Getting Started

d Introduction
d The Fourteen     Precepts of
    Engaged Buddhism

    Thich Nhat Hanh
d What is Socially
    Engaged Buddhism
    Buddhist Peace
    Fellowship
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Consumerism

Key Characteristics
    of Consumerism
    & Buddhist Foils

    Think Sangha
An Alternative to
    Consumerism
    
Sulak Sivaraksa
Consumerism and
    the Precepts

    Taigen Dan Leighton
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Asia

Engaged
    Environmental
    Projects in Asia
Sarvodaya
    Joanna Macy
A Thai perspective on
    socially engaged:
    Buddhism: Sulak
    Sivaraksa

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The Fourth Yana:
The Dharma of Healing, Service and Social Change

Chris Queen d (From
Bearing Witness Newsletter)

Newsletters & blogs


blog

d Bearing Witness:
    Newsletter for Western
    Socially Engaged
    Buddhism

d Buddhist Peace
    Fellowship newsletter

 

 

Meditation in action –
transforming ourselves and our world

Welcome to DharmaNet's learning resource for engaged practice. Learn about engaged practice and find people and groups who are working mindfully to help others and heal the world.

Peacemaking & non-violence

s For Buddhist
    Peacework: Creating     
    Cultures of Peace
   
David Chappell

Buddhism and
    Non-Violence

    Sulak Sivaraksa
The Personal Roots
    of Peace
    
Thich Nhat Hanh
Vowing Peace in an
    Age of War

    Alan Senauke
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Ethics

The Ethical Precepts
    and Philosophical
    Tenets of Zen

 The Inner Ecology:
    Buddhist Ethics and
    Practice

    Ronald Epstein
more

Gender

 Feminism& Buddhism
    
Ouyporn Khuankaew
Buddhism, Feminism,     and the Environmental     Crisis:
    Stephanie Kaza
more

 
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Buddhism Without Buddhism
Robert Thurman

Organizations

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Buddhism & Social Action: An Exploration
Ken Jones s

 

 

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Online Courses
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s The Ethics of Altruism, The Dalai Lama
s Green Buddha
s Reconnecting with Life, Joanna Macy
s Wheel of Engaged Buddhism, Kenneth Kraft
s Bodhisattvas of Compassion, Taigen Dan Leighton
s Cultivating Compassion, Jeffrey Hopkins

Meditation is not an escape from society, but to come back to ourselves and see what is going on. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. With mindfulness, we know what to do and what not to do to help.
Thich Nhat Hanh

Symposium

symposium

August 9 - 14, 2010
Mpther House of the Zen Peacemakers
Montague, MA

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Environment

Introduction
Green Buddhism
    Stephanie Kaza
The Greening of
    Buddhist Practice

    Kenneth Kraft
The Ecological Self
    Joanna Macy
more

Incarcerated

Prison Dharma Network
The Prison Monk
    Fleet Maull interview
 The National Buddhist
    Prison Sangha
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Tibet

s Committee of 100
    for Tibet

s International
    Campaign for Tibet

s Tibetan Center for
    Human Rights and
    Democracy

Death & dying

Ministering to the Sick
    and the Terminally Ill

    Lily de Silva
Preparing for Death &
    Helping the Dying
    
Sangye Khadro
 Being with Dying
    
Joan Halifax
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