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CyberSangha (now defunct)
was an online Buddhist journal with frequent articles on women and Buddhism - check out
their archive of articles from back
issues (for instance, "Tantric
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DharmaNotes is a "new,
once-a-week (or so) e-zine for buddhists and
nonbuddhists with information, reviews, articles, quotes, news, humour and poetry. Available by subscription only,
DharmaNotes is a simple, text-based e-zine you can read right away or print out and read
at your convenience. No bells or whistles, just good writing, clean layout!
You can rest assured your e-mail address is not given to anyone for any reason.
Period." |
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UPDATED eDharma (now
defunct) was an online Buddhist resources magazine. Updated every two or three
months, it included Dharma articles and reviews, a searchable database, lists of Dharma
centres, a Buddhist astrological column, and other nifty stuff ... all produced under the
aegis of publisher angel Kyodo williams (now the author of Being
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Insight Meditation Online is the Web
journal of the Insight Meditation Society.
Its issues include numerous articles by, and interviews with, women teachers and
practitioners, such as: Sylvia
Boorstein on the Parami-s, Teacher
Interview: Ruth Dennison, Sharon
Salzberg on Faith, Teacher
Interview: Martine & Stephen Batchelor, Renunciation by Sister Siripannà, Teacher Interview: Kamala Masters
& Steve Armstrong, "Investigation"
by Narayan & Michael Liebenson Grady. |
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The
Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies
has archived several articles on nuns in medieval Japan |
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The Journal for South
Asian Women Studies has occasional articles related to women and Buddhism. |
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How to order Lotus Realm, a "new
voice for Buddhist women" produced by the Friends of
the Western Buddhist Order (FWBO). |
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The Shambhala Sun has occasional articles
related to women and Buddhism ... it's worth taking an occasional look at the articles in
their archives! |
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Snow Lion Publishers have an online
newsletter which emphasises developments in Tibetan politics and Vajrayana. |
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StillPoint, the
on-line newsletter of the Dharma Rain Zen Center, has an extensive archive of articles
including many by Buddhist women such as Sallie Jiko Tisdale. |
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Tricycle is a lively Buddhist quarterly from
America which offers some articles -- usually only from the current issue -- online.
(Let's hope that they'll consider opening up their archive one of these days...) |
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Turning Wheel is the quarterly
journal of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship (affiliated
with the International Network of Engaged Buddhists),
"bring[ing] a sharp focus to urgent matters of peace, social justice, environmental
activism, and dharma practice in 48 pages of articles, interviews, poetry, art, and book
reviews." Edited by artist/writer Susan Moon, its articles are often informed
by a strong feminist outlook, and are always worth reading. See their Urgent Action page for up-to-date information on
BPF campaigns. |
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A
small number of back issues of GASSHO
(the electronic journal of DharmaNet International) are on line, including the July/August
1994 Women
in Buddhism issue, featuring:
- "Conventional Women, Ultimate Woman: Gender, Nonduality,
and the Goddess" by Jamie Hubbard
- "Presence With a Difference: Buddhists and Feminists on
Subjectivity" by Anne C. Klein
- "The Significance of Ordination as a Buddhist Nun"
by Ayya Khema
- A list of DharmaNet publications by/about Buddhist women
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UPDATED Chö is
a recording by Chöying Drolma, the nuns of Nagi Gompa and Steve Tibbetts. Chöying Drolma was taught these
songs by Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche and other teachers. Selections on this recording
include Invocation to the Lotus Born Master, and Calling Upon the Masters of the Chö[d]
Lineage. You can hear audio samples on the Chö
page at Amazon.. Jack Donen's world music page includes a good description and review of
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An
audio cassette and booklet of Songs of the Dharma, Buddhist chants in Pali and
English performed by Lucinda Treelight Green, are available from Treelight
Productions as well as the formal guided meditations Developing Loving Kindness and
In This Very Body: Sweeping Meditation. Write Treelight Productions, P.O. Box 6386,
Colorado Springs, CO 80934-6386 USA (fax 719 685-5756 or e-mail TLG223@aol.com). |
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NEW Ven. Pema Chödrön's
teachings can be acquired through www.pemachodrontapes.org,
which offers an extensive collection of audiocassettes, as well as videotapes of her talks. You
can also buy books by Pema
Chödrön. Confused by the choice? Check out their recommendations page for where to
begin. |
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The following recordings are available through Snow Lion Publishers in Ithaca, New York (see their
Music & Chants
page for more details):
- A recording of the "Queen of Great Bliss (Dechen Gyalmo)
Puja", as sung by the nuns of Nyima Özer Ling in eastern Tibet. "Dechen
Gyalmo represents, within the Longchen Nying Thig tradition of the Nyingmapa Lineage, the
deified form of the great female practitioner Yeshe Tsogyal."
- The Nyima Özer Ling nuns have also recorded the
"Shi.tro" (adjunct ritual to the Tibetan Book of the Dead).
- "The Songs of Milarepa", the great Tibetan mystic,
as sung by the nuns of the Mahayana Buddhist Nunnery, Tilokpur, India.
- "Tibet, Tibet" by Yungchen Lhamo (see above).
- "Tibetan Prayer: The Singing Nuns at Chuchikjall" (a
small nunnery in remote Ladakh -- India's "Little Tibet"). Chuchikjall is
one of the nunneries supported by Naljorma
Nuns' Project.
- "Twenty-One Praises of Tara" by Prema Dasara and
Jeff Monoz.
- "Seeing Nothing but the Sky" by 14 imprisoned
Tibetan nuns held in Drapchi prison. (These are patriotic songs rendered in folk
style.)
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Mystic Fire Video produced We
Will Meet Again in the Land of the Dakini, a video about the life of the late
Mongolian lama and Chöd yogini Doljin Kandro Suren. She practised and
taught the Dharma in Communist Mongolia when it was still illegal to do so.
"Chöd means cutting through our Ego, it means to confront every circumstance in life
with the awareness that Ego is the root of all problems. Developing this capacity, Chöd
practitioners train their compassion by living in extreme conditions in order to help
others." |
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New Medicine Audio Tapes offer numerous
audio- and videotapes by Dharma teachers:
- The Planetwork
page includes recordings by China Galland (Re-Imaging God: Tara and the
Black Madonna), Joan Halifax (The Greening of the Self), Joanna
Macy (Compassion for Earth - Practicing Deep Ecology, Being Bodhisattvas, The
Bell of Chernobyl), Deena Metzger (Personal Disarmament), and Helena
Norberg-Hodge (Ancient Futures: Towards a Culture of Interconnectedness).
- The Meditation
and Spiritual Practices page includes Tsultrim Allione (Feeding the
Demons: Relaxing Dualism), Pema Chodron (The Love That Cannot Die, Facing
the Monster), Ruth Fishel (Practicing Insight Meditation), and Yvonne
Rand (Becoming an American Buddhist).
- The Death
and Conscious Dying page includes a tape by Christine Longaker
(Finding Hope and Inspiration in Death).
And there may well be others! This is a huge
site. |
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Sharon Salzberg offers several
instructional tapes on meditation: a Lovingkindness
Meditation audiotape and Insight
Meditation: A Complete Correspondence Course. |
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UPDATED Tibetan singer Yungchen Lhamo
is known for her powerful
and expressive interpretations of traditional Tibetan religious and secular (Lhamo)
music. Her most recent recording with RealWorld Records (1998) is Coming
Home; earlier, in 1996, RealWorld Records/Virgin released Tibet,
Tibet, her first international recording (she also made an earlier recording, Tibetan Prayer,
with Natural Symphonies). NEW Visit
the Yungchen Lhamo Foundation website
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