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 While the Gyalwa Karmapa was so much in the news since his flight from Tibet, Nalandabodhi were providing links to news stories, video and audio clips etc., and although the "big wave" of news is over, a lot of interesting material is still accessible through them. Now that India has granted him refugee status, there is likely to be an increase in news (and speculation!) about future plans.

I used to have a huge collection of links, but I never had time to keep checking them for content, availability etc., and there are others who do that kind of thing much better than me. There are always search engines, or you could go to Quiet Mountain. So this is just a small selection of personal favourites:

If you are looking for an introduction to Buddhism on the web, there are some very clear teachings presented by KTD, over there in New York State, and the teachings at Samye Ling in Scotland are also well worth a look. You could spend many happy hours browsing on the base of Simhananda, where Anthony Bruno has, amongst other things, a long list of rather well-chosen teachings.

You wanna know more? Read a book! You wanna book? Try these two sites:

Don't know what to buy? Let me suggest Dharma Paths which is a good clear basic summary by Khenpo Karthar, Luminous Mind by Kalu Rinpoche, The Jewel Ornament of Liberation (I would suggest the Khenpo Konchog version), the Life of Milarepa, the Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa, Mahamudra Eliminating the Darkness of Ignorance, Words of my Perfect Teacher ... but I'm not trying to provide a bibliography.

If you can't afford to spend, spend, spend, there is excellent reading in the on-line newsletter from Shenpen Osel. Talking of Tibetan, there is the large and still growing archive at the Asian Classics site.

Just to know what's worth reading, you could browse in Wangchuk's huge Buddhist bibliography.

Time to put some of it into practice? You might, for instance, like to take a trip to Scotland and stay at Samye Ling, but if you are on the left of the Atlantic you might nip to NY to visit Karma Triyana Dharmachakra - the site also includes reading in Densal Online. When in Kathmandu, if you can tear yourself away from the stupa at Baudha, why not visit Benchen, the monastery of Tenga Rinpoche and of Sangye Nyenpa Rinpoche. Last and perhaps this time really least, as a Birmingham lad, I can't close this paragraph without including Birmingham Karma Ling, but the site is currently unavailable. Recently (did someone say "at last"?) a simple site, but useful if you are thinking of going, has opened for Marpa House (between Cambridge and Saffron Walden, England), dear to my heart, where I took refuge back in 1974!

A few links related to individual teachers: Thrangu Rinpoche has a site that might well be worth a visit, a site was opened recently for the great Khenpo Tsultrim, while Ringu Tulku Rinpoche has a site worth checking. A new addition here is a nice site for Jamgon Kongtrul. Another American site, this time for a centre descending from Kalu Rinpoche, is that of Kagyu Thubten Chöling. Not so much an individual teacher, the Tibetan Government in Exile's website contains a lot of good information, both religious and political.

Feel like a chat? I wouldn't recommend usenet these days, but how about joining up at the Kagyu discussion list at "yahoo".

I did recently come across these resources:
The Tibetan Buddhist Resource Centre has all sorts of text-related resources. The board of directors is a bit of a hall of fame.
The Tibet Information Network has, amongst other attractions, a link to a good photo collection related to how things really are in Tibet now.

At last, Karma Samten Choeling here in Sydney now has a new, working site.

And when it's time to DO something, what about helping Rokpa?.

(These links were all last checked in November 2000)
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