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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...
Buddha Dharma Education Association
Buddha Net: Buddhist Studies: A Timeline of Buddhist History
Timeline outlines Buddhist history from the birth of the Buddha to the late twentieth century.
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Dhushara: Buddhist Female Deities
An excerpt from a book concerning Buddhist gods, particularly those with female attributes. Compares them to other religions' deities.
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Benefits of Prayer Wheels
A teaching by Lama Zopa Rinpoche on the use of the Tibetan Prayer Wheel. Explains why Tibetan Buddhist use the prayer wheel. Discusses the different kinds of prayer wheels and the mantra Om Mani Padme Hung. Includes a glossary of...
Buddha Dharma Education Association
Buddha Net: The Wheel of Life
An interactive look at the Buddhist wheel of life.
PBS
Pbs: Independent Lens: Unmistaken Child
'Unmistaken Child' is an independent film by Nati Baratz about the search for the reincarnation of Tibetan master Geshe Lama Konchog, who died in 2001. His disciple, Tenzin Zopa, was charged with the task of finding his reincarnation and...
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Minneapolis Institute of Arts: World Religions in Art
At World Religions in Art, the world's major religions--Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism--serve as lenses through which artistic production is examined in terms of its subject matter, sources of inspiration, meaning,...
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Practicing the Dhamma in Ordinary Life: Generosity
This site contains an essay on how Buddhists can practice generosity in their everyday lives. It describes the different kinds of giving and generosity.
Smithsonian Institution
Freer | Sackler Galleries: Gallery Guide: The Art of Buddhism
An examination of the aesthetic tradition of Buddhist art in India, China, and Japan, with examples pulled from the Smithsonian galleries devoted to the art of Asia.
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Essential Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism
A site with detailed information on the various traditions within Tibetan Buddhism. Also contains information on basic Tibetan Buddhist practice.
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The Buddhist Channel (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
A Buddhist news site with ancillary material of interest to the world community of Buddhists.
Buddha Dharma Education Association
Buddha Net: Buddhist Studies: Buddhist Scriptures
Information about a series of texts that constitute the sacred literature of Buddhism, including the Tipitaka, or Pali canon.
University of Pennsylvania
Mandala: Buddhist Tantric Diagrams
Mandalas are used in the rituals of tantric initiation in Tibetan Buddhism and they influence the design and decoration of Tibetan monasteries.
Buddha Dharma Education Association
Buddha Net: The Universality of the Dhamma
This entry is about the concept of Dhamma, the earliest of the Canons of Buddhism, which establishes clear exposition, self-realization, and so on.
Buddha Dharma Education Association
Buddha Net: The Rise of the Mahayana
Buddhanet offers an introduction to the Mahayana school of Buddhism.
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Lanka Web: Anagarika Dharmapala
A description of the life of Anagarika Dharmapala and the organizations he helped found to foster Buddhism, especially in the West. Includes list of modern Great Buddhists.
Buddha Dharma Education Association
Buddha Net: Nuns
Buddhanet offers an article on the Buddhist order of nuns (bhikkuni) and the role they play in Buddhism.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Longmen Caves, Luoyang
Worship and power struggles, enlightenment and suicide-the 2300 caves and niches filled with Buddhist art at Longmen in China has witnessed it all.The steep limestone cliffs extend for almost a mile and contain approximately 110,000...
Buddha Dharma Education Association
Buddha Net: Buddhist Tales for the Young and Old
A series of stories designed to teach the ideas and wisdom of Buddha through parables and other types of fiction.
Buddha Dharma Education Association
Buddha Net: Monks and Nuns
Buddhanet.net offers a series of questions and answers about Buddhist monks and nuns.
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Templenet: Sarnath
This entry has information on the significance of Sarnath as a Buddhist pilgrimage site, and the temples that have been built there throughout Buddhist history.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Buddhist Deity Mahakala as a Brahman
Mahakala Bramanarupa is one of over 70 different deities of the Mahakala type. These are wrathful deities particularly adept at quelling monsters and overcoming demons, whether they be outer, inner or secret. Some deities, such as...
Buddha Dharma Education Association
Buddha Net: Avalokitesvara
An encyclopedia entry about the Buddhist Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara. It describes the significance of this figure in Buddhism.