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From: [e-mail] (Hsuan Peng)
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Subject: Buddhism resources
Date: 11 Dec 1994 16:54:48 GMT
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Dear Friends:

Since my first posting in this group about the resources related to Buddhism,
I have received many requests.  Some of you are kind enough to give updated
information.  So here is an updated version, with *many* new information.
I hope that by sharing this information, people can cooperate with each other
so that the valuable efforts and resources in computerization of Buddhism
resources will not overlap and be wasted.  Happy information hunting!

Hsuan Peng
Cornell University

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Following is a list of information resources related to Buddhism literatures,
discussions and activities.  Hope you will find it useful.  Comments,
suggestions and updates are welcome.

Hsuan Peng
[e-mail]

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last update: Dec. 9, 1994

A. USENET Newsgroups:
   (1) alt.meditation
   (2) alt.meditation.transcendental
   (3) alt.philosophy.zen
   (4) alt.religion.buddhism.nichiren
   (5) alt.religion.buddhism.tibetan
   (6) alt.zen
   (7) soc.religion.eastern
   (8) talk.religion.buddhism


B. E-mail Subscription Lists:
   (1) Bodhi News:
       Edited by Buddhism Study Group at Urbana-Champaign.  Send a short
       message to [e-mail] to subscribe.
   (2) BUDDHA-L:
       An academic buddhism discussion group.  Send the following command:
           SUBscribe BUDDHA-L your_firstname your_lastname
       to [e-mail].
   (3) BUDDHIST:
       Forum on Indian and Buddhist Studies.  Send the following command:
           SUBscribe BUDDHIST your_firstname your_lastname
       to [e-mail] to subscribe.
   (4) DailyZen:
       A mailing list that contains a daily dose of Zen wisdom.  Each day
       members receive a single Zen story, koan, or quote.  Send a short
       message with your full name to Michael C. Amundsen at:
           [e-mail]
       to subscribe.  Be sure to include the word "DailyZen" in your subject
       line.
   (5) Dharma-talk:
       An international forum for discussions, exchanges of information
       regarding Buddhism and for announcements of Buddhist related events.
       Send the following command:
           subscribe dharma-talk
       to [e-mail] to subscribe.
   (6) EABUD:
       Mailing list for Eastern American/East Asian Buddhism.  Send the
       following command:
           subscribe eabud your_firstname your_lastname
       to [e-mail].
   (7) Insight (IMS):
       produced by the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Mass.  Send the
       following command:
           subscribe insight
       to [e-mail] to subscribe.
   (8) JBE:
       An on-line Journal of Buddhist Ethics, published by Penn State
       University and Goldsmiths College, London.  To subscribe to the Journal
       Abstract, simply send an e-mail message to:
           [e-mail]
       Leave the "Subject" field blank. In the body of the message should
       contain the following:
           sub jbe-l your_firstname your_lastname
       You will then receive information and the addresses of the Journal's
       sites in the USA, Europe and Australia. Published material is available
       through WWW, Gopher and FTP. For further information contact the editors
       at [e-mail].
   (9) Purdue Buddhist Society:
       Send a short message to [e-mail] to subscribe.
  (10) Universal Zendo:
       Send the following command:
           SUBscribe ZENDO your_firstname your_lastname
       to [e-mail] to subscribe.
  (11) ZenBuddhism-L:
       Send the following command:
           SUB ZenBuddhism-L your_e-mail
       to [e-mail] to subscribe.
  (12) Various lists at world.std.com:
       Send the following command:
           SUBscribe <listname> your_e-mail
       to [e-mail], where <listname> is one of the following:
           buddhist-philosophy
           chinese-philosophy
           emptiness
           taoism
           zen


C. Files available for anonymous FTP / gopher:
   (1) Buddhist Gopher:
          gopher://gopher.teleport.com/11/users/davidc/traditions/Buddhist
   (2) Buddhist Studies (SUNY Albany):
       A collection of several Buddhism literature.
          gopher://uacsc2.albany.edu/11/sunyp/sunypcat/spcbud
   (3) Buddhist Studies Facility (Australia):
       This archive has quite a complete list of the resources on internet.
          ftp://coombs.anu.edu.au/coombspapers/otherarchives/electronic-
                                  buddhist-archives/
          gopher://coombs.anu.edu.au/16/Buddhist Studies\Practice E-Journals/
          gopher://cheops.anu.edu.au/11/ResearchFacilities/BSF
   (4) Buddhist sutra archive (in Chinese):
       This is a gopher site which currently contains eight sutras and
       some zen poems.
          gopher://dongpo.math.ncu.edu.tw/11/buda
          (if use gopher, type: gopher dongpo.math.ncu.edu.tw 70)
       note: need Chinese environment for display.
   (5) CLEAR-MIND - Tibetan Buddhist Newsletter:
          gopher://gopher.cic.net/11/e-serials/alphabetic/c/clear-mind
   (6) GASSHO - Electronic Journal of DharmaNet International:
          gopher://fir.cic.net/11/Religious.Texts/DharmaNet/Gassho
   (7) Information about Buddhism and mediation:
          ftp://sunsite.unc.edu:
          /pub/academiic/religious_studies/Buddhism/
          /pub/academic/medicine/alternative-healthcare/general/meditation/
          gopher://sunsite.unc.edu/5/Religious Texts for browsing and
                   searching/electronic-buddhist-archives/
   (8) Journal of Buddhist Ethics:
          ftp://ftp.cac.psu.edu:/pub/jbe/ (USA)
          ftp://ftp.gold.ac.uk/pub/jbe/   (Europe)
   (9) The Awareness Technique (TAT):
       TAT is an approach to finding one's inner consciousness.  TAT consists
       of three books, the first chapters of which are not copyrighted and may
       be freely retrieved from the Internet via FTP or gopher.
          ftp: ftp.std.com
          Book 1, Chapter 1 (Multi-Level Awareness) /books/Awareness/b1-1.txt.
          Book 2, Chapter 1 (Multi-Plane Awareness) is file b2-1.txt
          Book 3, Chapter 1 (Perfecting The Spirit) is file b3-1.txt
       Or gopher to gopher.std.com and select Booksellers, then The Awareness
       Technique.


D. World-Wide Web (WWW):
   (1) Asian Art:
          http://www.nets.com/asianart
       has an interesting collection of Buddhism-related graphics files, and
          http://www.nets.com/site/ian/hotlist.html
       is a list of on-line galleries that may have related collections.
   (2) Asynchronous School of Buddhist Dialectics Homepage:
          http://hopper.itc.virginia.edu/~wam/
       including translation of Dzong-ka-ba's Three Principal Aspects of
       the Path, etc.
   (3) Buddhist Studies - WWW Virtual Library (Australian National Univ.):
          http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-Buddhism.html
       provides a list of web and gopher sites for Buddhism resources.
   (4) Cornell AsiaLink:
       A Web site established by the Cornell East Asia Program's Chinese-
       Japanese-Korean Computing and Database Facility, directed by John R.
       McRae, Assoc. Professor of Asian Religions.  In addition to providing
       information about multilingual computing and various activities and
       resources of the East Asia Program, in the near future Cornell AsiaLink
       will also be providing information about Chinese Buddhism and Chinese
       Buddhist organizations.  Access to some subdirectories is restricted to
       users with Cornell network ids.  The hypertext link is:
          http://cucjk.eap.cornell.edu/asialink.homepage.html
       For further information, contact Prof. McRae at [e-mail].
   (5) Dharma Electronic Files Archive (D.E.F.A.):
       The online Buddhist libraries maintained by DharmaNet International.
          http://sunsite.unc.edu/dharma/defa.html
       and "Buddhist resources":
          http://sunsite.unc.edu/dharma/buddhist.html
       which contains information about Buddhist Retreat Calendar, Buddhist
       Sitting and Meditation Practice Groups, Chogye Zen Buddhist Texts,
       Buddhist Image Bank, and many links to other sites.
   (6) DharmaWeb:
          http://www.well.com/Community/Brian.Tanaka/dw.html
   (7) Journal of Buddhist Ethics:
          http://www.cac.psu.edu/jbe/jbe.html    or
          http://scorpio.gold.ac.uk/jbe/jbe.html
       The Journal has a "Global Resources for Buddhist Studies" page which
       offers links to many useful resources.
   (8) Mahidol University gopher:
          gopher://gopher.mahidol.ac.th/
       This gopher site includes information about Buddhist Scriptures
       Information Retrieval (BUDSIR).  See E-(1) below for details.
   (9) NCF Buddhism Home Page:
       National Capital Freenet (Ottawa) WWW Buddhism Special Interest Group.
          http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/freenet/rootdir/menus/sigs/religion/
                 buddhism/introduction/home.html
       includes Directory of Buddhist groups in Ottawa, Introduction to
       Buddhism, Meditation Instructions, Photographs of renouned Buddhist
       teachers, etc.
  (10) Soka Gakkai International (Seattle, Washington)
          http://www.halcyon.com/Ichinet/welcome.html
  (11) Spiritual Consciousness on WWW:
          http://err.ethz.ch/~kiwi/Spirit.html
          http://www.protree.com/kiwi/Spirit.html (US mirror)
  (12) Ten Bulls (Zen poem and pictures):
          http://fas.sfu.ca/1/cs/people/ResearchStaff/jamie/personal/
                 10_Bulls/Title_Page.html
  (13) Zen Buddhist Texts (U. Texas Houston, Texas):
       by Southwest Chogye International Zen Academeia in Houston, Texas.
          http://oac11.hsc.uth.tmc.edu/zen/index.html.
       which has text of sutra, dictionary of Buddhism terms, etc.
  (14) Zen Buddhism & Taoism Information (Borlaenge U., Sweden):
          http://tpx5.hfb.se:8000/~d93cge/engtaozen.html
  (15) Zen Hospice Project (San Francisco, California):
          http://www.well.com/Community/zenhospice/homepage.html
       which runs several programs dedicated to the care of people approaching
       death and increasing our understanding of our own impermanence.


E. Software/Database:
   (1) Buddhist Scriptures Information Retrieval (BUDSIR):
       A complete digital edition of The Buddhist Scripture, created by
       Mahidol University Computing Center, Bangkok, Thailand.  Contact
       Dr. Supachai Tangwongsan at [e-mail] for details.


F. Buddhist-related books and supplies:
   * California Buddhist Vihara Society
     c/o Gary Ray
     Tiger Team Buddhist Information Network
     1920 Francisco, Sutie 112
     Berkeley, CA 94709
     (Small list of free Dharma books)

   * Dharma Publishing   phone: [phone]
     2910 San Pablo Ave.
     Berkeley, CA 94702
     (Dharma books, esp. Tibetian, Vajrayana, and Dzogchen)

   * Parallax Press   phone: [phone], fax: [phone]
     P.O. Box 7355
     Berkeley, CA 94707
     (books and tapes, most by Thich Nhat Hanh and friends)

   * Zen Home Stitchery   phone: [phone]
     2693 Riverside Drive
     Costa Mesa, CA 92627
     (small catalog of clothes, cushions and accessories for meditation)

   * Asian Humanities Press    phone:  [phone]
     c/o Jain Publishing Company
     P.O. Box 3523
     Fremont, CA 94539

   * Tibetan Treasures   phone: [phone], fax: [phone]
     P.O. Box 279
     Junction City, CA 96048-0279
     (catalog of large selection of dharma items, incense, books, etc.)

   * Shasta Abbey Buddhist Supplies   phone: [phone]
     P.O. Box 199                     fax: [phone]
     Mt. Shasta, CA 96067
     (large catalog of Dharma/Meditation supplies, books, tapes, etc.)

   * Keep It Simple   phone: [phone]
     P.O. Box 91
     Mountain View, CA 94042
     (small catalog of Dharma books, tapes, t-shirts, and meditation supplies)

   * The Buddhist Bookstore    phone:  [phone]
     1710 Octavia Street
     San Francisco, CA 94109
     (large stock of books on all Buddhist traditions, specialized in Shin/Pure
      Land tradition)

   * Forest Books    phone: [phone]
     3080 16th St. at Valencia
     San Francisco, CA 94103
     (new & used books specializing in eastern religion, Asian culture, etc.)

   * Bodhi Tree Bookstore   phone: [phone], fax: [phone]
     8585 Melrose Ave.
     West Hollywood, CA 90069
     (large selection of books, including domestic & imported Buddhist titles)

   * Sounds True Catalog    phone: [phone]
     735 Walnut St., Dept. SC94
     Boulder, CO 80302
     (tapes on meditation, buddhism, self-discovery, etc.)

   * ZIJI Books & Gifts   phone: [phone]
     2019 10th St.
     Boulder, CO 80302
     (catalog ($1) of Dharma books, practice materials, etc.)

   * Buddhadharma Meditation Center   phone: [phone]
     9810 South Kingery Highway
     Hinsdale, IL 60521
     (small catalog of Dharma Books)

   * Quest Books    phone: [phone], fax: [phone]
     The Theosophical Publishing House
     P.O. Box 270, Dept. M-171
     Wheaton, IL 60189-0270
     (books on religion, philosophy, etc.)

   * Dhamma Dana Publication Fund
     c/o Barre Center for Buddhist Studies
     Lockwood Road
     Barre, MA 01005

   * Shambhala Publications, Inc.   phone: [phone], fax: [phone]
     P.O. Box 308
     Boston, MA 02117-0308
     (catalog of Buddhist and other eastern religion/philosophy/practice books)

   * Wisdom Publications     phone: [phone]
     361 Newbury Street      fax: [phone]
     Boston, MA 02115
     (Dharma books, esp. Tibetian, Vajrayana, and Dzogchen)

   * Dharmacrafts    phone:  [phone], fax: [phone]
     405 Waltham Street, Suite 234
     Lexington, MA 02173
     (large catalog of Dharma/Meditation supplies, books, tapes, etc.)

   * Dharma Seed Tape    phone: 800-969-SEED, fax: [phone]
     Library Box 66
     Wendell Depot, MA 01380
     (tapes of IMS Dharma Talks)

   * South Asia Books    phone:  [phone]
     P.O. Box 502
     Columbia, MO 65205
     (huge stock of books from Asia, many on Buddhism)

   * Windhorse   phone: [phone]
     14 Heartwood Circle
     Newmarket, NH 03857
     (catalog of Buddhist books)

   * SUNY Press
     State University Plaza
     Albany, NY 12246-0001
     (ask for Buddhist book list)

   * Myojo Morning Star
     294 Old Route 28
     Glenford, NY 12433
     (catalog of meditation clothing)

   * Dharma Communications Inc.   phone: [phone], fax: [phone]
     P.O. Box 156DC, South Plank Road
     Mt. Tremper, NY 12457
     (large catalog of Dharma/Meditation supplies, books, tapes, etc.)

   * Sharchen Imports   phone: [phone]
     1309 Madison Ave.
     New York, NY 10128
     (color catalog of Dharma furnishings)

   * Dharmaware Giftshop   phone: [phone] (store), 914-679-4900 (order)
     54C (9) Tinker St.
     Woodstock, NY 12498
     (24-page color catalog of Dharma supplies, books, tapes, statues, etc.)

   * Caroline Morning Designs   phone: [phone]
     Dept P, P.O. Box 2832
     Asheville, NC 28802
     (inflatable Zafu, cushions, books, bells, etc.)

   * The Mystic Trader    phone: [phone], fax: [phone]
     1334 Pacific Ave.
     Forest Grove, OR 97116
     (64-page catalog of Buddhist, Taoist, etc. items, tapes and books)

   * Books for the Nineties    phone: [phone]
     P.O. Box 588
     Scranton, PA 18512-0588
     (catalog of books on psychology, meditation, buddhism, spirituality, etc.)

   * Primary Point Press   phone: [phone], fax: [phone]
     99 Pound Road
     Cumberland, RI 02864
     e-mail: [e-mail]
     (small list of Dharma Books by Seung Sahn and others)

   * Kanzeon Jade Thread   phone: [phone]
     1274 E. South Temple
     Salt Lake City, UT 84102
     (small catalog of Dharma Supplies)

   * Samadhi Cushions   phone: [phone]
     Dept. TRI, RR 1 Box 3
     Barnet, VT 05821
     (cushions and related items)

   * Buddhist Book Service    phone:  [phone], or 202-832-9393
     P.O. Box 9677
     Washington, DC 20016
     (large stock of books and pamphlets on Theravadan tradition)

   * Buddhist Publication Society
     P.O. Box 61
     54, Sangharaja Mawatha
     Kandy, Sri Lanka
     (catalog of Dharma Books)


G. Others:
   (1) Bodhi-Line phone service:
       A telephone information service providing information about Buddhist
       centers in New York area, including centers' locations, schedules of
       classes and meditation sessions,  and a list of books, tapes and other
       materials.  All services offered by the Bodhi-Line are free of charge.
       Just dial [phone].  For more information about Bodhi-Line,
       contact Michael Wick at Buddhist Information Service of New York,
       331 E 5th Street, New York, NY 10003. Tel: [phone].  Fax &
       voice mail: [phone].


** References:

Blackstad, Mark ([e-mail]), "Buddhist Related Books and
  Supplies", insight mailing list, Oct. 24, 1994.
Chen, Ying ([e-mail]), "Introduction to Discussion Groups for
  Buddhism in the Network", Bodhi News, Sept. 27, 1994.
Xu, Dong ([e-mail]), "New Electronic Buddhist Resource on
  InterNet", Bodhi News, May 10, 1994.