FWBO Academic Bibliography

This is a list of books and academic articles that deal wholly or in part with the FWBO. It excludes treatments by FWBO writers in non-academic contexts.

Barrett D. V. (2001) The New Believers: Sects, 'Cults' and Alternative Religions, Cassell, 307-310.
Batchelor S. (1993) The Awakening of the West, HarperCollins, London.
Baumann M (1996) ‘Buddhist Dissemination in the West: Phases, Orders and Integrative Buddhism’, Day Internacionales Asienforum 27/ 3-4: 345-62.
(1998) ‘Working in the Right Spirit: The Application of Buddhist Right Livelihood in the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order,’ The Journal of Buddhist Ethics, 5.
(2000) ‘Work as Dharma Practice: Right Livelihood Cooperatives in the FWBO,’ in Queen CS (Ed.) Engaged Buddhism in the West, Wisdom Publications, pp. 372-93.
(2002) ‘Buddhism in Europe: Past, Present, Prospects.” In Westward Dharma: Buddhism Beyond Asia, edited by M. Baumann and C. Prebish, 85-105. London: University of California Press.
Bell S. (1996) ‘Change and Identity in the Western Buddhist Order,’ Scottish, Journal of Religious Studies vol. XVII no 2, pp.87-107.
(1997) Review of Extending the Hand of Friendship, The Journal of Buddhist Ethics, March 1997.
(2002) ‘Scandals in Emerging Western Buddhism’ in Westward Dharma: Buddhism Beyond Asia, edited by M. Baumann and C. Prebish, 230-242. London: University of California Press.
Bluck, R. (2006) British Buddhism: Teachings, Practices and Developments, Routledge, Oxford, 2006.
Chen C.M. (ed. Khantipalo) (1967) Buddhist Meditation Systematic and Practical, Free Distribution.
Clarke P. (2005) Encyclopedia of New Religious Movements, Routledge, London, 2005.
Coleman J.W. (2001) ‘The New Buddhism: The Western Transformation of an Ancient Tradition,’ OUP, Oxford,
Conze E. (1979) Memoirs of a Modern Gnostic, Samizdat Publishing Co.
Cush D. (1996) ‘British Buddhism and the New Age’, Journal of Contemporary Religion, 11(2):195-208
Ganguly D. ‘Yet Another English ‘Gift’: The Role of English Bhikkhus in Indian Dalit
Buddhist Conversions (1970-2000)’ Paper for the 15 Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia Conference, 2004, http://coombs.anu.edu.au/SpecialProj/ASAA/biennial-conference/2004/Ganguly-D-ASAA2004.pdf
Harris E. (1998) What Buddhists Believe, Oneworld, Oxford.
Harvey P. (1990) An Introduction to Buddhism, CUP, Cambridge.
Henry P. (2006) ‘The Sociological Implications for Contemporary Buddhism in the United Kingdom: Socially Engaged Buddhism, a Case Study,’ Journal of Buddhist Ethics. Volume 13, 2006
Humphreys C. (1978) Both Sides of the Circle, Allen & Unwin, London.
Inaba K. (2005) Altruism in New Religious Movements: The Jesus Army and the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order in Britain, University Education Press.
Kulananda (1992) 'Protestant Buddhism' [A Response to Philip Mellor], Religion 22
McAra, Sally (2007) Land of Beautiful Vision: Making a Buddhist Sacred Place in New Zealand. Published by University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu.
Mellor P. ‘Protestant Buddhism? The Cultural Translation of Buddhism in England,’
Religion, 21(1): 73-93.
‘The FWBO and Tradition: a Reply to Kulananda, Religion, 22, 104-107.
Olle H. (2001) ‘The Lotus in the West,’ Sheffield Online Papers in Social Research, No 4, July 2001, http://www.shef.ac.uk/socstudies/Shop/olle.pdf
Ratnaprabha (1987) ‘A Re-emergence of Buddhism: the case of the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order', in Clarke P, (ed.) The New Evangelists: Recruitment and Aims of New Religious Movements, London, Ethnographica, 57-75.
Rawlinson A. (1997) The Book of Enlightened Masters, Open Court, Chicago.
Smith, S. (2003) “Widening the Circle: Communities of Color and Western Buddhist Convert Sanghas.” In Action Dharma: New Studies in Engaged Buddhism, edited by C. Queen, C. Prebish and D. Keown, 220-236. London: RoutledgeCurzon.
Snelling J. (1987) The Buddhist Handbook, Rider, London.
Sponberg A. (1996) Engaged Buddhism, Ed. Queen C. and King S. SUNY, New York.

Unpublished Papers
Bell S. (1991) ‘Buddhism in Britain - Development and Adaptation,’ doctoral thesis, University of Durham.
Clarke P, ‘New Religions in Britain and Western Europe: In Decline?’ paper presented at day seminar on the methods and aims of evangelization in contemporary society with special references to New Religious Movements, Kings College, London, June 14th 1985.
McAra S, ‘The Land of the Stupa and the Sacred Puriri: Creating Buddhism in the Tararu Valley, New Zealand,’ MA Thesis University of Auckland.
Scott D, ‘Modern British Buddhism: Patterns and Directions, seminar paper to The Buddhist Forum,’ SOAS.
(1996) The Friends of The Western Buddhist Order: British Buddhism in Transition?,