- Tibetan
Studies WWW Virtual Library
The Tibetan Studies World Wide Web Virtual Library is maintained by
Dr Matthew Ciolek of Australian National University. It is a very
comprehensive resource on Tibetan Buddhism.
- Tibetan
Government in Exile's Official Web Site
His Holiness the Dalai Lama and truth about Tibetan Freedom and International
Development.
- The
DharamsalaNet
Tibetan Community Information Resource and Directory of Tibetan Web
sites. Local Meditation Centres in the Dharamsala area. A link to
His Holiness’s teaching schedule (published by The Office of Tibet,
London) is available on the DharamsalaNet Homepage (just look for
the portrait of His Holiness and click!)
- Web
Site for His Holiness Sakya Trizin
An introduction to and biography of His Holiness Sakya Trizin.The
site also contain up-dated news of his Dharma activities, recent,
current, and planned.Web site for His Holiness Sakya Trizin".
- Karmapa:
the Black Hat Lama of Tibet
This is the site of the 17th Karmapa Trinlay Thaye Dorje, the spiritual
head of the Karma Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. The Karmapa
was the first incarnate lama (tulku) in Tibet.
- Karma
Triyana Dharmachakra
This site is devoted to the authentic representation of the Kagyu
Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, one of the four major schools of Buddhism
preserved and practiced in Tibet. The term Karma Triyana Dharmachakra
is from the Sanskrit and translates loosely as "the place under
the spiritual guidance and protection of His Holiness the Gyalwa Karmapa
(Karma) where all three (Tri) levels (yana) of the Buddha's teachings
(Dharma) are preserved and taught (chakra)." The term, as used
for this Web site, refers in particular to His Holiness Karmapa's
main monastic seat in North America at Woodstock, New York, and generally
to all of the projects and activities that manifest from there through
His Holiness's inspiration, blessings, and activities.
- Sakya
Monastery of Tibetan Buddhism
Sakya Monastery, located in the Greenwood neighborhood of Seattle,
Washington, provides access to the Buddha's teachings and guidance
in a community of practitioners. Sakya Monastery provides a place
to learn from high-qualified and spiritual Tibetan Lamas in a beautiful
traditional setting. Sakya Monastery's Head Lama is His Holiness Jigdal
Dagchen Sakya (Rinpoche), a non-sectarian master within the Tibetan
Buddhist tradition. Sakya Monastery offers many classes, programs
and empowerments for those interested in learning more about Tibetan
Buddhist teachings and spiritual practices.
- Chagdud
Gonpa Online
The Chagdud Gonpa Foundation is a Tibetan Vajrayana organization founded
by H.E. Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche with dharma centers in South America,
North America, Europe and Asia. The original Chagdud Gonpa was a monastery
in Tibet, founded in the 12th century and rebuilt after a fire in
the 13th century. From the time of it's rebuilding to the present,
the Gonpa has functioned as a center of Dharma, a place of teaching
and practice, and, until 1959, as the primary seat of the 16 successive
incarnations of Chagdud Rinpoche. The Chagdud Gonpa Foundation was
established in 1983 by Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche to preserve Nyingma
teachings and to provide instruction in the traditions of Vajrayana
Buddhism, especially the arts, philosophy, and meditation practices.
Chagdud Gonpa centers sponsor many events and retreats throughout
the year.
- Nyingma Centers
Nyingma Centers was established in 1976 by Head Lama Tarthang Tulku as an umbrella organization to protect, unite and expand the distinct organizations of the Nyingma mandala. The six all-volunteer registered non-profit organizations of Nyingma Centers, their affiliated projects and international centers support a variety of activities focusing on spiritual growth, establishment of the Dharma in the West, support of Tibetans in exile, publishing in English and other western languages, publishing Buddhist texts in the Tibetan for distribution in Asia, and Buddhist cultural restoration projects in many parts of the world. The affiliated Nyingma Volunteer program offers individuals the opportunity to live, work, practice and study in a Buddhist community dedicated to preserving the precious wisdom of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition and making this unparalleled knowledge available for the benefit of the world.
- Shambhala
Mandala of Centers
This is the network of centers founded by the the late Vidyadhara
the Ven Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, renowned for his ability to present
authentic Buddhist teachings in English in a modern idiom. The Shambhala
organization currently consists of more than 150 centers, throughout
the US and Europe (a few in South America and Asia), as well as major
rural contemplative practice centers and a monastic center. Introductory
programs in meditation as well as the complete path of Tibetan Buddhism
of the Kagyu and Nyingma schools are presented. Trungpa Rinpoche was
also renowned for his presentation of the teachings of Shambhala,
related to the Kalacakra tantra, presented in a series of popular,
non sectarian, secular meditation programs called Shambhala Training,
based on creatinga vision of enlightened society and the tradition
of warriorship. The Shambhala mandala of centers is currently directed
by Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche, eldest son of Trungpa Rinpoche. He is assisted
in his teaching by a number of acaryas, senior students of Chogyam
Trungpa Rinpoche.
- World
View
WorldView
is an organization devoted to the preservation, study and practice
of authentic, accurate Tibetan Buddhism. WorldView's purpose is to:
preserve the remaining teachings of Buddhist masters of ancient India
and Tibet. bring those teachings to the west and adapt them for western
culture. make available a thorough, accurate and effective program
of Buddhist study for anyone interested.
- The
Asian Classics Institute
Please visit
ACIP's dedicated website for complete information, programs, graphics
images and digital texts. ACI uses scriptures from the original masters
of India and Tibet to teach Buddhism adapted to western culture. Classes
include: meditation, Buddhist philosophy, Tibetan language, a home-study
correspondence course, and more. Sample lectures are available in
RealAudio.
- Dharma
Student
This site offers Videotapes and RealAudio files from the Asian Classics
Institute. Associated with Geshe Michael Roach. It videotaping high
quality Dharma teachings, providing free videotape duplication of
these teachings, producing a weekly Public Access Cable TV show based
on these teachings.
- Quiet
mountain Tibetan Website
This site provides excellent and extensive information pertaining
to the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
- Diamond
Way Buddhism
The Karma Kagyu Buddhist Network (KKBN) is an international computer
network which is operated by volunteer coordinators in order to enable
and enhance communication between organizations, centers, groups and
individuals. The KKBN provides information about the Karma Kagyu tradition
of Tibetan Buddhism, supports communication among interested parties
and introduces a world-wide online Sangha. The KKBN exists under the
spiritual guidance of the 17th Karmapa, Thaye Dorje and is directed
by Lama Ole Nydahl.
- FPMT
On-line
Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition Web site.
Lama Thubten Yeshe (1935-1984) and Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, together
as teacher and disciple since their exile in India, met their first
Western student in 1965 and by 1971 had settled at Kopan, near Kathmandu
in Nepal. Due to demand, they began teaching Buddhist philosophy and
meditation to increasing numbers of travellers, who in turn started
groups and centers in their own countries.
- Rigpa
Website
Rigpa is an international network of meditation centers and groups
under the guidance of Sogyal Rinpoche and HE Dzogchen Rinpoche. Sogyal
Rinpoche has lived and taught in the West for more than twenty years,
Rinpoche has developed a profound insight into the modern mind. His
rare gift for communication cuts through cultural, religious and psychological
barriers to reveal the essential truths of the Buddha's teaching.
The ease, humor, and warmth with which he teaches opens the hearts
and minds of his audience to an intensely personal experience of their
own true nature. Rinpoche travels widely in Europe, North America,
Australia and parts of Asia, leading retreats and trainings based
on his book, which offer spiritual care for the living and the dying.
- Rangrig
Yeshe
Founded by The Venerable Shylapa Rinpoche, Rangrig Yeshe is devoted
to preserving Buddhist teachings and to promoting the benefit of all
sentient beings. Shyalpa Rinpoche has established centers worldwide,
including Dzogchen Ati Ling in the United States and the Shyalpa Monastery
in Nepal. Rinpoche leads retreats and pilgrimages in Nepal and Tibet
and sponsors Tibetan refugee children. Rinpoche's profound understanding
of Western culture allows him to present authentic teachings in a
manner which is fresh, direct, and of unique benefit to each individual.
- Rocky
Mountain Shambhala Center
Rocky Mountain Shambhala Center hosts programs and retreats in a contemplative
setting. RMSC is located on 600 acres in a valley of forests and meadows
in the northern Colorado Rockies. It is a place where people can practice
and study various meditation traditions, train in contemplative arts,
connect with the natural elements, and rediscover their own richness,
gentleness, and compassion.
- Padmasambhava
Buddhist Center
Padmasambhava Buddhist Center spreads the teachings of Buddhism according
to the Nyingma school lineage of Tibet. The Center was first established
in New York in 1989, with the encouragement of H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche,
by the Ven. Khenchen Palden Sherab, Rinpoche and Ven. Khenpo Tsewang
Dongyal, Rinpoche. Khenchen Palden Sherab and Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal,
known informally as "the Khenpos," are the teachers and
spiritual leaders of PBC. They also direct the activities of the New
York Center, its many branches in the U.S.A., Puerto Rico and Russia,
and its retreat center Padma Samye Ling in upstate New York.
- Vajrayana
Foundation
Founded by Lama Tharchin Rinpoche and based in the Santa Cruz mountains
of California, the Vajrayana Foundation has been established to preserve
and teach dharma in the West. We offer group and private retreats,
the Vajarayana Foundation College of Buddhist Studies, the Tibetan
Arts Institue and more.
- The
Dzogchen Foundation
This link is dedicated to teaching Dzogchen, "The Inherent Great
Perfection," considered by some to be the highest teaching of
Tibetan Buddhism.
- Cambridge
Dzogchen Sangha
The Cambridge Sangha (Massachusetts) was formed in 1992 by practitioners
and students interested in Dzogchen and the teachings of Lama Surya
Das. Since then the sangha has grown into a community that provides
ongoing support of its members' spiritual development and practice,
as well as an opportunity for the general public to experience the
unique practice of Dzogchen in an accessible environment.
- Ligmincha
Institute
Ligmincha Institute, founded by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche in 1992, was
created to preserve the Tibetan Bön culture and teachings, especially
the practices of dzogchen. The web site provides information on Bön
and dzogchen as well as the activities of Ligmincha Institute and
associated centers.
- Dhargyey Buddhist Centres
Set up in 1985 by the Ven Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey who had taught thousands
of westerners over 13 years at the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives
in Dharamsala, India. Currently the lama is Ven Thupten Tulku. The
site has information about the Centre, its teachers, classes, online
newsletter, articles and links to internet resources.
- Osel
Shen Phen Ling
Is a Tibetan centres affiliated to the Dalai Lama inspired "The
Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition". This
Tibetan Buddhist site has some great graphics and good content, so
is certainly worth a visit. It has a Virtual Thangka gallery
with excellent graphics and brilliant Tibetan Buddhist screen savers
which can be downloaded for free!
- Dharmapala
Centre - Tibetan Art
School of Thangkas Paintings. This sites sells tibetan art for the
benefit of artists in Nepal and an orphan house in Katmandu. Please
have a look at the pages to see the qualtiy of the Thangkas.
- Kunzang
Palyul Choling
Kunzang Palyul Choling, a Nyingma temple and center located in Poolesville,
Maryland, USA, the resident lama of which is Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo,
the first Western woman recognized and enthroned as a tulku.
- Heritage
Trust
Heritage Trust Translations and
transcriptions of teachings on Buddhist meditation and esoteric practices.
- Centre
Bouddhiste Kankala
This website is in both English and French. Kadampa Buddhism is a
special tradition of Mahayana Buddhism founded by Atisha, an Indian
Buddhist Master who is largely responsable for the reintroduction
of Buddhism in Tibet during the 11th century. Kadampa Buddhists integrate
all the teachings of Buddha into their practice of Lamrim applying
their understanding of Lamrim into their daily lives.
- Institute
of Buddhist Learning and Practice
The Institute of Buddhist Learning & Practice has branches in
Australia, Asia, and canada, with Sydney as the headquarters. The
spiritual director is His Eminence Khejok Rinpoche and the lineage
is Gelugpa of Tibetan Buddhism.
- Evam
Choden Tibetan Buddhist Centre
The Ewam Choden Tibetan Buddhist Center of 245 Cambridge, Kensington,
California 94708. Spiritual Director is Lama Kunga Thartse Rinpoche.
- Rangjung
Yeshe Shedra
An international institute for Buddhist higher studies in Boudhanath,
Nepal, modeled on a traditional Tibetan Shedra, under the guidance of
Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche and Chokling Rinpoche. The Rangjung Yeshe Institute
Shedra Studies Program was established in 1997 by Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche
for those wishing to deepen their insight and understanding of the Buddha’s
teachings.
- Vajrayana
Buddhist Center - Chicago
A non-profit organization offering introductory meditation classes
and retreats throughout the Chicago area, as well as in Madison, WI.
Vajrayana Center also offers the Foundation Program, a structured
program of study in the basic subjects of Mahayana Buddhism [correspondence
program available]. Classes are taught in English by western Buddhist
monk Gen Kelsang Khedrub and are open to everyone.
- Dechen
Dharma Community
Dechen Dharma Community are a group of centres across Europe and the
UK under the guidance of Karma Thinley Rinpoche and Lama Jampa Thaye,
both Kagyu and Sakya masters and recognised authentic lineage holders.
They have been established for more than 20 years.
- Madhyamaka
Centre (Yorkshire, England)
Madhyamaka Centrewas founded in 1983 by a Tibetan Lama called Geshe
Kelsang, who had been invited to England by a group of people wanting
to learn authentic meditation techniques from a qualified master.
The centre started in Hebden Bridge, and later moved to the city of
York. As it grew in popularity it moved again, this time to Kilnwick
Percy Hall just outside York, where there was sufficient space to
accommodate its growing programme of activities.
- Palyul
Website
Official website of His Holiness Penor Rinpoche, Supreme Head of the
Nyingmapa, and Palyul centers worldwide. Teaching and retreat schedules
of His Holiness and authorized Palyul teachers, center addresses,
and other resources to students of His Holiness or to those new to
Buddhism are all available here.
- Ven.
Thubten Chodron's Home Page
Comprehensive and up-to-date information about Ven. Thubten Chodron,
her Teachings, Dharma Activity Schedules (Dharma Classes, Meditation
Retreats, etc), Publications, Book Reviews and other special events.
Born in 1950, Ven. Thubten Chodron grew up near Los Angeles. She studied
and practiced Buddhism of the Tibetan tradition for many years in
India and Nepal. Ven Chodron was a co-organizer of "Life as a
Western Buddhist Nun", and took part in the conferences of Western
Buddhist teachers with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in 1993 and 1994.
She currently lives and teaches in Seattle with the Dharma Friendship
Foundation and continues to travel worldwide to teach the Dharma.
- Tibetan
Tonglen (Mind Training)
This site is a comparative database of commentaries on the Tonglen/Lojong
practice and the seven points of Mind Training by Osho, Trungpa, Pema
Chodron, Jamgon Kongtrul, and Alan Wallace. It also incudes an on-line
bookstore of books and tapes on the Mind training practice.
- Turtle
Hill Sangha
The Turtle Hill Sangha is a community of Nyingma householders near
Summertown, Tennessee, and operates under the guidance of the Ven.
Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche and the Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal,
Rinpoche. Affiliated with the Padmasambhava Buddhist Centers, the
Turtle Hill Sangha offers a bookstore and facilities for individual
retreats. The Turtle Hill website is a respository for several hundred
pages of teachings and Vajrayana philosophy and folklore.
- Tashi
Lhunpo Monastery
Tashi Lhunpo Monastery in India is the seat of His Holiness the Panchen
Lama. Tashi Lhunpo was founded by His Holiness the 1st Dalai Lama,
Gyalwa Gendun Drup, in 1447. It is one of the four great monasteries
of Central Tibet which was supervised and looked after by the Dalai
Lamas and Panchen Lamas and has the glory of producing thousands of
renowned scholars in the field of Mahayana Buddhist Philosophy.
- Tibetan
Buddhism
A concise explanation of the spiritual aspects of Tibetan Buddhism
including Tantra and Dzogchen. Also a consideration of its relation
with other branches of Buddhism such as Zen and Vipassana. Links available
to a synthesis of the world's spiritual traditions in light of modern
psychology and science.
- Healing
Buddha Foundation
Established by Venerable Segyu Choepel Rinpoche, the Healing Buddha
Foundation promotes the practice of Tibetan Buddhism (Gelugpa) and
represents the Sed-Gyued Datsang Tantric Colleges of India, Nepal
and Tibet. We serve local communities in North and South America with
teachings, retreats, and workshops on Tibetan Buddhism, Tibetan Medicine
and Psycho-Spiritual Healing. Our Psycho-Spiritual Healing Clinics
employ techniques based on Buddhist psychology and Tibetan Tantric
Medicine to address Westerners’ needs for physical, emotional,
and spiritual healing.
- New
Kadampa Tradition
The New Kadampa Tradition was founded by Ven. Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Rinpoche. He has written over 15 books on Buddhism from the basic
introductory to the most profound Tantric practices. He has also founded
over 300 buddhist centres throughout the world.
- Dhagpo
Kundreul Ling
This centre is the largest agglomeration of retreat centres and monastic
hermitages in Europe. It belongs to the Karma Kagyu lineage of Tibetan
Buddhism and is placed under the spiritual direction of the 17th Gyalwa
Karmapa Thaye Dorje and Kunzig Shamar Rinpoche. The centre consists
of two sites - Le Bost and Laussedat which jointly include: two large
monastic hermitages for the lamas, monks and nuns; eight 3-year and
two long duration retreat centres for the transmission and intensive
practice of Vajrayana meditation; the 'Karmapa's Temple' and a lay
persons hermitage for short retreats.
- Songs
of the Shaktis of the Dhyani Buddhas & Bodhisattvas
This site focuses on the Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhist Pantheon.
Each of the beings named here represents a unique spiritual personality
or essence. The principal beings are the five Dhyani Buddhas - the
esoteric meditation Buddhas of the five colors found in The Tibetan
Book of the Dead and other sources. The contemplative poetry presented
in the website evokes the thoughts and images of these beings using
the metaphor of music. Each poem can be looked at as a meditative
exercise or visualization designed to tune the reader to the state
of mind or spiritual environment of the being that is speaking.
- Snow
Lion Publications
Snow Lion Publications is the "premier English-language publisher
of scholarly and trade books about Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism."--
Richard Hughes Seager, "Buddhism in America" (Columbia University
Press, 1999).
- H.E. Tsem Tulku Rinpoche
His Eminence Tsem Tulku Rinpoche is a high incarnate Lama of the 600-year-old Gaden Shartse Monastery, a Tibetan monastic university which is now in South India. He continues the work of his previous incarnation as the 72nd abbot of this illustrious university with his devotion to the authentic lineage of the Gelugpa tradition. Beloved for his unconventional, contemporary approach, Rinpoche brings Buddhist teachings to the modern spiritual seeker by connecting ancient worlds with current cultures and ways of living. Rinpoche has always worked with a deeply compassionate heart to bring happiness and relief to people everywhere.
- Kechara Media and Publications
Kechara Media and Publications is the young but growing publishing arm of the Kechara organisation and focuses especially on the publication and dissemination of H.E. Tsem Tulku Rinpoche’s teachings. Newsletters, books, DVDs, CDs and websites produced by KMP strive to make Dharma as accessible and approachable as possible for anyone interested in finding their own spiritual path.
- Kechara.com
Kechara.com is a not-for-profit online store that provides easy access to Buddhist images which are iconographically correct and of the best value for the spiritual seeker. From silver statues to traditional thangkas to painted tsa tsas to exquisite jewellery, a wide variety of Buddhas from the Tibetan pantheon are available. Popular items include chakras for protection and wealth vases, which are handmade with special ingredients and consecrated by monks at the monastery.
- Dzogchen
Community West
This site is dedicated to the teachings of Choegyal Namkhai Norbhu
Rinpoche, a teacher in the Dzogchen tradition of Tibetan Buddhist
meditation. It list the monthly practice calendar, retreat information,
information about our worldwide organization, and a short explanation
of Dzogchen.
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