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The Dalai Lama and Tibet

This page was created by Associate Professor of Religion David Gardiner in consultation with Humanities Librarian Steve Lawson

Useful Websites on the Dalai Lama and Tibet

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet - http://www.dalailama.com/

The latest and most extensive site on many aspects of His Holiness' life, teachings, activities, and so on, with many excellent links.

China Tibet Information Center - http://www.tibetinfor.com.cn/english/

Another official Chinese site. The"Highlights" section has interesting links to "official" views, such as answers to 100 Questions on Tibet and information about Prisons on the Plateau (this last one is remarkable in its transparent effort to counter claims of problems by international rights organizations and Tibetan exiles).

The Government of Tibet in Exile - http://www.tibet.com

Run by the government of Tibet in exile from Dharamsala, India. Not always up-to-date. Lots of information on political and cultural issues related to the Tibetan government in exile, including recent press releases and announcements by the Dalai Lama and his schedule.

Tibet.net - http://www.tibet.net

Run by a Tibetan organization, I believe from India, that is supported by the Dalai Lama.

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet - http://www.tibet.net/hhdl/eng/

From the Dalai Lama link of the www.tibet.net site, this offers links to the DL's private office, his travel schedule, and more.

Tibet Online - http://www.tibet.org

Run by the International Tibet Support Group. Also known as Tibet Online, contains lots of information on activities and publications related to the movement to support Tibetans.

Tibet Web Sites - http://www.tibet.org/siteseeing.html

Links to many good sites on Tibet, run by the above group.

Tibet Information Network - http://www.tibetinfo.net/

(Update, Jan. 2006: This site has been shut down due to lack of funding.) Remarkably extensive international news coverage of many aspects of Tibet.

Buddhist Studies WWW Virtual Library - http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-Buddhism.html

A useful tool for resources on Buddhism. The "Tibetan Studies" link leads to a page that has, beneath the rather awkward boxes for searches on discussion lists, a list of good links beginning with "Art, theatre and music."

Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT) - http://www.fpmt.org

Home page for the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition, with some interesting links. This is one of the most active international organizations for the propagation of Tibetan Buddhism. It is rooted in the Gelugpa tradition, which is one of four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism and the one to which the Dalai Lama belongs. The FPMT was founded by two of the Dalai Lama's students, Lama Yeshe Rinpoche and Lama Zopa Rinpoche, who were also respectively teacher and student until Lama Yeshe died in 1984. But when his reincarnation was discovered a few years later in Spain, born to European parents, he soon began training as a monk under Lama Zopa, his former student!

Buddhist Teachers of the FPMT - http://fpmt.org/teachers/#ll

From the website above, this link -- from the "Buddhist teachers" link to the "lineage lamas" link -- opens to photos of important teachers in the Tibetan Gelugpa tradition including the three main teachers of His Holiness the Dalai Lama: Ling Rinpoche, Trijang Rinpoche and Serkong Rinpoche, whose biographies provide a sense of the lineage of teachers in which the Dalai Lama has been nurtured and which he preserves and extends.

Mind & Life Institute - http://www.mindandlife.org

Out of Boulder, Colorado. A fascinating site based on many years of dialogue between the Dalai Lama and leading western scientists in various fields. The Institute has sponsored ten or more conferences over the past fifteen years, many organized by faculty at the Harvard Medical School. The most recent conference was held in September 2003 at MIT, and was called "Investigating the Mind: Exchanges between Buddhism and the Biobehavioral Sciences on How the Mind Works." This site contains links to information on all the past conferences, all the participants, and several books that have been published as a result of the conferences. Most of these books are held by Tutt Library.

Science at the Crossroads: Essay by the Dalai Lama - http://www.mindandlife.org/dalai.lama.sfndc.html

This article is based on a talk given by the Dalai Lama at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience on November 12, 2005 in Washington, D.C. Before the conference took place, a number of neuroscientists from around the world protested the decision to invite him as the conference's keynote speaker, but the president of the Society defended her decision so the talk went on.

Science for Monks - http://www.scienceformonks.org/Resources/Meeting%20Points.pdf

(Note: PDF document, requires Adobe Reader software to read.) An essay by His Holiness called "Meeting Points of Science and Spirituality." It's a subtle analysis of aspects of Buddhist philosophy (epistemology as well as ontology) and their near parallels in modern scientific thought.

Alan Wallace Online - http://www.alanwallace.org/index.htm

Good stuff on Alan Wallace, scholar of Tibetan Buddhism, translator for the Dalai Lama and a key organizer of Mind and Life conferences. Also links to Wallace's Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies.

Useful Library Links

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ATLA Religion Database With ATLASerials

Coverage: 1949 - current

Contains more than a million citations from more than a thousand international titles and multi-author works in Religion. Spans over 50 years with selected records going back to 1818. Some full text.

Academic Search Premier

Coverage: 1988 - current

Provides access to basic journal index and some full text resources. Subject coverage is general and broad. Shows CC holdings.

JSTOR

Coverage: late 1800's - most recent 5 years

Archival access to many scholarly periodicals. Jstor does not cover the most recent three years of most journals.