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Books:
Mission, Church, and Sect in Oceania. J.A. Boutilier, D.T. Hughes, and S.W. Tiffany, eds. Lanham, MD: University of America Press, 1978.
Guru Devotion and the American Buddhist Experience. Daniel Capper. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2002.
The Cult of Tara: Magic and Ritual in Tibet. Stephan Beyer. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973.
Secrets of the Talking Jaguar: Memoirs from the Living Heart of a Mayan Village. Martín Prechtel. New York: Jeremy B. Tarcher, 1998.
Monks and Monasteries of the Egyptian Desert. Otto F.A. Meinardus. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1989.
The Sufi Orders in Islam. J. Spencer Trimingham. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971.
The Jivaro. Michael Harner. Garden City, NY: Doubleday/Natural History Press, 1972.
Cult and Countercult: A Study of a Spiritual Growth Group and a Witchcraft Order. G.G. Scott. San Francisco: Greenwood Press, 1980.
The Magicians: A Study of the Uses of Power in a Black Magic Group. G.G. Scott. New York: Irvington, 1982.
Articles:
La Khalwatiyya en Egypte: Quelques aspects de la vie d'une confrérie. Ernst Bannerth. Mélanges de l'Institut Dominicain d'Etudes Orientales 8 (1964-66):1-74.
La Rifa'iyya en Egypte. Ernst Bannerth. Mélanges de l'Institut Dominicain d'Etudes Orientales 10 (1971):1-35.
Aspects humains de la Shadhiliyya en Egypte. Ernst Bannerth. Mélanges de l'Institut Dominicain d'Etudes Orientales 11 (1972):237-250.
Cairene Ziyara-days: A Contribution to the Study of Saint Veneration in Islam. Frederick de Jong. Die Welt des Islams 17(1976):26-43.
Some Factors in the Decline of the Sufi Orders in Modern Egypt. Michael Gilsenan. Muslim World 57(1967):11-18.
Women, Saints, and Sanctuaries. Fatima Mernissi. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 3(1977):101-112.
Internet:
New Orleans Zen Temple
http://home.gnofn.org/~aza/
Zen Studies Society
http://www.daibosatsu.org/
Nyingma Buddhism
http://www.nyingma.org/
Karme Choling Buddhist Meditation Center
http://www.kcl.shambhala.org/
Namgyal Monastery
http://www.namgyal.org/
Penor Rinpoche's home page
http://www.palyul.org/hhpr.html
Karma Triyana Dharmachakra monastery
http://www.kagyu.org/
Blue Iris Sangha
http://home.bellsouth.net/p/pwp-blueirissangha