This is a very preliminary bibliography of sources regarding missionary Christians in China and their writings on the Buddhist culture they experienced and recorded. Author names have been retained to help facilitate internet searches, but only the first appearance of a name is linked to the biographical article, if any is available.
Primary Sources to 1950
- De Groot, J.J.M. Buddhist masses for the dead at Amoy. Leyde: Brill, 1884.
- De Groot, J.J.M. "Militant Spirit of the Buddhist Clergy in China." T'oung Pao, vol. 2, no. 2 (1891), 127-139.
- De Groot, J.J.M. "Miséricorde envers les animaux dans le Bouddhisme chinois." T'oung Pao, vol. 3, no. 5 (1892), 466-489.
- De Groot, J.J.M. La code du Mahāyāna en Chine; son influence sur la vie monacale et sur le monde laïque. Amsterdam, J. Müller, 1893. [Reprint, New York: Garland Pub., 1980.]
- Translation of the Sūtra of Brahma's Net (Fànwǎng jīng 梵網經; Brahmajāla-sūtra)
- De Groot, J.J.M. Der thüpa, das heiligste Heiligtum des Buddhismus in China. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der esoterischen Lehre des Mahāyāna. Berlin, Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften, in Kommission bei der Vereinigung wissenschaftlicher Verleger Walter de Gruyter u. Co., 1919.
- Davids, T. W. Rhys. Buddhism: being a sketch of the life and teachings of Gautama, the Buddha. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York: E. & J.B. Young & Co., 1894.
- Missionary Research Library Collection, Burke Library (Columbia University Libraries) at Union Theological Seminar, New York City.
- This archive has several collections of documents relating to missionaries and their study of religion in China.
- Earl Herbert Cressy was involved in a survey of Hángzhōu 杭州 religious institutions from 1930 to 1931 for the Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry, most of which was never published.
- Richard, Timothy. Guide to Buddhahood: Being a Standard Manual of Chinese Buddhism. Shanghai: Christian Literature Society, 1907.
- Richard, Timothy. New Testament of Higher Buddhism. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1910.
- Richard, Timothy. Forty-five Years in China: Reminiscences. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1916.
Secondary Sources on Missionaries in China