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Links on Vipassana:

http://www.dhamma.org/

http://www.vri.dhamma.org/index.html

http://www.vipassana.com/




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Outstanding Resource on Vedic Math:

http://vedicmaths.org

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Buddhism and News? Why not! -

http://www.buddhistnews.tv/


Tibetan:

http://www.phayul.com/Index.aspx




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Zen in Daily Life: Zen teacher Dogen & the Soto Approach to Zen -

http://www.zenki.com/



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Buddhist Tales:

http://www.serve.com/cmtan/buddhism/Stories/index.html

http://www.rider.edu/~suler/zenstory/zenstory.html



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The Engaged Zen Foundation -

The Engaged Zen Foundation is an independent organization originally founded to foster zazen (seated contemplative meditation) practice in prison. Meditative training alters the functioning of the mind of the practitioner and these changes manifest with the development of positive perspectives on life. Our initial goal was to urge prisoners to use the time available during imprisonment to foster the practice of zazen, sitting in dynamic, lucid awareness, thus serving prisoners on release by enabling them, through their own efforts, to reenter society with a disciplined, patient, nonviolent and compassionate frame of mind.


http://www.engaged-zen.org/




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Buddhist Magazines -

http://www.tricycle.com/new.php?p=home

http://www.shambhalasun.com/

http://soloseal.faithweb.com/

http://www.hundredmountain.com/Pages/siteindex.html

http://www.mandalamagazine.org/

http://www.shenpen-osel.org/

http://www.urthona.com/

http://www.zenunbound.com/



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Buddhism in Vietnam:

http://mcel.pacificu.edu/as/students/vb/index.htm

The on-line journal for the study and exhibition of the arts of Asia

http://www.asianart.com/index.html

Buddhist Studies WWW Virtual Library - HUGE Resource

http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-Buddhism.html

A site against the Soka Gakkai International, a buddhist cult

http://ww2.netnitco.net/users/jqpublic/deviations.html

Korean Buddhism Information Page

http://www.human.toyogakuen-u.ac.jp/~ac ... orean.html



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Zhongwen.com contains the complete text of Amazon's best selling, best reviewed Chinese-English dictionary.

http://www.zhongwen.com/



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June 11, 1963, in Saigon, Vietnam, a Buddhist monk, Thich Quang Duc immolated himself in a busy intersection to protest religious repression by the South Vietnamese government under Ngo Dinh Diem.

"The often-occluded relations among power, imperial politics, and the specific portrayals of religious issues is perhaps no more apparent than in the case of the interpretations American media and intellectuals gave to the much-publicized actions of several Vietnamese Buddhists who, beginning in mid-June of 1963, died by publicly setting themselves on fire. The first of these deaths occurred at a busy downtown intersection in Saigon, on 11 June 1963, and was widely reported in American newspapers the following day, although the New York Times, along with many other newspapers, declined to print Malcolm Browne's famous, or rather infamous, photograph of the lone monk burning (Moeller 1989: 404). The monk, seventy-three-year-old Thich Quang Duc, sat at a busy downtown intersection and had gasoline poured over him by two fellow monks. As a large crowd of Buddhists and reporters watched, he lit a match and, over the course of a few moments, burned to death while he remained seated in the lotus position. In the words of' David Halberstam, who was at that time filing daily reports on the war with the New York Times,

I was to see that sight again, but once was enough. Flames were coming from a human being; his body was slowly withering and shriveling up, his head blackening and charring. In the air was the smell of burning flesh; human beings burn surprisingly quickly. Behind me I could hear the sobbing of the Vietnamese who were now gathering. I was too shocked to cry, too confused to take notes or ask questions, too bewildered to even think.... As he burned he never moved a muscle, never uttered a sound, his outward composure in sharp contrast to the wailing people around him. (1965: 211)
After his funeral, where his remains were finally reduced to ashes, Quang Duc's heart, which had not burned, was retrieved, enshrined, and treated as a sacred relic (Schecter 1967: 179)."


http://www.quangduc.com/BoTatQuangDuc/i ... hpage.html




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General Eastern Faith link:

http://www.realization.org/home.htm



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Jiddu Krishnamurti

The core of Krishnamurti's teaching is contained in the statement he made in 1929 when he said: 'Truth is a pathless land'. Man cannot come to it through any organisation, through any creed, through any dogma, priest or ritual, not through any philosophic knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through the mirror of relationship, through the understanding of the contents of his own mind . . . Statement by Krishnamurti in 1981.

http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/

http://www.katinkahesselink.net/kr/

http://www.kfionline.org/

http://www.kfa.org/

http://www.kfoundation.org/

http://www.kinfonet.org/

http://www.jiddukrishnamurti.info/

http://www.loneliness.ch/krishnamurti_1.htm

http://www.werobot.com/jk/default.htm

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/J_Krishnamurti/


A great introduction to K:

Freedom from the Known
by Jiddu Krishnamurti

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... 5?v=glance



"Friend, do not concern yourself with who I am; you will never know. I do not want you to accept anything I say. I do not want anything from any of you; I do not desire popularity; I do not want your flattery, your following. Because I am in love with life, I do not want anything. These questions are not of very great importance; what is of importance is the fact that you obey and allow your judgement to be perverted by authority. Your judgement, your mind, your affection, your life are being perverted by things which have no value, and herein lies sorrow."
J. Krishnamurti
Early Talks, 1930





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judih writes:

This is a collection of zen stories, collected by John Suler, PhD.
enjoy!

http://www.rider.edu/~suler/zenstory/zenframe.html

Try this:

Without Fear

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During the civil wars in feudal Japan, an invading army would quickly sweep into a town and take control. In one particular village, everyone fled just before the army arrived - everyone except the Zen master. Curious about this old fellow, the general went to the temple to see for himself what kind of man this master was. When he wasn't treated with the deference and submissiveness to which he was accustomed, the general burst into anger. "You fool," he shouted as he reached for his sword, "don't you realize you are standing before a man who could run you through without blinking an eye!" But despite the threat, the master seemed unmoved. "And do you realize," the master replied calmly, "that you are standing before a man who can be run through without blinking an eye?"

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The Official Panchen Lama site:

http://www.tibet.ca/panchenlama/



The Panchen Lama was 6 years old when he and his parents were kidnapped from their home in Tibet by the Chinese government. He is the world's youngest political prisoner and he has been missing for over 6 years.




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Zen and Photography - examines the art of photography and its relationship to Zen.


http://www.zenandphotography.com/



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Ajahn Chah lived in Thailand. He had several western disciples who founded Therevada Buddhist Monastaries in England, Switzerland, Italy, New Zealand and Japan. Ajahn Chah's teachings were simple and pure. He could explain the Dhamma in many ways for any body to understand.

http://www.rayadan.com/rayadan/AjahnChah/

http://www.forestsangha.org/index.html

http://www.buddhistreading.com/chah.html

http://www.geocities.com/breath1life/chah.html

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/thai ... steof.html

http://www.occultforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=11988



Donâ??t just believe in the teacher because he says a fruit is sweet and delicious. Taste it for yourself and then all the doubt will be over. - AjahnChah




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Rana writes:

Buddhasasana - An enormous collection of books and essays.

http://www.saigon.com/~anson/ebud/ebidx.htm

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Free Buddhist e-Books - urbandharma.org (http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma5/ebooks.html)



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Happytreehugger writes:


http://www.tibet.com/Buddhism/bon.html
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Ithaca/4886/bonpo.htm
http://www.yungdrung-bon.net/default.htm
http://www.ligmincha.org/

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Access to Insight - Readings in Theravada Buddhism

http://accesstoinsight.org/

The Berzin Archives - Tibetan Buddhism Resource

http://www.berzinarchives.com/

Buddhist Information of North America - Huge Resource of Readings

http://buddhistinformation.com/index.htm

Buddhism Depot - dig the Twin Peaks theme music!

http://www.edepot.com/buddha.html

Buddhism Meetup

http://buddhism.meetup.com/

Buddhist Reading Room - moderate amount of articles

http://buddhistreading.com/

Buddhist Studies WWW Virtual Library - HUGE

http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-Buddhism.html

Buddhist Scripture Information Retrieval

http://www.budsir.org/

Daily Zen- daily zen quotes

http://dailyzen.com/

Dharma Bliss - Dharma Bliss is an online journal of Buddhism

http://dharmabliss.org/

DharmaNet International - Huge Resource

http://dharmanet.org/

Dharma Student - small Tibetan Buddhism resource

http://www.dharmastudent.com/

Zen Buddhist Order of Hsu Yun

http://www.hsuyun.org/Dharma/zbohy/Home/home-index.html

Kalavinka Dharma Treasury - Classics from the Buddhist Canon

http://kalavinka.org/

khandro.net - Huge Tibetan Buddhism resource

http://www.khandro.net/

Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive

http://www.lamayeshe.com/

LamRim.com - Tibetan Buddhist Internet Radio

http://lamrim.com/index2.html

Leaves from the Buddha's Grove - moderate sized buddhism resource

http://hjem.get2net.dk/civet-cat/

MaximumBliss - Zen Buddhism resource

http://www.maximumbliss.com/

NoZen - nice listing of koans

http://www.nozen.com/

Sacred Texts: Buddhism - some free e-books

http://sacred-texts.com/bud/

Sadhu - Theravada buddhism portal

http://www.dhamma.ru/sadhu/modules/mylinks/

thebigview - basic buddhism site

http://www.thebigview.com/buddhism/

Zen Buddhist Texts

http://www.io.com/~snewton/zen/

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Buddhist Zines/Publications




BodhiVision

http://www.webcastmy.com.my/bodhivision/

BuddhaDharma - quarterly journal for Buddhists

http://www.thebuddhadharma.com/

Dharma Life - buddhism and the modern world

http://dharmalife.com/

Fearless Mountain

http://abhayagiri.org/fm/

Forest Sangha Newsletter - in the Thai Forest tradition of Ajahn Chah

http://fsnewsletter.net/

Journal of Buddhist Ethics - dedicated entirely to Buddhist ethics

http://jbe.gold.ac.uk/

Journal of Global Buddhism - the study of Buddhism's globalization and its transcontinental interrelatedness

http://www.globalbuddhism.org/

Kyoto Journal - Perspectives on Asia

http://www.kampo.co.jp/kyoto-journal/

Mandala - a Tibetan Buddhist Journal

http://mandalamagazine.org/

Resurgence - ecological and spiritual thinking.

http://resurgence.gn.apc.org/

Shambhala Sun - all traditions of buddhism

http://www.shambhalasun.com/

Tricycle - non-profit quarterly magazine with an educational charter to spread the dharma

http://tricycle.com/new.php?p=home

Turning Wheel - socially engaged Buddhism

http://www.bpf.org/html/turning_wheel/t ... wheel.html

Western Buddhist Review - Articles explore the principles of Buddhism

http://westernbuddhistreview.com/

Zen Unbound

http://zenunbound.com/

Zolag - Books, Articles, Views and News on Theravada Buddhism

http://www.zolag.co.uk/

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Forums/E-groups


E-Sangha - The Buddhist Community (http://www.lioncity.net/buddhism/)

The Buddhist Scholars Information Network (http://www.h-net.org/~buddhism/)




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These links may be of interest to people interested in "past lives"


Dr. Ian Stevenson is a researcher at The Division of Personality Studies (DOPS) at the University of Virginia. He is best known for collecting and meticulously researching cases of children who seem to recall past lives (spontaneously, that is, without the need for hypnosis), thereby providing some of the best available evidence suggestive of reincarnation.


Division of Personality Studies (DOPS), University of Virginia


Dr. Ian Stevenson page (Children's Past Lives Research Center)





"Either Dr. Stevenson is making a colossal mistake, or he will be known as the Galileo of the 20th century."

- Dr. Harold Lief in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease








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Kriya Yoga Institute

Dr. John Mumford's site on Kriya Yoga

Traditional Yoga Studies

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Taoist Restoration Society

Daoist Studies






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