Reading List

Allen, Charles. The Buddha and the Sahibs: The Men Who Discovered India’s Lost
Religion. London: John Murray, 2003.
Analayo. Satipatthana: The Direct Path to Realization. Birmingham: Windhorse,
2003.
Bailey, Greg, and Mabbett, Ian. The Sociology of Early Buddhism. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Gombrich, Richard F., How Buddhism Began: The Conditioned Genesis of the Early
Teachings. London: Athlone, 1996.
------. What the Buddha Thought. London/Oakville, Conn.: Equinox, 2009.
Kuzminski, Adrian. Pyrrhonism: How the Ancient Greeks Reinvented Buddhism.
Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2008.
Lamotte, Etienne. History of Indian Buddhism: From the Origins to the Saka Era.
Louvain: Peeters Press, 1988.
McEvilley, Thomas. The Shape of Ancient Thought: Comparative Studies in Greek
and Indian Philosophies. New York: Allworth Press, 2002.
McMahan, David L. The Making of Buddhist Modernism. Oxford/New York: OUP,
2008.
Nanamoli, Bhikkhu. The Life of the Buddha. Kandy: Buddhist Publication Society,
1978.
Nanavira Thera. Clearing the Path. Path Press (www.nanavira.org)
------. Notes on Dhamma. Path Press (www.nanavira.org)
Norman, K.R. A Philological Approach to Buddhism. Lancaster: Pali Text Society,
2006.
Olendzki, Andrew. Unlimiting Mind: The Radically Experiential Psychology of
Buddhism. Boston: Wisdom, 2010.
Parks, Tim. Teach Us to Sit Still: A Sceptic’s Search for Health and Healing.
London: Vintage, 2010.

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Schopen, Gregory. Bones, Stones and Buddhist Monks: Collected Papers on the
Archaelogy, Epigraphy, and Texts of Monastic Buddhism in India. Honolulu:
University of Hawai’i Press, 1997.
Schumann, H. W. Tr. Walshe. The Historical Buddha: The Times, Life and Teachings
of the Founder of Buddhism. London: Arkana, 1989.

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