Blood Brothers bibliography
- Barfield, Thomas J, 1989, Perilous Frontier: Nomadic Empires and China, B Blackwell, Cambridge, Mass.
- Cotterall, Arthur, 2008, The Imperial Capitals of China: A Dynastic History of the Celestial Empire, Overlook Press, Woodstock NY
- Dien, Albert E, 2007, Six Dynasties Civilization, Yale University Press, New Haven
- Juliano, Annette L, c.1975, Art of the Six Dynasties: Centuries of Change and Innovation, China Institute in America, New York
- Steinhardt, Nancy Shatzman, 1990, Chinese Imperial City Planning, University of Hawai’i Press, Honolulu
- Steinhardt, Nancy, trans. 2002, Chinese Architecture, Yale University Press, New Haven
- Tanner, Harold M, 2010, China: A History, Vol. I From Neolithic Cultures through the Great Qing Empire 10,000 BCE-1799 CE, Hackett Publishing, Indianapolis
- Tsien Tsuen-Hsuin, 1985, Science and Civilisation in China, Vol. 5, part I: Paper and Printing, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
- Wright, Arthur Frederick, “Fo-t’u-têng: A Biography”, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Vol. 11, No.3/4 (Dec. 1948) pp. 321-371
- Zhou Xun & Gao Chunming, 1987, 5000 Years of Chinese Costumes, The Commercial Press, Hong Kong
- Davies, T W Rhys & Oldenberg, Hermann, trans., 1965 (1881), Vinaya Texts, Sacred Books of the East Vol. XIII, Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi
- Sutra in Forty-two Chapters in Zen for Americans, Soyen Shaku, 1906, at sacred-texts.com/bud/zfa/zfa03.htm
Special thanks to the following scholars who were kind enough to answer my queries:
- Al Dien
- Nancy Steinhardt
- Ulrich Theobald