Curated OER
RAMA AND THE RAMAYANA
Students recognize and tell the Ramayana, examine how the Ramayana is a model for dharma, appreciate the importance of Rama and Sita as role models for Indians, and explore the central importance of dharma in Indian life.
Curated OER
Religion Kaylan Word Search
In this religion worksheet, learners locate and identify various vocabulary terms related to Islamic Religion. There are 6 words located in the puzzle.
Curated OER
Teaching the Hindu-Buddhist Tradition in East Asian Culture Through Asian Literature and Film
Learners explore various intellectual traditions which dominate human history through a variety of contemporary pieces of literature which exemplify the traditions. Biblical monotheism, Greek rationalism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism...
Curated OER
Moral Dilemmas of the Ramayana
Twelfth graders explain the concept of dharma and appreciate differences in moral reasoning. They relate the Ramayana to their own experiences.
Curated OER
Understanding Karma, Dharma and Samsara
Learners understand the Indian concepts of dharma, karma and samsara, see how violating one's dharma might lead to becoming an out-caste, and appreciate how these concepts undergird Indian life
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Lessons of the Indian Epics: Following the Dharma
In this lesson plan, students will consider "Lessons of the Indian Epics: Following the Dharma." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Lessons of the Indian Epics: The Ramayana: Showing Your Dharma
In this lesson plan, students will consider "Lessons of the Indian Epics: The Ramayana: Showing your Dharma." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
Buddha Dharma Education Association
Buddha Net: What Are the Three Refuges
BuddhaNet offers a short explanation of the Three Refuges (a.k.a. the Three Gems) of Buddhism, the Buddha, the Dhamma (Dharma), and the Sangha.
Buddha Dharma Education Association
Buddha Net: Buddhist Lay Persons
A talk given on the role Buddhist lay people should play in relation to the Sangha, the Buddhist monastic orders.
Buddha Dharma Education Association
Buddha Net: Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha
BuddhaNet.net offers a long discussion of what the Three Gems are and what it means to take refuge in them.
Other
Buddhist Artifacts the Support of Spiritual Realization
A site by Tulku Thondup explaining the significance of Buddhist art in Tibet. This is an excerpt from a talk given at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1990. The basis is how the Buddhist devotees in Tibet use religious objects as tools...
Other
Karma Triyana Dharmachakra: Kagyu Lineage
A page from Karma Triyana Dharmachakra with links to biographies of the Karmapas and other important Kagyu tradition teachers.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Buddhist Monasteries
The monastery typically becomes the spiritual focus of the nearest town or village. In early Buddhism, monastic complexes were created for the monks close enough to a town in order to receive alms or charity from the villagers, but far...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Images of Enlightenment: Aniconic vs Iconic Depictions of Buddha
Some of the earliest depictions of the Buddha reaching enlightenment appear as sculptural friezes on the exterior of sacred Buddhist monuments known as stupas. View pictures of these friezes and read the history of Prince Siddhartha in...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Beliefs of Hinduism
Read a quick description of the most common Hindu beliefs and view a picture of a sandstone statue of Harihara.
Buddha Dharma Education Association
Buddha Net: The Dhamma
An explanaton of Dhamma (Dharma), the nonaggressive, moral and philosophical system of the practicing Buddhist.
Other
Critical Considerations Regarding the Bhagavad Gita
Good critical discussion concerning the inconsistencies in Krishna and his advice given to Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita.
Other
Access to Insight: Dhamma
Access to Insight provdes a collection of the Buddha's teachings on the Dhamma (Dharma) from the Pali Canon. Organized from basic to advanced teachings.
Other
Access to Insight: The Threefold Refuge
Selections from the Pali Canon about the Three Refuges (Three Gems).