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General Interest Buddhist Sites

Buddhanet
    A Buddhist Information Network with many, many links to dharma resources.
Crooked Cucumber
    David Chadwick's Suzuki Roshi archive. (Check out David's interview with Tomoe Katagiri.)
Dharma the Cat
    Good Buddhist site with wonderful cartoons.
Shambhala Sun Magazine
    An excellent Buddhist magazine.
Snow Lion Publications
    A publisher and distributor of books, teachings, music, and ritual items from Tibetan Buddhism and Culture.
Tricycle: The Buddhist Review
    Another terrific Buddhist monthly. Includes a very good dharma center directory that's searchable.
Zafu sewing instructions
    Want a zafu to call your own? Here are complete sewing instructions!
Oryoki instructions
    A thorough description of how meals are served and eaten during sesshin. (Note: if you get a pop-up window asking if you want to download Japanese characters, click "Cancel"; you can read the site without them.)
Zen Project
    A Zen Buddhist directory with many links to interesting sites.
The Circle of Bliss: Buddhist Meditational Art
    An online exhibit organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Columbus Museum of Art, and hosted by The Ohio State University.
Buddhachat.org: A Buddhists Learning Community
    Buddhachat.org contains a collection of resources for those who are interested in exploring Buddhism. Features a discussion forum.
Science for Monks
    "A project of His Holiness the Dalai Lama ... providing hands-on science and math education to advanced scholars within the Tibetan monastic community in India."

Zen Buddhist Sites

ZenTeachings: teishos, commentaries, sutra translations, koans and Dogen studies
    Part of the Zen Buddhism WWW Virtual Library. (See following.)
Zen Buddhism WWW Virtual Library
    The Internet Guide to Zen (Ch'an, Son, Thien) Online Resources.
Compassionate Ocean Dharma Center
    Buddhist Center in the Twin Cities led by Katagiri-roshi dharma heir Joen Snyder O'Neal and Michael O'Neal.
Nebraska Zen Center
    Zen Center in Omaha led by Katagiri-roshi dharma heir Nonin Chowaney.
Dharma Field
    Zen Center in south Minneapolis led by Katagiri-roshi dharma heir Steve Hagen.
Minnesota Zen Meditation Center
    Zen Center in south Minneapolis. Its founding teacher was Katagiri-roshi, and it is now led by Tim Burkett.
Cedar Rapids Zen Center
    Zen Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, led by Zuiko Redding.
Milwaukee Zen Center
    Located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Zen Mountain Monastery
    Daido Loori's monastery in upstate New York. Good meditation instructions with photos.
San Francisco Zen Center
    Home page of the center established by Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. Site includes information on City Center, Green Gulch Farm, and Tassajara Zen Mountain Center.
White Lotus
    Classes, events, and lecture audios of Byakuren Judith Ragir.
rebanderson.org
    The Web site of Reb Anderson, Tenshin Roshi.
Zen Center of Los Angeles
    Zen Center of Los Angeles' website. Nice gassho and bowing explanations.
One Drop Zendo Association
Dharma Rain Zen Center
    Kyogen and Guykuko Carlson's Zen Center in Portland, Oregon.
Great Plains Zen Center
    The Great Plains Zen Center, located in the northwest suburbs of Chicago, is a Soto Zen temple, and in particular a member organization of the White Plum Asanga, established by Taizan Maezumi Roshi at the Zen Center of Los Angeles. The Great Plains Zen Center is also the host institution of Myoshinji (Subtle Mind Temple), a rural retreat center located near the town of Monroe in Green County, Wisconsin. Great Plains is also the parent institution of the Great Wave Zen Sangha, a center located in Ludington, Michigan.
Sanshin Zen Community
    Sanshinji is a non-profit Buddhist organization founded by Shohaku Okumura Roshi.
Zen Community of Oak Park
    Headed by Sensei Robert Joshin Althouse, in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park.
Mountain Source Sangha and Ancient Dragon Zen Gate
    Websites of communities that look to Taigen Dan Leighton as their teacher.
Pacific Zen Institute
    Located in Santa Rosa, California and directed by John Tarrant, author of The Light Inside the Dark: Zen, Soul & the Spiritual Life and Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans to Bring You Joy.
Hardcore Zen
    Website of Brad Warner, author of Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality and dharma heir of Nishijima Roshi.

Other Sites of Interest

Common Ground Meditation Center
    Community meditation center in south Minneapolis dedicated to the practice of mindfulness.
Stone Women Dancing
    A "consortium of women teachers brought together by friendship and the desire to explore the edge of feminine leadership in spirituality and bring it forward in the world."
Northfield Buddhist Meditation Group
beliefnet
    "A multi-faith e-community designed to help you meet your own religious and spiritual needs—in an interesting, captivating and engaging way."
The Council on Spiritual Practices
    The Council on Spiritual Practices is "a collaboration among spiritual guides, experts in the behavioral and biomedical sciences, and scholars of religion, dedicated to making direct experience of the sacred more available to more people." Includes a page on meditation.
The Cloud Appreciation Society
    These people love clouds, and they're not ashamed to say it.
Marilyn Myo-O
    Voice Coaching and Healing, Performance Preparation, Spiritual Mentoring and Buddhist Teaching.
The Headless Tao
    Jim Clatfelter's interpretation of the Tao Te Ching based on the vision of headlessness discovered and tirelessly shared by Douglas E Harding. Don't miss the chance to read his classic work, On Having No Head. You can also find extensive information about his vision on The Headless Way website. There you will find many experiments in seeing. Douglas would certainly say that the experiments are the heart of the matter. He would agree with Lao Tzu that words alone are not enough. Seeing is required. [Description copied, with slight editing, from the site.]
Tao Te Ching Translations
    English Translations of the Tao Te Ching or Dao De Jing.
Begin with Intention Yoga
    Anusara yoga classes offered in Minneapolis. A heart oriented, uplifting, & empowering approach to hatha yoga taught by affiliated Anusara teacher, Ali Certain.
The Buddhist Recovery Network
    The Buddhist Recovery Network supports the use of Buddhist teachings, traditions and practices to help people recover from the suffering caused by addictive behaviors.

Meditation and Science

Meditation found to increase brain size
    Physics.org report of a study of "meditators [who] did Buddhist 'insight meditation,' which focuses on whatever is there, like noise or body sensations."
Finding Clues to Aging in the Fraying Tips of Chromosomes
    New York Times interview with professor Elizabeth H. Blackburn, who is looking into the link between meditation and telomerase levels. Telomerase "restores the length of the telomeres [the ends of chromosomes] when they get worn;" and "a link [has been found] between low telomerase and stress-related diseases."

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