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.

Y. Karunadasa Hajime Nakamura C. A. F. Rhys Davids T. W. Rhys Davids A. K. Warder

Theravada Buddhism

Other Theravada writers

Rajguru Aggavamsa Mahathera Ajahn Amaro Ajahn Tong Sirimangalo Ampitiye Rahula Maha Thero Bhikkhu Analayo Bhadant Anand Kausalyayan Ananda Metteyya Ashin Ananda Aniruddha Mahathera Balangoda Ananda Maitreya Thero B. R. Ambedkar Sayagyi U Ba Khin Samanera Bodhesako Bhikkhu Bodhi Ajahn Brahmavamso Buddhādasa Bhikkhu Buddhaghosa Mahasthavir Acharya Buddharakkhita Ajahn Candasiri Ven. K. Sri Dhammananda Dhammalok Mahasthavir Ashin Dhammasāmi Phra Dhammavisuddhikavi Dharmaditya Dharmacharya Anagarika Dharmapala Ernest Reinhold Rost Frank Lee Woodward Preah Maha Ghosananda S. N. Goenka Gregory Paul Kramer Hammalawa Saddhatissa Henepola Gunaratana Henry Steel Olcott Jack Kornfield Ajahn Jayasāro Joanna Rogers Macy Joseph Goldstein Jyotipal Mahathero Katukurunde Nyanananda Thera Ayya Khema Kotugoda Dhammawasa Mahanayaka Thero Kumar Kashyap Mahasthavir Larry Rosenberg Ledi Sayadaw Ajahn Lee Madihe Pannaseeha Thero Mahasi Sayadaw S. Mahinda Matara Sri Nanarama Mahathera Matthew Flickstein Nanamoli Bhikkhu Nanavira Thera Narada Maha Thera Nauyane Ariyadhamma Mahathera Nyanadassana Mahathera Nyanaponika Thera Nyanatiloka Mahathera Pa-Auk Sayadaw Phra Paisal Visalo Palane Vajiragnana Thero Sayadaw U Pandita U Pannya Jota Mahathera Ajahn Pasanno Paul Dahlke Pragyananda Mahasthavir Prayudh Payutto Piyadassi Maha Thera Rahul Sankrityayan Rerukane Chandawimala Thero Sayadaw U Rewata Dhamma Shaila Catherine Sharon Salzberg Sīlācāra U Sīlānanda Achan Sobin S. Namto Soma Thera Stephen T. Asma Sudarshan Mahasthavir Ajahn Sucitto Ajahn Sumedho Bhante Sujato Sujin Boriharnwanaket Ajahn Sundara Sylvia Boorstein Thanissaro Bhikkhu Sayadaw U Thittila Sister Vajirā Ajahn Viradhammo Walpola Rahula Webu Sayadaw Weligama Sri Sumangala R. G. de S. Wettimuny Yagirala Pannananda

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 Charles Hallisey 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

Reb Anderson Taisen Deshimaru Norman Fischer Gil Fronsdal Steve Hagen Hsuan Hua Nan Huai-Chin Philip Kapleau Dainin Katagiri Long Gen Taizan Maezumi Diane Musho Hamilton Thich Nhat Hanh Kitaro Nishida Shohaku Okumura Paul Reps Seung Sahn Seongcheol Sheng-yen Brad Warner Alan Watts Hsing Yun Han Yong-un Hakuun Yasutani Peter Levitt Gyomay Kubose Marvin Harada Kenryu Takashi Tsuji

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

Pema Chödrön Dalai Lama Anagarika Govinda Kelsang Gyatso Khyentse Norbu Namkhai Norbu Thinley Norbu Ole Nydahl Matthieu Ricard Sangharakshita Sogyal Rinpoche Surya Das Thrangu Rinpoche Chögyam Trungpa

Scholars

Alexander Berzin Lokesh Chandra Alexandra David-Néel Walter Evans-Wentz Herbert V. Günther Christmas Humphreys Robert Thurman Donald S. Lopez Jr.

Navayana Buddhism

B. R. Ambedkar Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi Iyothee Thass Shanti Swaroop Baudh

Western Buddhism

Gil Fronsdal Stephen Batchelor David Brazier Meredith Monk Mark Epstein Vidyamala Burch

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