Papers are short-to-medium length pieces of writing that were published in an edited volume collecting works by many authors. For self-published papers, see essays. For papers published in academic journals, see articles. For papers published in a collection by a single author, see excerpts.

Name Formats Year Author(s) Featured In... Date Added Size Downloads Publisher
An Evolutionary Theory of Commons Management 2002 Peter J. Richerson, Robert Boyd, and Brian Paciotti Society 2023-07-08 17:55 40 pages 2 National Academies Press
Ethnicity and identity: Northern nomads as Buddhist art patrons during the period of Northern and Southern dynasties 2003 Dorothy C. Wong The History of Buddhism 2023-10-25 12:35 39 pages 3 Routledge
Love, Unknowing, and Female Filth: The Buddhist Discourse of Birth as a Vector of Social Change for Monastic Women in Premodern South Asia 2021 Amy Paris Langenberg Buddhism and Nature 2023-05-26 11:39 33 pages 12 De Gruyter
The Vinaya: Legal System or Performance-Enhancing Drug? 1996 Andrew Huxley Vinaya Studies 2023-03-02 16:22 22 pages 41 SOAS
A Study and Translation of the Yakṣa-saṃyukta in the Shorter Chinese Saṃyukta-āgama 2020 Marcus Bingenheimer Saṃsāra 2023-11-06 14:13 81 pages 3 Dharma Drum Publishing
Forbidden from the Heart: Flexible Food Taboos, Ambiguous Culinary Transgressions, and Cultural Intimacy in Hoi An, Vietnam 2019 Nir Avieli Asia 2023-10-18 17:24 27 pages 4
The Mātikās: Memorization, Mindfulness and the List 1992 Rupert Gethin Early Indian Buddhism 2021-04-27 13:05 24 pages 147 SUNY Press
The Oil Industry Is Us: Hegemonic Community Economic Identity in Saskatchewan’s Oil Patch 2021 Emily Eaton and Simon Enoch Places 2024-10-23 09:30 24 pages 1 Athabasca University Press
Buddhism and Secular Subjectivities: Individualism and Fragmentation in the Mirror of Secularism 2021 David L. McMahan Buddhism Comes West 2021-09-22 09:51 22 pages 34 Shambhala Publications
Standing out from the narrative in Theravādin art 2022 Ashley Thompson Medieval Buddhism 2024-06-17 09:07 22 pages 6
Caring for the Social (in Museums) 2022 Haidy Geismar Culture 2022-09-26 21:28 21 pages 34 UCL Press
What Does Mindfulness Really Mean?: A Canonical Perspective 2013 Bhikkhu Bodhi Mindfulness 2023-11-10 14:41 20 pages 72 Routledge
Pāṃśukūlika as a Standard Practice in the Vinaya 2017 Nicholas Witkowski Early Sects 2023-05-31 06:37 47 pages 17 Verlag
In the Footprints of the Buddha: Ceylon and the Japanese Quest for the Origin of Buddhism 2019 Fabio Rambelli Maps 2022-04-19 17:59 18 pages 10 De Gruyter
Buddhist Theories of Existents: The System of Two Truths 1978 Elvin W. Jones Buddhist Philosophy in Dialogue 2023-10-23 14:25 43 pages 14 University of Hawai'i Press
Fa-sheng’s Observations on the Four Stations of Mindfulness 1978 Leon Hurvitz Vipassanā 2023-10-23 14:25 42 pages 8 University of Hawai'i Press
Atonement of Pārājika Transgressions in Fifth-Century Chinese Buddhism 2017 Eric Greene History of the Mahāyāna 2023-06-01 12:28 40 pages 26 Verlag
Cosmography in Southeast Asia 1994 Joseph E. Schwartzberg History of the Theravāda 2024-04-08 07:20 40 pages 8 University of Chicago Press
‘Mūlasarvāstivādin and Sarvāstivādin’: Oral Transmission Lineages of Āgama Texts 2020 Bhikkhu Anālayo Early Sects 2020-10-12 14:51 40 pages 464 Dharma Drum Publishing
Translation, Transcription, and What Else?: Some Basic Characteristics of Chinese Buddhist Translation as a Cultural Contact between India and China, with Special Reference to Sanskrit ārya and Chinese shèng 2019 Toru Funayama Chinese Buddhist Writing 2022-04-18 07:38 16 pages 71 De Gruyter
On realizing the possibilities of emancipatory meta-theory: Beyond the cognitive maturity fallacy, toward an education revolution 2015 Zachary Stein Buddhist Economics 2021-05-22 16:35 37 pages 11 Routledge
Venerated Objects and Symbols of Early Buddhism 1990 Peter Harvey Buddhism as a Religion 2020-03-08 16:58 35 pages 58 Curzon Press
Aśoka and the Use of Writing in Ancient India 2024 Ingo Strauch Buddha's India 2024-03-13 19:32 34 pages 14 De Gruyter
The ‘Five Points’ and the Origins of the Buddhist Schools 1992 L. S. Cousins Early Sects 2023-04-02 20:26 34 pages 29 SOAS
Buddhadasa’s Contribution as a Human Being, as a Thai, as a Buddhist 1994 Louis Gaboude Modern Buddhism 2024-05-21 12:49 33 pages 6
Reflections on Truth and Experience in Early Buddhist Epistemology 2021 Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā Pramāṇa 2024-01-28 17:20 33 pages 13 Waxmann Verlag
The Dynamics of Theravāda Insight Meditation 2012 Bhikkhu Anālayo Vipassanā 2022-06-20 21:35 32 pages 54 Dharma Drum Publishing
Wander Alone Like the Rhinoceros: The Solitary, Itinerant Renouncer in Ancient Indian Gāthā-Poetry 2021 Kristoffer af Edholm Buddha's India 2022-02-20 13:47 32 pages 30 Stockholm UP
Why They Say Zen Is Not Buddhism: Recent Japanese Critiques of Buddha-Nature 1997 Paul L. Swanson The Abhidharmas 2024-02-17 19:55 29 pages 14 University of Hawai'i Press
2444 AN 2014 Donald S. Lopez Jr. The History of Buddhism 2024-03-01 21:57 12 pages 3 Routledge
Urban Gardening and Rural-Urban Supply Chains: Reassessing Images of the Urban and the Rural in Northern Vietnam 2019 Sandra Kurfürst Cities 2023-02-24 14:46 28 pages 2
Nāgārjuna’s Scepticism about Philosophy 2020 Ethan Mills Right View 2023-06-09 13:17 27 pages 28
Altruism in Classical Buddhism 2005 Todd Lewis Buddhism as a Religion 2020-03-08 16:58 26 pages 31
Evolving Portrayals of Sāriputta and Moggallāna: Psychic Potency vis-à-vis Wisdom and Concentration 2021 Tse-fu Kuan Early Indian Buddhism 2021-04-24 10:38 26 pages 23 The Centre of Buddhist Studies at The University of Hong Kong
With the World, or Bound to Face the Sky: The Postures of the Wolf-Child of Hesse 2012 Karl Steel The (Human) World 2023-06-14 10:57 26 pages 4 punctum books
Bhavaṅga and Rebirth According to the Abhidhamma 1994 Rupert Gethin Abhidhamma 2023-12-07 15:41 25 pages 37 SOAS
Giving as Sacrifice, Sacrifice as Giving: The Definition of Right View as the Antithesis of Wrong View in the Early Buddhist Discourses 2023 Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā Generosity 2023-09-24 11:34 25 pages 5 The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology, Soka University
Zen Internationalism, Zen Revolution: Inoue Shūten, Uchiyama Gudō and the Crisis of (Zen) Buddhist Modernity in Late Meiji Japan 2022 James Mark Shields Buddhist Economics 2023-05-02 15:34 25 pages 5 SUNY Press
How Environments Can Threaten Academic Performance, Self-Knowledge, and Sense of Belonging 2005 Michael Inzlicht and Catherine Good The Social World 2022-11-30 21:28 22 pages 5 Psychology Press
Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu’s Contribution to the World 1994 Santikaro Bhikkhu Buddhist Ethics 2024-05-21 12:49 36 pages 2
Happiness and Invulnerability From Chance: Western and Eastern Perspectives 2016 J.M.M.H. Thijssen and David R. Loy Interfaith Dialogue 2024-02-17 19:55 19 pages 3 Springer
From Aśoka to Jayavarman VII: Some Reflections on the Relationship between Buddhism and the State in India and Southeast Asia 2014 Hermann Kulke Medieval Buddhism 2021-04-25 06:55 19 pages 11 Cambridge University Press
Encountering impermanence, making change: a case study of attachment and alcoholism in Thailand 2022 Julia Cassaniti Thai Buddhism 2022-09-22 11:24 18 pages 77 UCL Press
Local Traditions and World Religions 2017 Michel Picard Buddhism Comes West 2022-09-29 13:45 18 pages 10 Palgrave Macmillan
Stone Hymn: The Buddhist Colophon of 579 Engraved on Mount Tie, Shandong 2019 Lothar Ledderose Medieval Buddhism 2024-07-07 19:23 18 pages 1 De Gruyter
What Kamma Is? 1983 Ven. U. Thittila Karma 2022-01-14 13:15 18 pages 11 The Buddhist Missionary Society
Against Ordinary Language: The Language of the Body 1993 Kathy Acker The Human Body 2024-03-10 11:42 8 pages 32 MacMillan
Theravāda Buddhism and Brahmanical Hinduism: Brahmanical Terms in a Buddhist Guise 1992 K. R. Norman The Pāli Language 2022-12-09 15:20 8 pages 115 SOAS
Beautifully moral: cosmopolitan issues in medieval Pāli literary theory 2017 Alastair Gornall and Justin Henry History of the Theravāda 2024-04-08 07:19 17 pages 2
Beyond Reasonable Doubt?: A Note on Dharmakīrti and Scepticism 2020 Vincent Eltschinger Pramāṇa 2024-01-16 14:16 17 pages 8
Consumer Culture and Advertising 2014 H. Hazel Hahn The Present 2024-10-09 23:06 17 pages 2 Informa
How the Steps of Mindfulness of Breathing Decreased from Sixteen to Two 2021 Bhikkhu Anālayo Mindfulness 2023-08-26 19:56 17 pages 29 Centre of Buddhist Studies, University of Hong Kong
What Is This Religion? 1983 Ven K. Sri Dhammananda Modern Buddhism 2022-01-14 13:15 17 pages 20 The Buddhist Missionary Society
Introduction to From Birch Bark to Digital Data 2009 Paul Harrison and Jens-Uwe Hartmann Āgama Studies 2020-03-08 16:58 16 pages 176
Changing Concepts and Experiences of Time and Space [at the turn of the century] 2014 Stephen Kern The Present 2024-11-01 11:11 16 pages 2
Councils as Ideas and Events in the Theravāda 1992 Charles Hallisey History of the Theravāda 2023-01-05 14:25 16 pages 32 SOAS
Can Monks Practice Astrology?: Astrology and the Vinaya in China 2017 Jeffrey Kotyk Medieval Buddhism 2024-06-11 17:20 15 pages 2 Hamburg University Press
The Four Noble Truths 1982 K. R. Norman Early Indian Buddhism 2021-04-26 19:18 15 pages 156 the Australian National University Press
“Looking Over at the Mountains”: Sense of Place in the Third Karmapa’s “Songs of Experience” 2011 Ruth Gamble Buddhism and Nature 2023-05-26 20:19 15 pages 6 Finnish Oriental Society
Buddhism’s Maritime Route to China 2009 Charles Willemen Medieval Buddhism 2021-04-22 12:48 15 pages 20 中國佛教協會
Analytical Study of the Monks’ pācittiya 波逸提 Rules 2017 Sasaki Shizuka Vinaya Studies 2023-02-11 16:27 15 pages 27 Verlag
Aśoka: The Great Upāsaka 1994 Richard Gombrich Early Indian Buddhism 2024-05-23 12:32 14 pages 16
The Buddha as Storyteller: The Dialogical Setting of Jātaka Stories 2016 Naomi Appleton The Jātaka Tales 2024-08-08 13:59 14 pages 7 Routledge
Making Merit Through Warfare and Torture According to the Ārya-Bodhisattva-Gocara-Upāyaviṣaya-Vikurvaṇa-Nirdeśa Sūtra 2010 Stephen Jenkins Medieval Buddhism 2024-05-30 11:26 14 pages 1 Oxford University Press
Why Meditation? 1983 Bhante Walpola Piyananda Buddhist Practice 2022-01-02 15:02 22 pages 18 The Buddhist Missionary Society
Śamathavipaśyanāyuganaddha: The Two Leading Principles of Buddhist Meditation 1978 Geshe Sopa The Buddhist Path 2023-11-04 19:53 20 pages 4 University of Hawai'i Press
Devil’s Valley to Omega Point: Reflections on the Emergence of a Theme from the Nō 1992 T. H. Barrett Buddhism and Nature 2023-05-03 18:51 12 pages 3 School of Oriental and African Studies
Exclusive Reliance on Reasoning as ‘Mere Belief’: The Buddha’s epistemic approach in the Saṅgārava-sutta and its Sanskrit parallel 2021 Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā Pramāṇa 2024-02-17 19:55 12 pages 4 The Buddha-Dharma Centre of Hong Kong
Whose Zen?: Zen Nationalism Revisited 1995 Robert H. Sharf Buddhism Comes West 2022-06-03 20:01 12 pages 25 University of Hawai'i Press
You are Responsible 1983 Ven K. Sri Dhammananda Buddhist Ethics 2021-12-27 14:08 18 pages 11 The Buddhist Missionary Society
A Pāli Cosmopolis: Sri Lanka and the Theravāda Buddhist ecumene c. 500–1500 2017 Tilman Frasch The History of Buddhism 2023-04-19 16:02 11 pages 42 UCL Press
Pining Away for the Sight of the Handsome Cobra King: Ānanda as a Gay Ancestor and Role Model 2000 Michael Sweet Characters in the EBTs 2021-03-19 09:13 10 pages 63 Gay Sunshine Press
Udāna 2008 Bhikkhu Anālayo Udāna 2024-11-03 18:11 10 pages 2 The Department of Buddhist Affairs
Vyāghrī-jātaka in the Mahāvastu and Fobenxingji jing 2023 Katarzyna Marciniak The Jātaka Tales 2024-12-21 22:34 10 pages 1 The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology, Soka University
The Celestial Coral Tree and the Noble Disciple: Ekottarika-āgama Discourse 39.2 2021 Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā Samādhi 2023-09-16 20:10 8 pages 3 Nuvis
Ecology and Morality 1983 Peter S. Wenz The Wider World 2023-06-11 22:22 7 pages 11 Humana Press
The Fate of Buddhist Political Thought in China: The Rajah Dons a Disguise 1996 T. H. Barrett Medieval Buddhism 2024-05-02 12:00 7 pages 2 SOAS
Illocution, No-Theory and Practice in Nagarjuna’s Skepticism 1998 Douglas L. Berger History of the Mahāyāna 2024-06-04 14:02 7 pages 2
Buddhism: A Balancing Factor for Current World Developments 2009 Ven Dhammavamso An Introduction to Buddhist Philosophy 2020-04-21 13:17 6 pages 31 The Association of Theravada Buddhist Universities
Śūnyatā 2007 Bhikkhu Anālayo Śūnyatā 2024-01-02 16:37 6 pages 17 The Department of Buddhist Affairs
The First Ten Items of the Daśottarasūtra as cited in Śamathadeva’s Abhidharmakośa-upāyikā-ṭīkā 2023 Peter Skilling Dīrgha Āgama 2023-09-26 11:32 8 pages 34 The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology, Soka University
Sammādiṭṭhi 2006 Bhikkhu Anālayo Right View 2023-06-20 08:47 5 pages 33 The Department of Buddhist Affairs
Sakkāyadiṭṭhi 2006 Bhikkhu Anālayo Right View 2023-06-20 08:47 4 pages 20 The Department of Buddhist Affairs
Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta 2007 Bhikkhu Anālayo Vipassanā 2022-06-21 09:44 4 pages 73 The Department of Buddhist Affairs
Vimuttimagga 2009 Bhikkhu Anālayo History of the Theravāda 2024-04-25 13:09 4 pages 17 The Department of Buddhist Affairs
Vittaka 2009 Bhikkhu Anālayo Right Thought 2023-07-15 21:23 4 pages 12 The Department of Buddhist Affairs
Upakkilesa Sutta 2008 Bhikkhu Anālayo Samādhi 2023-09-11 16:55 3 pages 21 The Department of Buddhist Affairs
Vibhava 2009 Bhikkhu Anālayo Right View 2023-06-15 06:56 3 pages 12 The Department of Buddhist Affairs
Vīmaṃsā 2009 Bhikkhu Anālayo Right Thought 2023-07-15 21:23 3 pages 8 The Department of Buddhist Affairs
Vimuttāyatana 2009 Bhikkhu Anālayo Mindfulness 2023-08-06 09:39 3 pages 10 The Department of Buddhist Affairs
Vohāra (Transactions) 2009 Bhikkhu Anālayo Pramāṇa 2024-01-30 10:33 3 pages 2 The Department of Buddhist Affairs
Why Are the Four Noble Truths Called “Noble”? 1990 K. R. Norman The Pāli Language 2022-12-13 13:47 3 pages 78
Santuṭṭhi 2006 Bhikkhu Anālayo Right Thought 2023-07-25 09:47 2 pages 10 The Department of Buddhist Affairs
Viññāṇañcāyatana: The Sphere of Boundless Consciousness 2009 Bhikkhu Anālayo Samatha 2022-06-06 18:34 2 pages 31 The Department of Buddhist Affairs
Vitakkasaṇṭhāna Sutta 2009 Bhikkhu Anālayo Right Thought 2023-07-10 08:02 2 pages 12 The Department of Buddhist Affairs