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Elizabeth Griego featured as part of Pacific Reads!
Stop by the Library and find out why Elizabeth Griego, Vice President for Student Life, recommends the book, Fifth Business, by Robertson Davies...[More]
Posted Mon, November 17 2008

Electronic Delivery of Interlibrary Loan Articles
Articles ordered through ILL can now be delivered to you via email...[More]
Posted Wed, October 08 2008

Trial Databases: ProQuest/CSA
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Posted Tue, September 30 2008

“Pacific Reads” Book Display Launched
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Resources for Pacific Seminar II

Librarian: Rhonelle Runner, Music and Humanities Librarian

Buddhist Societies

Reference Books

There are a number of reference books you might find useful, including:

Encyclopedia of China :the Essential Reference to China, its History and Culture:
Ref DS705 .P47 1999
Atlas of the World's Religions / edited by Ninian Smart.
Ref BL85 .A75 1999
Gale Virtual Reference Library: An online collection of reference books. You can search a single eBook, or across an eBook collection.
Oxford Reference Online: Another online collection of online reference books. This includes dictionaries of the Buddhism, politics, world religion, and more.

Books

In PacifiCat, search under keywords such as “buddhism and history”, “buddhism and society”, “politics and philosophy”. For example, look at:

Engendering Faith: Women and Buddhism in Premodern Japan / general editor, Barbara Ruch. BQ680 .W65 R83 2002
Political Philosophy: Theories, Thinkers, Concepts / Seymour Martin Lipset, editor.
JA71 .P6226 2001
Mystical Consciousness: Western Perspectives and Dialogue with Japanese Thinkers / Louis Roy.
BL51 .R5996 2003

Articles

In addition to Academic Search Complete, try the following:

JSTOR: full-text of the backfiles of hundreds of scholarly journals, including history, political science, religion, and more.
Sociological Abstracts: Literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
Arts and Humanities: Covers a wide range of humanities and religious studies topics.
SpringerLink: The section “humanities, social sciences and law” indexes many articles on Buddhism.

Reliable Websites

Web sources you can trust!

Buddhist Studies WWW Virtual Library -- A list of resources for Buddhist studies including resource guides, professional societies, blogs, and more.
BUDSIR:Buddhist Scripture Information Retrieval -- "The digital Pali Tipitaka and Atthakatha, including the data search program BUDSIR."
Digital Buddhist Library and Museum -- Established in 1995, the Digital Buddhist Library and Museum is a non-profit access-to-all on-line Buddhist database.
Resources for the Study of Buddhism -- An excellent gateway to numerous resources relating to Buddhism.
Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center -- The TRBC provides access to thousands of classical Tibetan Buddhist texts as well as an online encyclopedia that covers Tibetan Buddhism.