Buddhism Bibliography
Abe, Masao, ed. A Zen Life: D.T. Suzuki Remembered. New York: Weatherhill, 1986.
Abe, Masao. Zen and Western Thought. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1985.
Aitken, Robert and David Steindl-Rast. The Ground We Share: Everyday Practice, Buddhist and
Christian. Liquori, Mo.: Triumph Books, 1994.
Ames, Van Meter. Zen and American Thought. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1962.
Andresen, Jensine. "The Americanization of Tibetan Buddhism: The Kalachakra Initiation in
New York." Pluralism Project Research, 1992.
Atkinson, Jennifer. "Transmission of Cambodian Culture in Lowell, Mass." Pluralism Project
Research, 1991.
Blyth, Reginald Horace. Zen in English Literature and Oriental Classics. New York and Tokyo:
Hokuseido Press, 1960.
Becker, Carl. "Japanese Pure Land in Christian America." Buddhist-Christian Studies 10 (1990):
143-156.
Bloom, Alfred. “The Unfolding of the Lotus: A Survey of Recent Developments in Shin
Buddhism in the West.” Buddhist-Christian Studies 10 (1990): 157-164.
Boorstein, Sylvia. It's Easier Than You Think: The Buddhist Way to Happiness. San Francisco:
Harper San Francisco, 1995.
Boorstein, Sylvia. That's Funny, You Don't Look Buddhist: On Being a Faithful Jew and a
Passionate Buddhist. San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1997.
Boucher, Sandy. Turning the Wheel: American Women Creating the New Buddhism. San
Francisco: Harper & Row, 1988.
Breyer, Chloe, "Religious Liberty in Law and Practice: Vietnamese Home Temples in California
and the First Amendment." Pluralism Project Research. Published in Journal of Church
and State 35 (Spring 1993).
Cadge, Wendy. Heartwood: The First Generation of Theravada Buddhism in America. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2005.
Canniff, Julie Ann. "Cambodian Buddhism in Portland, Maine." Pluralism Project Research,
1993.
Canniff, Julie Ann. "Step by Step: A Field Study of Cambodian Religion and Culture in Portland
Maine." Pluralism Project Research,1993.
Centennial Publication Committee, ed. A Grateful Past, A Promising Future: Honpa Hongwanji
Mission of Hawaii 100 Year History 1899-1989. Honolulu: Honpa Hongwanji Mission of
Hawaii, 1989.
Chadwick, David. Crooked Cucumber: The Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki. New
York: Broadway Books/Random House, 1999.
Chandler, Stuart. "A Directory of Chinese Buddhist Organizations in the United States."
Pluralism Project Research, 1991.
Chandler, Stuart. "The Hsi Lai Temple, Hacienda Heights: California A Survey of Chinese
Buddhist Temples in the U.S." Pluralism Project Research, 1992.
Chayat, Roko Sherry. Subtle Sound: The Zen Teachings of Maurine Stuart. Boston: Shambhala,
1996.
Chodron, Pema. The Wisdom of No Escape. Boston: Shambhala, 1991.
Chodron, Pema. Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living. Boston: Shambhala,
2004.
Clarke, Peter. Japanese New Religions in the West. Kent, England: Japan Library, 1994.
Coleman, James William. The New Buddhism: the Western Transformation of an Ancient
Tradition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Corless, Roger and Paul F. Knitter. Buddhist Emptiness and Christian Trinity. Mahwah, N.J.:
Paulist Press, 1990.
Dalai Lama. The Good Heart: A Buddhist Perspective on the Teachings of Jesus. Boston:
Wisdom Publications, 1996.
Dator, James Allen. Soka Gakkai, Builders of the Third Civilization American and Japanese
Members. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1969.
Dresser, Marianne, ed. Buddhist Women on the Edge: Contemporary Perspectives from the
Western Frontier. Berkeley: Publishers Group West, 1996.
Dugan, Kate and Hilary Bogert. “Racial Diversity in Buddhism.” Pluralism Project Research,
August 2006.
Dugan, Kate. “Women in Buddhism in the U.S.” Pluralism Project Research, July 2006.
Ellwood, Robert, ed. The Eagle and the Rising Sun: America and the New Religions of Japan.
Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1974.
Engberg, Geri. "The Cambodian Buddhist Temple in Lynn, Mass. 'Growing Pains' at The
Cambodian Buddhist Temple." Pluralism Project Research.
Eppsteiner, Fred and Dennis Maloney, eds. The Path of Compassion: Contemporary Writings on
Engaged Buddhism. Berkeley and Buffalo: Buddhist Peace Fellowship and White Pine
Press, 1985.
Farber, Don and Rick Fields. Taking Refuge in L.A.: Life in a Vietnamese Buddhist Temple. New
York: Aperture Books, 1987.
Fields, Rick. “Confessions of a White Buddhist.” Tricycle: The Buddhist Review 4.1 (1994): 54-
56.
Fields, Rick. “The Future of American Buddhism.” Vajradhatu Sun 9.I (1987): I, 22, 24-26.
Fields, Rick. How the Swans Came to the Lake: A Narrative History of Buddhism in America.
Boston: Shambhala, 1981. [The 3rd edition was published in 1992].
Fields, Rick. Loka: A Journal from Naropa Institute. Garden City, New York: Anchor
Press/Doubleday, 1975.
Friedman, Lenore. Meetings with Remarkable Women. Boston: Shambhala, 1987.
Gap Min, Pyong and Jung Ha Kim. Religions in Asian America: Building Faith Communities.