links ~ metaxu buddhism

Useful websites about Buddhism and things related to its world. Full books, including e-books, are in the bibliography section.

websites about Buddhism – theory and practice

Top sites

These are websites containing teachings from current and past masters, updated frequently.

Buddhism Now - "An online Buddhist magazine based upon the teachings of the Buddha" multiple: BuddhismNow.com; An eclectic collection of timeless writings from many teachers.; aug 2016
Lion's Roar - "Buddhist wisdom for our time" multiple: LionsRoar.com; "The proclamation of the truth is as fearless as a lion’s roar.”
—The Buddha
Used to be ShambalaSun.com.
Writings from many modern teachers.
Addresses modern western culture.; aug 2016
Rigpa Shedra Wiki tibetan: RigpaWiki.org; Online encyclopedia of Tibetan Buddhism; 2016

Introductions

An Introduction to Buddhism multiple: WebSpace.Ship.edu/cgboer/buddhaintro.html; A very nice and complete introduction "Although the religious aspects of Buddhism are discussed, I am far more interested in presenting Buddhism's philosophical and psychological side. ... have learned a great deal from the sutras -- far more than from any other source."

Teachers

His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama - Teachings tibetan: LamaYeshe.com/hhdl/hhdl_teachings.htm
His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama - Commentaries on the Eight Verses tibetan: DalaiLama.com/teachings/training-the-mind; LamaYeshe.com/hhdl/8verses.html
Kagyu Lineage, and His Holiness Karmapa tibetan: Kagyu.org/buddhism/bud00.html
Lama Yeshe Teachings tibetan: LamaYeshe.com/our_teachers/Lama_Yeshe/lty_teachings.html
Shantideva - Bodhicarya Vatara tibetan: Kunpal.com; Translation and commentary by Khenpo Kunpal (1862-1943 CE), a direct student of Paltrül Rinpoche (1808-1887 CE).
side-by-side Wiley Tibetan and English, in downloadable PDFs.
Tsongkhapa: The website for the tradition of Je Tsongkhapa tibetan: Tsongkhapa.org
Zasep Tulku Rinpoche Teachings tibetan: Community.Palouse.net/lotus/teachings.htm

Texts - collections

Individual texts and full books online are in the bibliography section.

Access to Insight: Readings in Theravada Buddhism theravada: AccessToInsight.org; The Tipitaka - Modern translations of more than 1,000 important suttas from the Pali canon, indexed; Explanations; Library; Glossary; more; “dedicated to providing accurate, reliable, and useful information concerning the practice and study of Theravada Buddhism, as it has been handed down to us through both the written word of the Pali canon and the living example of the Sangha.
Access to Insight is not an organization and is not affiliated with any institution. It is simply one person's website.” ??-2014; 2015
Buddhist eLibrary multiple: BuddhistELibrary.org; PDFs, audio, video, and images, in Chinese, Thai, and English.; “The Buddhist eLibrary follows the principle of 'One Dharma', that is, promoting all Buddhist traditions and the diversity of cultures and languages they represent.” ??-2015
Lotsawa House tibetan: LotsawaHouse.org; Free Translations of Tibetan Buddhist Texts
Buddhist texts from Tibetan into English and other languages, by translators from the Rigpa Lotsawa team and others including Tulku Thondup Rinpoche, Cortland Dahl, and Heidi Nevin.
Namgyal Monastery Archive tibetan: Archive.NamgyalMonastery.org
སྐུ་བཅར་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་གྲྭ་ཚང་ཕན་བདེ་ལེགས་བཤད་གླིང་; Currently བོད་ཡིག་ only.; Curated writings of the fourteen Dalai Lamas, seventeen Nalanda Masters, and Namgyal monks, as PDF and EPUB.; 2016
Mahayana Text and Teachings mahayana: BuddhaNet.net/ebooks_ms.htm; PDFs in Chinese, Thai, and English.
Rigpa Shedra Wiki tibetan: RigpaWiki.org; Online encyclopedia of Tibetan Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center tibetan: TBRC.org; "Digitally preserving, cataloging and distributing Tibetan texts." The ambition is to put all of Tibetan literature online.; E. Gene Smith's massive collection of Tibetan literature, now online.
Viet.net - online books (Theravada) theravada: Viet.net/anson/ebud/ebidx.htm; A large collection of online books, suttas, meditations, and essays by various Theravada teachers. Also several Pali-English dictionaries.; I think that most of these works are from the 1970s and 1980s. And the website itself says it was last updated in 2006. It's a precious resource; i hope it does not get lost.
Wisdom Library - Buddhism Portal multiple: WisdomLib.org/buddhism/; Texts, e-books, articles, more - amazing resource.; 2015

History

Brief Histories of Buddhism general: DharmaNet.org/lchistorygen.htm; Links to websites with histories.
Buddhism: India's spiritual gift to the world general: Phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=12604&article=Buddhism%3a+India's+spiritual+gift+to+the+world!; Summary of development of buddhism in india, and impact on the modern western world.
Chronology of Events in the life of the Dalai Lama tibetan: DalaiLama.com/biography/chronology-of-events
History of Buddhism general: Webspace.Ship.edu/cgboer/buddhahist.html
Tibetan Studies tibetan: Ciolek.com/WWWVL-TibetanStudies.html

general resources

BuddhaNet general: BuddhaNet.net; Buddha Dharma Education Association Inc.; Buddhist studies, world buddhist directory, e-books, file library/resources, more. 1996-2015
BuddhismNow multiple: BuddhismNow.com; "An online Buddhist magazine based upon the teachings of the Buddha. Published from Totnes, England."; Buddhism FAQ; teachings from a wide range of schools and traditions.; @BuddhismNow on Twitter.; 2015
Buddhist Geeks general: BuddhistGeeks.com; A number of topics related to the Buddhist world, ranging from issues surrounding Contemporary and Western Buddhism, to Buddhist practice and scholarship.
Daily Zen zen: @DailyZen on Twitter.; Quotes from all places and ages, all buddhism.; 2015
Dharma is where you find it: general: Tometaxu.WordPress.com; Dharma themes quoted from everywhere.; 2015
DharmaNet general: DharmaNet.org/about.htm; "an independent, non-sectarian informational and educational resource on Buddhism."
Namgyal Monastery tibetan: NamgyalMonastery.org
སྐུ་བཅར་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་གྲྭ་ཚང་ཕན་བདེ་ལེགས་བཤད་གླིང་; English and བོད་ཡིག་; Website of the personal monastery of the Dalai Lama; 2016
Tarab Institute International tibetan: Tarab-Institute.org; Central Paradigm of Unity in Duality: Each and every phenomenon only exists – in duality – because of the coming together of countless causes and components in every moment. In Sanskrit the interrelatedness of existence, is called pratītya samut pāda and in Tibetan Ten drel.
"In order to render ancient Indo-Tibetan knowledge accessible and applicable for modern society, Tarab Tulku developed a Unity in Duality" four-year education course.
Tibetan Buddhist Society tibetan: TibetanBuddhistSociety.org; Founded by Ven Geshe Acharya Thubten Loden in Australia in 1979.
"Aims to make the methods taught by Tibetan Buddhism available in the West and to create greater harmony by encouraging meditation practice."
Tometaxu Buddhism links at Pinboard multiple: Pinboard.in/u:tometaxu/bundle:Dharma; An eclectic collection of links to teachings, articles, discussions, etc, on the web; categorized, with comments.; Also, @tometaxu on Twitter.; 2016
Wisdom Library multiple: WisdomLib.org/; Texts, e-books, articles, more, from all over the world.; 2015

Practice

mantra

Medicine Buddha Mantra tibetan: WorldWideHealingCircle.net; Text, audio, meaning.; WildMind.org; Transliteration of the Sanskrit and Tibetan versions, and a westerner's meditations about the Medicine Buddha.

meditation

websites about Language – particularly Tibetan language

pronunciation

Tibetan pronunciation: http://www.forvo.com/languages/bo/

dictionaries

General

Buddhism StackExchange - resource for many dictionaries, updated: Buddhism.StackExchange.com/questions/11877/are-there-any-websites-that-contain-buddhist-dictionaries; oct 2015
Digital Dictionaries of South Asia: DSAL.UChicago.edu/dictionaries/; Many languages and search options. ?? last updated 2007; 2015
Wisdom Library - search glossary - Chinese (pinyin), Pali, Sanskrit, Tibetan: WisdomLib.org/; enter search term in box in upper right of any page.; 2015

Mongolian

Mongolian Buddhism Glossary: Mongoluls.net/glossary.shtml

Pali

Access to Insight: Glossary: AccessToInsight.org/glossary/; Extended explanations for some terms. ??-2014; 2015
Digital Pali Reader: tool for Firefox browser: Pali.Sirimangalo.org; "A tool in the form of a Mozilla Firefox extension, much like a hard-copy language reader, facilitating study of the Pali language at an advanced level." 2011?; 2015
Pali-English Dictionary - Pali Text Society: DSAL.UChicago.edu/dictionaries/pali/; Many search options. ?? last updated 2007; 2015
Viet.net - online Pali dictionaries: Viet.net/anson/ebud/ebidx.htm; Several Pali-English dictionaries.; The website itself says it was last updated in 2006. It's a precious resource; i hope it does not get lost.; 2015
Wisdom Library - online Pali dictionaries: Viet.net/anson/ebud/ebidx.htm; Several Pali-English dictionaries.; 2015

Sanskrit

Sanskrit Dictionary: SpokenSanskrit.de/; Many search options.
sanskrit to english / english to sanskrit; 2015

Thai

LingoPolo.com: LingoPolo.com; Search for words in english or thai; see words and phrases in Thai script; listen to pronunciation; study in speech lessons. 2015; 2015
Majstro.com: Majstro.com; Translates to Thai (and others! - but not Tibetan yet :( ).; Search for words in english; shows in Thai script; click to see part of speech, phonetic pronunciation, and same word in many other languages. 2015; 2015
WordHippo.com: WordHippo.com; For Thai (or other! - but not Tibetan yet :( ) translations click on "Translate button below search form.; Search for words in english; find opposite word, meanings, rhymes, more. listen to pronunciation; study in speech lessons. 2015; 2015

Tibetan

Khata.co: Khata.co; Tibetan-English dictionary. Not specifically for buddhism, but crowd-sourced, growing; potential to be useful. 2015; 2015
Dharma Dictionary - Rangjung Yeshe Wiki: RYWiki.TsaDra.org/index.php/Main_Page; Tibetan-English dictionary, dharma glossaries, and resources
Tibetan-English-Dictionary of Buddhist Teaching and Practice: DiamondWay-Buddhism.org/diction/diction.htm
Tibetan-English-Dictionary of Buddhist Teaching and Practice: Nitartha.org/dictionary.html

translation

THLib Tibetan-English Translation Tool: THLib.org/reference/dictionaries/tibetan-dictionary/translate.php; Stand-alone tool: TTT.THLib.org/org.thdl.tib.scanner.OnLineScannerFilter; 2014

websites about Peoples – Tibetan and related

Han

History of China: Wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_China

Mongols

Buryat Mongols: BuryatMongol.com
Mongol culture: MongolCulture.com
Mongol Empire (1206–1368 CE): Wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_Empire
Timeline of Mongolian History (3rd c BCE – 20th c CE): Wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Mongolian_history
Timeline of the Mongol Empire (1206–1370 CE): Wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Mongol_Empire
Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368 CE): Wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Yuan_dynasty

Tibetans

Amnye Machen Institute: AmnyeMachen.org; Tibetan Centre for Advanced Studies. Systematic and scientific studies into Tibetan history, culture, society and politics.
[2015] "Best viewed with Netscape Navigator 3.0 or Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0" – um :); 2015
Advancing the Tibetan People's Right to Self-Determination: C100Tibet.org/Home.html
Drogön Chögyal Phagpa འགྲོ་མགོན་ཆོས་རྒྱལ་འཕགས་པ་ (1235–1280 CE): Wikipedia.org/wiki/Drog%C3%B6n_Ch%C3%B6gyal_Phagpa
Priest-Patron (མཆོད་ཡོན་) relationship: WikiPedia.org/wiki/Patron_and_priest_relationship
Tibet under Yuan Administrative Rule (1270–1350 CE): Wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibet_under_Yuan_administrative_rule
Tibetan people - at Wikipedia: WikiPedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_people; 2015
News: Phayul ཕ་ཡུལ་: Phayul.com; 2015
News: The Tibet Express: Tibetan: BangChen.net; English: TibetExpress.net; Chinese: ch.TibetExpress.net
News: The Tibet Post: TheTibetPost.com; 2016
News: Tibet Sun: TibetSun.com; 2016

websites about Science as it relates to Buddhism

science and buddhism

Science and Religion: ScienceandReligion.com; Writings on the common ground between science and religion.

Medicine

Men-Tsee-Khang: Men-Tsee-Khang.org; 2015
Tibetan Medicine: Dharma-Haven.org/tibetan/medicine.htm
Dr. Yeshi Dohnden: McLeod Ganj; Himachal Pradesh; india