FPMT Centres & Projects in SE QLD
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Langri Tangpa Centre is a member of the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), an international network of centres following the teachings of Lama Tsong Khapa, and working to relieve all beings from suffering in all its forms. |
| Enlightenment Project Buddha statues, tsa-tsas and tsa-tsa moulds, lotus lights and prayer flags. | |
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Chenrezig Institute is our sister centre in the Sunshine Coast hinterland. Resident lama is Ven. Geshe Tashi Tsering |
| Garden of Enlightenment memorial gardens at Chenrezig Institute - Stupas as Buddhist headstones. | |
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Karuna Hospice non-denominational, at home care for the dying. Regular meditation group too.
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Other Tibetan Buddhist Groups in Brisbane
| Tibetan Buddhist Society is located in East Brisbane, and was founded by Geshe Loden. Regular classes. |
| Rigpa Group is Sogyal Rinpoche's group. Beginners, intermediate and advanced classes 5 nights a week in Red Hill. |
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Buddha Net Australian non-sectarian Buddhist info site with teachings, national directory of Buddhist groups, e-books and heaps of links. |
| World Wide Web virtual library. A cyber encyclopedia of Buddhism if ever there was one! All the traditions and many resources online. | |
| Quiet Mountain is a directory of sites classified according to the four schools of Tibetan Buddhism. (Not to be confused with the commercial site with the same name) | |
| HH Dalai Lama a short and sweet home page with His Holiness as a young man, a statesman, and speaking on world peace. Nice photos. |
| Lama Zopa Rinpoche a site put together by Lillian Too with great devotion. Great photos, stories, prayers, famous Buddhists, and info on Rinpoche's Gurus. |
| Geshe Tashi Tsering has a website with info about sponsoring his monks in India, helping rebuild their monastery, and supporting his western sangha here in Queensland. |
| Tibet
Search up to date info on Tibet news, culture, shopping, calendar
and chat. |
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Dharamasalanet
has links to the Tibetan community, arts and culture, meditation
Centres, holiday & travel guides, e-zines and teachings and
news updates. |
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Australia Tibet Council How you can help, news and campaigns. |
| The Tibet Game play your way to nirvana in an interactive tour meeting monks, hanging prayer flags and avoiding Chinese secret agents. | |
Tibet
Photo Project A proffesional photographer gives Tibetan monks
cameras and asked them to take photoes of their own life in Tibet
and in exile. Uses photography as a tool to preserve Tibetan culture. |
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| Tibetan Alphabet has nicely drawn Tibetan characters and clear explanations. Makes understanding the basics of Tibetan a snap! |
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Online Tibetan Dictionary has a search facility in both Tibetan and English, and has 4 times as many words in it than the print version. |
| Tibetan Government in Exile is the official site, all about Tibet and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. | |
| Tibet Awareness site has an extensive press kit on His Holiness the Dalai Lama, with the text of many of his public addresses. | |
| Tibetan Recipes and Asian cooking, but as I have no interest in cooking, I don't know how good they are. | |
| Art of Thangka is a beautiful site. Russian born traditional Tibetan thanka painting, 3 viewing sizes (to relish all the detail). Student of Namkai Norbu Rinpoche. | |
| Himalayan Art has a wealth of paintings, statues and woven textile pictures (over 16,200), divided into genres, topics, traditions. Very well presented - you could spend hours! Search engine as well... | |
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Free Dharma Art and other web goodies, including web-site templates and pics. |
| Dharma Net's Art site has hundreds of links and a catalogue, with both fantastic and dreadful offerings. | |
| Karma Phuntsok's site has a pleasant mix of traditional Tibetan thanka painting with a modern western outlook. eg. Maitreya in front of skyscrapers. | |
| Andy Weber is one of the most well-know and prolific painters of Buddhist deities. Great site with mandalas, Buddhas and more. | |
| Buddhist Statues and some cards, but you need a fast modem to get these pics. And you need sunnies for this one! | |
| Buddhist drawings on Buddhanet, and desktop wallpapers and line drawings. | |
| Lost Treasures of Tibet is some fascinating and very sensitive restoration of Buddhist temples and frescos. Great before and after photos. All done in collaboration and with the unanimous support of the villagers. | |
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Maitreya Project is Lama Zopa Rinpoche's astonishing project - a unique statue that will be several times larger than the Statue of Liberty, and only half the cost of a suburban shopping centre! |
| Bendigo Stupa will be the size of a football field, the biggest Stupa in the Western World, and inside it will be a meditation hall and many shrine rooms. | |
| Feng-Shui Lillian Too's practical feng-shui advice that you too can apply. A devoted student of Lama Zopa Rinpoche and a world-class Feng-shui expert. | |
| Investigating the Mind Exchanges between Buddhism and Bio-behavioral Science, a Harvard University Mind / Brain / Behavior Inter-faculty Initiative. Discussions and interviews with the Dalai Lama and western scientists. | |
| Mind Tools and various techniques to improve your memory and study skills. Surprisingly (or not) you will recognise many of the techniques from traditional Buddhist study. | |
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Wake Up: Gnostisism, Buddhism and the Matrix is an essay that originally appeared in The Journal of Religion and Film. |
| Free your mind: Buddhist Critique of the Matrix with quotes from Kalu Rinpoche, Gampopa and Lama Ole Nydahl of the Diamond Way network, juxtaposed with the enitre script from The Matrix. Including the inforgettable lines from Agent Smith "You are empty" to which Neo replies "So are you.." | |
| The Dalai Lama in Science Fiction annotated bibliography lists mainstream science fiction and fantasy novels, short stories and movies with references to the Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhism and/or Tibet in general. | |
| Enlightened Business Institute Geshe Michael Roache's business guidelines without the Buddhist jargon, but with the business jargon! |
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| Dharma for Kids learn how to draw a Buddha, do puzzles (some as hard as a rubic's cube) make virtual water bowl offerings and other quality fun stuff. |
| Explorations Tibetan art is very good at telling stories. Like Aesop's fables, many of these stories contain lessons about good and evil, often focusing on the importance of kindness, generosity and compassion. Very well presented stories and pictures. |
| Karma Ghost is a funky 50's lounge animation of accumulating karma, complete with cool cat soundtrack. |
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Dharma the Cat is a funny, revealing look at how we kid only ourselves, and every procrastination trick in the book! |
| Buddhist Cartoons, various teachings of the Buddha in animated form, some zen jokes, and other original Buddhist cartoons from various authors. | |
| Sutra Manga, Animations, e-cards, poetry, T-shirt designs, Buddhist peaceful activism and of course - cartoons! | |
| Mindful Clock Audio clock that rings either a bell of mindfulness, or (for the more conventional) Westminster chimes. Set to go off on the hour, 1/4 hour or randomly. | |
| Free Buddhist Screen savers to download. Their instructions however are confusing, so see our computer help and FAQ's page. | |
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Death Clock a friendly reminder that life is slipping away, calculate your life-expectancy, add a countdown to your desktop, quotes on impermanence. |
| E-mail Stationary it takes a while to wade through to find the few mandala, Tara or mantra letterheads, but if you're into decorating your emails... | |
| Liberation Prison Project Founded by Ven. Robina of "Chasing Buddha" fame, they provide support and teacings for people in prison in America and here in Oz. |
| New Yorker Magazine manages to make any topic they write about intensely interesting. A favorite mag of many of the Buddhist nuns, including Ven. Robina Courtin, that frequent our centre. |
| Juxtapoz Magazine cutting edge low-brow art that looks amazing, makes you think, and you don't need a degree in wankery to understand. |
| The Big Issue is the Australian counterpart of an amazing network of street press publications supporting the marginalised and homeless. |
| The Big Issue Lists (UK) for a wealth of info on how-to's (rent a house, sell a car, apply for school). |
| The Raymond Price Fund For Keeping Raymond Price Out Of Trouble is a funny and extraordinary story of karma, thought transformation and how to be a useful and truly non-judgmental human being. Part of the JoinMe network. |
| Skeleton Art has both beautiful and bleak skeletons, with over 13 artists painting skulls and skeletons of all persuasions - weird, wonderful, tattooed, and even flesh-covered. |
| Outre Gallery in Melbourne shows groovy and sick artists (some featured in Juxtapoz) and has great links too. |
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