Access
to Insight:: A website dedicated to providing information on Theravada
Buddhism, as it has been handed down through both the written word of the
Pali Canon and the living example of the Sangha.
Dharmachakra
Archive is the sound and text archive of the Western Buddhist Order.
*Free Buddhist Audio from the Dharmachakra Archive *Over 500 audio talks on Buddhism
and meditation
*Hundreds of seminar and lecture transcripts *Free downloads, or listen and read
online
Wildmind
: An online resource for learning meditation, including guided meditations
in RealAudio format to lead you through the practices.
Triratna NYC
Bookstore:
An online Buddhist bookstore selling books suitable for people at all
level's of interest.
Buddhism
and... : Many of the frequently asked questions people have about Buddhism
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Shabkar.org Vegetarianism as a Buddhist
way of life. The site takes its name from Shabkar Tsodruk Rangdrol (1781-1851),
the great Tibetan yogi who espoused the ideals of vegetarianism.
Buddhanet.net:
The result of a vision to link up with the
growing world-wide culture of people committed to the Buddha's teachings and
lifestyle, as an on-line cyber sangha.
Dharmaweb An
online community for Buddhists worldwide, providing news, audio dharma, articles,
books, practice resources and more.
World Buddhist Directory The result of a vision to link up with the
growing world-wide culture of people committed to the Buddha's teachings and
lifestyle, as an on-line cyber sangha.
Buddhist
Peace Fellowship: An organization that
aims to serve as a catalyst and agent for socially engaged Buddhism.
Karuna: Working in India among some of the poorest communities in the
world, Karuna aims to give people from deprived backgrounds a sense of confidence
and self-respect.
The Zen Hospice Project: A fusion of spiritual
insight and practical social action, ZHP is now nationally recognized as an
innovative model in the movement to improve end-of-life care.
Network of Engaged Buddhists UK UK - Buddhists and others in the United Kingdom engaged in peaceful social and political action to create a better society..
Zen Peacemakers The mission of the Zen Peacemakers is to alleviate suffering by developing and managing holistic social service projects that help individuals, families and communities.
A comprehensive exposure of the continued oppression of Dalits, ‘the broken people’, who suffer under a 4,000-year-old religious system.
It shows the continuation of caste practices and untouchability in Sikhism, Chiristanity and Islam, and even amongst the Communists in Kerala. It makes impossible for anyone to deny that untouchability continues to be practised in India.
Real life of the Dalits in India The word 'Dalit' means 'the oppressed' and 'Bahujan' means 'the majority'. The 250 million Dalit-Bahujan people of India have been the oppressed majority for more than three thousand years of India’s history. This oppression is a result of the Hindu caste system – an integral part of Indian society, so deeply ingrained in the Indian worldview that centuries of non-Hindu influence have been unable to help the oppressed majority break free from caste’s grip. Today, the younger generation of Dalit-Bahujans have begun to stand up and plan for their future rights, but even today they are still referred to as untouchables!
Karuna Trust works in four countries across South Asia, where hundreds of millions of people suffer lives of grinding poverty and oppression, excluded from the region’s economic boom.
For example, in rural India, Bangladesh and Nepal, ‘low castes’ or ethnic minorities struggle as landless day labourers, in constant danger of violence and exploitation, with little or no recourse to the law or police. At best their children receive a few years of substandard schooling. In the teeming cities, such people live in cramped, dirty slum huts, so oppressed by the daily struggle to survive that they can offer little means of escape to their children.
Karuna works with community based organisations that are helping thousands of people to escape the hell of poverty and discrimination and take their rightful place in society. www.karuna.org
National Network of Buddhist Youth (NNBY) is an initiative of Indian Buddhist youth to support each other and underprivileged youth in India to develop their lives and serve society. It is run by youth. It is Autonomous, Independent and Creative. It is beyond all Caste Identities. National Network of Buddhist Youth
