📚 Buddhist Monasticism and Religious Orders

Books with buddhist monasticism and religious orders on their catalogue record, first published between 1850 and 2016, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject buddhist monasticism and religious orders in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 1,015 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Vedic mythology	Arthur Anthony Macdonell	1897	18
	An introduction to Zen Buddhism	Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki	1934	15
	Samantapāsādikā	Buddhaghosa.	1913	14
	Lege spiegel	Janwillem van de Wetering	1973	12
	Early monastic Buddhism	Nalinaksha Dutt	1941	11
	Manual of Zen Buddhism	Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki	1935	7
	Turtle feet	Nikolai Grozni	2008	7
	Women and monastic Buddhism in early South Asia	Garima Kaushik	2016	7
	Buddhist Monasticism in East Asia	James A. Benn	2009	5
	Kesashi	Gafū Izutsu	1965	4
	Nikāya saṅgrahaya	K. Ananda	2008	4
	Shan-chien-pʻi-pʻo-sha	Saṅghabhadra	1970	3
	Advice from Buddha Shakyamuni	His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso the XIV Dalai Lama	1982	3
	Virtuosity, Charisma and Social Order	Ilana Friedrich Silber	2005	3
	A History of Japanese Buddhism	Kenji Matsuo	2007	3
	ʼDul ba mdo rtsa baʼi kar ṭīk ñi maʼi dkyil ʼkhor gyi tshig ʼgrel gces btus bźugs so	Thrangu Rinpoche	2008	3
	Adhikaraṇa viniścaya	Ñāṇissara, Nitalava Siri Nāhimi.	2009	3
	In search of Buddha's daughters	Christine Toomey	2015	3
	Eastern monachism	R. Spence Hardy	1850	2
	Thamnīap samanasak	Phrưtthāthibō̜dī (ʻŌ̜n Kōmonwatthana) Phrayā	1902	2
	Ton banyat	Chinnawō̜nsiriwat Prince, Supreme Patriarch	1911	2
	Sudhammavatī vinaññʻʺ ṅayʻ leʺ coṅʻ pāṭhʻ	Ññoṅʻ kanʻ Cha rā toʻ	1961	2
	Vimuktimārga dhutaguṇa-nirdeśa	Upatissa	1964	2
	Upāliparipṛcchāsūtra	Valentina Stache-Rosen	1984	2
	Sri Lankan monastic architecture	H. T. Basnayake	1986	2
	Jie lü xue gang yao	Shengyan	1988	2
	The Tibetan Vinaya	Thrangu Rinpoche	1990	2
	Le bouddhisme des Thaïs	François Bizot	1993	2
	The winds of change	Himanshu Prabha Ray	1994	2
	Stepping into freedom	Thích Nhất Hạnh	1997	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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