopher S. Queen (eds.), American Buddhism: Methods and
Findings in Recent Scholarship. Richmond, UK: Curzon Press, 1999,
143-167.
Tamney, Joseph B. American Society in the Buddhist Mirror. New
York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1992.
Tanaka, Kenneth K. "Epilogue: The Colors and Contours of American
Buddhism. In Charles S. Prebish and Kenneth K. Tanaka (eds.), The
Faces of Buddhism in America. Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1998, 287-298.
Tonkinson, Carole (ed.). Big Sky Mind: Buddhism and the Beat
Generation. New York: Riverhead Books, 1995.
Tweed, Thomas A. and Stephen Prothero, Asian Religions in America:
A Documentary History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
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1999) URL: http://www.hooked.net/~csangha/
"Tricycle: The Buddhist Review" [on-line] (17 May, 1999) URL
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4. Buddhism in Canada
Eldershaw, Lynn and Lorne L. Dawson. "Refugees in the Dharma: The
Buddhist Church of Halifax as a Revitalization Movement." In North
American Religion 4 (1995), Wilfred Laurier University Press,
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 1-45.
McLellan, Janet, "The Role of Buddhism in Managing Ethnic Identity
among Tibetans in Lindsay, Ontario." Canadian Ethnic Studies 19,
(1987), 63-76.
McLellan, Janet. "Hermit Carbs and Refugees: Adaptive Strategies
of Vietnamese Buddhists in Toronto." In Bruce Mathews (ed). The
Quality of Life in Southeast: Transforming Social, Political and
Natural Environments, Montreal: McGill University, S. 203-219.
McLellan, Janet. "Buddhist Identities in Toronto: The Interplay of
Local, National and Global Contexts." Social Compass 45, 2 (1998),
227-245.
McLellan, Janet. Many Petals of the Lotus. Asian Buddhist
Communities in Toronto. Toronto: University of Toronto Press,
1999.
Mullins, Mark R. "The Organizational Dilemmas of Ethnic Churches:
A Case Study of Japanese Buddhism in Canada." Sociological
Analysis 49, 3 (1988), 217-233.
Sugunasiri, Suwanda H.J. "Buddhism in Metropolitan Toronto: A
Preliminary Overview." Canadian Ethnic Studies 21, 2 (1989),
83-103.
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2. Buddhist Traditions and Schools in North America
1. Chinese Buddhism
Chandler, Stuart. "Chinese Buddhism in America: Identity and
Practice." In Charles S. Prebish and Kenneth K. Tanaka (eds.), The
Faces of Buddhism in America. Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1998, 13-30.
Chandler, Stuart. "Placing Palms Together: Religious Cultural
Dimensions of the Hsi Lai Temple Political Donations Controversy."
In Duncan Ryuken Williams and Christopher S. Queen (eds.),
American Buddhism: Methods and Findings in Recent Scholarship.
Surrey, UK: Curzon Press, 1998, 36-56.
Lee, Rose Hum. The Chinese in the United States. Hong Kong: Hong
Kong University Press, 1960.
Lin, Irene. "Journey to the Far West: Chinese Buddhism in
America." Amerasia Journal 22, 1 (1996), 107-132.
Miller, Stuart Creighton. The Unwelcome Immigrant: The American
Image of the Chinese, 1785-1882. Berkeley, Los Angeles: The
University of California Press 1969.
Pitkow, Marlene. "A Temple for Tourists in New York Chinatown,"
Journal of American Culture 10 (1987), 107-114.
Wells, Marianne Kaye. Chinese Temples in California. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1962; repr. San Francisco: R & E
Research Associates Reprints 1971.
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2. Japanese Buddhism: Pure Land: Jodo Shinshu
Becker, Carl. "Japanese Pure Land Buddhism in Christian America."
Buddhist-Christian Studies 10 (1990), 143-56.
Bloom, Alfred. "Shin Buddhism in America: A Social Perspective."
In Charles S. Prebish and Kenneth K. Tanaka (eds.), The Faces of
Buddhism in America. Berkeley: University of California Press,
1998, 31-47.
Bloom, Alfred. "The Unfolding of the Lotus: A Survey of Recent
Developments in Shin Buddhism in the West." Buddhist-Christian
Studies 10 (1990), 157-64.
Buddhist Churches of America. Buddhist Churches of America:
Seventy-Five Year History, 1899-1974. 2 volumes. Chicago: Nobart,
1974.
Fung, Gordon L. and Gregory Fung. "Adapting Jodo-Shinshu Teaching
for the West: An Approach Based on the American Work Ethic."
Pacific World NS 9 (Fall 1993), 24-31.
Kashima, Tetsuden. Buddhism in America: The Social Organization of
an Ethnic Religious Organization. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood
Press, 1977.
Kashima, Tetsuden. "The Buddhist Churches of America: Challenges
for a Change in the 21st Century. Pacific World NS 6 (Fall 1990),
28-40.
Lee, Robert. "Imagined Communities: Asian-America in the 1990s."
Journal of American-East Asian Relations 3 (1994), 181-91.
Tanaka, Kenneth K. Ocean: When Talking to Non-Buddhist and Other
Buddhist About Jodo-Shinshu Buddhism. Berkeley: Wisdom Ocean
Publ., 1997.
Tanaka, Kenneth K. "Issues of Ethnicity in the Buddhist Churches
of America." In Duncan Ryuken Williams and Christopher S. Queen
(eds.), American Buddhism: Methods and Findings in Recent
Scholarship. Richmond, UK: Curzon Press, 1999, 3-19.
Tuck, Donald. Buddhist Churches of America: Jodo Shinshu.
Lewiston, N.Y.: E. Mellen Press, 1987.
Yanagawa, Keiichi (ed.). Japanese Religions in California. Tokyo:
University of Tokyo, 1983.
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3. Japanese Buddhism: Zen
Activity Committee in Association of Soto Zen Buddhists, Buddha's
Seeds Taking Firm Roots in North American Soil. Los Angeles:
Association of Soto Zen Buddhists, 1997.
Aitken, Robert. Taking the Path of Zen. San Francisco: North Point
Press, 1982.
Aitken, Robert. Original Dwelling Place: Zen Buddhist Essays.
Washington, D. C.: Counterpoint, 1997.
Ames, Van Meter. Zen and American Thought. Honolulu: University of
Hawaii Press, 1962.
Asai, Senryo and Duncan Ryuken Williams, "Japanese American Zen
Temples: Cultural Identity and Economics. In Duncan Ryuken
Williams and Christopher S. Queen (eds.), American Buddhism:
Methods and Findings in Recent Scholarship. Richmaond, UK: Curzon
Press, 1999, 20-35.
Finney, Henry C. "American Zen's 'Japan Connection:' A Critical
Case Study of Zen Buddhism's Diffusion to the West." Sociological
Analysis 52, 4 (1991), 379-96.
Furlong, Monica, Zen effects, the Life of Alan Watts. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1986.
Glassman, Bernard and Rick Fields. Instruction to the Cook: A Zen
Master's Lessons in Living a Life That Matters. New York: Bell
Tower, 1996.
Hori, G. Victor Sogen. "Japanese Zen in America: Americanizing the
Face in the Mirror." In Charles S. Prebish and Kenneth K. Tanaka
(eds.), The Faces of Buddhism in America. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1998, 50-78.
Hori, G. Victor Sogen. "Sweet-and-Sour Buddhism." Tricycle: The
Buddhist Review, 4, 1 (1994), 48-52.
Hoshino, Eiki. "The Birth of an American Sangha: an Analysis of a
Zen Center in America." In Keiichi Yanagawa (ed.), Japanese
Religions in California. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Department of
Religious Studies, 1983, 29-72.
Kapleau, Philip. The Three Pillars of Zen: Teaching, Practice and
Enlightenment. Weatherhill, 1965. repr. Boston: Beacon Press 1967.
Kitagawa, Joseph T. "Buddhism in America, with Special Reference
to Zen." Japanese Religions 5 (1967), 32-57.
Kraft, Kenneth. "Recent Developments in North American Zen." In
Kenneth Kraft (ed.), Zen: Tradition and Transition. New York:
Grove Press, 1988, 178-198.
Loori, John Daido. The Eight Gates Of Zen: Spiritual Training in a
American Zen Monastery. Mt. Tremper, N.Y.: Dharma Communications,
1992.
Loori, John Daido. The Heart Of Being: Moral And Ethical Teachings
Of Zen Buddhism. Boston: Charles E. Tuttle, 1996.
Lachs, Stuart. "A Slice of Zen in America." New Ch'an Forum 10
(1994), 12-20.
MacPhillamy, Douglas J. "Some Personality Effects of Long-term Zen
Monasticism and Religious Understanding" Journal for the
Scientific Study of Religion, 25,3, (1986), 304-319.
Metcalf, Franz. "Zen in the West." Buddhist Spirituality: Later
China, Korea, Japan and the Modern World. New York: Crossroad,
1999, 496-510.
Senzaki, Nyogen, and Nakagawa Soen, Eido Shimano. Namu Dai Bosa: A
Transmission of Zen Buddhism to America. ed. by Louis Nordstrom.
New York: Zen Studies Center, 1976.
Preston, David L. The Social Organization of Zen Practice.
Constructing Transcultural Reality. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1988.
Sharf, Robert H."Sanbokyodan: Zen and the Way of the New
Religions." Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 22, 3-4 (1995),
417-458
Schneider, David. Street Zen: The Life and Work of Issan Dorsey.
Boston: Shambhala, 1993.
Shainberg, Lawrence. Ambivalent Zen: A Memoir. New York: Pantheon,
1995.
Storlie, Erik Fraser. Nothing on My Mind: An Intimate Account of
American Zen. Boston: Shambhala Publications, Inc., 1996.
Tipton, Steven M. Getting Saved from the Sixties: Meaning in
Conversion and Social Change. Berkeley, Calif.: University of
California Press 1982.
Tworkov, Helen. Zen in America: Profiles of Five Teachers. San
Francisco: North Point Press, 1989; repr. New York: Kodansha
America, Inc., 1994.
Watts, Alan. Beat Zen, Square Zen, and Zen. Revised edition. San
Francisco: City Lights Books, 1959.
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Watching the Rock Grow: the History of Zen Mountain Monastery,
[videocassette] exec. prod. John Daido Loori, 64 min., Dharma
Communications, 1990.
Now I Know You: A Video Tribute to Taizan Maezumi Roshi,
[videocassette] exec. prod. John Daido Loori, 56 min., Dharma
Communications, 1996.
Zen Center: Portrait of an American Zen Community, [videocassette]
directed by Lou Hawthorne, produced by Anne Cushman. 53 minutes.
Albuquerque: Miracle Productions. VHS videocassette, 1987.
4. Japanese Buddhism: Nichiren Shoshu and Soka Gakkai
Hammond, Phillip E. and David W. MacHacek. Soka Gakkai in America:
Accommodation and Conversion. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
1999.
Hammond, Phillip and David MacHacek. "Supply and Demand: The
Appeal of Buddhism in America." In Duncan Ryuken Williams and
Christopher S. Queen (eds.), American Buddhism: Methods and
Findings in Recent Scholarship. Richmond, UK: Curzon Press, 1999,
100-114.
Hurst, Jane. Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism and the Soka Gakkai in
America: The Ethos of a New Religious Movement. New York: Garland
Press, 1992.
Hurst, Jane. "Nichiren Shoshu and Soka Gakkai in America: The
Pioneer Spirit." In Charles S. Prebish and Kenneth K. Tanaka
(eds.), The Faces of Buddhism in America. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1998, 79-97.
McIntosh, Sandy. "As American As Apple Pie? An Insider's View of
Nichiren Shoshu." Tricycle: The Buddhist Review 2, 2 (Winter
1992).
Metraux, Daniel. The History and Theology of Soka Gakkai: A
Japanese New Religion. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1988.
Metraux, Daniel. The Lotus and the Maple Leaf: The Soka Gakkai
Buddhist Movement in Canada.Lewiston, NY: University Press of
America, 1996.
Snow, David A. "Organization, Ideology and Mobilization: The case
of Nichiren Shoshu in America." In David G. Bromley and Phillip E.
Hammond (eds.), The Future of New Religious Movements. Macon,
Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1987, 153-72.
Snow, David A. Shakubuku: A Study of the Nichiren Shoshu Buddhist
movement in America, 1960-1975. New York: Garland Publ., 1993.
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5. Vietnamese and Korean Buddhism
Bankston, Carl L. and Min Zhou. "The Ethnic Church, Ethnic
Identification, and the Social Adjustment of Vietnamese
Adolescents." Review of Religious Review 38, 1 (1996), 18-37.
Barber, A.W. and Cuong T. Nguyen. "Vietnamese Buddhism in North
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Breyer, Chloe Anne. "Religious Liberty in Law and Practice:
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Church and State 35 (Spring 1993), 368-401.
Eui-Young Yu, "The Growth of Korean Buddhism in the United States,
with Special Reference to Southern California." Pacific World:
Journal of the Institute of Buddhist Studies, NS, 4 (1988), 82-93.
Farber, Don and Fields, Rick. Taking Refuge in L.A.: Life in a
Vietnamese Buddhist Temple. New York: Aperture Foundation, 1987.
Hein, Jeremy. From Vietnam, Laos and Combadia: Refugee Experience
in the United States, New York: Twayne Publ., 1995.
McLellan, Janet. "Hermit Carbs and Refugees: Adaptive Strategies
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Rutledge, Paul James. "The Role of Religion in Ethnic
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Soeng, Mu. "Korean Buddhism in America: A New Style of Zen." In
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Buddhism in America. Berkeley: University of California Press,
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6. Laotian and Cambodian Buddhism
Canda, Edward R. and Thitiya Phaobtong. "Buddhism as a Support
System for Southeast Asian Refugees." Social Work 37, 1 (1992),
61-67.
Hein, Jeremy. From Vietnam, Laos and Combadia: Refugee Experience
in the United States, New York: Twayne Publ., 1995.
Mortland, Carol A. "Khmer Buddhists in the United States: Ultimate
Questions." In May M. Ebihara and Judy Ledgerwood (eds.),
Cambodian Culture since 1975. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University
Press, 1984, 72-90.
Van Esterik, Penny. Taking Refuge: Lao Buddhists in North America,
Tempe, AZ: Program for Southeast Asian Studies, Arzona State
University, 1992.
Van Esterik, Penny. "Ritual and the Performance of Buddhist
Identity among Lao Buddhists in North America." In Duncan Ryuken
Williams and Christopher S. Queen (eds.), American Buddhism:
Methods and Findings in Recent Scholarship. Richmond, UK: Curzon
Press, 1999, 57-68.
Rebuilding the Temple: Cambodians in America, [film] by Claudia
Levin and Lawrence Hott, Direct Cinema Limited, 1991.
7. Theravada Tradition and Vipassana Meditation
Bankston, Carl L. "Bayon Lotus: Theravada Buddhism in
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Fronsdal, Gil. "Insight Meditation in the United States: Life,
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Fronsdal, Gil. "Theravada Spirituality in the West." Buddhist
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York: Crossroad, 1999, 482-495.
Numrich, Paul David. "Vinaya in Theravada Temples in the United
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Numrich, Paul David. Old Wisdom in the New World: Americanization
in Two Immigrant Theravada Buddhist Temples. Knoxville, TN:
University of Tennessee Press, 1996.
Numrich, Paul David. "Theravada Buddhism in America: Prospect for
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Blue Collar and Buddha, [documentary film] by Taggart Siegel,
Siegel Productions, 1988.
Becoming the Buddha in LA, [film] produced and directed by Michael
Camerini, WGBH Educational Foundation, 1993.
8. Tibetan Buddhism
Bell, Sandra, "'Crazy Wisdom,' Charisma, and the Transmission of
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Alternative and Emergent Religions, 2, 1 (1998), 55-75.
Butterfield, Stephen. The Double Mirror: A Skeptical Journey into
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Chogyam Trungpa, Meditation in Action. Berkeley: Shambhala
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Chogyam Trungpa, Shambhala: the Sacred Path of the Warrior. ed. by
Carolyn Rose Gimian. Boulder, CO: Shambhala Publ., Inc., 1984.
Dawson, Lorne and Lynn Eldershaw. "Shambala Warriorship:
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Goss, Robert E. "Buddhist Studies at Naropa: Sectarian or
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Kamenitz, Rodger. "Robert Thurman Doesn't Look Buddhist." The New
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Kane, Stephanie. "Sacred Deviance and AIDS in a North American
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Korom, Frank. "Old Age Tibet in New Age America." In Frank Korom
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Korom, Frank. "Tibetans in Exile: A Euro-American Perspective."
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Lavine, Amy. "Tibetan Buddhism in America: The Development of
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McLagan, Meg. "Mystical Visions in Manhattan: Deploying Culture in
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Messerschmidt, D. A. "Innovation in Adaptation: Tibetan Immigrants
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Surya Das, Lama. Awakening the Buddha Within: Tibetan Wisdom for
the Western World. New York: Broadway Books, 1997.
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"Free Tibet" [on-line] (17 May, 1999) URL
http://www.tibet.org/index.html.
"Diamond Way Buddhism: Karma Kagyu Buddhist Network" [on-line] (17
May, 1999) URL http://www.kkbn.com/
"Karma Triyana Dharmachakra: the North American Seat of the
Seventeenth Gwalya Karmapa" [on-line] (17 May, 1999) URL
http://www.kagyu.org/
"Nyingma in the West" [on-line] (17 May, 1999) URL
http://www.nyingma.org/
"Ocean of Merit" [on-line] (17 May, 1999) URL
http://www.namoguru.org
"Welcome to Shambhala" [on-line] (17 May, 1999) URL
http://www.shambhala.org/
9. Western Buddhism, 'New Buddhism'
Sangharakshita. New Currents in Western Buddhism. Glasgow:
Windhorse, 1990.
Sangharakshita. The FWBO and 'Protestant Buddhism' - An
Affirmation and a Protest. Glasgow: Windhorse, 1992.
Subhuti, Dharmacari (Alex Kennedy). Buddhism for Today: A Portrait
of a New Buddhist Movement. 1983. 2nd ed., rev. and updated
Glasgow: Windhorse Publications, 1988.
Subhuti, Dharmacari. Sangharakshita: A New Voice in the Buddhist
Tradition. Glasgow: Windhorse Publications, 1994.
"The Friends of the Western Buddhist Order" [on-line] (17 May,
1999) URL http://www.fwbo.com/
History of the FWBO (1964-1979) [four-part video series]
3. Topcis and Issues in American Buddhism
1. Buddhism and Early Encounter
Henderson, Harold. Catalyst for Controversy: Paul Carus of Open
Court. Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1993.
Jackson, Carl T. "The Meeting of East and West: The Case of Paul
Carus." Journal of the History of Ideas 29 (1968), 73-92.
Prothero, Stephen. The White Buddhist: the Asian Odyssey of Henry
Steel Olcott. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996.
Seager, Richard Hughes. The World's Parliamient of Religions: The
East-West Encounter, Chicago, 1893. Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 1995.
Tweed, Thomas A. The American Encounter with Buddhism Buddhism:
1844-1912. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.
Verhoeven, Martin. "Americanizing the Buddha: Paul Carus and the
Transformation of Asian Thought." In Charles S. Prebish and
Kenneth K. Tanaka (eds.), The Faces of Buddhism in America.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998, 207-227.
2. Engaged Buddhism
Badiner, Allan Hunt (ed.). Dharma Gaia: A Harvest of Essays in
Buddhism and Ecology. Berkeley: Parallax Press, 1990.
Eppsteiner, Fred (ed.). The Path of Compassion: Writings on
Socially Engaged Buddhism. Berkeley: Parallax Press, 1988.
Jones, Ken. The Social Face of Buddhism: An Approach to Political
and Social Activism. London: Wisdom Publications, 1989.
King, Sallie B. "Contemporary Buddhist Spirituality and Social
Activism." Buddhist Spirituality: Later China, Korea, Japan and
the Modern World. New York: Crossroad, 1999, 455-481.
Kraft, Kenneth (ed.). Inner Peace, World Peace: Essays on Buddhism
and Nonviolence. Albany, N.Y: State University of New York Press,
1992.
Kotler, Arnold (ed.). Engaged Buddhist Reader. Berkeley: Parallax
Press, 1996.
Nhat Hanh, Thich. Interbeing: Fourteen Guidelines for Engaged
Buddhism. Rev. ed., ed. by Fred Eppsteiner, Berkeley: Parallax
Press, 1993.
Queen, Christopher (ed.), Engaged Buddhism in the West. Wisdom
Publ. (forthcoming in 1999)
Rothberg, Donald. "Responding to the Cries of the World: Socially
Engaged Buddhism in North America. In Charles S. Prebish and
Kenneth K. Tanaka (eds.), The Faces of Buddhism in America.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998, 266-286.
Sponberg, Alan. "Green Buddhism and the Hierarchy of Compassion."
The Western Buddhist Review 1 (December 1994), 131-55.
Williams, Duncan Ryuken. Buddhism and Ecology: The Interconnection
of Dharma and Deeds. Cambridge: Harvard University Center for the
Study of World Religions, 1997.
"Buddhist Peace Fellowship" [on-line] (17 May, 1999) URL
http://www.bpf.org/
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http://www.dharmanet.org/engaged.html
3. Women Roles and Involvement in Buddhism
Boucher, Sandy. Turning the Wheel: American Women Creating the New
Buddhism. Boston: beacon Press, 1988; updated and expanded
edition. Boston: Beacon Press, 1993.
Boucher, Sandy. Opening the Lotus: A Women's Guide to Buddhism.
Boston: Beacon Press, 1997.
Dresser, Marianne (ed.). Buddhist Women on the Edge: Contemporary
Perspectives from the Western Frontier. Berkeley: North Atlantic
Books, 1996.
Friedman, Lenore. Meetings With Remarkable Women: Buddhist
Teachers in America. Boston: Shambhala, 1987.
Gross, Rita. Buddhism After Patriarchy: A Feminist History,
Analysis, and Reconstruction of Buddhism. Albany, New York: State
University of New York Press, 1993.
Gross, Rita. "Helping the Iron Bird Fly: Western Buddhist Women
and Issues of Authority in the Late 1990s." In Charles S. Prebish
and Kenneth K. Tanaka (eds.), The Faces of Buddhism in America.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998, 238-252.
Klein, Anne C. Meeting the Great Bliss Queen: Buddhists,
Feminists, and the Art of Self. Boston: Beacon Press, 1995.
Sidor, Ellen S. (ed.). A Gathering of Spirit: Women Teaching in
American Buddhism. Cumberland, R.I.: Primary Point Press, 1987.
Tsomo, Karma Lekshe (ed.). Buddhism Through American Women's Eyes.
Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion, 1995.
"Women in Buddhism" [on-line] (17 May, 1999) URL
http://www.sju.edu/~dcarpent/2161/BIBLIO/Women.html
4. Theoretical and Methodological Questions
Fields, Rick. "Divided Dharma: White Buddhists, Ethnic Buddhists
and Racism." In Charles S. Prebish and Kenneth K. Tanaka (eds.),
The Faces of Buddhism in America. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1998, 196-206.
Lopez, Donald S. (ed.). Curators of the Buddha: The Study of
Buddhism under Colonialism. Chicago: University of Chicago press,
1995.
Mullins, Mark R. "The Transplantation of Religion in Comparative
Sociological Perspective." Japanese Religion 16, 2 (1990), 43-62.
Nattier, Jan. "Visible & Invisible: The Politics of Representation
in Buddhist America." Tricycle: The Buddhist Review 5, 1 (1995),
42-49.
Nattier, Jan. "Buddhism Comes to Main Street." Wilson Quarterly,
Spring 1997, 72-80.
Nattier, Jan. "Buddhist Studies in the Post-Colonial Age." Journal
of the American Academy of Religion, 65, 2 (Summer 1997), 469-485.
Nattier, Jan. "Who is a Buddhist? Charting the Landscape of
Buddhist America." In Charles S. Prebish and Kenneth K. Tanaka
(eds.), The Faces of Buddhist America. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1998, 183-195.
Prebish, Charles S. "Two Buddhisms Reconsidered." Buddhist Studies
Review 10 (1993), 187-206.
Prebish, Charles S. "The Academic Study of Buddhism in the United
States: A Current Analysis." Religion 24 (1994), 271-278.
Prebish, Charles S. "The Academic Study of Buddhism in America: A
Silent Sangha." In Duncan Ryuken Williams and Christopher S. Queen
(eds.), American Buddhism: Methods and Findings in Recent
Scholarship. Richmond, UK: Curzon Press, 1999, 183-214.
Tweed, Thomas A. "Asian Religions in America: Reflections on an
Emerging Subfield." In Walter Conser and Sumner Twiss (eds.).
Religious Diversity and American Religious History: Studies in
Traditions and Cultures. Athens: University of Georgia Press,
1998.
Tweed, Thomas A. "Night Stand Buddhists and Other Creatures:
Sympathizers, Adherents, and the Study of Religion." In Duncan
Ryuken Williams and Christopher S. Queen (eds.), American
Buddhism: Methods and Findings in Recent Scholarship. Richmond, U.
K.: Curzon Press, 1999, 71-90.
Williams, Duncan Ryuken. "Where to Study?" Tricycle: The Buddhist
Review 6, 3 (Spring 1997), 68-69, 115-117.
5. Further Topics, Miscellenous
Butler, Katy. "Events are the Teacher: Working through the Crisis
at San Francisco Zen Center." CoEvolution Quarterly. Winter:
112-123, 1983.
Butler, Katy. "Encountering the Shadow in Buddhist America."
Common Boundary. (May/June, 1990), 14-22.
Corless, Roger. "Coming Out in the Sangha: Queer Community in
American Buddhism." In Charles S. Prebish and Kenneth K. Tanaka
(eds.), The Faces of Buddhism in America. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1998, 253-265.
Fox, Stephen. "Boomer Dharma: The Evolution of Alternative
Spiritual Communities in Modern new Mexico." In Ferenc Szasz and
Richard Etalain (eds.). Religion in Modern New Mexico.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1997, 145-170.
Hayes, Richard P. "The Internet as Window onto American Buddhism"
In Duncan Ryuken Williams and Christopher S. Queen (eds.),
American Buddhism: Methods and Findings in Recent Scholarship.
Richmond, UK: Curzon Press, 1999, 168-179.
Hubbard, Jamie. "Upping the Ante: budstud@millenium.end.edu."
Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 18, 2
(1995).
Kornfield, Jack. "Sex Lives of the Gurus." Yoga Journal. 63
(July-August1985), 26-28 and 66.
Numrich, Paul David. "Local Inter-Buddhist Associations in North
America." In Duncan Ryuken Williams and Christopher S. Queen
(eds.), American Buddhism: Methods and Findings in Recent
Scholarship. Richmond, UK: Curzon Press, 1999, 117-142.
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Acknowledgements: Many thanks to Charles S. Prebish, Richard H.
Seager, Mavis Fenn, Sandra Bell, Franz A. Metcalf, Paul D.
Numrich, Alioune Koné and Frank J. Korom for help and suggestions.
Address for contact:
Martin Baumann, Department for the History of Religions/Studiengang
Religionswissenschaft, University of Bremen, POBox 330440, 28334 Bremen,
Germany. Fax: (+49)-421-218-7491.
