Publications

Buswell has published fifteen books and some forty articles on various aspects of the Chinese, Korean, and Indian traditions of Buddhism, as well as on Korean religions more broadly, including:

  • The Zen Monastic Experience: Buddhist Practice in Contemporary Korea (Princeton, 1992)
  • Religions of Korea in Practice (Princeton, 2007)
  • Tracing Back the Radiance: Chinul’s Korean Way of Zen (Honolulu, 1991)
  • Currents and Countercurrents: Korean Influences on the East Asian Buddhist Traditions (Honolulu, 2005)
  • Cultivating Original Enlightenment: Wonhyo’s Exposition of the Vajrasamadhi-Sutra (Honolulu, 2007)
  • The Formation of Ch’an Ideology in China and Korea (Princeton, 1989).
  • The Korean Approach to Zen: The Collected Works of Chinul (Honolulu, 1983).