Basic Resources on Socially Engaged Buddhism (Donald Rothberg, July 2011)

Connecting Spiritual and Social Transformation

Day, Dorothy. The Long Loneliness. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1952.

Gandhi, Mohandas. An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth. Boston: Beacon, 1957.

Gottlieb, Roger. Joining Hands: Politics and Religion Together for Social Change. Boulder, CO: Westview
Press, 2002.

Lerner, Michael. Spirit Matters. Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Road Publishing Co., 2000.

Nagler, Michael. The Search for a Nonviolent Future: A Promise of Peace for Ourselves, Our Families,
and Our World. Makawao, HI: Inner Ocean Books, 2004.

Washington, James, ed. A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King,
Jr. San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1986.

Ethics

Harvey, Peter. An Introduction to Buddhist Ethics: Foundations, Values and Issues. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2000.

Nhat Hanh, Thich, et al. For a Future to be Possible: Commentaries on the Five Wonderful Precepts.
Berkeley: Parallax Press, 1993.

The Bodhisattva

Leighton, Taigen Dan. Faces of Compassion: Classic Bodhisattva Archetypes and Their Modern
Expression. rev. ed. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2003.

Shantideva, A Guide to the Bodhisattvas Way of Life (several translations)

Socially Engaged Buddhism

Aung San Suu Kyi and Alan Clements. The Voice of Hope. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2008 (rev. ed.).

Baldoquin, Hilda Gutierrez, ed. Dharma, Color, and Culture: New Voices in Western Buddhism. Berkeley:
Parallax Press, 2004.

Bloom, Pamela, ed. Buddhist Acts of Compassion. York Beach, ME: Conari Press, 2000.

Eppsteiner, Fred, ed. The Path of Compassion: Writings on Socially Engaged Buddhism, rev. ed. Berkeley:
Parallax Press, 1988.

Glassman, Bernie. Bearing Witness: A Zen Masters Lessons in Making Peace. New York: Bell Tower,
1998.

Jones, Ken. The New Social Face of Buddhism: A Call to Action. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2003.

Kaza, Stephanie, ed. Hooked! Buddhist Responses to Consumerism. Boston: Shambhala, 2004.

Kaza, Stephanie. Mindfully Green. Boston: Shambhala, 2008.

Kaza, Stephanie, and Kenneth Kraft, eds. Dharma Rain: Sources of Buddhist Environmentalism. Boston:
Shambhala Publications, 1999.

King, Sallie. Being Benevolence: The Social Ethics of Engaged Buddhism. Honolulu: University of Hawaii
Press, 2006.

Khong, Chan. Learning True Love: How I Learned and Practiced Social Change in Vietnam. Berkeley:
Parallax Press, 1993.

Loy, David. The Great Awakening: A Buddhist Social Theory. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2003.

__________. Money, Sex, War, Karma: Notes for a Buddhist Revolution. Boston: Wisdom Pub.. 2008.

Macy, Joanna. World as Lover, World as Self: Courage for Global Justice and Ecological Renewal.
Berkeley: Parallax Press, 2007.

Macy, Joanna, and Molly Young Brown. Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our
World. Gabriola Island, British Columbia: New Society Publishers, 1998.

McLeod, Melvin. Mindful Politics: A Buddhist Guide to Making the World a Better Place. Boston: Wisdom
Publications, 2006.

Masters, Jarvis Jay. That Bird Has My Wings. New York: HarperOne, 2009.

Moon, Susan, ed. Not Turning Away: The Practice of Engaged Buddhism. Boston: Shambhala, 2004.

Nhat Hanh, Thich. Being Peace. Berkeley: Parallax Press, 1987.

__________. Love in Action: Writings on Nonviolent Social Change. Berkeley: Parallax Press, 1993.

__________. Creating True Peace: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the
World. New York: Free Press, 2003.

Queen, Christopher, ed.. Engaged Buddhism in the West. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2000.

Queen, Christopher, and Sallie King, eds. Engaged Buddhism: Buddhist Liberation Movements in Asia.
Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996.

Rothberg, Donald, The Engaged Spiritual Life: A Buddhist Approach to Transforming Ourselves and the
World. Boston: Beacon Press, 2006.

Sivaraksa, Sulak. The Wisdom of Sustainability: Buddhist Economics for the 21st Century. Kihei, Hawaii:
Koa Books, 2009.

Snyder, Gary. The Practice of the Wild. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990.

Stanley, John, David R. Loy and Gyurme Dorje (eds.). A Buddhist Response to the Climate Emergency.
Wisdom Publications, 2009.

Winston, Diana, and Donald Rothberg. A Handbook for the Creation of the Buddhist Alliance for Social
Engagement (BASE). Berkeley: Buddhist Peace Fellowship, 2000.

For other resources on socially engaged Buddhism, go to <http://www.bpf.org/socially-engaged/resources-

for-engaged-buddhism>. For a comprehensive listing, as of 2005, by Donald Rothberg of Resources on
Socially Engaged Buddhism, including English-language books, journals, organizations, and web sites, go
to <http://www.bpf.org/assets/Resources%20on%20Socially%20Engaged%20Buddhism.pdf>.