LINKS

• Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche
  Leader of Shambhala International,
  author of Ruling Your World
  
  
• Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
  One of Pema Chödrön's teachers
  
  
• Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche
  Director of the films, The Cup and Travelers & Magicians
  
  
• Tsoknyi Rinpoche
  Author of Fearless Simplicity
  
  
• Khandro Rinpoche
  Author of This Precious Life
  
  
• Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche:
  Author of Mind Beyond Death
  
  
• Judy Lief
  Author of Making Friends With Death (Shambhala tradition)
  
  
• Ken McLeod
  Author of Wake Up to Your Life
  (Tibetan tradition)
  
  
• Alexander Berzin
  Author of Relating to a Spiritual Teacher. (Tibetan tradition)
  
  
• Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition
  Led by Lama Zopa Rinpoche
  
  
• Sharon Salzberg
  Author of Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience
  (Theravadan/Thai tradition)
  
  
• Joseph Goldstein
  Author of One Dharma: The Emerging Western Buddhism
  (Theravadan/Thai tradition)
  
  
• Alan Clements
  Author of Instinct for Freedom: Finding Liberation Through Living (Theravadan/Burmese tradition)
  
  
• S.N. Goenka
  Vipassana teacher
  
  
• Thich Nhat Hanh
  Author of Peace is Every Step
  (Mahayana tradition)
  
  
• Tenzin Palmo
  Author of Reflections on a Mountain Lake
  
  
• Karmapa XVII
  Leader of the Kagyu lineage
  
  

• Engineers without Borders engineers and students partner with developing communities to implement sustainable engineering projects
  
  
• Peacejam
  Nobel Peace Laureates work personally with youth to pass on the spirit, skills, and wisdom they embody
  
  
• Center for Nonviolent Communication
  Skills for talking to those with whom you completely disagree
  
  
• Peacemaker Institute
  Led by Roshi Bernie Glassman,
  author of Bearing Witness
  
  
• Buddhist Peace Fellowship
  
  
• Clowns Without Borders
  Bringing laughter to children in refugee camps and victims of conflicts
  
  
• Peace Brigades International
  Nonviolent peacekeeping and support for human rights
  
  

• Mind and Life Institute
  Neuroscience and Buddhism
  researched at Harvard, UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco
  
  
• Santa Barbara Institute
  Interdisciplinary Study of Consciousness, founded by B. Alan Wallace
  
  
• Mindfulness and Mental Health
  
  
• Harvard's Mind/Body Medical Institute
  
  
• Nitharta Institute
  Systematic course of study with training in Tibetan Buddhist forms of meditation and debate
  
  
• Buddhadharma:
  The Practitioner's Quarterly
  
  
• Tricycle Magazine
  
  
• Bodhi Magazine
  
  

• Lance Armstrong Foundation
  All about relating to cancer.
  Live Strong.
  
  
• Life Extension Foundation
  Leading science and supplementation for health and wellbeing
  
  
• EMDR Institute
  Trauma recovery
  
  
• NAMI
  National Alliance on Mental Illness
  
  
• Dr. Weil
  Alternative healing site
  
  
• National Center for Victims of Crime
  
  

• Prison Dharma Network
  Pema Chodron is a spiritual advisor
  
  
• Shambhala Prison Community
  Taking meditation into over 30 prisons
  
  
• Gateless Gate Zen Center
  Innovative prison dharma in Florida
  
  
• Doing Time, Doing Vipassana
  Documentary about successful meditation programs in prisons.
  
  
• Prisoner Rehabilitation:
  Emotional Literacy
  
  

• Stephen Levine
  
  
• Zen Hospice Center
  
  
• Upaya Zen Center
  Led by Joan Halifax, Roshi,
  author of A Buddhist Life in America
  
  


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