81. Kamat's Potpourri: Topics  On Buddhism Wide ranging topics from a biography of Buddha to Tibetan Buddhist refugees in India. http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/budhist/index.htm

more ads Topics on Buddhism First created: August 15,1997 Last updated: September 15,2005 A lthough born and peaked in India, today (1999) Buddhism is more popular outside India than within. We know very little of history of Buddhism till the reign of emperor Ashoka , who transformed Buddhism into a great world religion. In the following pictures, two distinct aspects of Buddhism in India can be seen: one ancient (Ashokan and subsequent) and the other the Buddhism as practiced and advocated by the Tibetans (now in India as refugees). The contribution of Buddhist teachings on the Hinduism (sixth century B.C. onwards) was great and led to several reforms of Hinduism. Some Hindus believe that Buddha was one of the avatars of Lord Vishnu himself. The contribution of arts inspired by Buddha was also great and can be seen in the caves of Ajanta and many other edicts spread across India. Indeed, the lions of Sarnath became the emblem of free India. Table of Contents Bodhisatva with a Lotus in Hand Buddha mediating in "touching the earth" position Carvings on the Arch of Buddhist Stupa Emperor Ashoka and the spread of Buddhism ... The Lions from Sarnath, a monument from Ashoka period

82. Buddhism, An Introduction, John C. Powers, Publications, Faculty Of Asian Studie An extensive introduction to Buddhist thought and history. From Anthology of Scriptures of World Religions , by John Powers and James Fieser, http://www.anu.edu.au/asianstudies/textnotes/buddhism.html

National Institute for Asia and the Pacific ANU Home Search ANU Faculty of Asian Studies ... Publications Buddhism, an Introduction John C. Powers Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University Chapter from a book Anthology of Scriptures of World Religions , by John Powers and James Fieser, published by McGraw-Hill Publications in 1997. The anthology contains a revised version of this chapter, with updated translations, and chapters of scriptures of all the world's major religious traditions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Shinto, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Bah'ai, and Zoroastrianism. The anthology is available in three forms: (1) an anthology of Western religions; (2) an anthology of Asian religions; and (3) an anthology of all the world's religions. Table of contents I. Introduction The Spread of Buddhism Outside of India II. Buddhist Texts III. Selections from Buddhist Texts ... The Buddha and the Texts of the Pali Canon The Life of the Buddha The First Sermon Analysis of the Truths The Buddha's Good Qualities Nirvana Dependent Arising Consciousness is a Dependent Arising Questions That Should Be Avoided Selflessness Instructions on Meditation Ordination of Women The Cessation of Suffering My Teacher Learning and Good Conduct Count More than Birth The Joy of Release Excerpts from The Path of Truth

83. Four Schools Of Buddhism Refuted By Vedanta-sutra Hindu refutation of Buddhist philosophy. http://veda.harekrsna.cz/html/enc/buddhism.htm

84. Q & A Buddhism, YHH Answers to common questions about buddhism. http://www.saigon.com/~anson/ebud/ebdha001.htm

BuddhaSasana Home Page English Section Questions And Answers On Buddhism Yew Han Hee The following questions and answers have been especially formulated with the newcomer to Buddhism in mind. Q: Who was the Buddha? A: The Buddha was a man who lived some 2,600 years ago and who revolutionised religious thought in India. This way of thought spread throughout the Eastern world and has now found its way to the West. Q: What does the word 'Buddha' mean? A: The word 'Buddha' stands for the Awakened State (literally it means awakened), so it is used in relation to waking up to truth, to becoming enlightened. Q: What did the Buddha teach? A: His teaching was extensive. However, it is commonly agreed among all traditions throughout the Buddhist world, that fundamentally the teaching of the Buddha is contained in just four truths - the Four Noble Truths. Q: What are these truths? A: They are: the truth of suffering; the truth of regarding the cause of suffering; the truth regarding the cessation of suffering; and the path, the way leading to the cessation of that suffering. We suffer when life does not go our way, when our hopes are dashed, and when disappointment or tragedy strikes. We also suffered when life does go our way. Why? Becausewe fear loss - loss of pleasure, wealth, family or friends. This is the truth of suffering.

85. Buddhism In Canada, Buddhism In Canada (Canada Buddhist) buddhism in Canada. BC-island - BC-lower mainland - BC-interior - Yukon buddhism in the news Canada and worldwide. Canadian Buddhist Web sites http://buddhismcanada.com/

Buddhism in Canada BC-island BC-lower mainland BC-interior Yukon ... How to find a Buddhist temple Buddhism in the news: Canada and worldwide Canadian Buddhist Web sites Special events in Southern Ontario Traditions Census ... Add a Bulletin Virus warning do not open any attachments that appear to come from buddhismcanada.com

86. Buddhism In Europe An annotated bibliography on buddhism's historical development and contemporary state of affairs in Europe. http://www.sunderland.ac.uk/~os0dwe/bs10.html

Buddhism in Europe An Annotated Bibliography on its Historical Development and Contemporary State of Affairs 1. version, October 1996 Martin Baumann 1. General overviews and surveys 2. Geographical studies 2.1. United Kingdom 2.2. Federal Republic of Germany ... 2.13. Portugal, Spain, Greece, (former) Yugoslavia, Note: Emphasis is laid on scholary historical studies within the last two or three decades. The bibliography lists books and articles, university theses and nation-wide journals published by Buddhist organisations in the respective country. As this collection is set up as a "working bibliography", any suggestions and recommodations of further scholarly historical studies and theses are most welcome and appreciated. Many, but not all entries are accompained by a short (subjective) comment and assessment, indicated as IH for Ian Harris, RW for Russell Webb and MB for Martin Baumann. Special thanks to Ian Harris (Lancaster), Jens-Uwe Hartmann (Berlin) and Russell Webb (London) and numerous scholars and Buddhists from Europe for advice and suggestions. 1. General overviews and surveys

87. Nichiren Shoshu Hokkeko Sweden Vad ¤r det f¶r skillnad mellan Nichiren Shoshu och andra typer av buddhism? http://hem.passagen.se/nichiren.shoshu/index.html

88. Buddhism Home Page buddhism.JPG (68053 bytes) http://uwacadweb.uwyo.edu/religionet/er/buddhism/

89. Buddhism In A Nutshell - Rebirth Article by Narada Thera on karma, rebirth and ignorance. http://www.buddhanet.net/nutshell07.htm

Rebirth As long as this kammic force exists there is rebirth, for beings are merely the visible manifestation of this invisible kammic force. Death is nothing but the temporary end of this temporary phenomenon. It is not the complete annihilation of this so-called being. The organic life has ceased, but the kammic force which hitherto actuated it has not been destroyed. As the kammic force remains entirely undisturbed by the disintegration of the fleeting body, the passing away of the present dying thought-moment only conditions a fresh consciousness in another birth. It is kamma, rooted in ignorance and craving, that conditions rebirth. Past kamma conditions the present birth; and present kamma, in combination with past kamma, conditions the future. The present is the offspring of the past, and becomes, in turn, the parent of the future. If we postulate a past, present, and a future life, then we are at once faced with the alleged mysterious problem "What is the ultimate origin of life?"

90. Women Active In Buddhism (WAiB) Homepage buddhism Buddhists for peace oppose Bush s immoral war in Iraq, Green Tara, Women Active in buddhism also received the Mystic Site of the Web Award of http://members.tripod.com/~Lhamo/

setAdGroup('67.18.104.18'); var cm_role = "live" var cm_host = "tripod.lycos.com" var cm_taxid = "/memberembedded" Search: Lycos Tripod Free Games Share This Page Report Abuse Edit your Site ... Next Women Active in Buddhism What's New! Submit a link Activists Teachers ... Miscellaneous Welcome to Women Active in Buddhism (WAiB), the Web's first comprehensive collection of links and resources on contemporary Buddhist women. Women teachers, activists, scholars, nuns, and yoginis (practitioners) may be found on these pages, as well as teachings and special events, projects, organisations, bibliographic and contact information for women in Buddhism. We also offer a complete guide to the many female meditational deities found in Tibetan Buddhist practice. This page was last updated on 16 September 2001 . Since then, due to illnesses in the family and my obligations as caretaker, I have not had time to carry out the extensive revisions that are increasingly required. I hope to overhaul this site completely in late 2004. Warning: this will probably mean downsizing (a smaller but more handpicked site), so if you have any favourite links, do bookmark them soon. For details of changes and additions to this site, please bookmark and visit our What's New page.

91. Association Of Malaysia Buddhism Webring for Malaysian Buddhist sites. http://S.webring.com/hub?ring=associationofma2

92. H-Buddhism Discussion Network The Buddhist Scholars Information Network (Hbuddhism) serves as a medium for the exchange of information regarding academic resources, new research http://www.h-net.org/~buddhism/

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93. Tibet Foundation Homepage London based organisation disseminating the works of the Dalai Lama, promoting the understanding of Tibetan buddhism and culture, and helping in the provision of education and healthcare for Tibetans in exile. http://www.tibet-foundation.org/

Home Page Aid Art and Culture Foundation Newsletter ... Site Site Search Tibet Foundation (Charity No. 292400). 1 St. James's Market. London. SW1Y 4SB. UK. Tel +44 (0) 207 930 6001 Site Design: Jon Aldridge www.terrainview.com Home Page Welcome to the Tibet Foundation Website. Tibet Foundation is a registered charity (no. 292400), founded in 1985, which works towards creating greater awareness of all aspects of Tibetan culture and the needs of the Tibetan people. Key areas of our work are: Aid to Tibet Buddhism in Mongolia Tibetans in Exile Art and Culture ... Tibetan Medicine You can learn more about Tibet Foundation: Background Join Tibet Foundation 1 St. James's Market. London. SW1Y 4SB. UK. Latest Foundation News Tibet Foundation - Special Holidays Results of the Tibet Foundation Essay Contest ... (more) Running the London Marathon for Tibet 2005 ... All News... Next Foundation Events Tibet Foundation Day - Celebra 21 Oct 05 United Kingdom Anniversary of the Nobel Peace 10 Dec 05 United Kingdom All Events...

94. Shinto & Buddhism: Wellsprings Of Japanese Spirituality Article written by Paul Watt for the Asia Society s Focus on Asian Studies, Vol. II, No. 1, Asian Religions, pp. 2123, Fall 1982. http://www.askasia.org/frclasrm/readings/r000009.htm

Wellsprings of Japanese Spirituality Article written by Paul Watt for the Asia Society's Focus on Asian Studies, Vol. II, No. 1, Asian Religions AskAsia The Japanese religious tradition is rich and complex, encompassing within it both complementary and contradictory trends in religious thought and practice with an ease that may occasionally puzzle the Western observer. At the very heart of the tradition stand Shinto, the indigenous religion of Japan, and Buddhism, the Indian religion that reached Japan in the sixth through eighth centuries A.D. from Korea and China. Throughout the long course of Japanese history, it has been these two religions that have contributed most to the Japanese understanding of themselves and their world. Shinto Shinto was the earliest Japanese religion, its obscure beginnings dating back at least to the middle of the first millennium B.C. Until approximately the sixth century A.D., when the Japanese began a period of rapid adoption of continental civilization, it existed as an amorphous mix of nature worship, fertility cults, divination techniques, hero worship, and shamanism. Unlike Buddhism, Christianity, or Islam, it had no founder and it did not develop sacred scriptures, an explicit religious philosophy, or a specific moral code. Indeed, so unself-conscious were the early Japanese about their religious life that they had no single term by which they could refer to it. The word Shinto , or "the Way of the kami (gods or spirits)," came into use only after the sixth century, when the Japanese sought to distinguish their own tradition from the foreign religions of Buddhism and Confucianism that they were then encountering. Thus, in its origins, Shinto was the religion of a pristine people who, above all, were sensitive to the spiritual forces that pervaded the world of nature in which they lived. As one ancient chronicle reports: in their world myriad spirits shone like fireflies and every tree and bush could speak.

95. Buddhism In Toronto - North List of Buddhist temples and centers in Toronto North http://buddhismcanada.com/toronto-n.html

96. Buddhism Chronology http://campus.northpark.edu/history/WebChron/Buddhism.html

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97. Thubten Rinchen Ling Center for the study of Tibetan buddhism. http://www.thubtenrinchenling.org/

Thubten Rinchen Ling Center for the Study of Tibetan Buddhism "To Effect the Enlightenment of All Sentient Beings by the Achievement of Buddhahood"

98. Advayavada Buddhism Information Center - Amsterdam Information about Advayavada buddhism, with Questions and Answers section. http://www.euronet.nl/~advaya/

MAIN PAGE IN ENGLISH BEST VIEWED WITH A LARGE FONT SIZE a letter to you (revised) Advayavada Buddhism in a Nutshell Advayavada Study Plan relevant excerpts from well-known books to miscellaneous webrings NIRVANA IS PURE, UNBLEMISHED BECOMING. Dear Friend Welcome to the website of the Advayavada Buddhism Information Center , the mouthpiece of the Advayavada Foundation. Have you increased your font size for easy reading? Advayavada Buddhism is a non-dual and life-affirming philosophy and way of life derived from Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka, or philosophy of the Middle Way. Its most important tenet is that there is a fourth sign (or mark) of being implicit in the Buddha's teaching, namely that, expressed purely in terms of human perception and experience, reality is sequential and dynamic in the sense of ever becoming better than before. What human beings experience and identify as good, right or beneficial, indeed as progress (pratipada, patipada), is, in fact, that which takes place in the otherwise indifferent direction that overall existence flows in of its own accord. To understand this important tenet, one should first come to realize most deeply, for instance through meditation on the incontestable non-duality of the world, that not the human manifestation of life (i.e. its ongoing process of re-combination, mutation, concatenate multiplication and disintegration of the expended units, and its vicissitudes and perils, even possible extinction, self-inflicted or not) is the measure of things in space and time, but the whole of infinite interdependent reality itself, which, hardly affected, if at all, by the negligible impact of mankind's doings, will continue to become exactly as it, by definition, must.

99. Dharma Zen Center Los Angeles - Zen Practice In Los Angeles, California. Kwan Um School of zen buddhism founded by Korean master Seung Sahn. Provides schedule of classes, bookstore info and links to other centers. http://www.dharmazen.com/

100. BUDDHISM Excellent introduction to buddhism provided by Mahidol University, Thailand. http://www.mahidol.ac.th/budsir/buddhism.htm

We pay homage to the Buddha for revealing to us the eternal truths of liberation We pay homage to the Dhamma (the teaching of the Buddha) for making known to us the nature of existence We pay homage to the Sangha (the order of monks) for preserving the teaching and practicing its precepts. In recent years Western visitors to Thailand have displayed an increasing interest in our national religion, Buddhism. “Who was the Buddha?” “What did he teach?” “What do Buddhists believe about life after death, good and evil and the beginning of the world?” To answer these and similar questions the present writing is intended. The Buddha’s teachings can be understood on two distinct levels. One is logical and conceptual and is concerned with an intellectual comprehension of man and the external universe. It is on this level that the above questions are more easily answered. The second level is empirical, experiential and psychological. It concerns the ever-present and inescapable phenomena of everyday human experience love and hate, fear and sorrow, pride and passion, frustration and elation. And most important, it explains the origins of such states of mind and prescribes the means for cultivating those states which are rewarding and wholesome and of diminishing those which are unsatisfactory and unwholesome. It was to this second level that the Buddha gave greater emphasis and importance. For its truth is demonstrable within the realm of everyday human existence, and its validity is independent of any world view or belief about life after death.

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