RESOURCES FOR THE STUDY OF AMERICAN BUDDHISM Selected Bibliography This bibliography includes selected scholarly and secondary texts of interest to students of American Buddhism, but does not list all sources cited in the endnotes. Badiner, Alan Hunt. Dharma Gaia: A Harvest of Essays in Buddhism and Ecology ( Berkeley: Parallax Press, 1990). Excerpted essays on the relationship between Buddhism and environmentalism by Asian teachers, American social activists, and proponents of eclectic spiritual philosophy. Bethel, Dayle M. Makaguchi the Value Creator: Revolutionary Japanese Educator and Founder of Soka Gakkai ( 1973; New York and Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1994). Study of the impact of Makaguchi's ideas on the origins and evolu- tion of Soka Gakkai in Japan, with some attention to the life and work of Josei Toda and Daisaku Ikeda. Buddhist Churches of America. Buddhist Churches of America. 2 vols. ( Chicago: Nobart, 1974). Seventy-fifth anniversary publication chronicling the his- tory of the BCA from 1899-1974. Butterfield, Stephen T. The Double Mirror: A Skeptical Journey in Buddhist Tantra ( Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 1994). Memoir of events in the American Tibetan practice community circa 1970 to 1990 by a disaffected student of Chogyam Trungpa. Coleman, Graham, ed. Handbook of Tibetan Culture: A Guide to Tibetan Centres and Resources Throughout the World ( Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1994). Brief histories of Tibetan schools, biographies of leading teachers, and an extensive listing, with short notations, of Tibetan and Tibet-related religious and cultural organizations worldwide. -285- |