Welcome - This site is offered as a celebration of our spiritual heritage as human beings, and in gratitude to all the world's excellent teachers. As the Zen meal chant says, 'Ten thousand labors brought us this food... may we receive it to further the path of practice...' With the way things are in these times, this site is dedicated simply to relieving suffering and promoting greater health and happiness in the world. So have a look around, and download whatever you feel might be useful to you. The following is a brief introduction to what you can find here, and a link to a page that has some recommendations. This site is first of all a Buddhist educational resource. Most of the material is from the main Buddhist Traditions - the Tibetan, Zen and Theravada. The teachings of the historical Buddha can be found in Theravada/Suttas I and II. At this time there is also quite a bit of material from the main World Religions. I bow.

I've noticed over the years that sometimes it's hard to get a sense of the contents of some websites - both in terms of the range, and the amount of material they have. So I've tried to think of a way to represent what is here... Imagine walking down a street and coming across a building - a library - with one wall that is transparent, so you can see what's inside... how much is there, and where it is... I've tried to sketch something like this. For our Site Map - A proportionate visual overview of the site contents - 'A Buddhist Library at a Glance', click here.





This is a large site, over 400 books (and counting), and more than 6,000 articles. There is now a hyperlinked list of these books, as well as a shorter list of Featured Books.

Click here for a page that has the 43 hyper-linked lists of files (including the books).

