(1) Книги в первом разделе содержат историческую информацию и некоторые сведения о природе сострадания.

Armstrong, Karen, The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions (London & New York, 2006). Книга об «осевом времени». Уделяет особое внимание возникновению сострадания и ненасилия. Armstrong, Karen, A Short History of Myth (Edinburgh & New York, 2005).

Belkin, Samuel, In His Image: The Jewish Philosophy of Man as

Expressed in Rabbinic Tradition (London, 1960). Benedict, Michael, God is the Good We Do: Theology of Theopraxy (New York, 2007).

Buckman, Robert, Can We Be Good Without God? (New York, 2002).

Campbell, Joseph (with Bill Moyers), The Power of Myth (New York, 1988). Доступно также на видео.

Eisenstadt, S. N., The Origins and Diversity of Axial Age Civilizations (Albany, 1986).

Fingarette, Herbert, Confucius: The Secular as Sacred (New York, 1972).

Furnish, Victor Paul, The Love Command in the New Testament (Nashville & New York, 1972).

Girard, René, Violence and the Sacred, trans. Patrick Gregory (Baltimore, MD, 1977).

Holloway, Richard, Godless Morality: Keeping Religion out of Ethics (Edinburgh, 1999).

Jaspers, Karl, The Great Philosophers: The Foundations, ed. Hannah Arendt, trans. Ralph Mannheim (London, 1962). Современная классика. Состоит из четырех замечательных очерков о Будде, Конфуции, Сократе и Иисусе.

Jaspers, Karl, The Origin and Goal of History, trans. Michael Bullock (London, 1953). С этой книги берет начало понятие «осевого времени».

Nasr, Seyyed Hossein, The Garden of Truth: The Vision and Promise of Sufism, Islam’s Mystical Tradition (San Francisco, 2007).

Outka, Gene, Agape: An Ethical Analysis (New Haven, 1972).

Perkins, Pheme, Love Commands in the New Testament (New York, 1982).

Ramadan, Tariq, The Quest for Meaning: Developing a Philosophy of Pluralism (London, 2010).

Schottroff, Luise, Essays on the Love Commandment, trans. Reginald H. & Ilse Fuller (Philadelphia, 1978).

Sviri, Sara, The Taste of Hidden Things (Inverness, CA, 1997).

Tillich, Paul, Love, Power and Justice (New York & Oxford, 1963).

Tu Wei Ming, Confucian Thought: Selfhood a Creative Transformation (Albany, 1985).

Vorspan, Albert & David Saperstein, Jewish Dimensions of Social Justice: Tough Moral Choices of Our Time (New York, 1998).

(2) Эти книги рассказывают о том, как практиковать сострадательный образ жизни.

Cooper, Howard, The Alphabet of Paradise: An A-Z of Spirituality for Everyday Life (London, 2002).

Gandhi, Mahatma, The Essential Gandhi, ed. Louis Fischer (New York, 1962).

Gyatso Tenzin, HH the Dalai Lama, Transforming the Mind: Teachings of Generating Compassion (London, 2000).

Gyatso Tenzin, HH the Dalai Lama, Ethics for the New Millennium (New York, 1999).

Gyatso Tenzin, HH the Dalai Lama, The Art of Happiness (London, 1998).

Gyatso Tenzin, HH the Dalai Lama, Healing Anger: The Power of Patience from a Buddhist Perspective (Ithaca, NY, 1997).

Gyatso Tenzin, HH the Dalai Lama, Live in a Better Way: Reflections on Truth, Love and Happiness (London & New York, 1999).

Gyatso Tenzin, HH the Dalai Lama, The Art of Happiness in a Troubled World (New York, 2009).

King, Rev. Martin Luther, Jr., Strength to Love (Philadelphia, 1963).

Ladner, Lorne, The Lost Art of Compassion: Discovering the Practice of Happiness in the Meeting of Buddhism and Psychology (San Francisco, 2004).

Marguiles, A., The Empathic Imagination (New York, 1989).

Muhaiyaddeen, M. R. Bawa, A Book of God’s Love (Philadelphia, 1981).

Schweitzer, Albert, Reverence for Life (New York, 1965).

Thich Nhat Hanh, True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart (Boston, 1987).

Thich Nhat Hanh, Teachings on Love (Berkeley, 2007).

Thich Nhat Hanh, Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames (New York, 2001).

Thich Nhat Hanh, Taming the Tiger Within; Meditations on Transforming Difficult Emotions (New York, 2004).

Thich Nhat Hanh, The Miracle of Mindfulness (Boston, 1975).

Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life (New York, 1991).

Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art of Power (New York, 2004).

Tolle, Eckhart, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (London, 1999).

Tutu, Desmond M., No Future without Forgiveness (New York, 1999).

Tutu, Desmond M., Made for Goodness: And Why This Makes a Difference (New York, 2010).

(3) Эти книги смотрят на сострадание с позиции современной психологии и неврологии.

Begley, S., The Plastic Mind (London, 2009).

Browning, Don, Religious Thought and Modern Psychologies: A Critical Conversation in the Theology of Culture (Philadelphia, 1987).

Davidson, Richard J. & Anne Harrington, eds., Visions of Compassion: Western Scientists and Tibetan Buddhists Examine Human Nature (Oxford, 2002).

Gilbert, Paul, The Compassionate Mind (London, 2009).

Hefner, Philip, The Human Factor: Evolution, Culture and Religion (Minneapolis, 1993).

Molino, Anthony, ed., The Couch and the Tree: Dialogues in Psychoanalysis and Buddhism (London, 1998).

Pope, Stephen, The Evolution of Altruism and the Ordering of Love (Washington, DC, 1994).

Post, Stephen G., Unlimited Love: Altruism, Compassion and Service (Radnor, PA, 2003).

Post, Stephen G., Lynn G. Underwood, Jeffrey S. Schloss & William B. Hurlbut, eds., Altruism and Altruistic Love: Science, Philosophy and Religion in Dialogue (Oxford, 2002).

Rolston, Holmes, Genes, Genesis and God (Cambridge, UK, 1999).

Vaillant, George E., MD, Spiritual Evolution: A Scientific Defense of Faith (New York, 2008).

Walsh, Anthony, The Science of Love: Understanding Love and Its Effects on Mind and Body (Buffalo, 1991).

Zornberg, Avivah Gottlieb, The Murmuring Deep: Reflections on the Biblical Unconscious (New York, 2009).

(4) Эти книги посвящены теме Священных Писаний и их интерпретации.

Akenson, Donald Harman, Surpassing Wonder: The Invention of the Bible and the Talmuds (New York, San Diego & London, 1998).

Alter, Robert & Frank Kermode, eds., A Literary Guide to the Bible (London, 1987). Особенно рекомендуется статья Gerald L. Bruns, «Midrash and Allegory: The Beginnings of Scriptural Interpretation.»