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A research tool for the study of Humanistic Buddhism. Search decades of curated scholarship, ask grounded questions answered only from the corpus with verifiable citations, and audit any bibliography against the collection — all from one place.
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The Humanistic Buddhism Research Bibliography is compiled comprehensively from a broad range of library and journal databases. It aims to include every English-language research publication on Humanistic, Engaged, and Applied Buddhism — wherever any of these terms appears in a work's title, abstract, or keywords.
In edge cases where these terms appear only within the body of a work, inclusion is a curatorial decision: the work is added when its content engages the subject substantially enough to merit a place in the collection.
If you use this tool in your research, please cite:
Nan Tien Institute HB Research Bibliography, visualiser.nantien.edu.au.
Explore the interactive bibliography visualisation that this research assistant accompanies.
Open the visualiser✨ Ask in plain English — I'll find the right entries and show you exactly how I read your request, so you can fine-tune it.
Ask a research question about Humanistic Buddhism
Every response is grounded in the HB corpus and includes inline citations. Up to 5 turns per conversation.
Try: "What does HB scholarship say about compassion and social action?"
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Audit a bibliography against the HB corpus
Paste a reference list in any citation format. The audit shows which references are verified in the HB corpus, which fall outside it, and which key HB papers may be missing from your list.
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