Lotus Sutra Summer Program

Resources

Welcome to the Monastery (PDF) introduces monasteries in the Dharma Realm Buddhist Association for first-time visitors. This contains a section on the ceremonies and a list of helpful Buddhist terms .

http://online.sfsu.edu/~rone/Buddhism/Buddhism.htm (for links to Online Sites with Buddhist Collections in both Mahayana and Theravada)

http://world.std.com/~metta/index.html (Home of Access to Insight; primary texts source)

http://jbe.la.psu.edu/ (the Journal of Buddhist Ethics)

www.bttsonline.org (Buddhist Text Translation Society)

Books

Mizuno, Kogen and J. W. de Jong. Essentials of Buddhism: Basic Terminology and Concepts of Buddhist Philosophy and Practice. Tokyo: Kosei Publishing Co., 1996.

This is a good resource that translates much of the critical terms in Buddhism that brings together scholarship and practice.