Dharma Links

 

     
     

Karma Kagyu Websites.

H.H. 17th Karmapa.
www.karmapa.org

H.H. Karmapa's personal website, with lineage details, information on his recognition as well as images from his recent activities in Europe.

H.E. Shamar Rinpoche.
www.shamarpa.org
H.E. Sharmapa's personal website, with background on the historical role of the Sharmapa's in the Kagyu lineage, and his letters and a lively guestbook.

Worldwide Representation of Karma Kagyu Lineage.
www.karma-kagyu.org/portal/
This site gives a complete list of centers which follow the Karma Kagyu tradition of HH17 Karmapa, Thaye Dorje. As the page lists hundreds of centres, with their addresses and often with images, the page is slow loading.

For a faster loading page, and with tools to search this database by country, region, type of centre, new centres etc, please visit:
www.diamondway-service.org/centerlist/kagyu.net/worldlist.asp

Karmapa International Buddhist Institute (KIBI)
www.karmapa-institute.org
The Karmapa International Buddhist Institute is a college for advanced Buddhist studies. KIBI's purpose is to foster wisdom and compassion through the study and translation of the great Buddhist treatises.

Shangpa Rinpoche.
www.shangpa.org
Shangpa Rinpoche's personal website, includes details of all his Dharma activities in Nepal, as well as Singapore.

Diamond Way Buddhism.
www.diamondway-buddhism.org
A huge resource full of dharma talks from Kagyu teachers, and links to the many centres run by Lama Ole Nydahl.

Lama Ole Nydahl.
www.lama-ole-nydahl.org
Lama Ole's personal website, with details on his current schedule as well as his work and teachers.

Dhagpo Kagyu Centres, Europe.
www.dhagpo-kagyu.org
This website features the 4 Dhagpo Ling centres in Europe, together with information on teachers and teachings.

Bodhipath.
www.bodhipath.org
We are a Tibetan Buddhist organisation of the Karma Kagyü lineage, with monasteries and meditation centers worldwide.

Karma Kagyu Tradition.
www.karma-kagyu.org
This recently launched portal is intended to gather in a single place content and links to all the Kagyu centres which sustain HH 17th Karmapa, Trinley Thaye Dorje.

HH Karmapa and HH Sharmapa's official Chinese language website.
www.karmapa-shamarpa.org
This new website is the official Chinese-language website for both HH 17th Karmapa, and HH 14th Shamarpa. It promises to contain teachings and news from the lineage. The site is run by Bodhi Path Buddhist Centre at Los Angeles, New Frontier Buddhist Foundation, US.

Karma Kagyu Centre, Vienna, Austria.
www.karma-kagyu.at
Karma Kagyü Sangha is a centre of the Karma Kagyü tradition in Vienna, Austria. Our focus is Buddhist studies and meditation. Please visit our homepage to find out about our regular program and our materials such as transcripts of various teachings, meditation brochures, books etc. The website language is German.

Karma Kagyud Dharma Centre, Singapore.
www.karma-kagyud.org.sg
The website includes teachings from Shangpa Rinpoche, details of the Dharma activities at the centre, as well as upcoming events.

Shambhala Sun.
www.shambhalasun.com
The website of the Kagyu magazine "about waking up, bringing a Buddhist view to all the important issues in modern life". From the Shambhala organisation formed by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche.

United Trungram Buddhist Fellowship.
http://utbf.org/en/
The website of the UTBF, under the guidance of HE Trungram Gyaltrul Rinpoche.

Luminous Emptiness.
http://luminousemptiness.blogspot.com/
Dharma Blog (online journal) from the webmaster of Kagyu Asia. Regular postings on Kagyu Dharma and it's practice.

Kagyu Online Study Group .
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kagyu_study/
A Buddhist online study group which focuses on studying Gampopa's 'The Jewel Ornament of Liberation'.



Other Tibetan Buddhist Websites.

TibetArt
www.tibetart.com
This is the most comprehensive collection of Buddhist thanka's on the Net. All the images can be viewed at extremely high resolution, and the database is fully searchable.

Tibetan Studies WWW Virtual Library
www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-TibetanStudies.html
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.

Dharmapala Centre - Tibetan Art.
www.bremen.de/info/nepal
School of Thangkas Paintings. This sites sells tibetan art for the benefit of artists in Nepal and an orphan house in Katmandu. The images are all of high quality.

Tibetan Government in Exile's Official Web Site
www.tibet.com
His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the truth about Tibetan Freedom and International Development.

The Berzin Archives
www.berzinarchives.com
Site dedicated to making available in various languages the unpublished material on Tibetan Buddhism, history, and culture that the American scholar and author, Dr. Alexander Berzin, has written, translated, and compiled since the late 1960s.

International Friends of Mipham Rinpoche.
www.mipham-rinpoche.org
The International Friends of Mipham Rinpoche, are a
small group of students of HH Karmapa who have had the
good luck to get to know the Karmapa's father, H.E.
Mipham Rinpoche. Mipham Rinpoche is the third incarnation
of the eminent Rimé and Nyingma scholar Jamgon Mipham
(1846-1912).



Other Buddhist Websites.

The Asian Classics Institute.
www.asianclassics.org
Contains much 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.

BuddhaNet - Buddhist Information Network.
www.buddhanet.net
BuddhaNet is a non-profit Buddhist Information Network with a huge amount of information on all forms of Buddhism.

A Buddhist Bibliography.
http://members.tripod.com/~Wangchuk/fullbib.html
An extraordinary collection of links (by far the largest on the web) to the most important Buddhist texts available in print, both in English and other languages.