- Source: List of writers on Buddhism
This is a list of writers on Buddhism. The list is intended to include only those writers who have written books about Buddhism, and about whom there is already a Wikipedia article. Each entry needs to indicate the writer's most well-known work. Multiple works should be listed only if each work already has a Wikipedia article.
Early Buddhism
Early Buddhism is the oldest Buddhism, before the split into several sects. The only surviving school is Theravada. Early Buddhism is still being studied by scholars.
Theravada Buddhism
= Other Theravada writers
== Politics
=B. R. Ambedkar, religious Leader, jurist, political leader, Buddhist activist, philosopher, thinker, anthropologist, historian, orator, writer, economist, scholar, editor, revolutionary and the revivalist of Buddhism in India. He was also the chief architect of the Indian Constitution.
Aung San Suu Kyi, political activist
= Scholars
=Ashin Nandamalabhivamsa
Benimadhab Barua
David Kalupahana
K.L. Dhammajoti
K.N. Jayatilleke
Karl Eugen Neumann
Isaline Blew Horner
L. S. Cousins
Mingun Sayadaw
P.D. Premasiri
Polwatte Buddhadatta Thera
Rajguru Aggavamsa Mahathera
Rerukane Chandawimala Thero
Richard Gombrich
Robert Chalmers, 1st Baron Chalmers
Rupert Gethin
List of Sāsana Azani recipients, Buddhist monks who have successfully passed the Tipiṭakadhara (oral) and Tipiṭakakovida (written) examinations in Myanmar and only fifteen monks have been recognized as "Sāsana Azani".
Mahayana Buddhism
Although Mahayana Buddhism is virtually extinct in India, its philosophical systems, namely the Madhyamaka and Yogacara are still being studied.
= Chán/Zen
=Teachers
Scholars
Alfred Bloom
Edward Conze
Nishitani Keiji, Japanese philosopher
Nishida Kitaro, Japanese philosopher
Kogen Mizuno, Japanese scholar
Red Pine
Theodore Stcherbatsky, Russian, wrote Buddhist Logic
D.T. Suzuki, Japanese scholar
Stephen F. Teiser
Other
Alan Watts, American philosopher and lecturer
= Humanistic Buddhism (China)
=Taixu
Yin Shun
= Nichiren Buddhism (Japan)
=Tanaka Chigaku
Daisaku Ikeda
Nikkyo Niwano
Vajrayana Buddhism
Vajrayana originated as Tantra in India.
= Tibetan Buddhism
=Vajrayana was introduced in Tibet, preferring Indian Buddhism over Chinese Buddhism, where it still survives.
Religious writers
Scholars
Navayana Buddhism
Western Buddhism
Writers of fiction and literature
Matsuo Bashō, Japanese poet and journalist
Jack Kerouac, US poet and novelist
Tom Lowenstein, English poet, cultural historian and translator
Peter Matthiessen, US novelist
Ruth Ozeki, US novelist
Jess Row, short story writer
Gary Snyder, US poet
Allen Ginsberg, US poet
Writing instructors
Natalie Goldberg
See also
Access to Insight
Buddhist Cultural Centre
Buddhist Publication Society
Dhamma Society Fund
Dharma Seed
Pali Text Society
Pariyatti (bookstore)
List of Buddhists
List of modern scholars in Buddhist studies
References
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- Jon Kabat-Zinn
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- Buddhism and sexual orientation
