Where can I read and learn about Buddhist history?
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Spellings for the recommended temple names:

Seattle Koyasan (Shingon)

Seattle Choeizan Enkyoji (Nichiren)Bhante Jayasara’s Maggasekha community (Theravada)Buddhist Churches of America (various)

Sources:

- Richard Foltz 2010, Religions of the Silk Road

- Paul Williams 2005 Buddhism: Buddhist origins and the early history of Buddhism in South and Southeast Asia

- Erik Zurcher 2007 The Buddhist Conquest of China

- Carl Olson 2005 The Different Paths of Buddhism : A Narrative-Historical Introduction

- Edward Conze’s 2008 book, “Buddhism. A Short History”

- Richard F Gombrich’s 1997 book, “How Buddhism Began”