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AST/REL 231 (Religions of and Tibet) Dr. Richey Berea College Fall 2007

ESSAY OPTIONS

Choose two of the following topics1 and be sure to submit each essay by the stated deadline:

1. The rise of the Upanishadic, Jain, and early Buddhist movements can be interpreted as responses to the earlier Vedic religious traditions of ancient India. Using appropriate primary texts assigned in the course as well as at least 2 relevant secondary sources (see Criteria for Assessment, p. 2), answer the following questions:

• To what extent do these movements borrow or duplicate Vedic ideas, institutions, and practices? • To what extent do these movements develop new ideas, institutions, and practices? • To what extent are these movements ideologically, institutionally, or ritually related or similar to each other?

-- ESSAYS ON TOPIC #1 WILL BE ACCEPTED ON SEPTEMBER 21! –

2. The encounter between Indian Mahāyāna and what became the Bön religious tradition in Tibet left lasting legacies in . Using appropriate primary texts assigned in the course as well as at least 2 relevant secondary sources (see Criteria for Assessment, p. 2), answer the following questions:

• To what extent can Indian Mahāyāna and Bön influences be seen in the development of Tibetan Buddhist ideas, institutions, and practices? • To what extent did Tibetan Buddhism develop its own distinct ideas, institutions, and practices? • To what extent are Buddhist and Bön elements combined in Tibetan religious culture?

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3. Hindu tradition tends to view the Bhagavad Gītā as şruti (“that which is heard,” i.e., divinely-revealed scripture) even though this text technically belongs to the category of (“that which is remembered,” i.e., work of human authorship). Using appropriate primary texts assigned in the course as well as at least 2 relevant secondary sources (see Criteria for Assessment, p. 2), answer the following questions:

• To what extent is the influence of earlier şruti texts such as the and the Upanişads apparent in the Gītā? • To what extent does the Gītā depart from these earlier traditions? • To what extent are the Gītā and these earlier texts compatible with one another?

-- ESSAYS ON TOPIC #3 WILL BE ACCEPTED ON NOVEMBER 9! --

1 You also may develop one topic of your own, in consultation with the instructor and subject to his approval. You must complete one of the assignments provided here, however.

1 4. Hindu bhaktī may be considered ancestral to the rise of later South Asian religious traditions, including Indo-Persian Sufi and . Using appropriate primary texts assigned in the course as well as at least 2 relevant secondary sources (see Criteria for Assessment, p. 2), answer the following questions:

• To what extent is the influence of bhaktī apparent in Sufi and Sikh ideas, institutions, and practices? • To what extent do Sufism and Sikhism depart from bhaktī traditions? • To what extent are Sufi and Sikh ideas, institutions, and practices mutually intelligible or translatable?

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Criteria for Assessment

• Essays must be typed in clear standard English prose, double-spaced, 5-8 pages in length, and free of mechanical errors (no misspellings, subject-verb disagreement, improper or inconsistent citations, split infinitives, etc.).

• All secondary sources must be found in the bibliography below and/or in the following electronic databases of academic journal articles: (1) ATLA Religion Index, (2) JSTOR, (3) Religion and Philosophy Collection (all available online via http://www.berea.edu/hutchinslibrary/electronicresources.asp).

• Cite any and all texts quoted or paraphrased (see The New St. Martin’s Handbook, pp. 494-497, section 42d: “Recognizing plagiarism and acknowledging sources”) using one of the following citation styles: MLA (see The New St. Martin’s Handbook, section 44: “Documenting Sources: MLA,” pp. 516-563), APA (see The New St. Martin’s Handbook, section 45: “Documenting Sources: APA,” pp. 564-586), or Chicago (see The New St. Martin’s Handbook, section 47: “Documenting Sources: Chicago,” pp. 601-618).

• For conceptual help with approaching the basic assignment, please feel free to consult the instructor. Drafts are welcome in advance of due dates.

• Each essay is due as an e-mailed attached Microsoft Word document by the end of the due date specified (i.e., by 11:59 p.m. that day).

LATE ESSAYS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED!

Sarasvatī सरःवती Hindu goddess of the arts, music, and scholarship

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Selected Bibliography (all items in Hutchins Library)

INDIAN BUDDHISM

Bunce, Frederick W. A Dictionary of Buddhist and , Illustrated: Objects, Devices, Rites,and Related Terms. South Asia Books, 1997. CN: 704.948 B942d

Buswell, Robert E., Jr., ed. Encyclopedia of Buddhism. New York: Macmillan USA, 2003. CN: Reference 294.303 E56

Conze, Edward. Buddhist Thought in India. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 1982. CN: 294.3 C768bt

Davidson, Ronald M. Indian Esoteric Buddhism: A Social History of the Tantric Movement. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. CN: 294.392 D253i ; E-book

Dehejia, . Early Buddhist Rock Temples; a Chronology. Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press, 1972. CN: 726.143 D322e

Geaves, Ron. Key Words in Buddhism. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2006. CN: Reference 294.303 G292k 2006

Gokhale, Balkrishna Govind. Buddhism and Asoka. Baroda and Bombay: Padmaja Publications, 1948. CN: 294.309 G616b

Gyatso, Janet. In the Mirror of Memory: Reflections on Mindfulness and Remembrance in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992. CN: E-book

Hallade, Madeleine. Gandharan Art of North India and the Graeco-Buddhist Tradition in India, Persia, and Central Asia. Translated by Diana Imber. New York, H. N. Abrams, 1968. CN: 709.34 H181g

Hirakawa, Akira. A History of Indian Buddhism: From Sakyamuni to Early Mahayana. Translated and edited by Paul Groner. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990. CN: E-book

Huntington, C.W. The Emptiness of Emptiness: An Introduction the Early Indian Madhyamika. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989. CN: E-book

Inada, Kenneth K., with contributions by Richard Chi, Shotaro Iida, and David Kalupahana. Guide to . Boston: G. K. Hall, 1985. CN: 016.181 I35g

Jackson, Roger R., trans. Tantric Treasures: Three Collections of Mystical Verse from Buddhist India. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. CN: 294.382 T169xj 2004

Kalupahana, David J. Ethics in Early Buddhism. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1995. CN: E- book

Lopez, Donald S., ed. Buddhism in Practice. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995. CN: 294.3 B9273

Keown, Damien. A Dictionary of Buddhism. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. CN: Reference 294.303 K37d 2003

Keown, Damien, and Charles S. Prebish, eds. Encyclopedia of Buddhism. London: Routledge, 2007. CN: Reference 294.303 E563 2007

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King, Richard. : An Introduction to Hindu and Buddhist Thought. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 1999. CN: E-book

Mitchell, Donald W. Buddhism: Introducing the Buddhist Experience. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. CN: 294.3 M681b

Monius, Anne E. Imagining a place for Buddhism: literary culture and religious community in Tamil- speaking South India. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. CN: 294.309 M744i

Paul, Diana Y., ed. Women in Buddhism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. CN: 294.337 P324w

Prebish, Charles S, ed. Historical Dictionary of Buddhism. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1993. CN: 294.303 P922h

Reat, Noble Ross. Buddhism: A History. Fremont, CA: Jain Publishing Company, 1996. CN: 294.309 R288b

Robinson, Richard H., and Willard L. Johnson. The Buddhist Religion: A Historical Introduction. Encino, CA: Dickenson Publishing Company, 1977. CN: 294.3 R664b

Schober, Juliane. Sacred Biography in the Buddhist Traditions of South and Southeast Asia. Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawai'i Press, 1997. CN: E-book

Schopen, Gregory. Bones, Stones, and Buddhist Monks: Collected Papers on the Archaeology, Epigraphy, and Texts of Monastic Buddhism in India. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1997. CN: E-book

Trainor, Kevin, ed. Buddhism: The Illustrated Guide. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. CN: 294.3 B927i

Waldron, William S. The Buddhist Unconscious: The Alaya-vijnana in the Context of Indian Buddhist Thought. London; New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. CN: E-book

White, David Gordon, ed. in Practice. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. CN: 294.595 T169

Williams, Paul. Buddhist Thought: A Complete Introduction to the Indian Tradition. London ; New York: Routledge, 2000. CN: E-book

Wood, Thomas E. Nagarjunian Disputations: A Philosophical Journey through an Indian Looking-glass. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 1994. CN: E-book

INDIAN HISTORY AND THOUGHT -- GENERAL

Ames, Roger T., Wimal Dissanayake and Thomas P. Kasulis. Self as person in Asian theory and practice. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994. CN: E-book

Auboyer, Jeannine. Daily Life in Ancient India: from approximately 200 BC to AD 700. Translated by Simon Watson Taylor. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1994. CN: 954 A894d

Baird, Robert D. and Alfred Bloom. Indian and Far Eastern religious traditions. New York, Harper & Row, 1972. CN: 299.5 B163i

4 Bhattacharyya, Narendra . A Glossary of Indian Religious Terms and Concepts. Columbia, MO: South Asia Books, 1990. CN: 294.507 B575g

Brown, Judith M. Modern India: The Origins of an Asian Democracy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. CN: 954 B878m 1994

Bryant, Edwin. The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture: The Indo- Migration Debate. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. CN: 934.02 B915q 2001

Callicott, J. Baird and Roger T. Ames, eds. in Asian traditions of thought: essays in environmental philosophy. Albany: State University of New York Press, c1989. CN: 179.109 N285

Chandra, Bipan. Essays on Contemporary India. South Asia Books, 1993. CN: on order since 6/1/05

Coward, Harold, et al, eds. The South Asian religious diaspora in Britain, Canada, and the United States. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2000. CN: E-book

Dalmia, Vasudha, with Angelika Malinar and Martin Christof, eds. Charisma and Canon: Essays on the Religious History of the Indian Subcontinent. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. CN: 294.09 C473 2003

Davies, C. Collin. An Historical Atlas of the Indian Peninsula. London: Oxford University Press, 1959. CN: 912.54 D255h 1959

Embree, Ainslie T., et al, eds. The Encyclopedia of Asian History. 4 vols. New York: Scribner, 1987. CN: Reference 950 E61

Embree, Ainslie T., ed. Sources of Indian Tradition, Vol. I: From the Beginning to 1800. 2nd ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. CN: 954 S724

Ganeri, Jonardon. Philosophy in Classical India: Introduction and Analysis. London: Routledge, 2001. CN: E-book

Ganguly, D.K. Ancient India: History and Archaeology. New Delhi: Abhinav, 1994. CN: 934 G197a 1994

Goalen, Paul. India: From Mughal Empire to British Raj. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. CN: 954 G573i 1992

Gosling, David. Religion and Ecology in India and Southeast Asia. London: Routledge, 2001. CN: 294.517 G676r ; E-book

Goyal, Shankar. Aspects of Ancient Indian History and Historiography. South Asia Books, 1993. CN: 934 G724a 1993

Hay, Stephen, ed. Sources of Indian Tradition, Vol. II: Modern India and Pakistan. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. CN: 954 S724

Heehs, Peter, ed. Indian Religions: A Historical Reader of Spiritual Expression and Experience. New York: New York University Press, 2002. CN: 294 I39

Higham, Charles F. W. Encyclopedia of Ancient Asian Civilizations. New York: Facts On File, 2004. CN: Reference 950 H638a 2004

Kumar, Ravinder. Essays in the Social History of Modern India. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987. CN: on order since 11/19/04

5 Leaman, Oliver, ed. Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy. London and New York: Routledge, 2001. CN: Reference 181.003 E56

Leeming, David. A Dictionary of Asian Mythology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. CN: Reference 291.1309 L485d and E-book.

Levinson, David, and Karen Christensen, eds. Encyclopedia of Modern Asia. 6 vols. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson/Gale, 2002. CN: Reference 950.03 E56

Lopez, Donald S., ed. Religions of India in Practice. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995. CN: 294 R3823

Mann, Gurinder Singh, et al. Buddhists, , and Sikhs in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. CN: 294.097 M281b

Mansingh, Surjit. Historical Dictionary of India. Asian Historical Dictionaries, No. 20. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow, 1996. CN: 954.003 M288h 1996

Mehta, Gita. A River . New York: Talese/Doubleday, 1993. CN: M498ri

Mehta, Ved. Portrait of India. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1993. CN: 954 M4985p 1993

Mohanty, J. N. Classical Indian Philosophy: An Introductory Text. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000. CN: 181.4 M697c

Pannikar, K. M., et al, eds. Cambridge History of India. 6 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1955-1958. CN: 954 C178

Robinson, Francis, ed. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, and the Maldives. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. CN: Reference 954.003 C178

Robinson, Rowena, and Sathianathan Clarke, eds. Religious Conversion in India: Modes, Motivations, and Meanings. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. CN: 291.42 R382 2003

Sharma, Arvind, ed. Women in Indian Religions. New Delhi; New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. CN: 200.8209 W872

Singer, Milton B. When a Great Tradition Modernizes; an Anthropological Approach to Indian Civilization. New York, Praeger Publishers, 1972. CN: 915.4 S617w

Thapar, Romila. Early India: From the Origins to A.D. 1300. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. CN: 934 T367e

White, David Gordon, ed. Tantra in Practice. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. CN: 294.595 T169

Wilson, Liz, ed. The Living and the Dead: Social Dimensions of Death in South Asian Religions. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003. CN: 291.23 L785 2003

Wolpert, Stanley. A New History of India. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. CN: 954 W866n

HINDUISM

6 Babb, Lawrence A. Redemptive Encounters: Three Modern Styles of the Hindu Tradition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. CN: 294.556 B112r

Begley, W. E. Visnu's Flaming Wheel : The Iconography of the Sudarsana-cakra. New York: Published by New York University Press for the College Art Association of America, 1973. CN: 294.52 B417v

Bharati, Agehananda. Hindu Views and Ways and the Hindu-Muslim Interface: an Anthropological Assessment. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1981. CN: 294.5 A265h

Brass, Paul R. The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003. CN: 954.2 B823p 2003

Brooks, Charles R. The Hare in India. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989. CN: 294.5512 B873h

Brown, Robert L. ed. Ganesh: Studies of an Asian . Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991. CN: E-book

Bunce, Frederick W. A Dictionary of Buddhist and Hindu Iconography, Illustrated: Objects, Devices, Rites,and Related Terms. South Asia Books, 1997. CN: 704.948 B942d

Chapple, Christopher Key, and Mary Evelyn Tucker, eds. and Ecology: The Intersection of Earth, Sky, and Water. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions/Harvard University Press, 2000. CN: 294.517 H662

Deutsch, Eliot, trans. The Bhagavad Gītā. Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1968. CN: 294.5924 M214d

Doniger, Wendy, trans. Laws of Manu. New York: Penguin, 1992. CN: 294.548 M294xd 1991

Eck, Diana L. Darsan: Seeing the Divine Image in India. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995. CN: 294.5 E19d

Feuerstein, Georg. The Tradition. Prescott, AZ: Hohm Press, 2001. CN: 181.45 F423y c. 2

Flood, Gavin, ed. The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2003. CN: 294.5 B632

Fuller, C. J. A Camphor Flame. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992. CN: 294.509 F965c

Geaves, Ron. Key Words in Hinduism. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2006. CN: Reference 294.503 G292k 2006

Gosvami, Satsvarupa Dasa. Readings in Vedic Literature: the Tradition Speaks for Itself. New York: Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1977. CN: 294.1 G682r

Gottschalk, Peter. Beyond Hindu and Muslim: Multiple Identity in Narratives from Village India. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. CN: 305.8009 G687b

Holland, Barron, ed. Popular Hinduism and : an Annotated Bibliography. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1979. CN: 016.2945 H734p

Hopkins, Thomas J. The Hindu Religious Tradition. North Scituate, Mass.: Duxbury Press, 1971. CN: 294.5 H796h Copy 2; 294.5 H796h

7 Huyler, Stephen P. Meeting God: Elements of Hindu Devotion. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999. CN: 294.543 H987m 1999

Isacco, Enrico, and Anna L. Dallapiccola, eds. the Divine Lover: Myth and Legend through Indian Art. Boston: David R. Godine, 1982. CN: 294.513 K92

Jaffrelot, Christophe. The Hindu Nationalist Movement in India. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. CN: 324.254 J23h

Khandelwal, Meena. Women in Ochre Robes: Gendering Hindu Renunciation. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2003. CN: 294.565 K454w 2004

King, Richard. Indian Philosophy: An Introduction to Hindu and Buddhist Thought. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 1999. CN: E-book

Kinsley, David R. Hindu Goddesses: Visions of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu Religious Tradition. Delhi: , 1987. CN: 294.521 K56h

Kinsley, David R. The Sword and the Flute: and Krsna, Dark Visions of the Terrible and the Sublime in Hindu Mythology. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977. CN: 294.52 K56s 1977

Kohn, Richard J. Lord of the Dance: the Mani Rimdu Festival in Tibet and Nepal. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. CN: E-book

Laine, James W. Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. CN: 954.792 L186s 2003

Lorenzen, David N, ed. Religion in North India: Community Identity and Political Action. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. CN: E-book

Mascaró, Juan, trans. The . London: Penguin Books, 1962. CN: 891.21 B575m 1962 ; 891.21 B575m 1962 Copy 2

Mascaró, Juan, trans. The . London: Penguin Books, 1965. CN: 294.592 U65m

Michell, George. The : an Introduction to Its Meaning and Forms. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. CN: 726.145 M623h

O’Flaherty, Wendy Doniger, trans. Hindu Myths. London: Penguin Books, 1975. CN: 294.513 H662

O’Flaherty, Wendy Doniger, trans. The Rig Veda. London: Penguin Books, 1981. CN: 294.592 V414r

Olivelle, Patrick, trans. Upanisads. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. CN: 294.592 U65

Openshaw, Jeanne. Seeking Bauls of Bengal. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. CN: 294.551 O614s 2002

Organ, Troy Wilson. Hinduism; Its Historical Development. Woodbury, N.Y., Barron's Educational Series, 1974. CN: 294.509 O68h

Pal, Pratapaditya. Hindu Religion and Iconology According to the Tantrasp-sara. Los Angeles: Vichitra Press; El Cerrito, Ca: G. Vanderstoel, 1981. CN: 294.53 P153h

Sarkar, Tanika. Hindu wife, Hindu nation: community, religion, and cultural nationalism. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2001. CN: 305.486 S245h

8 Satchidananda, Swami, trans. Yoga of Patanjali. Yogaville, VA: Distribution, 1990. CN: 181.452 S971y

Sharma, Arvind. Classical Hindu Thought; an Introduction. New Delhi; New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. CN: 294.5 S531c

Sullivan, Bruce M., Historical Dictionary of Hinduism. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1997. CN: 294.503 S949h

Underhill, M. M. The Hindu Religious Year. Calcutta, Association Press; London, New York, H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1921. CN: 294.5 U55h

Whitehead, Henry. The Village of South India. London, New York, H. Milford, Oxford University press, 1916. CN: 294 W592v

Williams, Raymond Brady. An Introduction to Hinduism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. CN: 294.556 W726i

Younger, Paul. Playing host to deity: festival religion in the south Indian tradition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. CN: 294.536 Y78p

Zaehner, R. C. Hinduism. New York: Oxford University Press, c1966. CN: 294.5Z17h

ISLAM IN INDIA

Abbott, Freeland. Islam and Pakistan. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1968. CN: 297.0954 A131i

Ahmad, Imtiaz, et al, eds. Pluralism and Equality: Values in Indian Society and Politics. SAGE Publications, 2000. CN: 303.372 P737 2000

Ahmad, Imtiaz , ed. Modernization and Social Change among Muslims in India. New Delhi : Manohar, 1983. CN: 305.6971 M689

Bharati, Agehananda. Hindu Views and Ways and the Hindu-Muslim Interface: an Anthropological Assessment. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1981. CN: 294.5 A265h

Brass, Paul R. The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003. CN: 954.2 B823p 2003

Cragg, Kenneth, and R. Marston Speight. The House of Islam, 3rd ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1988. CN: 297 C883h

Eaton, Richard Maxwell. The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. CN: E-book

Esposito, John L. Islam in Asia: Religion, Politics, and Society. Oxford and New York : Oxford University Press, 1987. CN: 297.197 I82

Esposito, John L., ed. The Oxford History of Islam. Oxford University Press, 1999. CN: 297.09 O98

Faruqi, `Imadulhasan Azad. Sufism and Bhakti : Mawlana Rum and Sri . New Delhi: Abhinav, 1984. CN: 297.4 F247s

Gottschalk, Peter. Beyond Hindu and Muslim: Multiple Identity in Narratives from Village India. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. CN: 305.8009 G687b

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Jalal, Ayesha. Self and Sovereignty: Individual and Community in South Asian Islam since 1850. New York: Routlege, 2002. CN: E-book

Laine, James W. Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. CN: 954.792 L186s 2003

Rashid, Mian Abdur. Islam in the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent : An Analytical Study of the Islamic Movements. Lahore: National Book Foundation, 1977. CN: 297.0954 R224i

Titus, Murray T. Islam in India and Pakistan : A Religious History of Islam in India and Pakistan. Madras: Published for the Senate of Serampore College by the Christian Literature Society, 1959. CN: 297 T623i

Troll, Christian W., ed. Muslim Shrines in India : Their Character, History and Significance. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1989. CN: 297.35 M987

JAINISM

Babb, Lawrence A. Absent Lord: Ascetics and Kings in a Jain Ritual Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. CN: 294.492 B112a

Chapple, Christopher Key, ed. and Ecology: Nonviolence in the Web of Life. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. CN: 294.417 J25

Cort, John E., ed. Open Boundaries: Jain Communities and Culture in Indian History. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1998. CN: E-book

Dundas, Paul. The Jains. London; New York: Routledge, 1992. CN: 294.4 D914j

Gopalan, Subramania. Outlines of Jainism. New York, Halsted Press, 1973. CN: 294.4 G659o

Jaini, Padmanabh S. Gender and Salvation: Jaina Debates on the Spiritual Liberation of Women. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. CN: E-book

Jaini, Padmanabh S. The Jain Path of Purification. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1979. CN: 294.4 J25j

Kelting, M. Whitney. Singing to the Jinas: Jain Laywomen, Mandal Singing, and the Negotiations of Jain Devotion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. CN: 294.408 K299s 2001

Laidlaw, James. Riches and Renunciation: Religion, Economy and Society among the Jains. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. CN: 294.409 L185r

Nahar, P.C., and K.C. Ghosh, eds. An Encyclopaedia of Jainism. Delhi: Sri Satguru Publications, 1988. CN: 294.4 E56

Stevenson, Sinclair. The Heart of Jainism. New Delhi, Munshiram Manoharlal, 1970. CN: 294.4 S848h

SIKHISM

Archer, John Clark. The Sikhs in Relation to Hindus, Moslems, Christians, and Ahmadiyyas; a Study in Comparative Religion. New York, Russell & Russell, 1971. CN: 294.6 A671s

10 Brown, Kerry, ed. Sikh Art and Literature. London: Routledge, 2002. CN: 700.882 S579

Cole, W. Owen and Piara Singh Sambhi. The Sikhs: their religious beliefs and practices. London; Boston: Routledge & K. Paul, 1978. CN: 294.6 C689s

Grewal, J. S. The Sikhs of the Punjab. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. CN: 954 N532 v. 2 pt. 3

Hawley, John Stratton and Gurinder Singh Mann, eds. Studying the Sikhs: Issues for North America. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1993. CN: E-book

Japji: quintessence of Sikh thought and philosophy in divine poem. Translated by Sangat Singh. Delhi: Hind Pocket Books, 1973. CN: 294.6 A235j

Mahmood, Cynthia Keppley. Fighting for faith and nation: dialogues with Sikh militants. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. CN: E-book

McLeod, W. Hugh. Nanak and the Sikh Religion. Oxford, Clarendon P., 1968. CN: 294.553 N175zm

McLeod, W. Hugh. Historical Dictionary of Sikhism. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1995. CN: 294.603 M165s

McLeod, W. Hugh. The Evolution of the Sikh Community. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. CN: 294.609 M165e

McLeod, W. Hugh. The Sikhs : History, Religion, and Society. New York: Columbia University Press, 1989. CN: 909.088 M165s

O'Connell, J. et al, eds. Sikh History and Religion in the Twentieth Century. Toronto: Center for South Asian Studies, 1988. CN: 294.6 S5786

Singh, Gopal. The Religion of the Sikhs. New York, Asia Pub. House c1971. CN: 294.6 S617r

Singh, Harbans. The Heritage of the Sikhs. New Delhi: Manohar, 1983. CN: 294.6 S6175h

Singh, Ranbir. Glimpses of the divine masters; -Guru Gobind Singh, 1469-1708. New Delhi, International Trades Corp., 1965. CN: 294.553 S617g

TIBETAN BUDDHISM

Bstan-'dzin-rgya-mtsho [The Dalai ] and Howard C. Cutler. The Art of Happiness : a Handbook for Living. New York: Riverhead Books, 1998. CN: 294.344 B916a

Bstan-'dzin-rgya-mtsho [The ]. Ethics for the New Millennium. New York: Riverhead Books, 1999. CN: 294.35 B916e

Bstan-'dzin-rgya-mtsho [The Dalai Lama]. An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life. Edited by Nicholas Vreeland. Boston: Little, Brown, 2001. CN: 294.344 B916o

Bunce, Frederick W. A Dictionary of Buddhist and Hindu Iconography, Illustrated: Objects, Devices, Rites,and Related Terms. South Asia Books, 1997. CN: 704.948 B942d

Buswell, Robert E., Jr., ed. Encyclopedia of Buddhism. New York: Macmillan USA, 2003. CN: Reference 294.303 E56

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Cuevas, Bryan J. The Hidden History of the Tibetan Book of the Dead. New York : Oxford University Press, 2003. CN: 294.342 C965h

Douglas, Nik. Tibetan tantric charms and amulets: 230 examples reproduced from original woodblocks. New York: Dover Publications, 1978. CN: 294.33 D735t

Dreyfus, Georges B. J. Recognizing Reality: 's Philosophy and its Tibetan Interpretations. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997. CN: E-book

French, Rebecca Redwood. The Golden Yoke: The Legal Cosmology of Buddhist Tibet. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995. CN: 340.115 F875g

Garfield, Jay L., trans. The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: 's Mulamadhyamakakarik. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. CN: 294.385 N147f

Geaves, Ron. Key Words in Buddhism. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2006. CN: Reference 294.303 G292k 2006

Goldstein, Melvin C., and Matthew T. Kapstein. Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet: Religious Revival and Cultural Identity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. CN: 294.3 B927 ; E-book

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Mullin, Glenn H., trans. and ed. Living in the Face of Death: The Tibetan Tradition. Ithaca, N.Y.: Snow Lion, 1998. CN: 294.342 M959L

12 Lopez, Donald S. Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1999. CN: 294.392 L864p

Lopez, Donald S., ed. Religions of Tibet in Practice. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997. CN: 294.392 R382

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TIBETAN HISTORY AND THOUGHT -- GENERAL

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Selected Internet Resources

Archive of Indological Resources http://palimpsest.lss.wisc.edu/%7Egbuhnema/links.html

Art of Asia: Buddhism http://www.artsmia.org/art-of-asia/buddhism/

Buddhist Studies WWW Virtual Library http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-Buddhism.html

14 Glossary of Islamic Terms and Concepts http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/reference/glossary.html

Hindu Resources Online http://www.hindu.org/

Internet Indian History Sourcebook http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/india/indiasbook.html

Jainism http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~malaiya/jainhlinks.html

Sacred Texts of Hinduism http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/

Sikh Coalition http://www.sikhcoalition.org/default.asp

South Asia Resource Access on the Internet http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/southasia/cuvl/

Sufism, Sufis, and Sufi Orders http://www.uga.edu/islam/Sufism.html

Tibetan Buddhist Resource Centre http://www.tbrc.org/

Tibetan Studies WWW Virtual Library http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-TibetanStudies.html

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