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Libraries
 The sites listed in this section tend to have large holdings of materials by various authors covering a wide swath of topics within their respective bailiwicks. For materials that are more focussed in their purview, or feature works by one author or one school of thought, see the sites within the sections below.
Access To Insight
Access to Insight is an Internet website dedicated to providing accurate, reliable, and useful information concerning the practice and study of Theravada Buddhism, as it has been handed down through both the written word of the Pali canon and the living example of the Sangha.
The readings assembled here represent just a selection of the Buddha's teachings that the site's owner found to be helpful in deepening an understanding of Dhamma practice. This collection is not meant to be an exhaustive archive of Theravada Buddhist texts.
Everything available at Access to Insight is offered in full cooperation with the authors, translators, and publishers concerned, with the clear understanding that none of it is to be sold.
BPS Online Library
The Buddhist Publication Society intends to put both its complete Wheel Publication Series and its complete Bodhi Leaf Publication Series on this website. Many of these have already been put on the internet through the Dharmanet and Access to Insight Transcription projects. Moreover, they also intend to put some of their book publications from the BP Series, such as the Path of Purification, and some other publications on this site.
Buddha Sasana
A large collection of books, suttas, and articles pertaining to Theravadan Buddhism, especially the practice of meditation.
BuddhaNet eBook Library
A large collection of pdf books on General Buddhism, Buddhist Meditation, Theravadin Text and Teachings, Mahayana Text and Teachings, Buddhist Art & History, and Children's Books.
A Buddhist Library
This site is first of all a Buddhist educational resource. Most of the material is from the main Buddhist Traditions - the Tibetan, Zen and Theravada. This is a large site, over 400 books (and counting), and more than 6,000 articles. For a complete list of these books, use this link
Christian Classics Ethereal Library
The Christian Classics Ethereal Library is a digital library of hundreds of classic Christian books selected for edification and education.
DhammaStudy
A large collection, sorted for beginning, intermediate, and advanced students of Abhidhamma. Mostly written by Sujin Boriharnwanaket and Nina van Gorkom, collected by the study group in Thailand that grew out of the former teacher's school.
Sacred Texts
This site is a freely available archive of electronic texts about religion, mythology, legends and folklore, and occult and esoteric topics. Texts are presented in English translation and, where possible, in the original language. This site is not sponsored by any religious group or organzation.
VRI Research Index
Index of Research Papers published by Vipassana Research Institute, a school that grew out of the ministry of Vipassana meditation teacher S.N. Goenka. Topics include Buddha:The essence of His Teaching - Vedana and Sampajanna, Business, Children, Drug Addiction, Pali, Psychiatry and Health, Personal Experiences, Society and Environment, Vipassana in Jails and effect on Inmates, Vipassana in Government.
Helpful Sites
This list will grow over time, but for now, these sites have been selected because they will pertain to references made in the Observations section of the Almanac.
Awakened Heart Project
The mission of Awakened Heart Project is to promote the use of Jewish contemplative techniques that foster the development of a heart of wisdom and compassion. Cultivating an awakened heart leads to acting in the world with loving-kindness towards all beings recognizing them as manifestations of the Holy One of Being. The AHP provides opportunities for a focused effort at refining contemplative Jewish practices, such as meditation and prayer, as well as creating opportunities for intensive practice.
BuddhaNet
BuddhaNet is a not-for-profit organisation affiliated with the Buddha Dharma Education Association Inc, which was first established as a Vipassana Meditation Centre in 1992 in Sydney by an Australian meditation monk Ven. Pannyavaro. BDEA has since evolved as a Buddhist Information and Education Service.
BuddhaNet is a non-sectarian organisation, offering its services to all Buddhist traditions. It aims to facilitate a significant Buddhist presence in the ever-expanding realm of computer communications technology, applying this technology to helping make the Buddha's teachings freely available to all.
Center for Contemplative Mind in Society
The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society works to integrate contemplative awareness into contemporary life in order to help create a more just, compassionate, reflective, and sustainable society. Contemplative practices, including prayer, meditation, yoga, and many contemplative arts, help individuals regain balance and calm in the midst of challenging circumstances. Contemplative practices can help people develop greater empathy and communication skills, improve focus and concentration, reduce stress and enhance creativity. In time, with sustained commitment, they cultivate insight, wise discernment, and a loving and compassionate approach to life.
Dhamma Talks & Writings of Thanissaro Bhikkhu
This site offers freely downloadable Dhamma talks, books and essays by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Phra Geoffrey DeGraff, or Ajaan Geoff), a senior monk in the Kammatthana (Thai Forest) tradition of Theravada Buddhism.
DharmaNet
DharmaNet International's Internet clearinghouse for Buddhist study and practice resources has been online since 1991. Dharmanet hosts its own in-house databases and collections, as well as providing links to worldwide online Buddhist resources, large and small.
Gil Fronsdal Talks
Fronsdal has practiced Zen and Vipassana since 1975 and has a Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from Stanford. He has trained in both the Japanese Soto Zen tradition and the Insight Meditation lineage of Theravada Buddhism of Southeast Asia. He was trained as a Vipassana teacher by Jack Kornfield and is part of the Vipassana teachers' collective at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. He was ordained as a Soto Zen priest at the San Francisco Zen Center in 1982, and in 1995 he received Dharma Transmission from Mel Weitsman, the abbot of the Berkeley Zen Center. He has been the primary teacher for the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California since 1990. He is a husband and father of two boys.
Hesychasm
Online Books and Patristic Sources on Hesychasm, an eremitic tradition of prayer in the Eastern Orthodox Church, and some other Eastern Churches of the Byzantine Rite. Based on Christ's injunction in the Gospel of Matthew to "go into your closet to pray" Hesychasm in tradition has been the process of retiring inward by ceasing to register the senses, in order to achieve an experiential knowledge of God.
Mahasi Sayadaw Discourses and Treatises
Books and talks by one of the greatest Burmese masters of the 20th Century.
Nibbana.com
This Buddhism web site is managed by a Myanmar Buddhist, living in London. The aim is to make available to all international readers the vast treasures of Theravada Buddhist Teaching as understood, practised and taught by the continuous lines of eminent Sayadaws and lay teachers from Myanmar (Burma).
Peter Holleran Articles
The material on this site addresses topics that are of varying degrees of difficulty. Articles attempt to be thematic on various aspects of the spiritual quest, with frequent, yet not exclusive, reference to the work of several dharma teachers and influences, most especially Sant Kirpal Singh, Anthony Damiani and Paul Brunton, as well as that of many spiritual friends and writers, both past and present. These are for the serious student with some background in philosophical matters.
TripleGem.net
Theravada Online Buddhist Directory. Direct Access to Sites for Articles, Books, Discourses, Essays, Freebies, Information, Suttas, etc.
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