REFERENCES FOR FURTHER STUDY

PAPERS
Costner, Stacey. Backpacking and the Beat Buddhist Experience. April 2007.

BOOKS
Coleman, James William, The New Buddhism: The Western Transformation of an Ancient Tradition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001

Fenton, John Y., et al, Religions of Asia. 3rd ed. New York: St. Martin's, 1993. 

Fields, Rick, How the Swans Came to the Lake: A Narrative HIstory of Buddhism in America. 3rd ed. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1992

Hammond, Phillip and David Machacek, Soka Gakkai in America: Accomodation and Conversion. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999

Prebish, Charles S., Luminous Passage: The Practice and Study of Buddhism in America. Berkeley: University of California, 1999

Prebish, Charles S. and Kenneth K. Tanaka, The Faces of Buddhism in America. Berkeley: University of California, 1998

Seager, Richard. Buddhism in America. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. 

Takaki, Ronald. Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans. Updated and revised edition. Boston: Little, Brown, 1998. 

Tweed, Thomas A., The American Encounter with Buddhism, 1844-1912. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. 

Tweed, Thomas A. and Stephen Prothero, eds., Asian Religions in America: A Documentary History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 

Williams, Duncan Ryuken and Christopher S. Queen, American Buddhism: Methods and Findings in Recent Scholarship. Surrey: Curzon PRess, 1999
 
 

REFERENCE WORKS
Hill, Samuel and Charles Lippy, eds., Encyclopedia of Religion in the South, 2nd ed. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, forthcoming 2001. 

Levinson, David and Melvin Ember, eds., American Immigrant Cultures. 2 vols. New York: Macmillan, 1997. 

Morreale, Don, ed. The Complete Guide to Buddhist America. Boston: Shambhala, 1998. 

Roof, Wade Clark, ed. Contemporary American Religion. 2 vols. New Macmillan, 2000. 

Smith, Jonathan Z. The HarperCollins Dictionary of Religion. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1995. 
 

VIDEOS AND CD-ROMS
"Becoming the Buddha in LA." Video. WGBH Boston Video (1993). 

"Blue Collar and Buddha." Video. Taggart Siegal Productions. (1988). 

"Buddhism: The Middle Way of Compassion." Delphi Productions. (1993).

Diana Eck, On Common Ground: World Religions in America. CD-Rom. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. 
 
 

WEB PAGES
Buddhist Studies WWW Virtual Library http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-Buddhism.html

Buddhist Worlds in the USA: http://academics.hamilton.edu/religious_studies/rseager/buddhistworlds

Dharma Net International: http://www.dharmanet.org

Journal of Buddhist Ethics http://jbe.gold.ac.uk/

The Pluralism Project: http://www.pluralism.org

Tricycle: The Buddhist Review: http://www.tricycle.com
 
 
 

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