Basics of Buddhism

• The Basics of Buddhism, Meditation, Mind, Enlightenment, Buddhist Traditions & Vajrayāna – P. Lambelet
• The Bodhisattva Ideal in Theravāda Theory and Practice – J. Samuels
• Arahants, Buddhas and Bodhisattvas – Bhikkhu Bodhi
• Between Arhat and Bodhisattva – Ajahn Amaro
• Bodhisattva Ideal in Buddhism – W. Rahula
• The Ethical Discipline of Bodhisattvas – G.S. Rinchen
• Nine Considerations and Criteria for Benefiting Beings – Patrul Rinpoche
• The Seventeen Pandits of Nalanda Monastery – J. Blumenthal

Buddhism in the West

• Buddhism in the West – J. Garfield
• The Ever-Changing Forms of Buddhism – J. Blumenthal
• Three Turnings of The Wheel of Dharma – J. Garfield
• Problems in the development of Tibetan Buddhism in the West – L.S. Dagyab

Mindfulness

• Is Mindfulness Present-Centered and Nonjudgmental? – G. Dreyfus
• Mindfulness and Morality – J. Garfield

Empathy & Compassion

• From Empathy to Compassion in a Neuroscience Laboratory – M. Ricard
• Differing Perspectives, Compassion in the Buddhist and Christian Traditions – A. Norman

Critical Essays

• The Scientific Buddha – D. Lopez
• Toward a Critical Buddhist Theology of Sexuality – J. Cabezón
• In Defense of the Secular – J. Garfield

Some Aspects of Tibetan Buddhism

• Tibetan Buddhism: The Union of Three Vehicles – G. Halkias
• The Rime Movement of Jamgön Kongtrul The Great – Ringu Tulku
• Tibetan Monastic Colleges: Rationality vs. Allegiance – J. Hopkins
• Coalition of Religion and Politics – S. Karmay
• The Kadam Tradition of Atisha – T. Peljor/WP

Teacher-Student-Relationship

• Verses about Intimate Friends – Buddha
• Ethics in the Teacher-Student Relationship – 14th Dalai Lama
• Questioning the Advice of the Guru – 14th Dalai Lama
• Relating to the Guru – T. Palmo
• Devotion with Discernment – R. Preece

Aspects of Violence

• “Orientalism” and Aspects of Violence in the Tibetan Tradition – E. Sperling
• Killing Langdarma: Compassionate Killing or Conflict Resolution? – J. Schlieter

Abuse in Tibetan Buddhism

• The Guru Question: The Crisis of Western Buddhism and the Global Future of the Nalanda Tradition – J. Loizzo
• Abuse and Buddhism: Behind the Smiling Façade – A. Sawerthal
• Encountering the Shadow in Buddhist America – K. Butler
• Tibetan Buddhism Enters the 21st Century: Trouble in Shangri-la – S. Lachs
• Taking Responsibility and Seeing Eye to Eye with the Guru – Dagyab Rinpoche & Norden Dagyab

More

• Khunu Lama / Negi Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen – Biography by T. Dodin
• Full Ordination of Women – 14th Dalai Lama
• When Mind Travels – K. Löhrer
• Controversies related to Tibetan Buddhism, the Dalai Lamas and Tibet – Q&A with T. Dodin

About the 5th & 13th Dalai Lama

• The Fifth Dalai Lama and his Reunification of Tibet – S. Karmay
• The Thirteenth Dalai Lama, Tubten Gyatso – T. Shakya

About the 14th Dalai Lama

• The 14th Dalai Lama: The Making of a Spiritual Hero – S. Talty
• The Dalai Lama’s Stance towards Modernity & Buddhism – G. Dreyfus
• The Dalai Lama from a Catholic perspective – A. Norman

Interviews with the 14th Dalai Lama

• Dalai Lama, Joseph Beuys & Contemporary Art – L. Wijers
• Dalai Lama Interview Rome – R. Bultrini 2014
• The Dalai Lama about Hate, Religion & Dialogue – R. Bultrini 2005

Tibet

• Tibet’s Status under Internaional Law – E. Klein
• Essay: The Tibetans – R. Barnett
• The Body Count: The matter of mass death in Tibet – E. Sperling
• Thunder from Tibet – R. Barnett
• CIA in Tibet: A Secret War in Shangri-la – P. French
• “Tibetan” Democracy – D. Tsering
• Self-Delusion: The Middle Way Approach – E. Sperling

“Nazi-Tibet-Connection”

The essay concludes by demonstrating how the prevailing and persistent occult perception of the Ernst Schäfer Tibet expedition of 1938–39 has retained far-reaching consequences to the present day, with the result that the Tibetans and the Dalai Lama are either subsumed by the right wing and neo-Nazis, or demonized by the Left as agents of a Tibeto-Buddhist global conspiracy. — Isrun Engelhardt

• Nazis of Tibet: A Twentieth Century Myth – I. Engelhardt
• Mishandled Mail: The Strange Case of the Reting Regent’s Letters to Hitler – I. Engelhardt
• Tibet in 1938–1939: The Ernst Schäfer Expedition to Tibet – I. Engelhardt

Tibet as a Feudal Hell or Shangri-la

• Buddhism in the West & the Image of Tibet – L.S. Dagyab
• Human Rights in Tibet before 1959 – R. Barnett
• Tibet as ‘Hell on Earth’ – E. Sperling
• The Myth of Shangri-la – Tibet & the Occident by T. Shakya
• Shangri-la in Exile: Representations of Tibetan Identity & Transnational Culture – T. Huber
• “Violated Specialness”: Western Political Representations of Tibet – R. Barnett
• Imagining Tibet: Between Shangri-la & Feudal Oppression – Dodin/Räther

Christian Missionaries in Tibet

• Sacred Words & Earthly Powers: Christian Missionary Engagement with Tibet – J. Bray
• Between Tolerance & Dogmatism: Tibetan Reactions to the Capuchin Missionaries in Lhasa, 1707-1745 – I. Engelhardt
• Saving Tibet from Satan’s Grip: Present-day Missionary Activity in Tibet – R. Barnett

Research Papers

• The Tulkus & the Shugden-Controversy – M. von Brück
• Shugden Controversy & Human Rights – M. Mills
• Shugden Interdiction in the Western Himalaya – M. Mills
• The Predicament of Evil: The Case of Dorje Shukden – G. Dreyfus
• Pluralism the Hard Way – K. Löhrer

Interviews

• Protests against the Dalai Lama over Dorje Shugden – R. Barnett
• Dorje Shugden Conflict: Interview with Thierry Dodin

Notes

• Notes on the Shugden protests – R. Barnett
• Note on Shugden – P. Williams
• Shugden followers are not giving up protests against the Dalai Lama – T. Dodin

Brief Essays About the Shugden Conflict

• The Dalai Lama & the Shugden Cult – J.-U. Hartmann
• Dorje Shugden & Religious Freedom: Notes on a Conflict – J.-U. Hartmann
• Provocations of the Gyalpo – N. Norbu
• The making of a Shugden hub in the United States – T. Dodin

More

• Dorje Shugden (Overview) – T. Peljor/WP
• A Spirit of the XVII Secolo – R. Bultrini
• Who is protesting against the Dalai Lama? – T. Palmo & C. McQuire
• International Shugden Community / Western Shugden Society – T. Peljor

New Kadampa Tradition / Kadampa Buddhism

• The New Kadampa Tradition and the Continuity of Tibetan Buddhism in Transition – D. Kay
• New Kadampa Tradition (NKT-IKBU) / Kadampa Buddhism – T. Peljor/WP
• Realising the Guru’s Intention: Hungry Humans and Awkward Animals in a New Kadampa Tradition communtity – C. McQuire
• Geshe Kelsang Gyatso – T. Peljor/C. McQuire/WP
• An Unholy Row – BBC
• Australian Sangha Association Statement

Diamond Way / Diamond Way Buddhism

• Neo-orthodox Tradition and Transition: Lama Ole Nydahl and the Diamond Way – B. Scherer

FPMT’s Maitreya Project in India

• The Buddhist Lama and the Indian Farmer: Negotiating Modernity and Tradition in the Development Plans for Kushinagar, India – J. Falcone

Vinaya – Buddhist Monastic Ethics

• Essence of the Vinaya Ocean – Je Tsongkhapa
• Pratimoksha-Sutra – Buddha
• Shila Samyukta Sutra (Being Endowed with Morality) – Buddha
• Sangha Schism – Thanissaro Bhikkhu

Buddhist Teachings

• Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta (‘The Four Noble Truths’) – P. Harvey
• The Noble Eightfold Path – Bhikkhu Bodhi
• Vasubandhu’s Treatise on the Three Natures – A Translation and Commentary – J. Garfield

Self-Immolation

• Self-Immolation in Context – M. Biggs
• Self-Immolations of Tibetans – T. Dodin I
• Self-Immolations & Buddhism – T. Dodin II
• Self-Immolations of Tibetans: Reactions & Consequences – T. Dodin III

More

• Polarization Destroys Democracy – Garfield
• Death & Madness at Diamond Mountain – S. Carney
• Open Letter
• Rebirth: The Case of a Siamese Sergeant – F. Story