Dhamma Websites

Dhamma Websites

The following Website links may prove helpful for visitors to this site:

  • http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ – Access to Insight is an HTML website dedicated to providing accurate, reliable, and useful information concerning the practice and study of Theravada Buddhism, as it has been handed down to us through both the written word of the Pali canon and the living example of the Sangha. Access to Insight is not an organization and is not affiliated with any institution.
  • http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/bpslist.html – Selected Titles from the Buddhist Publication Society (© 2005) – The listed titles from the Buddhist Publication Society are currently available on Access to Insight. Printed copies of these titles that are still in print may be ordered directly from the BPS or from one of their regional distributors.
  • http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma5/ebooks.html – Buddhist Books and Dharma Talks in PDF / Plus Audio and Video Downloads “These ebooks and Dharma talks are free to read, listen, watch”. This page can also be found at www.PDFDharma.org
  • http://www.vipassana.com/ – This website, in the Theravada tradition, provides practical meditation training, meditation resources, as well as useful resources and authoritative teachings/texts from the Pali Canon.
  • http://www.dhammatalks.org/ – This site offers a multitude of free downloads of Dhamma from the Kammatthana (or Thai Forest) Tradition of Buddhism. Thanissaro Bhikkhu of Metta Forest Monastery is the speaker, author or translator unless otherwise noted.
  • http://www.bps.lk/ – The Buddhist Publication Society (BPS), founded in Sri Lanka in 1958, is an approved charity dedicated to making known the teaching of the Buddha. BPS publications generally represent the standpoint of Theravada Buddhism or Southern Buddhism, the oldest living Buddhist tradition of which the Pali Canon gives the most authentic account of what the historical Buddha himself actually taught. In a span of nearly five decades the BPS has become a major Buddhist publisher with hundreds of titles and a field of distribution extending all over the world. Besides these books, BPS also publishes full-length books as time and circumstances permit. These include standard introductions to Buddhism, translations from the Pali Canon and its commentaries, works on meditation and original contemporary expositions of Buddhist thought. Altogether, their publications constitute a voluminous reference library on Theravada Buddhism.
  • http://www.pariyatti.org/ – Pariyatti, a non-profit organization, was founded to bring people into contact with the teachings of the Buddha. They provide resources in the Theravada tradition, and support Pali language studies and Vipassana meditation. They serve meditators, scholars, educators and the public by providing ready access to hard-to-find titles.
  • http://www.budsas.org/index.htm – This Buddhist website by Binh Anson, Ph.D. offers a wealth of information as far as books, suttas (discourses), meditation information, and Dhamma essays.
  • http://forestsanghapublications.org/index.php – This Forest Sangha Publications site is dedicated to the free distribution of teachings in the Theravada Buddhist tradition of Venerable Ajahn Chah.
  • http://www.buddhanet.net/ – BuddhaNet is the result of a vision to link up with the growing world-wide culture of people committed to the Buddha’s teachings and lifestyle, as an on-line cyber sangha. In this way, an ancient tradition and the information superhighway will come together to create an electronic meeting place of shared concern and interests. 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.

Source: List compiled by Alexander Peck, October 15, 2014.