A collection of secondary sources and news reports that would be especially good for use in the classroom.
General overviews
- International Committee of the Red Cross. June 25, 2020. “COVID-19: Management of the dead from a Buddhist perspective.” https://www.icrc.org/en/document/buddhist-management-dead-covid-19
- Salguero, Pierce. 2020. “How do Buddhists handle coronavirus? The answer is not just meditation.” The Conversation https://theconversation.com/how-do-buddhists-handle-coronavirus-the-answer-is-not-just-meditation-137966
- Salguero, Pierce. 2020. “Buddhist Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Historical Perspective.” Buddhistdoor Global https://www.buddhistdoor.net/features/buddhist-responses-to-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-historical-perspective
More specific topics
- Alcorn, Ted. 2021. “How a Zen Buddhist Monk and Hospital Chaplain Spends His Sundays.” The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/01/nyregion/coronavirus-hospital-chaplain-buddhism.html
- Ashiwa, Yoshiko. 2020. “Special Report: COVID-19 Impacts Chinese Buddhism, State Control, and Soft Power.” Religion & Diplomacy https://religionanddiplomacy.org/2020/04/20/special-report-impact-of-covid-19-on-chinese-buddhism-and-soft-power/
- Bhutia, Kalzang Dorjee. 2021. “Cleansing the Sacred Habitat in the Time of Coronavirus: Buddhist Sang Rituals in Sikkim in Response to the 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic.” Environment & Society Portal http://www.environmentandsociety.org/arcadia/cleansing-sacred-habitat-time-coronavirus-buddhist-sang-rituals-sikkim-response-2020-covid
- Borchert, Thomas. 2020. “Why Buddhist monks collect alms and visit households even in times of social distancing.” The Conversation https://theconversation.com/why-buddhist-monks-collect-alms-and-visit-households-even-in-times-of-social-distancing-128452
- Borchert, Thomas. 2020. “Overlooking Official Responses: Thai Buddhist Institutions and Covid-19.” The Immanent Frame. https://tif.ssrc.org/2020/09/03/overlooking-official-responses-thai-buddhist-institutions-and-covid-19/
- Chia, Jack Meng-Tat. 2020. “Cyber Dharma: Celebrating E-Vesak in Singapore.” CoronAsur: Religion and COVID-19 https://ari.nus.edu.sg/20331-10/
- Craig, Sienna R., Barbara Gerke, and Jan M. A. van der Valk. 2020. Responding to an Unfolding Pandemic: Asian Medicines and Covid-19 https://culanth.org/fieldsights/series/responding-to-an-unfolding-pandemic-asian-medicines-and-covid-19
- Gleig, Ann. 2020. “The Fifth Sight: The Suffering of Injustice.” Lion’s Roar https://www.lionsroar.com/the-fifth-sight-the-suffering-of-injustice
- Kandil, Caitlin Yoshiko. 2021. “Stressed by COVID, Online Seekers Discover Buddhism’s Calming Practice.” Interfaith Youth Corps https://ifyc.org/article/stressed-covid-online-seekers-discover-buddhism-s-calming-practice
- Khounpaseuth, S. 2020. “Monks and Health Officials Work Together to Keep Communities Safe from COVID-19.” World Health Organization. https://www.who.int/laos/news/detail/24-07-2020-monks-and-health-officials-work-together-to-keep-communities-safe-from-covid-19
- Lowe, Bryan. 2020. “Protection without Punishment: Turning to the Buddhist Gods during COVID-19.” The Immanent Frame https://tif.ssrc.org/2020/06/25/protection-without-punishment
- McLaughlin, Levi. 2020. “Japanese Religious Responses to COVID-19: A Preliminary Report.” The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus 18.3 https://apjjf.org/2020/9/McLaughlin.html
- Ortega, Miguel Álvarez. 2021. “Global Virus, International Lamas: Tibetan Religious Leaders in the Face of the Covid-19 Crisis” in Nina Käsehage (ed.), Religious Fundamentalism in the Age of Pandemic https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-5485-1/religious-fundamentalism-in-the-age-of-pandemic/?number=978-3-8394-5485-5
- Park, Cheonghwan, and Kyungrae Kim. 2021. “Covid-19 and Korean Buddhism: Assessing the Impact of South Korea’s Coronavirus Epidemic on the Future of Its Buddhist Community.” Religions 12.3, https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12030147.
- Rod-Ari, Melanie. n.d. “The Emerald Buddha and pandemics” https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-asia/southeast-asia/thailand/a/the-emerald-buddha-and-pandemics
- Sacker, Jade. 2020. “In Cambodia, a Spiritual Army Battles an Earthly Pandemic” Foreign Policy https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/12/cambodia-coronavirus-pandemic-buddhism/
- Schedneck, Brooke. 2020. “5 Buddhist teachings that can help you deal with coronavirus anxiety.” The Conversation https://theconversation.com/5-buddhist-teachings-that-can-help-you-deal-with-coronavirus-anxiety-134320
- Schedneck, Brooke. 2020. “Buddhist monks have reversed roles in Thailand – now they are the ones donating goods to others.” The Conversation https://theconversation.com/buddhist-monks-have-reversed-roles-in-thailand-now-they-are-the-ones-donating-goods-to-others-142899
- Schonthal, Benjamin and Tilak Jayatilaka. 2020. “Religion amid the Pandemic: A Buddhist Case Study,” in Victor V. Ramraj (ed.) Covid-19 in Asia: Law and Policy Contexts (New York: Oxford University Press). Academia.edu.
- The Statesman. 2020. “The Influence of Buddhism on Containing Covid-19 in Mekong Delta Countries” The Straits Times https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/the-influence-of-buddhism-on-containing-covid-19-in-mekong-delta-countries-the-statesman
- Winfield, Pamela D. 2020. “A meditation on Buddhism in the time of pandemic.” Today at Elon https://www.elon.edu/u/news/2020/04/07/pamela-winfield-a-meditation-on-buddhism-in-the-time-of-pandemic/
- Yasuda, Tatsuya, and Yosuke Kawano. 2020 “Japan’s Buddhist Temples Struggle as Pandemic Drags On.” Nikkei Asia https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/Japan-s-Buddhist-temples-struggle-as-pandemic-drags-on