Religion and Spirituality

Offers Insight Meditation retreats and related activities in Honolulu and the Big Island.

Vipassana retreat center and center for Buddhist studies.

Vipassana group led by Robert Beatty provides teacher profile, practice schedule, and information on their children's program, retreats and special events.

Meditation classes and retreats in and around Houston.

Offering courses in Vipassana meditation in the tradition of Sayagyi U Ba Khin as taught by S. N. Goenka and his assistant teachers.

A group of people who meet regularly to practice sitting meditation.

A facility for meditation and contemplative arts in the Buddhist and Shambhala traditions. Information about programs, schedule, monthly articles.

Offers meditation practices, empowerments, retreats, and social events in the Riwoche tradition

Marpa House is a Tibetan retreat centre dedicated to Buddhist practice. The centre was founded by Chime Rinpoche. All who have an interest in meditation are welcome.

Part of a worldwide network of meditation centers founded by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.

A retreat center run by Geshe Michael Roach. Includes details of retreats, teaching schedule, and transcripts of talks.

Tibetan Buddhist Retreat Center located in Boulder Creek, California.

Established in 1975 by Tarthang Tulku, a master of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Odiyan is a creative working environment dedicated to the preservation and transmission of the Buddhist teachings.

Features Tibetan Buddhism and Kagyu Lineage overview, membership fee schedule, weekly practice calendar, and shrine room behavior etiquette.

A center for practice in the Karma Kagyu tradition.

One of an international community of meditation centers led by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche.

Dagom Gaden Tensung Ling is a monastery in the Gelugpa tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, located in Bloomington, Indiana, USA.

Offers meditation and study in the Nyingma tradition. Includes teacher biography and event schedule.

Monastery located in Seattle.

Offers introductory classes, and dharma teachings. Includes event schedule.

Deer Park Buddhist Center was established by a community of people committed to practicing Buddhism within the tradition developed by Tibetan spiritual masters and scholars.

Zazen groups. Costs, locations, and events.

Comprehensive list maintained by the International Research Institute for Zen Buddhism.

Offers Sunday services and dharma talks, and periodic sesshins in the Soto tradition.

Offers regular zazen and retreats.

A lay Zen Buddhist organization, was founded in 1959 by Anne Hopkins Aitken and Robert Aitken, Roshi, dharma heir of Yamada Roshi and author of Taking the Path of Zen, The Gateless Barrier: The Wu Men Kuan, and seven other Zen books.

Offers daily zazen and periodic sesshins. Harada-Yasutani lineage.

Offers mindfulness Practice in the Tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh. Provides several sittings each week, and periodic workshops.

Practice based on the teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh.

Spiritual community combining the Christian contemplative tradition and the Zen Buddhist tradition of the Diamond Sangha. Offers regular meditation and group meditation retreats.

Cooperative group of Soto Zen students practicing together in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki-roshi. Offers regular zazen practice and frequent retreats.

Brief Dogen biography, references, and links.

A collection of Dogen resources including a biography, essays, and translations of Fukanzazengi, Genjo Koan, Bendowa, Uji, and Shoji.

The classic collection of koans usually used in introductory koan training.

Biographical article.

Study of Paul's approach in these verses of how people can be made right with God and of Old Testament quotations in these verses. Considers both Catholic and Protestant views.

Ten multiple choice questions in a quiz.

Selected passages explained including Jesus' birth, sermon on the plain, and the Lord's prayer.

A 41 day reading guide for the reading the gospel. Includes questions to think about, verses to highlight and maps of Palestine and Jerusalem.

Systematic studies/research on the rapture after the tribulation, with critiques on dispensationalism.

Although the Pre-Trib Rapture doctrine is considered to be a “cornerstone” of Dispensationalism, some Dispensationalists actually reject this doctrine; and this Editorial presents both sides of the debate.

This site explains why so many believe we currently live in the "Last Days" that Jesus foretold, and why the Rapture should be distinguished from the second coming of Christ.

Although this website focuses on how news events fit into Bible prophecy, it really does not concern itself with politics, because everything is ultimately in the Lord's Hands.

Background, biography, details of his work, and an overview of his legacy.

Ongoing group project to construct an original commentary of the Book of Hebrews. Each passage reflects the opinions of several contributors.

By Fenton Hort (1909).

Commentary published in 1721 which looks at biblical passages chapter by chapter, and section by section.

Indexed by author's outline of Matthew. Exposition and comparison with parallel passages in other gospels. Can be downloaded as a PDF file.

By Morgan Dix (1827-1908), an American Episcopal minister. Verse commentary published in 1863 (Image, text, PDF).

By George Bush (1857).