Asian Wisdom Traditions

Omni Library search is the Laurier Library's centralized search interface. It includes:

• books and ebooks from Laurierand 17 other Ontario University Libraries
• articles (online)
• audio and video (physical and online)
• more (government documents, reports)
• View one of our Omni video tutorials to learn more

When you find an item in Omni, you can either

• view it online if it is digital
• find the call number and locate it on the shelves in the library
• request a chapter via Scan on Demand
• request an item from another library

Tutorial: Use Omni to locate known items.

• e.g., Sikka, S., & Peetush, A. (2021). Asian philosophies and the idea of religion: beyond faith and reason. Routledge.

Oxford Bibliographies are created by scholars and librarians worldwide across a variety of subject areas, and combine "the best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia." Some of the bibliographies relevant to this course include:

• Buddhist Philosophy
• Chinese Philosophy
• Confucius
• Daoism and Philosophy
• Hinduism (multiple)
• Indian Philosophy
• Japanese Philosophy

Oxford's Very Short Introductions offer concise and readable introductions to a wide range of subject written by subject experts. Some of the VSI titles relevant to this course include:

• Buddhism
• Buddhist Ethics
• Confucianism
• Indian Philosophy
• Sikhism

Start here: Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy

The following links lead to Omni search results of reference materials (encyclopedia, handbooks, etc)

• Asian philosophy and religion
• Buddhism
• Confucianism
• Daoism
• Hindusim
• Islam
• Jainism
• Sikhism

None of these searches yield perfect results, and sometimes seemingly unrelated items appear in the results list.

• Omni
  • On a results page, choose "Books and eBooks" as resource type
• eBook collections
  • An Omni search locates items if your search terms are in the author, title, subject, etc. fields.
  • Search one of the following eBook collections Full text access to a wide range of scholarly journals. Useful for finding specific and/or obscure terms that might be buried within an article.
    • Proquest Ebook Central
    • EBSCO eBook Academic

And more...

• On the left side of Omni results, note the other types of resources. In particular:
  • audio
  • video

• Omni
  • On a results page, choose "Articles" as resource type
  • A wide range of journal articles...sometimes too wide with too many results.
• Atla Religion Database
  • index for materials on subjects related to religion and theology.
• Bibliography of Asian Studies
  • Index for western-language materials on all subjects pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia.
  • NOTE: many of the referenced items will need to be requested through interlibrary loan
• JSTOR
  • Full text access to a wide range of scholarly journals. Useful for finding specific and/or obscure terms that might be buried within an article. Also includes some images from ArtSTOR.

• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global
  • Useful for finding specific and/or obscure terms that might be buried within an theses. Great source of bibliographic material.

• Religious Work References (APA)