University of Calgary Library Pathfinder

Eastern Religions

Here are a few suggestions to help you locate information on Eastern Religions such as Jainism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism.

The works listed below, unless otherwise noted, are all housed in the MacKimmie Library Reference collection on 2LB.

ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND DICTIONARIES which contain information on Eastern Religions include the following works located on 2LB:

• BL 31 D52 1970
  Dictionary of Comparative Religion
  
• BL 31 E24 1978
  Rice, Edward. Eastern definitions
  
• BL 31 E43
  Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics
  12 v. + index.
• BL 31 E56 1987
  The Encyclopedia of Religion
  16 v.
  Also available electronically on standalone workstation 219
• BL 1005 L4913 1989
  The Encyclopedia of Eastern Philosophy and Religion
  
• BL 1105 W34 1968B
  Walker, B. The Hindu world, an encyclopedic survey of Hinduism
  
• BQ 130 P74 1993
  Prebish, Charles. Historical Dictionary of Buddhism
  
• PJ 31 D52 1974
  Dictionary of Oriental Literatures.
  3 v.
• PK 2902 E63 1982
  An Encyclopedia of Indian Literature
  

PERIODICAL ARTICLES about the eastern religions can be found by using BIBLIOGRAPHIES and INDEXES such as:

• ATLAS Full Text Plus
  This major index to Religious studies articles published from 1949 to the present is available electronically to University of Calgary students, faculty and staff via the web. Full text is available for a number of the journals.
• BL 1202 H635 1979
  Holland, Barron. Popular Hinduism and Hindu mythology: an annotated bibliography
  
• BL 1802 T545 1985
  Thompson, Laurence. Chinese Religion in Western Languages: a comprehensive and classified bibliography of publications in English, French, and German through 1980.
  
• BL 2018 R34 1989
  Rai, Priya Muhar. Sikhism and the Sikhs: an annotated bibliography
  
• Bl 2015 W6 F35 1994
  Women and Religion in India: an annotated bibliography of sources in English, 1975 -1992
  
• BL 2202 E25 1983
  Earhart, H. Byron. The New Religions of Japan: a bibliography of western- language materials
  
• BQ 4012 R49 1981
  Reynolds, Frank E. Guide to Buddhist religion
  
• BQ 7610 T46 1992
  Bibliographie du Tibet
  V.1 Bouddhism
• DS 1 B53 (5LT)
  Bibliography of Asian studies, 1956-1991.
  - Also available, from 1971 to the present, electronically to University of Calgary students, staff and faculty via the Web.
• PK 3641 Z9L65 1974
  Long, J. Bruce. The Mahabharata: a select annotated bibliography
  
• PJ 307 G86 1989
  A guide to oriental classics