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• Advice for Monks and Nuns, by Thubten Yeshe and Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, ed. by Nicholas Ribush (PDF at buddhanet.net)

• Bussei kaankyo shishu ryakki. (Enmyōji, 1897) (page images at HathiTrust)

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• With Robes and Bowl: Glimpses of the Thudong Bhikkhu Life, by Bhikkhu Khantipalo (HTML at Access to Insight)
• Advice for Monks and Nuns, by Thubten Yeshe and Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, ed. by Nicholas Ribush (PDF at buddhanet.net)
• Buddhism in Tibet, Illustrated by Literary Documents and Objects of Religious Worship, With an Account of the Buddhist systems Preceding it in India (1863), by Emil Schlagintweit (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Early Buddhist monachism : 600 B. C.-100 B. C. (K. Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1923), by Sukumar Dutt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Eastern monachism: an account of the origin, laws, discipline, sacred writings, mysterious rites, religious ceremonies, and present circumstances, of the order of mendicants founded by Go̲tama Budha, (compiled from Singhalese mss. and other original sources of information); with comparative notices of the ... western ascetics, and a review of the monastic system. (Williams and Norgate, 1860), by R. Spence Hardy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Excavations at Taxila: the stupas and monasteries at Jauliān. (Superintendent Govt. Print, 1921), by John Marshall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lü zong deng pu : 8 juan ([publisher not identified], in the 1920s), by Yuanliang (page images at HathiTrust)
• De Buddhistische non geschetst naar gegevens der Pali-literatuur. (E.J. Brill, 1915), by Maria Elisabeth Lulius van Goor and Apadāna (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recherches sur l'origine, l'histoire et la constitution des ordres religieux dans l'empire chinois, par M. Bazin ... (Imprimerie Impériale, 1856), by Antoine Pierre Louis Bazin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eastern monachism : an account of the origin, laws, discipline, sacred writings, mysterious rites, religious ceremonies, and present circumstances of the order of mendicants founded by Gótama Budha (Partridge and Oakey, 1850), by R. Spence Hardy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Syāmūpadasampadā; the adoption of the Siamese Order of priesthood in Ceylon, Saka Era 1673 (1751 A.C.). ("The American Presbyterian Mission Press", 1914), by Siddhartha Buddharakhita (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Jinling Ma'anshan gu lin lü si zu ting hui zhi ([Nanjing, 1904), by active 1904 Furenyou (page images at HathiTrust)
• Im Schatten von Shwe Dagon : ein buddhistisches Kulturbild aus Burma (Oskar Schloss Verlag, 1924), by Bhikkhu Ānanda Maitrēya (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eastern monachism : an account of the origin, laws, discipline, sacred writings, mysterious rites, religious ceremonies, and present circumstances, of the order of mendicants founded by Gótama Budha. (Williams and Norgate, 1860), by R. Spence Hardy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eastern monachism : an account of the origin, laws, discipline, sacred writings, mysterious rites, religious ceremonies, and present circumstances of the order of mendicants founded by Gótama Budha, (compiled from Singhalese mss. and other original sources of information); with comparative notices of the usages and institutions of the western ascetics and a review of the monastic system (London : Williams and Norgate, 1860., 1860), by R. Spence Hardy (page images at HathiTrust)

• Im Schatten von Shwe Dagon : ein buddhistisches Kulturbild aus Burma (Oskar Schloss Verlag, 1924), by Bhikkhu Ānanda Maitrēya (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pu sa jie jie mo wen shi (Jinling ke jing chu, 1874), by Maitreyanātha and Zhixu (page images at HathiTrust)

• Nikáya Saṅgrahawa, or Śásanáwatáraya; a history of Buddhism in India and Ceylon. (H.C. Cottle, 1890), by Déwarakshita Dharmakírti Maháthéra, Don M. de Z. Wickremasinghe, and Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hōrui soji (Monbushō Shūkyōkyoku, 1924), by Japan. Monbushō. Shūkyōkyoku (page images at HathiTrust)

• Thamnīap samanasak khō̜ng chāo Mư̄ang Wīang Čhan bōrān (Rōngphim Sīhong, 1928), by Somdet Phra Mahāwīrawong (ʻŪan Titsō) and William J. Gedney (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Bhikkus' Rules, A Guide for Laypeople: The Theravadin Buddhist Monk's Rules Compiled and Explained, by Phikkhu Ariyesako (HTML at Access to Insight)
• The Patimokkha (with part of the Mavavagga), trans. by T. W. Rhys Davids and Hermann Oldenberg (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Buddhist Monastic Code, trans. by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
  • Volume I: PDF at Access to insight
  • Volume II: PDF at Access to insight
• Ton banyat (Rōngphim Sōphon Phiphatthanākō̜n, 1911), by William J. Gedney, Phra Phōkkhaphonphūnthawī, and Prince Chinnawō̜nsiriwat (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Qakkharanidesa sīlasikkhāpada sāmaṇera. (Roṅ Bumb Kambuja Varokās, 1911), by William J. Gedney (page images at HathiTrust)
• So-sor-thar-pa (khrims), vol. V of the Dulwa portion of the Kangyur (leaves 1-29 and top line of leaf 30), prescribed as a text book for the degree of honour examination in Tibetan (Asiatic Society, 1915), by Satis Chandra Vidyabhusana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nangsư̄ Phutthasāsanik patibat. (Rōngphim Bamrungnukūnkit, 1899), by William J. Gedney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Phraphiksu Pātimōk bō̜ribūn : thang ʻat læ plǣ. (Hō̜samut Wichirayān, 1920), by Hō̜samut hǣng Chāt (Thailand) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Jie mo yi shi. (Beijing ke jin chu, 1922) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chuan jie zheng fan (Jiang bei ke jing chu, 1873), by Duti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kaṃ dvāra khvai mettā cā (Kavi mrakʻ mhanʻ cā puṃ nhipʻ tuikʻ, 1907), by Ū.̋ Mratʻ Rvhai (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pārājikaṇʻ ʼaṭṭhakathā gaṇṭhi (Piṭakatʻ cā puṃ nhipʻ tuikʻ, 1902), by Cha rā toʻ Chaṅʻ Kai (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gao seng zhuan er ji (Jiangbei ke jing chu, 1890), by Daoxuan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bussei biku rokumotsu zu (Ishikawa Shundai, 1876), by Yüan-chao and Senryū Kusunoki (page images at HathiTrust)

• Advice for Monks and Nuns, by Thubten Yeshe and Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, ed. by Nicholas Ribush (PDF at buddhanet.net)
• Qakkharanidesa sīlasikkhāpada sāmaṇera. (Roṅ Bumb Kambuja Varokās, 1911), by William J. Gedney (page images at HathiTrust)

• Zen : der lebendige Buddhismus in Japan : ausgewählte Stücke des Zen-Textes (F. A. Perthes, 1925), by A. Faust and SchuÌ‚ej OÌ‚hasama (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hekiganroku shitokushō (Kōyūkan, 1898), by Denson, Yuanwu, and Kakuhon Matsuzaki (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hekiganshū (Kōmeisha, 1929), by Yuanwu, Toshio Nagahisa, and Xuedou (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tendō Kaku Oshō juko Hōon Rōjin chakugo (Yano Heibē, 1886), by Xingxiu, Zhengjue, and Bonsen Furuta (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kanchū Nenpyō sanbyakusoku funōgo (Bunkōdō, 1881), by Bonsen Furuta and 1689?-1764 Shigetsu Ein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hekiganroku kōgi : Tenkei Zenji teishō (Kōyūkan, 1898), by Denson, Yuanwu, Kakuhon Matsuzaki, and Xuedou (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hekiganroku kōwa (Kōyūkan, 1915), by Sōen Shaku and Yuanwu (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mumonkan kaishaku (Iwanami Shoten, 1918), by Tadayoshi Kihira (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zenrin kushū : wakun ryakkai (Kōyūkan, 1925), by Shungaku Yamamoto (page images at HathiTrust)

• Withī ʻupasombot. (Rōngphim Watcharin, 1890), by William J. Gedney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Withī ʻupasombot bǣp mahānikāi (Rōngphim Watcharin, 1892), by Phra Mang and William J. Gedney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thammawinyānusāt : pen samut khūmư̄ khō̜ng phū mī satthā nai Phraphutthasātsana. (Rōngphim Siri Čharœ̄n, 1901), by William J. Gedney (page images at HathiTrust)

• Withī samāthān thudong lǣ čhaturārakkhakammathān. (Rōngphim Sōphon Phiphatthanākō̜n, 1926), by William J. Gedney (page images at HathiTrust)

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