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If Buddhism A Concise Introduction by Huston Smith is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Comparative Religion, Buddhism and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by C. p. Tiele, Martha Warren Beckwith, Mircea Eliade, Stephen R. Prothero, and others.