Department
of Religious Studies
Joseph Adler
Buddhism Links
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- Buddhist Studies (WWWVL)
- Resources for the Study of Buddhism
- The International Association of Buddhist Studies
- AAR Buddhism Section
- AAR Yogacara Buddhism Seminar
- Digital
Library and Museum of Buddhist Studies (National Taiwan University)
- Articles on Buddhism (full-text collection from various journals): sorted by author | sorted by journal
- Stanford Center for Buddhist Studies
- Center for Buddhist Studies (Columbia University): Weblog
- Buddhist Society of Lebanon
- International Congress on Buddhist Women’s Role in the Sangha: Bhikshuni Vinaya and Ordination Lineages (2007 conference exploring the means to reestablish ordination for women in the Theravada and Tibetan traditions, with abstracts and some papers)
- Summary
Report of the 2007 International Congress on the Women's Role in the
Sangha (Part One)
- Asia - map
- Spread of Buddhism - map
- Buddhism and
Its Spread Along the Silk Road (from the Silkroad
Foundation website, an excellent one)
- A Dictionary of Buddhism (Damien Keown)
- Digital Dictionary of Buddhism, with many other links (Charles Muller)
- Soothill &
Houdous: Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms (still useful, but
outdated in some respects)
- Buddhism in World Cultures: Comparative Perspectives, ed. Stephen C. Berkwitz (online textbook)
- Buddhism from A to Z
- Buddhist philosophy (a good introduction to basic Buddhist ideas and history)
- Buddhism (mostly from a Tantric perspective, but quite comprehensive)
- BuddhaNet
- Weblinks (excellent list)
- DharmaNet
- E-Sangha: The Buddhist Community: Articles, links, and member forum
- Friends of the Western Buddhist Order
- Western Buddhist Review
- Wildmind: Buddhist Meditation lessons online
- Journal of Global Buddhism (online; focus on Western countries)
- Tricycle: The Buddhist Review (magazine)
- Shambhala Sun (magazine)
- Religion
Compass: special issue on Buddhism
- Nagarjuna (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
- Buddhist Digital Library and Museum (Center for Buddhist Studies at National Taiwan University)
- Access to Insight (teachings and practice of Theravada Buddhism)
- The Gateless Passage: Introduction to Buddhist history, doctrine, and texts, with an emphasis on Chinese Buddhism
- The Five Skandhas (from The Gateless Passage)
- Writings on emptiness (sunyata)
- Buddhist responses to September 11
- Pilgrimage to a sacred mountain (NPR Radio Expedition)
- Buddhism on the Silk Road
- The Maitreya Project
- American Buddha
- "Does Humor Belong in Buddhism?" (webcast talk by Donald Lopez)
Traditions:
- Introduction
to Buddhism (Theravada)
- Chinese Buddhism
- Japanese Buddhism
- Zen Buddhism
- The
Crux of the Yogacara Project, by Dan Lusthaus
- Pure Land Buddhism (WWWVL)
- Shin (Pure Land) Buddhism (Introductory essays, and the full text of the three Pure Land Sutras)
- Shin Buddhism in Modern Culture , by Alfred Bloom
- The
Pure Land Tradition
- Tibetan Buddhism
- Bibliography of Tibetan Religious Ritual (Jose Cabezon and Alyson Prude)
- Vajrayana (Tibetan or Tantric Buddhism)
- A Short Guide to Tibetan Buddhism
- Buddhist teachings (in the Tibetan Kagyu tradition)
- The Berzin Archives (the extensive writings of Alexander Berzin, a scholar and practitioner of Tibetan [Gelugpa] Buddhism)
- Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT)
- Naropa University
- Tibetan Review (news and features, with a selection of articles online)
- Tibetan Buddhist prayer service (video)
- NY Times photos and articles on Tibet
- Mudras
- Kalacakra Mandala
- Yamantaka Mandala (Minneapolis Institute of Arts)
- The Panchen Lama:
- The identification of the Eleventh Panchen Lama, by Jeffrey Hopkins (University of Virginia, 1995)
- Articles by the Government of Tibet in Exile
- Tashi Lhunpo Monastery
- Students for a Free Tibet
- Mongolian Buddhism, by Sechin Jagchid
- Buddhism
in Mongolia After 1990, by Karénina Kollmar-Paulenz
- "Korean
Buddhism: A Short Overview" by Charles Muller
Texts: 
- Overview of the 3 Buddhist Canons
- Comparison
of the 3 Buddhist Canons
- Electronic Buddhist Text Initiative
- The Korean Buddhist Canon: A Descriptive Catalogue
- Online Sutta Correspondence
Project (search for parallels in various canons)
- The Pali Canon
- Vinaya Texts
- Buddhist
Suttas (Sacred Books of the East, vol. 11)
- Maha-Nidana Sutta (On Dependent Origination and No-Self)
- Maha-Parinibbana Sutta (On the last days of the Buddha)
- Satipatthana Sutta (On Mindfulness)
- Kalama Sutta (On the criteria of truth)
- Dhammapada:
- Trans. by John Richards (1933)
- Two
other translations (1985 and 1997)
- Mahayana Sutras 1 ( PDF e-books from BuddhaNet)
- Mahayana Sutras 2 (with a link to a third collection)
- Buddhist Mahayana Texts (Sacred Books of the East, vol. 49)
- Mahayana Sutras
(Charles Muller)
- Mahayana Mahaparinirvana
Sutra
- The Noble Mahayana Sanghatasutra
- Heart Sutra:
- Heart Sutra Home Page
- Chinese and English (short version)
- With Japanese (for chanting)
- In Chinese
- Commentary on Heart Sutra by T'an Hsu (20th c.)
- Diamond Sutra:
- From Plum Village (Thich Nhat Hanh's community)
- Translated by Charles Patton
- Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra
- The Three Pure Land Sutras
- Smaller Sukhavativyuha Sutra (Sutra on the Buddha Amitayus)
- Larger Sukhavativyuha Sutra (Sutra on the Buddha of Eternal Life)
- Sutra on the Contemplation of Buddha Amitayus
- Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamaka-karikas
(trans. by Frederick Streng)
- Institute of Tibetan Classics
- Tibetan chants
Buddhism
in South and Southeast Asia:
- Buddhism in India
- Edicts of Ashoka
- International Journal of Tantric Studies
- Borobudur: aerial photo | 360 degree views of each level (Quicktime required)
- Digital Image Archive: Buddhism (Todd Lewis, College of the Holy Cross)
- Revival of the Bhikkhuni Order in Sri Lanka
- Sarvodaya ("Awakening of All") Movement
Buddhism in the News:
- The Buddhist Channel
- PBS Religion & Ethics Newsweekly: programs on Buddhism
- "Buddha
Rising": National Geographic multimedia feature on Buddhism
in the West (December 2005)
- Monk-Led Protests Show Buddhist Activism (3/30/08)
- Another Buddha destroyed (2007)
- Push to include Buddhism in new Thai constitution (interview with Sulak Sivaraksa)
- Buddhist meditation and neuroscience
- Mindfulness
meditation and psychotheraphy (NY Times, 5/27/08)
- The Restless Children of the Dalai Lama (on Tibetan independence activists;NY Times, 12/19/05)
- Nepali
boy meditating for six months (11/23/05)
- Nepal's 'Buddha' boy goes missing (3/11/06)
- Nepalese Buddha Boy 'reappears' (3/20/06)
- Monk contemplates life of movie-making (Times of Tibet, 2/16/04)
- Tibetan monks win Grammy (Times of Tibet, 2/9/04)
- Trying to Reshape Tibet, China Sends In the Masses (NY Times, 9/15/03)
- Two Buddhist Nuns Take on a Giant of New York Realty (NY Times, 6/12/03)
- The Boy Monk (Orange County Register, 1/29/03)
- Discovery of Gandharan Buddhist manuscripts (Chronicle of Higher Education, 10/4/02)
- "Russian Lama's Body, and His Faith, Defy Time" (NY Times, 10/1/02)
- "A Lonely Battle in Mongolia to Save Buddhist Relics" (NY Times, 8/12/02)
- Buddhism in New York after Sept. 11 (NY Times, 2/14/02)
- Pilgrimage in Tibet (NY Times, 11/15/01)
- China Moves Against Buddhist Center (Washington Post, 6/21/01)
- Buddhism in the U.S. (Asia Today, 6/18/01): Excellent links to articles
- "Buddhism Blooms Amid the Forests of the Catskills" (NY Times, 6/18/01)
- "Tibetans Struggle to Preserve Culture, at Home and Abroad" (NY Times, 3/6/01)
- Hsi Lai Temple (NY Times, 4/29/00)
- New Thai sect (NY Times, 8/13/99)
- New Tibetan Buddhist community in
Sichuan, China (NY Times, 7/28/99)
- Expulsion of nuns and monks from Serthar (Tibet Information Network, 8/19/01)
- Expulsion update (Tibet Information Network, 11/8/01)
- Revival of Buddha's birthplace (NY Times, 10/2/98)
- Religion news from Tibet (Tibet Information Network)
- Richard
Gere on being a Buddhist (Washington Post/Newsweek)
- The Dalai Lama
- The 17th Karmapa of the Kagyu lineage
- A Buddhist View of Journalism (Shelton Gunaratne; PowerPoint slideshow)
Ethics and Dialogue:
- Journal of Buddhist Ethics (online)
- Bibliography on Buddhist environmental ethics
- Zen Environmental Studies Center
- Buddhist Perspectives on the Earth Charter
- Socially Engaged Buddhism:
- Online Resources
- Engaged Buddhism in Cambodia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand (28-minute BBC radio show -- Real Audio)
- Thich
Nhat Hanh
- Article on Thich Nhat Hanh (NY Times)
- Martin Luther King's letter nominating Thich Nhat Hanh for the Nobel Peace Prize (1967)
- Thich Nhat Hanh quotes
- Buddhist Peace Fellowship
- Buddhist-Christian Dialogue:
- The Empty Bell (a contemplative sanctuary)
- European Network of Buddhist Christian Studies
- Buddhist-Christian Studies (journal)
- Buddhism and science: Interview with Trinh Xuan Thuan, a Vietnamese Buddhist professor of astronomy at the University of Virginia.
- "American Buddhism's Racial Divide" by Kenneth Tanaka (beliefnet.com)
Buddhism and the Arts:
- Buddhist Art News
- Buddhist Art and Architecture (Buddhanet)
- Life of the Buddha: in art from the Metropolitan Museum
- Understanding the Art of Buddhism (Pacific Asia Museum)
- Buddhist Iconography (Minneapolis Institute of Arts)
- Mudras
- Tibetan Art (extensive collection of Tibetan and Nepalese art and photographs)
- Tibetan Buddhist Deities (Tibetan Museum Society)
- Himalayan Art Resources
- Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Related Art (OSU)
- Borobudur.tv: a very comprehensive site, including pictures, maps, and Buddhist texts on which the structure is based
- Borobudur: pictures and short essays (the Berger Foundation)
- Dharma The Cat
- 3rd International Seminar on Dunhuang Art and Society (my pictures)
Buddhist centers and temples
- World Buddhist directory
(Buddhanet)
Tibetan:
- Tashi Lhunpo Monastery (Gelugpa school, Tibet)
- Dongyu Gatsal Ling Nunnery (Kagyu school, North India)
- Drepung Loseling Monastery (Gelugpa school, South India)
- Namgyal Monastery (Gelugpa school,
Ithaca, NY: North American seat of the Dalai Lama)
- Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center (Gelugpa school, Bloomington, IN)
- New Kadampa school (New York branch)
- Kagyu Samye Ling (Kagyu center in Scotland)
- Karma Triyana Dharmachakra (North
American seat of Kagyu school)
- Karma Thegsum Choling (Kagyu school, Columbus, OH)
- Rangjung Yeshe Institute (Nepal - training center for Westerners)
- Nyingma Institute (Berkeley, CA)
- Karmê Chöling: Shambhala
Meditation Center (Vermont)
- Jade Buddha Temple (Shanghai)
- Dharma Drum Mountain
(Taiwan)
- Chan Meditation Center (Elmhurst, NY)
- Fo Guang Shan
(Taiwan)
- Hsi-Lai Temple (Southern California)
- Humanistic Buddhism Monastic Life program
- Buddhist Compassionate Relief (Tzu-chi) Foundation
- Dharma Realm Buddhist Association (Northern California)
- Buddhist Association of the U.S. (Chuang-yen Monastery, Putnam County, NY)
- Zen Buddhist Order of Hsu Yun
- Hsu Yun Buddhist Association (Tucson, AZ)
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| The Great Buddha (Daibutsu) at Kamakura (Amida Buddha). |
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Japanese:
- Hosshin-ji (Soto Zen, Fukui)
- Tosho-ji (Soto Zen, Tokyo)
- Hosen-ji (Rinzai Zen, Kyoto)
- Shōkokuji / Ginkakuji / Kinkakuji (Rinzai Zen, Kyoto)
- International Zen Centre (Rinzai Zen, Kyoto)
- Zen Center of Los Angeles
- Bodhi Manda Zen Center (New Mexico)
- Zen Mountain Monastery (NY State)
- Zen Columbus Sangha
- Cincinnati Zen Center
- Cleveland Buddhist Temple
- Cloud Water Zendo
(Cleveland)
- Jodo Shinshu (Pure Land) temples
- Buddhist Temple of Chicago (Pure Land)
- Institute of Buddhist Studies (Berkeley and Mountain View, CA)
- New York Buddhist
Church (Jodo Shinshu)
- Tendai Buddhist Institute
(New York State)
- Nichiren Shoshu headquarters in Japan
- Nichiren Shoshu of New York
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Korean:
- Korean Temples
- Buddhist Society for Compassionate
Wisdom (Zen organization founded by Samu Sunim in 1967, with temples
in Chicago, Ann Arbor, Toronto, and Mexico City)
- Summer Work/Study Program at the Ann Arbor Zen Buddhist Temple (2006)
- Kwan Um School of Zen (founded in 1972 by Seung Sahn in Providence, RI, now with many branches)
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Sri Lankan:
- Ohio Buddhist Vihara (Theravada)
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Thai:
- Suan Mokkh: Buddhadasa Bhikkhu's monastery in Thailand
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Various:
- Buddhist Centers in Ohio:
- Buddhist Bodhi Association of Columbus
- Buddhism in Central Ohio
- Buddhist Association of the United States
- Northeast Ohio Sangham: E-Newsletter
- Insight Meditation Society
- Metta Forest Monastery (California)
Edit date: 8/22/08