Enjoy Learning!
In addition to the more formal ways of learning that characterize the Dharma Training Program, there are many informal ways to make learning about Buddhism and Buddhist practice an ongoing process. These links will help you explore ways of incorporating learning about the Dharma and about practice into your daily life, making it fun and easy to expand our ways of thinking and practicing!
The
About.com web site features a section on Buddhism, capably managed by Barbara O'Brien.
Explore the site and
subscribe to her weekly newsletter or one of her short e-courses. It's a great way to keep up on current topics in Buddhism!
There are several
Buddhist magazines to which you can subscribe. While most are not fully available online (except to subscribers), you can enjoy many resources that their web sites offer. Here are a few to check out:
- Tricycle: The Buddhist Review: The site is full of articles you can enjoy. The search function is not great and site navigation leaves a lot to be desired, but with some patience, you'll find something of interest. Start with the Resources page. You can also subscribe to the Daily Dharma from the home page and get an inspiring quote about Buddhism and Buddhist practice right in your inbox!
- Shambhala Sun: Another site with a tremendous amount of information. They offer an e-newsletter that will help keep you interest in Dharma and practice fresh!
- Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly: The most scholarly of the popular magazines, one of the best resources on the web site is the MahaSangha News. Check it out for lots of great stuff!
- Mindfulness Bell: A Journal of the Art of Mindful Living: This is the magazine of the Community of Mindful Living, associated with Thich Nhat Hanh. It's one of the few magazines that is downloadable for free! If you choose to read the magazine this way, please consider making a donation to CML.
- Bodhi: Journey to Awakening: This is a magazine of the Nyingma and Kagyu sanghas in the Tibetan tradition. While it isn't possible to read the whole magazine online, they do offer excerpts from each issue.
- Mandala: The Official Publication of the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition: Another resource for exploring the rich and beautiful Tibetan tradition.
- Mountain Record: The Zen Practitioner's Quarterly: A magazine from the Mountains and Rivers Order of John Daido Loori Roshi, the site offers selected articles for your reading pleasure.
- Urthona: Buddhism and the Arts: This beautiful magazine offers the full version of selected articles online.
- The Journal of Buddhist Ethics: This peer-reviewed journal is freely available online. Lots of deep thinking and perspectives on the thorny topic of ethics!
- Insight Journal: The quarterly magazine from the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies is available online or in print. Articles, interviews, poetry representing many traditions of Buddhism.
- Urban Dharma Newsletter: A bimonthly email newsletter prepared by Ven. Kusala Bhikshu, with news, articles, book reviews, etc., is often focused on a particular theme.
- Inquiring Mind: asemiannual journal dedicated to the creative transmission of Buddhadharma to the West.
Keep up on
news from the world of Buddhism! Here are a few sites that compile news of interest to practitioners:
These
mega-sites will help fill in your free time. Skip TV and go surfing!
- Finding Dulcinea: The Librarian of the Internet -- page on Buddhism
- American Buddhist Net compiles a huge amount of news...not always without controversy.
- MAY be the biggest Buddhist site on the Web...BuddhaNet!
- The world of the Pali Canon at your fingertips. Dhamma doesn't get much better than Access to Insight!
- Travelling and want to find a place to practice? DharmaNet, from Ashoka, the eDharma University, offers perhaps the best source of information on practice centers worldwide.
- Buddhist Studies WWW Virtual Library "keeps track of leading information facilities in the fields of Buddhism and Buddhist studies."
- Resources for the Study of Buddhism, compiled by Professor Ron Epstein, includes lots of links (some broken) to other informational web sites as well as to interesting texts and articles.
- Buddhism Today has a wealth of texts and Dharma teachings, available in both Vietnamese and English.
- The About.com guide to Buddhism is generally reliable and has loads of articles, including many on current news topics.
These web sites of university-based programs sometimes contain gems of articles and podcasts, but be prepared to wade through a lot of academic language in some of the resources.
There are some wonderful
Buddhist blogs on the Web. Here are a few to check out.
Monkey Mind, by James Ishmael Ford, a Unitarian-Universalist minister and Soto Zen priest
Bhikkhu's Blog, by Ajahn Punnadhammo, who comments on current events and on Buddhist practice
A Buddhist Perspective, by Ven. Wuling, a nun in the Pure Land traditionDhamm
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