- Rodney H. Clarken. Absolute Poverty and Utter Nothingness (1997). Bahá’u’lláh’s ideas of poverty as detachment, and nothingness as selflessness. Cites some commonalities in concepts of detachment and nothingness from Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, Muhammad and Socrates as five of the greatest philosophers or prophets.
- Ian Kluge. Bahá'í Writings and the Buddhist Doctrine of Emptiness, The: An Initial Survey (2019). Agreements and convergence of the Buddhist concept of sunyata with the Bahá'í Writings.
- Roland Faber. Bahá'u'lláh and the Luminous Mind: Bahá'í Gloss on a Buddhist Puzzle (2017). Non-duality is of central importance to Buddhist thought and experience; on monism and non-dualism as reflected in Asian religious expressions, including Hinduism's Advaita Vedanta.
- Anjam Khursheed. Body, Mind, Soul and Spirit (1998). The Bahá'í view of human nature involves an interaction between spirit, soul and body — these three elements exist both in the Semitic religions and in the Far Eastern ones; Western dualist and Eastern monist traditions are in fact all tripartite.
- Ian Kluge. Pierre Spierckel, trans. Buddhism and the Bahá'í Writings: An Ontological Rapprochement (2007). The Bahá'í Faith and Buddhism are two different and apparently incompatible religions, but they share fundamental ontological principles. Thus, their analyses of reality and what it means 'to be' are largely compatible.
- Peter Terry. Oneness of Reality, The: A Response to Moojan Momen's "Relativism as a Basis for Baha'i Metaphysics" (2018). Dialogue on epistemology and ontology as presented in the core literature of the Baha’i religion.
- Moojan Momen. Relativism: A Basis For Bahá'í Metaphysics (1988). "Relativism" as a means of reconciling the often widely-divergent theologies of the world's religions.
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