At present the items in this list are mainly grouped under key figures. Where feasible, their work has been broadly categorised within Buddhist traditions. However, the dynamic of engaged Buddhism crosses standard boundaries, so the categories below are inevitably both crude and approximate.

As far as possible, I’ve focussed on texts which are easily accessible online, but included some paper-only references as well as links to audio recordings,

Theravada / Early Buddhism

Bhikkhu Anālayo bio

• Bhikkhu Anālayo. 2019. A Task for Mindfulness: Facing Climate Change. Mindfulness.
• Bhikkhu Anālayo. 2019. Mindfully Facing Climate Change. Barre Center for Buddhist Studies.
• Bhikkhu Anālayo. 2020. Mindfully Facing Climate Change: Part 1 — Relating to the Earth. Barre Center for Buddhist Studies. — first in a four-part Insight Journal series structured around the Four Noble Truths
• Bhikkhu Anālayo. 2024. Mindfulness Between Early Buddhism and Climate Change. Barre Center for Buddhist Studies.

Bhikku Bodhi bio

• Bhikkhu Bodhi. 2007. A Challenge to Buddhists. Lion’s Roar.
• Bhikkhu Bodhi. 2012. Drawing Back from the Edge of a Cliff. Inquiring Mind.
• Bhikkhu Bodhi. 2013. Bridging The Spiritual and Mundane. Awakin.
• Bhikkhu Bodhi. 2014. Responding To Hunger: A Resource List. Inquiring Mind.
• Bhikkhu Bodhi. 2014. Like Moths Circling a Flame: Climate Change and the Danger to the World’s Food Supply. Inquiring Mind.
• Bhikkhu Bodhi. 2021. Tackling Global Hunger at its Roots. Buddhist Global Relief.
• Raymond Lam. 2015. Conscientious Compassion—Bhikkhu Bodhi on Climate Change, Social Justice, and Saving the World. Buddhistdoor Global.

Sulak Sivaraksa bio

• Sulak Sivaraksa. 1992. Seeds of Peace: A Buddhist Vision for Renewing Society. Parallax Press.
• Sulak Sivaraksa. 2005. Conflict, Culture, Change: Engaged Buddhism in a Globalizing World. Wisdom Publications.

See also the International Network of Engaged Buddhists and Sathirakoses-Nagapradipa Foundation

Ajahn Sucitto bio

• Ajahn Sucitto. 2019. Buddha-Nature, Human Nature. Amaravati Publications.

Navayana / Dalit Buddhism

B.R. Ambedkar bio

• B.R. Ambedkar. 1957. The Buddha and His Dhamma.
• B.R. Ambedkar, and Arundhati Roy. 2014. Annihilation of Caste. Verso. — Ambedkar’s foundational text on caste as a social and spiritual problem; essential context for his turn to Buddhism
• Sangharakshita. 2001. Ambedkar and Buddhism. Windhorse Publications.
• Christopher Queen. 1998. A Fourth Turning of the Wheel? Ambedkar Buddhism. Barre Center for Buddhist Studies.

See also The Caravan

Zen

Thích Nhất Hạnh bio

• Thích Nhất Hạnh. 2008. The World We Have: A Buddhist Approach to Peace and Ecology. Parallax Press.
• Thích Nhất Hạnh. 2021. Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet. Rider.

See also Earth Holder Community and Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet

David Loy bio

• David Loy. 2008. Money, Sex, War, Karma: Notes for a Buddhist Revolution. Wisdom Publications.
• David Loy. 2015. A New Buddhist Path: Enlightenment, Evolution, and Ethics in the Modern World. Wisdom Publications.
• David Loy. 2017. What Is Ecodharma?. Mountain Cloud Meditation Center.
• David Loy. 2019. Can Buddhism Meet the Climate Crisis?. Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Quarterly.
• David Loy. 2020. How to Be an Ecosattva. Lion’s Roar.

Tibetan / Vajrayana

Cynthia Jurs bio

• Cynthia Jurs. 2024. Summoned by the Earth: Becoming a Holy Vessel for Healing Our World. Prospecta Press.

Matthieu Ricard bio

• Matthieu Ricard. 2017. Climate Change : The Audacity of Altruism (part 2).
• Matthieu Ricard. 2021. Requiem for the planet.
• Matthieu Ricard. 2021. The climate crisis: we can be part of the change.

Chögyam Trungpa bio

• Chögyam Trungpa. 2010. Smile at Fear: Awakening the True Heart of Bravery. Shambhala Publications Inc.
• Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche. 2020. The Way of Basic Sanity: A Brief Overview of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche’s Perspective on Sutric Buddhism. The Chronicles of Chögyam Trungpa.

Secular

Stephen Batchelor bio

• Stephen Batchelor. 2020. Embracing Extinction. Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.

Bernat Font

• Bernat Font. 2025. Should Buddhism take sides? Berni’s dharma.

John Peacock bio

• John Peacock. 2015. The Buddha Doesn’t Do “Cozy”. Barre Center for Buddhist Studies.
• John Peacock. 2024. The Elephant in the Dharma Hall. Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.
• Dharma Seed — John Peacock talks — audio archive from Gaia House retreats, including talks on ethics, early Buddhism, and social action

Mike Slott

• Mike Slott. 2024. Mindful Solidarity. Tuwhiri.
• Writings on the Secular Buddhist Network

Eclectic

Rob Burbea bio

• Rob Burbea. 2011. Dharma Teaching and Values in the Age of Climate Change. Hermes Amara Foundation.
• Rob Burbea. 2011. The Meditator as Revolutionary. — audio with transcript
• Rob Burbea. 2015. Climate Change Is Happening on Our Watch. Buddhist Geeks Podcast
• Rob Burbea. 2021. Waking Up in Our Own Time. One Earth Sangha, published posthumously

See also Hermes Amara Foundation

Joanna Macy bio

• Joanna Macy. 1983. Dharma and Development
• Joanna Macy. 1991. Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General Systems Theory. State University of New York Press
• Joanna Macy. 1999. The Greening of the Self. Parallax Press.
• Joanna Macy. 2002. Working Through Environmental Despair. Sierra Club Books. —
• Joanna Macy. 2003. World as Lover, World as Self: Courage for Global Justice and Planetary Renewal. Parallax Press. — essay collection
• Joanna Macy. 2007. The Great Turning: Reflections on Our Moment in History. EarthLight Magazine.
• Joanna R. Macy, and Chris Johnstone. 2012. Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in without Going Crazy. New World Library.

See also Work That Reconnects Network and Deep Times Journal.

Transforming institutionalised inequalities

Hilda Baldoquín bio

• Hilda Gutierrez-Baldoquin, ed. 2004. Dharma, Color, and Culture: New Voices in Western Buddhism. Parallax Press.

Bonnie Duran bio

• Bonniee Duran. 2021. Meet the Teacher: Bonnie Duran. Insight Meditation Society.
• Bonnie Duran. 2022. We Are All Related: Training for Insights into Imperfection, Impermanence, and Relatedness. One Earth Sangha.

Ruth King bio

• Ruth King. 2018. Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out. Sounds True.

See also Buddhist Peace Fellowship and Lion’s Roar.

Rhonda Magee bio

• Rhonda V. Magee. 2019. The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness. TarcherPerigee

Atia Sattar bio

• Atia Sattar. 2018. Brown Body, White Sangha. Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.

angel Kyodo williams bio

• angel Kyodo Williams, Lama Rod Owens, and Jasmine Syedullah. 2016. Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation. North Atlantic Books.

See also Center for Transformative Change

Larry Yang bio

• Larry Yang. 2017. Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community. Wisdom Publications.

See also East Bay Meditation Center

Critical and Academic Perspectives

• Ian Harris. 1995. Getting to Grips with Buddhist Environmentalism: A Provisional Typology. Journal of Buddhist Ethics. — Journal of Buddhist Ethics (1995)
• Sallie B. King. 2005. Being Benevolence: The Social Ethics of Engaged Buddhism. University of Hawai’i Press.
• Christopher Queen, and Sallie King, ed. 1996. Engaged Buddhism: Buddhist Liberation Movements in Asia. State University of New York Press.
• Christopher Queen, Charles Prebish, and Damien Keown. 2003. Action Dharma: New Studies in Engaged Buddhism. Routledge.