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- Beyond Belief: A Buddhist Critique of Christianity - "Fundamentalist Christianity poses a real threat to Buddhism, and while Buddhists can never hope to match the aggressiveness or organizational abilities of its proponents, they can very easily counter them by becoming familiar with Christianity's numerous doctrinal weaknesses and Buddhism's many strengths."
- An Overview of Buddhism - A brief introduction to Buddhism. How Buddhists perceive the world, the four main teachings of the Buddha, the Buddhist view of the self, the relationship between this self and the various ways in which it responds to the world, the Buddhist path and the final goal.
- Abrahamic Monotheism versus the Buddha's Dharma - Why and how Buddhism refutes the existence of a creator god.
- A Buddhist View from Below - Information about the philosophy, practice and vision of organisations inspired and founded by Sulak Sivaraksa.
- Does a Dog Have Buddha Nature? - A Buddhist view of using animals for research and classroom dissection. Robert A. Leopold for Heartland Sangha in Illinois, US.
- What happens when we die? - Manjuvajra offers some Buddhist views. Reprinted from Golden Drum 18.
Wikipedia Articles
- Third Buddhist council - The Third Buddhist council was convened in about 250 BCE at Asokarama in Patiliputta, under the patronage of Emperor Asoka. The reason for convening the Third Buddhist Council is reported to have been to rid the Sangha of corruption and bogus monks who held heretical views.
- Buddhist vegetarianism - In Buddhism, the views on vegetarianism vary from school to school. In the schools of the Theravada and Vajrayana, the act of eating meat is not always prohibited (see Jivaka Sutta, below); the Mahayana schools generally recommend a vegetarian diet, based on the firm insistence by the Buddha in certain Mahayana sutras ...
- Tricycle Foundation - The Tricycle Foundation is a not-for-profit educational organization based in New York City with a stated mission of introducing and disseminating Buddhist views and values in the West. Formerly called The Buddhist Ray, Inc.
- Aggi-Vacchagotta Sutta - The Aggi-Vacchagotta Sutta is a Buddhist sutta in the Majjhima Nikaya of the Tripitaka. In this sutta, Gautama Buddha clarifies his views on the nature of existence and explains the nature of nirvana to Vacchagotta by means of a simile.
- Indian philosophy - The term Indian philosophy (Sankrit: Darshanas), may refer to any of several traditions of philosophical thought that originated in the Indian subcontinent, including Hindu philosophy, Buddhist philosophy, and Jain philosophy. Chatterjee and Datta give this definition, explaining that a cornerstone of Indian philosophy is a tradition of respect for multiple views: