Download BOOKS ON BUDDHISM RELEVANT TO BUDDHIST

Buddhist Visions - 2008
A selected bibliography of materials in the University of Oregon Libraries
* in support of the Community Conversations program in University Housing *
Prepared by Claudia Lapp, Exhibition Interpreter, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
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BACKGROUND ON BUDDHISM
AN INTRODUCTION TO BUDDHISM: Teachings, History and Practices, Peter Harvey. Cambridge
University Press, 1990.
LOCATION: Architecture & Allied Arts Library (on Reserve)
CALL #: BQ4022 .H37 1990
Scholarly, but accessible. Chapter 4 describes the emergence of the Buddha image.
SIDDHARTHA, Hermann Hesse, first published in German in 1922. Bantam Books, 1951.
LOCATION: Knight
CALL #: PT2617.E85 S52 1971
Poetic novella based on Prince Siddhartha’s spiritual quest and transformation into Gautama.
THE BOOK OF BUDDHAS: Ritual Symbolism on Buddhist Statuary and Ritual Objects,
Eva Rudy Jansen, Binkey Kok Publications, Holland, 1995.
[NOT AVAILABLE IN UO LIBRARIES]
Many illustrations & explanations of buddhas, bodhisattvas, symbols, deities and mudras in Buddhist
iconography.
THE WAY OF THE BODHISATTVA, Shantideva (8th C Indian), Translated from Sanskrit, then Tibetan by
Padmakara Translation Group, Shambhala, Boston, 1997.
[AVAILABLE IN SUMMIT]
Classic meditation in verse on Mahayana Buddhism.
ART
BUDDHISM, Louis Frederic, Flammarian Iconographic Guides, Paris, 1995.
LOCATION: Architecture & Allied Arts Library
CALL #: AAA Reference N8193 .F7 1995
Describes, illustrates and interprets every possible image used in Buddhist art.
BUDDHIST ART AND ARCHITECTURE, Robert E. Fisher, Thames and Hudson, London, 1993.
LOCATION: Architecture & Allied Arts Library
CALL #: N8193.A5 F57 1993
Detailed history of Buddhist art from earliest (India) through its spread to all parts of Asia.
CAVES OF THE THOUSAND BUDDHAS: Chinese Art from the Silk Route, Roderick Whitfield
and Anne Farrar, British Museum Publications, 1990.
LOCATION: Architecture & Allied Arts Library (on Reserve)
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CALL #: N7342 .W45 1990
The Dunhuang Caves, images & text.
CHINESE SCULPTURE FROM THE FIFTH TO FOURTEENTH CENTURIES: Over 900 Specimens in Stone,
Bronze, Lacquer and Wood, Principally from Northern China, 2 vols., Oswald Siren,
London, 1925, 1998
LOCATION: Architecture & Allied Arts Library
CALL #: NB1043 .S5 1998
Beautiful photographs of other cave sculptures, eloquently described.
DISCIPLES OF THE BUDDHA: Living Images of Meditation, Robert Newman, Cool Grove Press, 2001.
[AVAILABLE IN SUMMIT]
Outstanding color plates of 8 (of 16) surviving ceramic Lohan figures, 9th-10th century, as well as Burmese
thankas, & other Chinese colossal sculptures, with text.
GANDHARA: The Memory of Afghanistan, Berenice Geoffroy-Schneiter, Assouline, Paris, 2001
[AVAILABLE IN SUMMIT]
History of the Bamiyan Buddhas and their destruction in 2001. Excellent photos of Gandharan Buddhist
sculptures, + chronology.
THE ARTS OF CHINA, Michael Sullivan, University of California Press, 1984, Docent Library.
LOCATION: Architecture & Allied Arts Library
CALL #: N7340 .S92 1973
Clear overview of the development of the Buddha image in China, pp 85-129, 460-750.
WISDOM AND COMPASSION: The Sacred Art of Tibet, Marylin Rhie & Robert Thurman, Tibet House,
New York, 1991.
LOCATION: Architecture & Allied Arts Library (on Reserve)
CALL #: N8193.T5 R47 1996
Magnificent art book/catalog with large color plates & outstanding descriptions by Buddhist
practitioner/scholars.
ZEN
JAPANESE DEATH POEMS: Written by Zen Monks & Haiku Poets, Yoel Hoffmann, 1986.
LOCATION: Knight
CALL #: PL759.J313 1986
ZEN AND JAPANESE CULTURE, Daisetz T. Suzuki, Bolligen, Princeton, 1970
LOCATION: Knight
CALL #: BQ9262.9.J3 S9 1970
Essays on Zen in tea ceremony, calligraphy, poetry, brush painting.
ZEN FLESH, ZEN BONES, Compiled by Paul Reps, Doubleday Anchor, New York.
[AVAILABLE IN SUMMIT]
Collection of Zen and pre-Zen writings by American poet/calligrapher.
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ZEN MIND, BEGINNERS’S MIND: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice, Shunryu Suzuki,
Weatherhill, New York, 1982.
LOCATION: Knight
CALL #: BQ9288 .S994 2005
Basic concepts of Zen from talks by a Zen master.
BUDDHISM ON THE ROAD – ACCOUNTS OF PILGRIMAGES
BACK ROADS TO FAR TOWNS (also translated as Narrow Road to the Deep North),
Basho (1644-94), translated by Cid Corman & Kamaike Susumu, Ecco Press, 1996.
LOCATION: Knight
CALL #: PL794.4.O5 E53
MEETING THE BUDDHA: On Pilgrimage in Buddhist India, Molly Emma Aitken, Riverhead,
New York, 1995.
[AVAILABLE IN SUMMIT]
Collection of writings by Chinese, British, German and American pilgrims from the 5th Century to
contemporary. Illustrated, with map.
TEN THOUSAND MILES WITHOUT A CLOUD, Sun Shuyun, Harper Perennial, London 2003.
[NOT AVAILABLE IN UO LIBRARIES]
A Chinese film producer’s journey to retrace the steps of Xuanzang, 7th century Buddhist monk who made
an 18 year journey to India and back to China in search of the source of Buddhism. Fabulous blend of
history, art, sociology and personal search.
SELECTED POETRY
RAINBOWS APPEAR: Tibetan Poems of Shabkar, Edited by Mattieu Ricard, Calligraphy by
Jigme Doushe, Shambhala, Boston, 2002.
[AVAILABLE IN SUMMIT]
Buddhist poems by Shabkar (1781-1851), a Tibetan on a spiritual quest. Timeless short verse.
The following are all by Gary Snyder, American Buddhist poet, born 1930. He studied in Japan at a monastery
and knows the Chinese classics.
COLD MOUNTAIN POEMS, Translation/versions of 24 poems of T’ang recluse Han-Shan (Kanzan),
Portland, OR, 1972.
LOCATION: Special Collections & University Archives Rare Books
CALL #: PL2677.H3A27 1970
First published by Four Seasons Foundation, San Francisco, 1969.
MOUNTAINS AND RIVERS WITHOUT END
LOCATION: Knight
CALL #: PS3569.N88 M62 1996
Long poem based on Chinese landscape scrolls, composed between 1956 and ’96.
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DANGER ON PEAKS
LOCATION: Knight
CALL #: PS3569.N88 D36 2004
This recent collection contains “After Bamiyan.” Buddhist takes on the modern world and defense of the
wilderness, 2004.
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