“May I be a good doctor for those who suffer from illness, a guide for those who have gone astray, a lamp for those who dwell in darkness, a source of treasure for those in poverty and need.” — Vows of Samantabhadra, Avatamsaka Sutra

Contemporary Scholarship  |  Sutra/Canonical Sources  |  Indo-Tibetan Sources  |  Organizations  |  Media

JABL Subject Headings

JSTOR — Engaged Buddhism  

Related Subject Guides

Engaged Buddhism in Journals 

Contemporary Scholarship

  • Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho. 1999. Ethics for the New Millennium. Riverhead Books. JABL, JABL (2001)
  • Hanh, Thich Nhat. 2020. Interbeing: The Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings of Engaged Buddhism. Parallax Press. JABL
  • Ingram, Catherine. 1990. In the Footsteps of Gandhi: Conversations with Spiritual Social Activists. Parallax Press. JABL
  • Jones, Ken. 2003. The New Social Face of Buddhism: A Call to Action. Wisdom Publications. JABL
  • King, Sallie B. 2009. Socially Engaged Buddhism. University of Hawaiʻi Press. JABL
  • Kotler, Arnold. 1996. Engaged Buddhist Reader: Ten Years of Engaged Buddhist Publishing. Parallax Press. JABL
  • Macy, Joanna. 2007. World as Lover, World as Self: Courage for Global Justice and Ecological Renewal. Parallax Press.
  • Parallax Press, eds. 2019. True Peace Work: Essential Writings on Engaged Buddhism. Parallax Press. JABL
  • Pistono, Matteo. 2019. Roar: Sulak Sivaraksa and the Path of Socially Engaged Buddhism. North Atlantic Books. JABL
  • Puri, Bharati. 2006. Engaged Buddhism: The Dalai Lama’s Worldview. Oxford University Press. JABL
  • Queen, Christopher S., Charles S. Prebish, and Damien Keown. 2003. Action Dharma: New Studies in Engaged Buddhism. RoutledgeCurzon. JABL
  • Senauke, Alan. 2013. Heirs to Ambedkar: The Rebirth of Engaged Buddhism in India. Clear View Press. JABL
  • Watts, Jonathan S. 2009. Rethinking Karma: The Dharma of Social Justice. Silkworm Books. JABL
  • Williams, Duncan Ryuken. 2019. American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War. Harvard University Press. JABL

Indo-Tibetan Sources

A Treatise on Ethics for Kings: An Ornament for Rulers
རྒྱལ་པོ་ལུགས་ཀྱི་བསྟན་བཅོས་ས་གཞི་སྐྱོང་བའི་རྒྱན་ (Rgyal po lugs kyi bstan bcos sa gzhi skyong baʼi rgyan)
Jamgön Mipham

Tibetan

  • Mi-pham-rgya-mtsho. 2017. The Just King: The Tibetan Buddhist Classic on Leading an Ethical Life. Translated by José Ignacio Cabezón. First edition. Snow Lion. JABL

Letter to a Friend
Suhṛllekha
བཤེས་པའི་སྤྲིངས་ཡིག་ (Bshes pa’i springs yig)
Nagarjuna
Tibetan   Sanskrit

  • Nāgārjuna and Alexander Berzin (trans.) “Letter to a Friend.” Study Buddhism by Berzin Archives. English  Tibetan
  • Nāgārjuna, Red-mdaʼ-ba Gzhon-nu-blo-gros, Lobsang Tharchin, and Artemus B Engle (eds.) 1979. Nāgārjuna’s Letter: Nāgārjuna’s “Letter to a Friend” with a Commentary by Venerable Rendawa Zhön-Nu Lo-Drö. Library of Tibetan Works & Archives. JABL

Sutra/Canonical Sources

Aṅgulimāla Sūtra

Karaṇīyamettā Sutta
Metta Sutta

 

 

 

Organizations

  • Buddhist Global Relief
    Our mission is to combat chronic hunger and malnutrition. Bearing in mind the Buddha’s statements that “hunger is the worst kind of illness” and “the gift of food is the gift of life,” we sponsor projects that promote hunger relief for poor communities around the world.
  • Buddhist Peace Fellowship
    Buddhist Peace Fellowship is a BIPOC, queer and trans-led Dharma organization that offers opportunities for practice, education and spiritual friendship, in service of personal and relational awakening and collective compassionate action.  
  • Don Rothberg’s Resources on Socially Engaged Buddhism
    Dr. Donald Rothberg is one of the nation’s foremost leaders in socially engaged spirituality. 
  • International Network of Engaged Buddhists (INEB)
    In 1989, the INEB was established in Siam (Thailand) by Sulak Sivaraksa and a group of Buddhist and non-Buddhist thinkers and social activists. 
  • North American Buddhist Alliance: Buddhists for Racial Justice Online Resources
    A Mahasangha of Buddhists Across Traditions
  • Order of Interbeing
    The Order of Interbeing, Tiep Hien in Vietnamese, is a community of monastics and lay people who have committed to living their lives in accord with the Fourteen Mindfulness Trainings, a distillation of the Bodhisattva (Enlightened Being) teachings of Mahayana Buddhism
  • Sakyadita: International Association of Buddhist Women
    Bringing together laywomen, monastics, and scholars from across all Buddhist traditions to advance equality, education, and spiritual practice.
  • Zen Peacemakers
    Our mission is to realize our oneness and relieve suffering through contemplative social action.

Media

 

Being an Ally and Why Equanimity? Equanimity and Activism (part 1 of 4) (Engaged Buddhism) — Venerable Lozang Yönten

 

 

What is Engaged Buddhism? | Sulak Sivaraksa, via Study Buddhism

 

 

Engaged Buddhism: Applying the Teachings in Our Present Moment | The Way Out Is In podcast | Episode #9

 

Dharma and Activism with Jan Willis, PhD, at Maitripa College (2017)
 

Podcasts

  • Engaged Buddhism: A Series of Talks on Integrating Our Inner and Outer Work — Venerable Lozang Yönten
  • Engaged Buddhism — Sravasti Abbey (112 podcast episodes)

 

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Bodhisattva Ethics   |   Buddha Nature   |   Buddhist Psychology   |   Calm Abiding   |   Chittamatra   |   Classical Tibetan   |   Death and Dying   |  Engaged Buddhism  |  History of Buddhism in India and Tibet   |   Kangyur and Tengyur  |  Lama Tsongkhapa: Life and Works   |   Lamrim   |   Lojong   |   Madhyamaka   |  Mahamudra   |  Nalanda Masters  |  Research and Writing Guide   |   Six-Session Guru Yoga   |   Songs of Realization   |   Tantra in Tibet  |  Theories and Methods in Buddhist Studies   |   Tibetan Medicine