Here are some links to other sites that have information on Rama and Buddhism and the pathway to enlightenment. |
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| Rama ~ Dr. Frederick Lenz |
| Frederick P. Lenz Foundation for American Buddhism - Rama's Foundation, where his books, music CDs, talk CDs, and videos are available. |
| Rama ~ Dr. Frederick Lenz - Official Home Page. |
| Rama's Books - Surfing the Himalayas and Snowboarding to Nirvana. |
| Zazen Music - Electronic music produced by Rama. |
| Zazen Music - One Mind music. Zazen CDs available. |
| American Buddha - Daily quotes from Rama, gathered from his talks. |
| American Buddhism - The teachings of Dr. Frederick Lenz, known as "Rama" to his students, bring an understanding of the enlightenment cycle to contemporary American society. His teachings draw from both religious and academic foundations in Eastern and Western traditions, adapted to contemporary American culture. |
| Bakersfield Meditation Society (Bakersfield, Ca) - Meditation is a process of quieting your thoughts and going into worlds of perfect light, knowledge, and radiant perfection. |
| Dharma Center San Diego (San Diego, Ca) - Dharma Center offers instruction in the practices of meditation and mindfulness. |
| Dharmakaya Meditation Center (New York, NY) - The Dharmakaya Meditation Center is a non-profit charitable business and holds classes in Yoga and Meditation. |
| Flowergirl's Tribute - Rama ~ Dr. Frederick Lenz was an Enlightened teacher of Buddhism whom I met when I was 8. |
| iMeditate - Our sister site in New York. |
| Manhattan Meditation (New York, NY) - A place to learn about meditation and life, as taught by several teachers of those subjects -- on different nights, in different ways. Meditation and life are both big topics, we know, and pondering them can raise questions, answers, and more questions. |
| Meditation Club - An organization dedicated to teach meditation in California and all over the world. |
| Peace on the Street - The central mission of Peace on the Street is education. Our mission is to provide an integrated educational program based upon the psychological understandings articulated by the historic Buddha and developed, through the centuries, by his teachers. |
| Rama Master of Enlightenment - Quotes and movies of Rama teaching. |
| Rama Lila - Recalling Rama's teachings. |
| Rama Quotes - Quotes from Rama organized by topic. |
| Rama Tribute - Tributes to Rama written by students and friends. |
| Tantric Buddhist Monk - Excerpts from Rama's writings and talks. | Twentieth Century Buddha - This poem is dedicated to Rama. |
| Vayu Search - Search websites about Rama. |
| The Rama Channel - on YouTube. |
| Zen Master Rama - Radical Rama brochures from the 1980’s. |
| Buddhism and the Pathway to Enlightenment |
| Zen Peacemakers - Zen Peacemakers are dedicated to actualizing the interconnectedness of life and the integration of the spirit of Zen with all aspects of society. The effects of Zen practice unfolds in the meditation halls, at work, within families and within community. |
| Kanzeon Zen Center - The Big Mind/Big Heart Process. "We are all born with the unborn Buddha Mind, what I call Big Mind, an inner awareness that we are connected with others and our environment--literally One Mind." |
| Great Mountain Zen Center - Great Heart Zen Practice is a program that combines traditional Zen meditation with intensive workshops, aimed at uncovering how personal conditioning obstructs our experience of oneness. |
| Naropa University - Inspired by the rich intellectual and experiential traditions of East and West, Naropa University is North America's leading institution of contemplative education. |
| Integral Institute - This site provides an overview of Integral Institute and its activities. It outlines the ways you can connect with what we're doing. What's Integral? It simply means more balanced, comprehensive, interconnected, and whole. |
| Friends of Zen - Hollow Bones is an American Rinzai Zen School. This school provides a clear, open channel for awakening our body, mind, and spirit. This school is specifically tailored for contemporary Western culture. It is Zen stripped bare and separated from its Japanese cultural identity. |
| Spirit Rock - Spirit Rock Meditation Center is dedicated to the teachings of the Buddha as presented in the vipassana tradition. The practice of mindful awareness, called Insight or Vipassana Meditation, is at the heart of all the activities at Spirit Rock. |
| Ashoka/DharmaNet - Incorporating the teachings of the Buddha into our lives nourishes what the Dalai Lama calls "our inner dimension" and encourages the practice of peace and generosity. Ashoka courses encourage reflection, contemplation and application. |
| Dharma Ocean - The Dharma Ocean Foundation, a non-profit educational foundation dedicated to the practice, study and preservation of the teachings of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and the practice lineage he embodied. |
| Paramahansa Yogananda - Welcome to Self-Realization Fellowship, the international nonprofit society founded by Paramahansa Yogananda, widely revered as one of the preeminent spiritual figures of our time. His Autobiography of a Yogi has introduced truth-seekers all over the world to India's age-old philosophy of Yoga and its time-honored tradition of meditation. The universal teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda offer a science of spiritual exploration — one that enables us to create for ourselves spiritually harmonious lives, and to contribute to a more compassionate and peaceful world. |
| Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center of New York - The Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center of New York bases its teachings on the system of Vedanta, especially as explained by Sri Ramakrishna (1836-1886) and his disciple Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902) and demonstrated in their lives. Vedanta is the philosophy that has evolved from the teachings of the Vedas, which are a collection of ancient Indian scriptures -- the world's oldest religious writings. |
| Sri Ramana Maharshi - Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi was a realized jnana yoga master who lived in India in the early 1900s. |
| Tibet Art - Large and beautiful collection of Himalayan art from museums and private collections around the world. |
Tricycle: The Buddhist Review  - Tricycle provides a uniquely independent public forum for exploring contemporary and traditional Buddhist ideas and their integration with Western disciplines, a home for Buddhists of different traditions to come together, and an accessible voice in the dialogue between Buddhism and the broader culture. |
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| Tibet and Human Rights |
Tibetan Centre for Human Rights
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| The Government of Tibet in Exile - This site is maintained and updated by The Office of Tibet, the official agency of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in London. |
| Amicus Foundation - Responds to the suffering of refugees, orphaned children, disenfranchised women and imperiled Tibetan Buddhist cultures throughout the regions of Tibet, Bhutan and Nepal. Founded in 1987, and guided by the late Nyoshul Khenpo Rinpoche, AMICUS directs many projects in medicine, education, children's needs, women's rights and cultural preservation. |
| Tibet Photo Project - The goal of The Tibetan Photo Project is to provide the tools and technical education in photography to create a voice from the films and photos by Tibetans. While there have been thousands of great visual works documenting the Tibetans, most have been from the perspective of the Western eye. |
| International Campaign for Tibet - At ICT, we fundamentally believe that there must be a political solution based on direct dialogue between the Dalai Lama and his representatives and the People's Republic of China. Just as leaders from virtually all the protracted struggles on this planet have met to talk about their differences, so too the Chinese leaders can meet with the Dalai Lama. Without a negotiated solution for Tibet, China will never legitimize its role there. Moreover, to ensure peace and stability in the region, Tibetans must feel that their rights as a people have been acknowledged and understood. |
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| Books and Dharma Supplies |
| Garuda Trading - Tibetan Dharma Supplies. Garuda Trading was established in 1998. This was the fruition of a seed planted during my time as an ordained monk at Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery. As a practicing buddhist, the view of right livelihood is extremely important to me and everyone who is involved with Garuda Trading. |
| Only New Age Music - A fine selection of New Age music. |
| Snow Lion Publications - Tibetan Buddhism and Culture |
| Tashi Deleg! is Padma Samye Ling's recently launched news bulletin. Published once monthly, we will keep you updated on the activities of our beloved Khenpos, the status of our ongoing projects, upcoming events, and ways for you to get involved. |
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