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Suggested Readings. The mass of modern literature on Buddhism both popular and scholarly - reminds one of the parable of the blind men and the elephant. SLP on the World Wide Web contains information about Tibet and Tibet-related events. This page also contains a production-schedule for Snow Lion books and in-depth reviews of new books on a variety of Buddhist topics. Wisdom Publications are renowned for quality Buddhist books. A major Buddhist publisher - worth a visit for the excellent offerings. An Online Buddhist Bookshop. It has quite an extensive list and is associated with Windhorse Books in Sydney. Any profit goes to support Buddhist activities. This site represents the activities of Parallax Press, the Community of Mindful Living, and Plum Village, Thich Nhat Hanh's community in France. The Dhamma Books website has books and tapes about Vipassana Meditation and the teachings of the Buddha as preserved in the Theravada tradition. Pariyatti Book Service's link is included here for those interested in a range of books similar to "Dhamma Books" from a company based in the United States. Both sites are from the S.N.Goenka Vipassana tradition. The Theosophical Bookshop in Sydney's website - which includes an excellent selection of Buddhist books. Mind Only Cafe, created by Professor Joe Wilson of the University of North Carolina, is a fine compendium of Buddhist and Asian art resources. This link also features Yogacara Buddhism and Religious Studies information. Asian Art Server - an excellent on-line resource.
The Asian Classics Input Project presents a database containing texts from the Kangyur and Tengyur (classical collections of Sanskrit literature in Tibetan translation), and the Sungbum (Tibetan language commentaries on these) transliterated into roman (ASCII) characters. These texts span the time period from the Fifth Century, BCE to the twentieth Century, CE. The database has been produced primarily for scholars of classical Asian literature and other interested persons. Text entry is accomplished by Tibetan monk scholars at Sera Mey Monastic University and other nearby centers in southern India. The non-profit publishers of the BDK English Tripitaka translation of the entire Buddhist canon. This is the site of the International Research Institute for Zen Buddhism, the research institution of Hanazono University in Kyoto, Japan. In conjunction with the opening of this site, we release the ZenBase CD1, a CD-ROM chock full of texts, bibliographies, tools, articles, and much more of interest not only to students and practicioners of Zen but to scholars of the Far East in general. In particular, the CD contains over 70 Chinese Zen texts in JIS and Big5 codes, and a 48,000 character kanji database with an innovative encoding scheme. It has a page on the Buddhist Input Project News. THE DIGITAL PALI TIPITAKA AND ATTHAKATHA. Including the data search program on CD-ROM. The Siamratha version of the Pali Tipitaka. Mahidol University Computing Center, Faculty of Science, Rama VI Rd., Bangkok 10400, THAILAND. Email to: budsir@mahidol.ac.th This site is useful for students of Chinese Buddhism. If offers a Chinese Multimedia Buddhism CD the Diamond Sutra CD and Electronic Books in Chinese. Pali Canon, Sources & Translations. Pali Course. Pali Language Online Database. The Mahapirita Audio-CD is now available ! (Original Theravada Pali Recitation (Pirit Chanting) from Sri Lanka). This Website acts as the main distributor for the electronic version of Tripitaka in Sri Lanka. The font can be downloaded via FTP in both PC and Macintosh from United States and United Kingdom. Address in Sri Lanka: The Buddhist Research and Information Centre, (BRIC) 380/9 - Sarana Road, Colombo7, Sri Lanka. (Note: proofreading of these texts is not yet completed). Also available from BuddhaNet's File Library. Chattha Sangayana Tipitaka CD from Vipassana Research Institute Pali version in Romanized script. For ordering information contact: Vipassana Meditation Centre Attn.: Sean Salkin PO Box 103 Blackheath NSW 2785 Australia, Fax: 4787-7221 e-mail: vmcbh@ozemail.com.au
This is the major site which keeps track of leading information facilities in the field of Buddhism and Buddhist studies around the world. An annotated list of sites with Buddhist textural and visual materials. A student organization in the University of Hong Kong to introduce the wisdom of the Buddha throughout the campus. We organizes talks, seminars, cell group discussions, temple and master monks visits, and hospital services in order to bring the teachings of the Buddha to our fellows. Suggested Readings. The mass of modern literature on Buddhism - both popular and scholarly - reminds one of the parable of the blind men and the elephant... An Online Buddhist Bookshop. It has quite an extensive list and is associated with Windhorse Books in Sydney. Any profit goes to support Buddhist activities. This site represents the activities of Parallax Press, the Community of Mindful Living, and Plum Village, Thich Nhat Hanh's community in France. The Buddhist Door is a monthly publication by the Tung Lin Kok Yuan, Canada Society. It has several wonderful series, such as Buddha's Life, The Heart Sutra, TheDiamond Sutra, The Practice of Meditation, and a good series on basic Buddhism entitled “Buddhism in a Nutshell”. Click here for an on-line audio and videotape catalogue of contemporary Buddhist teachers. A hard copy edition of this catalogue is also available free of charge upon request. SLP on the World Wide Web contains information about Tibet and Tibet-related events. This page also contains a production-schedule for Snow Lion books and in-depth reviews of new books on a variety of Buddhist topics. The Journal of Buddhist Ethics is the first Buddhist periodical established for the express purpose of furthering our understanding of the ethical concerns in Buddhism. The JBE is electronically published by Charles Prebish and Damien Keown and has an editorial board comprised of a number of established Buddhist Studies scholars from the United States, Canada, Japan, England, and elsewhere. The Buddhist Alternative Journal; Full text of past issues. Buddhism Depot has the largest collection of Dhammapada scriptures (Pali Canon) on the internet. It also has a Dhammapada Quote of the moment for frequent visitors. In addition, it is a scholarly resource for those interested in the organization of the Pali Canon. It also has a Buddhist Discussion Forum and chat room for Buddhist discussions, and for the art savy, a Buddhist Art Gallery. This web page maintained by the Centre for Buddhist Studies is divided into five parts as follows: Information, Retrieval, Scriptures, Courses and Resources: Address in Taiwan: Centre for Buddhist Studies, College of Liberal Arts, National Taiwan University, Taiwan. This site has a general directory of both English and Chinese URLs.In addition to Buddhist studies, each student must take up the study of Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, English or Japanese for the duration of the three-year graduate program. In 1984 the Chinese Culture College was granted university status in Taiwan. However, because of administrative and educational changes, the new university stopped recruiting students for the Institute of Buddhist Studies at that time. In the following year Master Sheng-Yen re-established the Institute of Buddhist Studies at the location of the Chung-hwa Institute of Buddhist Culture in the Peitou district of Taipei. He is tthe founder of the Institute as well as its current director. The World-Wide Web Virtual Library [Library of Congress] Clearinghouse approved. Buddhist Studies WWW VL. Joint Project with Center for Buddhist Studies, National Taiwan University. Updated: March 2, 1997. ISSN 1076-9005. EAST ASIAN BUDDHIST STUDIES: A REFERENCE GUIDE. First Compiled by Robert Buswell. Revised and Expanded by William Bodiford. SCRIPTURAL - English. The World-Wide Web Virtual Library [Library of Congress] Schools of Zen Buddhism. Est.: 8th Apr 1995. This is a most importment website for Studies of Chinese Buddhism and Chinese traditional culture at a more extensive and deeper level. Serve for all the people is the highest aim of the site. What's New, Masters of Chinese Buddhist, Studies of Prajna Paramita, Studies of Chan, Studies of Mind-Only, Buddhist Scriptures, Worldwide Buddhism, Studies in Religion Worldwide, The Famous Ancient Novels of China, Importment Works of Ancient China, Mysterious Cultures of Ancient China, Reading Chinese Literature Works On-line, Reading Famous And Popular Chinese Novels On-line, Reading Newspapers On-line, Far Eastern Economic Review, Looking For People, Doors of the World, Index of All the Universities Worldwide, and Home For Web Friends are the columns. Chinese version with GB-code is the first language. And English is the second language. More than 100 millions of characters and words of materials, amd at least 10,000 pages are available. e-mail:buddhahy@bigfoot.com |