Buddhological Links
Buddhological Organisations
- IABS - International Association of Buddhist Studies
- UKABS - UK Association for Buddhist Studies
- AABS - Australasian Association of Buddhist Studies
- SLABS - Sri Lanka Association for Buddhist Studies
Buddhism-related Academic Institutes and Projects
- The Chung Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies
- Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research
- IDP - International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online
- International Research Institute for Zen Buddhism
- The Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project
- FROGBEAR
University Buddhist Studies centres (selected)
- Berkeley (http://buddhiststudies.berkeley.edu/)
- Bristol (http://www.bristol.ac.uk/thrs/buddhistcentre)
- Columbia (http://www.cbs.columbia.edu/)
- Hamburg (http://www.buddhismuskunde.uni-hamburg.de/)
- Hongkong (http://www.buddhism.hku.hk/)
- Kathmandu (http://www.cbs.edu.np/)
- München (http://www.en.buddhismus-studien.uni-muenchen.de/index.html)
- Oxford (http://www.ocbs.org/)
- Soka University - International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology (http://iriab.soka.ac.jp/orc/english.html)
- Stanford (http://www.stanford.edu/group/scbs/HCBSS/)
- Sunderland (http://seacoast.sunderland.ac.uk/~os0phr/)
- UCLA (http://www.international.ucla.edu/buddhist/)
- University of the West - Institute of Chinese Buddhist Studies (http://www.uwest.edu/icbs/index.html)
Buddhism-related Journals Available Online
- Journal of Buddhist Ethics, 1994-
- Journal of Global Buddhism, 2000-
- Buddhist-Christian-Studies, 1981-
- The Chung-Hwa Buddhist Journal, 1988-
- International Journal of Tantric Studies
- Journal of the Pali Text Society, PDF files of volumes 1-8 (1882-1927)
- Pacific World, Journal of the Institute of Buddhist Studies
Buddhist Electronic Text Resources
- (Chinese) Chinese Buddhist Canon
- CBETA - Chinese Buddhist Text Association
- CBETA - search tools. This site offers tools and instructions to improve your search performance on the CBETA collection.
- SAT Daizōkyō Text Database
- (Japanese) ACBUT - Association for Computerization of Buddhist Texts
- (Japanese) Buddhist canonical search resources
- (English) Pali-Canon of the Vipassana Research Institute
- (English) Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon
- (English) Catalog of the Manchu Buddhist Canon
- (English) BDK Tripitaka Translation Series of the Numata Centre - Translations from the Chinese Buddhist Canon
- (German) Pali-KanonTipitaka, der Pali Kanon des Theravāda-Buddhismus in deutscher Sprache, offered by Verlag Beyerlein und Steinschulte
Secondary Literature Resources
- Digital Library & Museum of Buddhist Studies
- (Chinese) Overview over lots of online Buddhist dictionaries
- Indica et Buddhica (http://indica-et-buddhica.org/) Materials for Indology and Buddhology
- Tools for Buddhist Studies by Marcus Bingenheimer
- Database of Chinese Buddhist Texts by Christian Wittern
- Japanese Books on Buddhism
- Digital Bibliography of Chinese Buddhism 中國佛教電子書目
Overviews
- The Library and Information Center at Dharma Drum Buddhist College has a database which contains bibliographic records for over 140,000 articles published in Chinese Buddhist Journals of the Republican Era (1911-1949). To consult the database, click here; for more details on the collection, click here.
- Dataset of Buddhist biographies that currently comprises the four Gaoseng zhuan (Biographies of eminent monks)
collections of the Liang, Tang, Song and Ming dynasty. Click here to view the biographies in GIS-view. This site is the most recent and visualizes the same data as social networks (Project at Dharma Drum Buddhist College) - UCLA Reference Guide for East Asian Buddhist Studies
- Charles Muller's source-collection
- Resources for Buddhist Studies (Edited by Jimmy Yu)
- Buddhist Studies WWW Virtual Library by Matthew Ciolek a.o.
- Database of Buddhist temples in Taiwan.
- Nihon Ryo-Wiki Database of materials related to Japanese Buddhist mythology
- Bibliographical Sources for Buddhist Studies from the Viewpoint of Buddhist Philology (Yasuhiro Sueki, version 1.4 March 2014)
- Important collection of Tibetan texts available in Louvain-la-Neuve (http://www.uclouvain.be/451496.html)
- The Zhonghua Collection of Buddhist Temple Gazetteers (Zhonghua fosizhi congshu 中華佛寺志叢書), published with Shin Wen Feng 新文豐, Taipei (http://www.swfc.com.tw/book_view.php?Vcode=2296)
- ICPBS Digital Collections (International College for Postgraduate Studies Library, Japan)
Dictionaries
- William Edward Soothill's "A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms"
- DDB - Digital Dictionary of Buddhism (Charles Muller)
- Various language resources can be accessed here
Tools
- "IndUni" open type fonts (http://bombay.indology.info/) - "IndUni" OpenType fonts. These are Unicode-compliant fonts that contain a comprehensive set of "Indological" characters, as well as all the European characters.