 Save Tibet: 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...."
The Tibet Fund, founded in 1981, is the principal fund raising organization for the Tibetan people, established to help preserve and promote their unique cultural heritage.
Tibet Online aims to counteract the disadvantages Tibetans face in their struggle against the vast resources of the Chinese government
The Government of Tibet in Exile The official website of the Tibetan Government.
A Talk by the Dalai Lama in Real Audio. Transcript of that talk. :,,, Beliefnet joined the Conservancy for Tibetan Art and Culture and the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in presenting a public talk by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, July 3, 2000, on the National Mall, Washington, DC. The address was part of the three-day Monlam Chenmo Prayer Festival celebrating the Buddha's enlightenment...."
Daily Wisdom by the Dalai Lama
Tibetan Plateau Project (TPP) promotes the conservation of biodiversity and the sustainable development of local communities in the Tibetan Plateau region, which includes portions of Bhutan, China, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Tibet. TPP's Endangered Species Fact Sheet documents some of the endangered wildlife species in Tibetan medicine and their status in the wild
Historic Buddhism and Buddhist Education
Bodhgaya The four most holy places associated with the Buddha are Lumbini, his birthplace, in Nepal; Sarnath, near Varanasi, where he preached his first message; Kushinagar, near Gorakhpur, where he died; and Bodhgaya, where he attained enlightenment. Bodhgaya is the most important Buddhist pilgrimage site in the world. Apart from being a significant archaeological site, it is also a vital Buddhist centre.
Lama Zopa Rimpoche
Kopan Monastery and Medicine Buddha Practice "This practice is especially good if you are helping others, especially if you are doing healing work it helps you to be more accurate and beneficial. You will receive much support, not only from the Eight Gone to Bliss Ones but from the four clairvoyant devas. These devas help you diagnose and understand the right method to heal, they are associated with the Eight Gone to Bliss Ones. "If one doesn't get the recitation of Medicine Buddha practice done it is a greater loss than losing trillions of dollars. In terms of the benefits of the practice, one has missed out, lost trillions of dollars." Kopan Monastery Gift of Prayer project
Root Institute for Wisdom Culture "a dynamic centre where the Buddhist ideals of universal responsibility and education could be taught and practiced."
WorldView is an organization devoted to the preservation, study and practice of authentic, accurate Tibetan Buddhism
Naropa University is a private, non-profit, fully accredited liberal arts college offering undergraduate and graduate degrees in transpersonal psychology, contemplative psychology, Buddhist studies, writing, environmental studies, gerontology, somatic psychology, early childhood education, and more. "... integrates the best of Eastern and Western educational traditions, helping students know themselves more deeply and engage constructively with others. By combining these two storied pedagogies, East and West are indeed meeting every day at Naropa University and the resulting sparks of inspiration are flying...."
Working with the Invisible "... In our modern world we rely on a narrow, distorted idea of science to tell us the story of the stuff the world is made of. We look to this pseudo- science for the "truth:" to tell us what is real and what is not real. Much of what scientists say is tremendously helpful and true. It is not that the world that their stories describe is completely wrong, or doesn't exist at all. It is just that the modern description leaves out so much -- it leaves out the sacredness, the livingness, the soul of the world. And it does get troublesome when some scientists tell us, often with a voice of authority, that the part they leave out is really not there." -- Jeremy Hayward; "Dear Vanessa" Shambhala Sun, May 1997 Covers t he topics of Prayer Wheels, Prayer Flags, Shrines, Stupas, and Feng-shui
 Medicine Budda and Tibetan Medicine
"If one meditates on the Medicine Buddha, one will eventually attain enlightenment, but in the meantime one will experience an increase in healing powers both for oneself and others and a decrease in physical and mental illness and suffering." —Lama Tashi Namgyal
Medicine Buddha as the Supreme Healer in Tibetan medicine for liberating the individual from suffering is an exemplary metaphor for the mystical elements which are universally inherent in the healing tradition. The tradition is truly a holistic approach to the problem of suffering, both individual suffering and suffering as a universal condition.
TibetanMedicine.com "... These pages are dedicated to giving a voice to practitioners and students of Tibetan medicine. There are by now many pages on the web devoted to Tibetan medicine, but few are written from the uniquely informed point of view of those who have dedicated years to its study and practice. In Tibetan medicine it is thought that all suffering (and therefore all illness) results from ignorance. We can then safely assume that education is one way to reduce ignorance and its results. I hope a point of view informed by study and practice can benefit all those who are interested in Tibetan medicine and what it has to teach about health and the causes of illness...."
Traditional Tibetan Healing "...Two thousand years ago the indigenous people of Tibet had a traditional medical system and like the medical systems of most indigenous people it was connected to the native spiritual system; in the case of Tibet this was the Bön religion. Over several centuries medical knowledge was incorporated from the Indian Ayurvedic, the Chinese system, and the medical systems of Hellenic Greece and Persia. In addition this system incorporated the Buddhist thought that was also introduced during that time. Tibetan medicine has existed in its present form for over one thousand years. In Buddhist thought, all suffering and hence all illness is caused by the three poisons: attachment, anger and ignorance. Dr. Yeshi Donden remarked that 'the root [of illness] is beginningless ignorance' and that 'ignorance is with us like our own shadow . . . even if we think that we are in very good health, actually we have had the basic cause of illness since beginningless time'... "
The Practice of Tibetan Medicine Includes a number of articles:
Dharma Haven offers some excellent articles on the Medicine Buddha
Tibetan Medicine and Astrology by the government of Tibet in exile.
Tibetan Meditation
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