Buddhist Studies

A guide to images and bibliography of East Asian art. Includes religious art.

The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion seeks to provide accurate, scholarly information about the world’s many religions and topics of research and debate. It will grow and evolve continuously, compiling over time an extensive collection of vetted...

The Treasury of Lives is a biographical encyclopedia of Tibet, Inner Asia, and the Himalayan region. The Treasury provides biographies of a wide range of figures, from Buddhist masters to artists and political officials; most essays are peer reviewed...

Provides annotated bibliographies of essential literature on various subjects in the humanities and social sciences. Guides are updated quarterly, with entries added yearly to each subject area, as well as revisions to existing entries.

Covers contemporary scholarly journal articles, essays, sermons, and book reviews in the study of religion. Materials cover all religions and all theological points of view.

A comprehensive Western-language database for research on East, Southeast and South Asia. All subjects, including religion, are covered. Humanities and social sciences emphasized. Coverage primarily from 1971 to the present.

Brief entries on history and doctrines of major Buddhist schools, spread of Buddhism, and issues of contemporary concern such as human rights, the role of women in Buddhist teachings, and "engaged Buddhism".

This database consists of Chinese ideograph-based terms, texts, temple, schools, persons, etc. found in Buddhist canonical sources in a range of languages including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Pali, Sanskrit and Tibetan.

Entries describe Buddhist scriptures, teachings and practices, art, architecture, divinities, monastic orders, festivals, rites and ceremonies, the history of Buddhism. Author of each entry is identified and bibliographies are provided.