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Religious Studies: Asian Traditions

A guide for reference and online resources for Religious Studies.

Online Reference Sources

Sera Monastery Project

  • The Sera Project is a research and pedagogical initiative employing state-of-the-art digital technology in the service of creating the most comprehensive, interactive, multimedia database of a Tibetan Buddhist monastery ever attempted.

Religion Gateway

  • Annotated guide to religion resources on the Internet.

Religious Studies Conferences Worldwide

  • Links to upcoming conferences.

SARAI: South Asia Resource Access on the Internet

  • Columbia University's premiere South Asianist Internet gateway.

South Asia Resources

  • This UC Berkeley library site links to various bibliographies and webliographies of interest to South Asianists.

Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library

Virtual Religion Index

Oxford Reference Online
Blackwell Companions Online

Primary Sources

Asian Classic Input Project

Buddhist Digital Library and Museum Project

  • Online Sutras

Chinese Buddhist Electronic Text Association

Historical Text Archive

  • Provides high quality articles, books, essays, documents, historical photos, and links, screened for content, for a broad range of historical subjects.

Internet Sacred Texts Archive

Sanskrit Manuscripts from the Cambridge Digital Library

Print Reference Sources

A to Z of Shinto
   Main Ref  BL 2216.1 P53 2006

    Encyclopedia of Buddhism (2 vols.)
       Main Ref  BQ 128 E62 2004

      Encyclopedia of Hinduism
         Main Ref  BL 1105. E53 2008

      Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism
         Main Ref  BL 1105. B75 2009

        Historical Dictionary of Taoism
           Main Ref  BL 1923 P37 1998

          Illustrated Encyclopedia of Hinduism (2 vols.)
             Main Ref  BL 1105 L63 2002

            Rider Encyclopedia of Eastern Philosophy and Religion
               Main Ref  BL 80.2 R494  1989

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