Engaged Buddhism - Comments on engaged Buddhism and practicing
in everyday life.
Engaged Buddhism Resources - Links to pages on Engaged Buddhism
related topics including environmentally aware Buddhism, Gay
and Lesbian, hospice projects, prison projects, development,
women's groups.
Joanna Macy | Engaged Buddhism - Teachings from an eco-philosopher
and student of Buddhism on engaged Buddhism.
Strong Lessons for Engaged Buddhists - Critique of socially
engaged Buddhism from a situationist perspective.
Hospices
Amitabha Hospice - An engaged Buddhist community directly
supporting a large hospice in Australia and indirectly supporting
hospice caregivers worldwide. This website has a wealth of online
resources for Buddhists involved with death, dying, and bereavement.
Brisbane Australia Karuna Hospice Service - Offers free,
24 hour, compassionate, caring support in Brisbane at home to
terminally ill people and their families, based on the Buddhist
tradition.
Buddhanet Death and Dying Resource Center - Articles and
links to Buddhist resources for death, dying, and bereavement.
Buddhist Hospice Trust - Aims to provide compassionate care
and companionship for the living, the dying, and the bereaved.
Clear Light Society - Provides assistance to the terminally
ill and their families using meditation.
Sangha Metta Project - Engages monks in HIV/AIDS prevention
and care. The monks, taking the Buddha's teachings as their
inspiration, concluded that a core aspect of HIV/AIDS was ignorance
about the condition among both the sufferers and the general
public.
Zen Hospice Project - An engaged Buddhist community supporting
and staffing a large San Francisco hospice. The website also
feature resources for hospice caregivers worldwide.
Organizations
Amida Trust - Features group gathering a corps of people
seriously interested in developing humanitarian projects on
Buddhist principles to help overcome suffering in the world.
The Anand Society (Steuncomité Anand) - This group of enthusiasts
invites visitors to the Buddhist holy sites, and to Bodhgaya
in particular, to really practice the concepts of metta and
karuna by supporting the Jeevan Deep network of education projects
for Bodhgaya's communities of "untouchables".
Buddhist Peace Fellowship - The Buddhist Peace Fellowship,
founded in 1978, brings together Buddhist teachings with progressive
social action. Programs include peace and justice work, prison
work, Buddhist Alliance for Social Engagement, and the magazine
Turning Wheel.
Buddhist Relief Mission - Buddhist Relief Mission is a 501(C)3
non-profit organization supporting Buddhist projects worldwide,
particularly in remote areas.
Dharma Access Project - Brailled Buddhist prayers are provide
for free upon request - bound Brailled copies of The Four Immeasurables
and the Prayer of Shantideva to any Dharma center or member
who would like one for a family member or friend who is blind.
Dharma Gaia Trust - Project with a mission to nurture awareness
of the complementarity of Buddhism and ecology.
Earth Sangha - Buddhist environmental nonprofit organization
founded on the premise that the Buddhist way of looking at life
can play a major role in healing the planet's environmental
crisis. Formal mission to practice Buddhism in ways that help
people become better stewards of the planet, and to do the practical
environmental work that good stewardship demands.
Himalayan Kingdom Foundation Trust - A private non-profit
organization based in Nepal, sponsoring projects marketing Nepali
goods to benefit the educational, social, medical, artistic
and spiritual needs of the Nepalese people.
Jamyang Choling - An innovative education project for Himalayan
women with buddhist orientation.
The Karuna Trust - UK based Buddhist organization that has
education, health and cultural projects for poor people in India
of any religion. Also helps fund Buddhist activities.
Metta Welfare Association - Singaporean organization working
for welfare of the poor, the elderly, the disabled and the terminally
ill.
Multicultural Buddhists for Peace - Buddhist people of color
multicultural interfaith message board and speakers bureau sponsoring
diversity in the heart of Americans to achieve peace, religious
tolerance, heal racism, end violence, and alleviate poverty.
Rokpa - An international family of charities helping the
hungry, sick, orphaned and poor.
Rokpa UK - Non-sectarian non political approach to raising
money to build schools and clinics in some of the poorest areas
of the world. RokpaUK Charity is based at Samye Ling Tibetan
Centre in the boorders of Scotland.
Rokpa USA - Works in the areas of basic and further education,
health care, relief of hunger,preservation of culture, self-help
and ecology.
Strawberry Dragon Zendo - A Buddhist outreach program supporting
peaceful social action in places such as prisons, hospitals
and with our Native American people.
Tzu Chi Foundation - Taiwanese compassionate relief organization.
Tzu-Chi Foundation: Northern California Chapter - The Buddhist
Compassion Relief, Tzu-Chi Foundation is a non-profit organization
whose objective is to provide charity, medical treatment, educational
development, and cultural promotion to the needy and the society
worldwide
UWTC - Taiwan Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation, Collegiate Association,
Seattle Chapter
Zaltho Foundation - Promotes peace and nonviolence in and
among individuals, families, societies and countries. It supports
all efforts to attain this goal through whatever peaceful and
non-violent means are available.
Zen Environmental Studies Center - Formed in 1992 to coordinate
Zen Mountain Monastery's activities in the areas of environmental
education, recreation, research, and protection. Information
on activities and philosophy.
Prison
Angulimala - the Buddhist Prison Chaplaincy Organisation
- Organisation representing Buddhism in the prison service.
Buddhist Inmate Sangha - An interfaith group of Buddhists
devoted to connecting prisoners who desire to learn about Buddhism
with pen pals of their respective faiths. Provides books on
Buddhism and Eastern Philosophy to inmates and prison libraries
upon request.
Buddhist Relief Mission - Prison Dharma Support system of
the Buddhist Relief Mission.
Gateless Gate Prison Outreach Program - Florida prison effort
of the Kwan Um School of Zen.
Kanromon - Meditation group meeting at Baltimore City Detention
Center.
National Buddhist Prison Sangha - Zen Mountain Monastery Prison
Program - Volunteer organization. Depending on their experience
with practice, as well as their time and personal resources,
these volunteers may provide support through correspondence,
visits, and the creation and leading of practice groups.
Prison Dharma Network - A nonsectarian Buddhist support
network for prisoners, prison volunteers, and correctional workers.
An affiliate of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship.
Prison Dharma Support - A non-sectarian Buddhist support
network for prisoners, prison volunteers and correctional workers.
Shambhala Prison Community - Initiates Buddhist meditation
groups in US prisons and jails.
Shambhala Prison Community - Serves spiritual and educational
needs in prisons.
Zen Practice for Inmates - Meditation training as an alternative
to conventional sentencing. During the past year a "scholarship"
fund has been created to assist serious inmate practitioners
in attending a monastic training period on parole or at release
from prison. The Engaged Zen Foundation intends to establish
a monastic-based alternative sentencing facility where offenders
may serve out sentences in a highly disciplined Zendo atmosphere.