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REL360: Chinese Buddhism Flowers in the Libraries
Spring 2008 - P. Gregory
reference contact: Bruce Sajdak, bsajdak@email.smith.edu, x2967

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FINDING DEFINITIONS AND BRIEF OVERVIEW ARTICLES

Encyclopedias

Source Call Number/Access
Encyclopedia of Religion
ref BL 31 .E46
or click here for online
Encyclopedia of Buddhism (Routledge) ref BQ128 .E63 2007
Encyclopedia of Buddhism ref BQ 128 .E62 2004
Encyclopaedia of Buddhism ref BQ 2 .E5 1961

Dictionaries

Reference Source Reference Call Number

Digital Dictionary of Buddhism
Also includes Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms

click here
Historical Dictionary of Buddhism
ref BQ 130 .P74 1993

Concise Encyclopedia of Buddhism

ref BQ 128 .P69 2000
Dictionary of Buddhism ref BQ 130 .K46 2003

FINDING BOOKS: USING THE ONLINE CATALOG

Begin by searching the Five College Library Catalog using the SUBJECT BEGINS WITH search for the subject terms listed below. Then proceed to searching WorldCat for books outside of the 5 Colleges:

Buddhism China
Hua yan Buddhism
Pure Land Buddhism
Tiantai Buddhism
Zen Buddhism

To search within books don't neglect Google Books, which now contains the full text of hundreds of millions of pages - including many books from major American research libraries.

FINDING ARTICLES

Database/Index Access
Chinese Religion in Western Languages ref BL 1802 .T55 & .T552
ATLA Religion Database 1949+ click here

Philosopher's Index 1940+

click here (new interface)
Buddhist Bibliography & Full-Text Search Engine (National Taiwan University) click here
Bibliography of Asian Studies 1971+
click here
Project Muse (especially useful for current issues of Philosophy East and West) click here
JSTOR (back issues excluding the most recent 2-5 years)
click here

WEB SITE

Buddhist Studies WWW Virtual Library

Buddha-l (Discussion Group)
Listen in or join the conversation - but remember this is a discussion - not carefully crafted scholarly writing. To join, click here. To browse or search the archives click here.

Center for Buddhist Studies Weblog

CITE YOUR SOURCES

Refworks
Bibliographic software designed to help researchers gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as to generate citations and bibliographies.

Style Manuals & Citation Guides (Smith College)
See how to get to Citation Help.

WHAT DID YOU THINK ABOUT THIS LIBRARY CLASS?

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CONTACT THE REFERENCE LIBRARIAN

Contact the instructor for your library session: David Podboy, bsajdak@email.smith.edu.

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