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

http://www.Dharmanet.org

 

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/

 

Books

 

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