Ask the Buddha
问佛陀 (Chinese) Tanya Sang Buddha (Indonesian) ถามพระพุทธเจ้า (Thai)
Ask the Buddha – is our enhanced custom search engine that has been configured to search specific Buddhist websites and return accurate Buddhist answers to your query. E.g. type in the word ‘meditation’ to search for the relevant material in the Buddhist world, saving yourself time and effort to filter out ‘thinking about life in general’. Alternatively you could search for more canonical topic by typing in e.g. ‘Cakkavatti-Sihanada Sutta’ or ‘Satipatthana’.
The searched results come from the websites listed below and can be added or removed from time to time as part of housekeeping.
Sutta
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Accesstoinsight.org
Access to Insight is a Theravada Buddhist website providing access to many translated texts from the Tipitaka, and contemporary materials published by the Buddhist Publication Society and many teachers from the Thai Forest Tradition.
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Suttacentral.net
SuttaCentral contains early Buddhist texts, known as the Tipiṭaka or “Three Baskets”. This is a large collection of teachings attributed to the Buddha or his earliest disciples, who were teaching in India around 2500 years ago. They are regarded as sacred canon in all schools of Buddhism.
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Dhammatalks.org
This site offers an extensive collection of English translations of suttas from the Pāli Canon, as well as a multitude of free downloads of Dhamma from the Kammaṭṭhāna (or Thai Forest) Tradition of Buddhism. Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu of Metta Forest Monastery is the speaker, author or translator unless otherwise noted.
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Buddhanet.net
BuddhaNet™ is the result of a vision to link up with the growing world-wide culture of people committed to the Buddha's teachings and lifestyle, as an on-line cyber sangha. In this way, an ancient tradition and the information superhighway will come together to create an electronic meeting place of shared concern and interests.
Abhidhamma
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Accesstoinsight.org
Access to Insight is a Theravada Buddhist website providing access to many translated texts from the Tipitaka, and contemporary materials published by the Buddhist Publication Society and many teachers from the Thai Forest Tradition.
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Suttacentral.net
SuttaCentral contains early Buddhist texts, known as the Tipiṭaka or “Three Baskets”. This is a large collection of teachings attributed to the Buddha or his earliest disciples, who were teaching in India around 2500 years ago. They are regarded as sacred canon in all schools of Buddhism.
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Dhammatalks.org
This site offers an extensive collection of English translations of suttas from the Pāli Canon, as well as a multitude of free downloads of Dhamma from the Kammaṭṭhāna (or Thai Forest) Tradition of Buddhism. Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu of Metta Forest Monastery is the speaker, author or translator unless otherwise noted.
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A Manual of Abhidhamma
A Manual of Abhidhamma by Narada Maha Thera
Vinaya
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Accesstoinsight.org
Access to Insight is a Theravada Buddhist website providing access to many translated texts from the Tipitaka, and contemporary materials published by the Buddhist Publication Society and many teachers from the Thai Forest Tradition.
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Suttacentral.net
SuttaCentral contains early Buddhist texts, known as the Tipiṭaka or “Three Baskets”. This is a large collection of teachings attributed to the Buddha or his earliest disciples, who were teaching in India around 2500 years ago. They are regarded as sacred canon in all schools of Buddhism.
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Dhammatalks.org
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Buddhanet.net
BuddhaNet™ is the result of a vision to link up with the growing world-wide culture of people committed to the Buddha's teachings and lifestyle, as an on-line cyber sangha. In this way, an ancient tradition and the information superhighway will come together to create an electronic meeting place of shared concern and interests.
Pali Language Dictionary
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palidictionary.appspot.com
This site is online Pāḷi Dictionary (Pāli to Chinese, Pāli to English, Pāli to Japanese, Pāli-Vietnamese, Pāli-Burmese). The source of the dictionaries come from Pali Canon E-Dictionary Version 1.94 (PCED).
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buddha-vacana.org
This is a search engine in the Concise Pali-English Dictionary by A.P. Buddhadatta Mahathera. You can use it for instant lookup of most Pali words and as well check their gender and etymology.
Ebooks
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Free PTS Sutta eBooks, Americanmonk.org
Originally a contract computer programmer by trade, Bhante Subhūti is an American Buddhist Monk with roots in the Sri Lanka and Myanmar Forest Traditions.
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Books, Dhammatalks.org
Meditations 10. (published Sept. 18, 2020) Transcribed Dhamma talks on breath meditation and various aspects of the Buddhist Path given by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu during the evening meditation sessions at Metta Forest Monastery primarily from 2018-2019.
Buddhism and Science
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Science and Buddhism, Matthieuricard.org
Born in France in 1946 as the son of French philosopher Jean-François Revel and artist Yahne Le Toumelin, Matthieu Ricard is a Buddhist monk, author, translator, and photographer.
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The Scientific Buddha, Tricycle.org
Why do we ask that Buddhism be compatible with science?
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Wise Brain
Welcome to WiseBrain, bringing you skillful means for happiness, love, and wisdom – from the fertile common ground of psychology, neurology, and contemplative practice.
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Perceptual Studies, Dr. Ian Stevenson
Dr. Stevenson established the Division in order to conduct research in which scientific methodology is utilized to empirically investigate phenomena which cannot be explained by the currently accepted scientific assumptions and theories about the nature of mind or consciousness, and its relationship to matter. Examples of such phenomena, sometimes called paranormal, include various types of extrasensory perception (such as telepathy), apparitions and deathbed visions, after-death communications or ADCs, poltergeists, experiences of persons who come close to death and survive (usually called near-death experiences or NDEs), out-of-body experiences (OBEs), and claimed memories of previous lives.
Disclaimer: The Society holds much respect to the authors and websites listed above. However the views, thoughts, and opinions expressed in the articles listed above belong solely to the author and origin website, and not necessarily held by the Society.