USEFUL WEB SITES FOR LEARNING ABOUT BUDDHISM (1/08)
Excellent starting places for information on
Buddhism:
The Buddhist Studies Virtual Library (very useful, but might seem
overwhelming): http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-Buddhism.html
A very good set of resources: http://dharma.ncf.ca
The Journal of Buddhist Ethics has a good listing under the heading
"Global Resources for Buddhist StudiesÓ: http://jbe.gold.ac.uk/global.html
Two other extensive listings of resources: http://www.buddhanet.net and
Some other
interesting sites
A very good
resource for Theravada Buddhism is: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/index.html
A Vipassana Meditation site: http://www.dhamma.org
A local (Dallas) Zen Center:
http://www.mkzc.org
An environmental
Zen site: http://www.mro.org/mro.html
Other good sites
on Zen are http://www.obcon.org/
and www.thezensite.com
Buddhist Peace
Fellowship, an organization of Buddhists who are interested in
promoting social justice, peace and ecology: http://www.bpf.org/html/home.html
On Soka Gakkai
Buddhism: http://www.sgi-usa.org
On Tibetan Buddhism: http://www.tibet.com/Buddhism/
International
Campaign for Tibet: http://www.savetibet.org
Women Active in
Buddhism: http://members.tripod.com/~Lhamo/
Friends of the
Western Buddhist Order: http://www.fwbo.org/
Parallax Press
(connected with Thich Nhat Hanh), with excellent ÒlinksÓ page: http://www.parallax.org
Books and Tapes
on Vipassana: http://www.pariyatti.com
Two sites of
books dealing mainly with Tibetan Buddhism are http://www.shambhala.com
and http://www.snowlionpub.com
The best-known
magazine about Buddhism in America is Tricycle: http://www.tricycle.com