I wish to join an online Sangha of a Buddhist community, is there one available?

Question

I wish to become a Buddhist, but in Lincoln Nebraska there are no Pure Land or similar sanghas available. Is there an online sangha I can join?

Answer 1

http://www.ymba.org/index.html

http://www.amtb-dba.org/English/links.html

http://www.amtb-usa.org/eindex.htm

maybe you can email these websites for more info.
with metta.

Answer 2

Buddha said there were no sacraments, that ceremonies are arbitrary and exist for the psychological value. Hence, in America Buddhists the kind of things that other other religionists kill and die for are trivia to Bhuddists. Buddhist services and holidays are moved to the nearest Sunday. For instance, Buddha was born in the month of Kartikka which runs October--November. But his birthday was moved to April 9 with symbolism that shows it borrowed from existing spring festivals. Now it's the Sunday nearest April 9. Similarly Bhuddists cooperate with colloquial English and use terms like "temple" and "congregation".

I used to go to a Buddhist Temple's church suppers. They were quite nice. The last time I was there there was a buffet by a downtown Japanese restaurant because the owners were parishioners.

So the search term you needed was "temple". Here are the first few links that [WARNING: ADVT] Yahoo Search! [WARNING: PRODUCT PLACEMENT] gave me.

This is the Cleveland Buddhist Temple's site:
http://samsara.law.cwru.edu/~cbt/

The Seattle Bhuddist Temple has a list of temples:
http://www.seattlebetsuin.com/sites.htm

But these don't directly answer your question. However at the bottom of one site I found:
http://u.webring.com/hub?ring=dharmashanti

That is the Dharma Link web ring. You can go from there.

Another clue: I notice that one site had "sangham" instead of "sangha". That's possibly the Sanskrit/Pali problem with Buddhism. Sanskrit was the accepted ecclesiastical version of Old Vedic. But Buddha spoke Pali. In European terms that's like the difference between Latin and Portuguese. Hence you will find variants on the same word when discussing Buddhism. So you will find some writers referring to the Dharma Path as Dharmapada (Sanskrit) and others referring to it as the Dhammapada (Pali). And a sermon is referred either as "sutra" (Sanskrit) or "sutta".

Answer 3

first and optimum, congrats to the Senator on the delivery of your baby. Secondly, congrats to the destiny Mrs. Dave F. i'd could say that I actually have 3 in demand, no, make that 4 in demand temples. the first is Oakland, Ca. it really is the first temple I attended as a teenager doing baptisms for the lifeless. 2d, is the Salt Lake city Temple. in reality been interior once, yet have considered it distinctive cases. It has heritage and is one of in reality 2 temples that do stay endowment classes. third is the l. a. Temple. It actually sits between a foul community, yet it supplies the area a particular attractiveness. It jogs my memory that Heavenly Father loves all his little ones and that social prestige is going in reality up to now see you later as we are in this earth. very last and actual no longer the least is the smaller version of the temples, Fresno, Ca. I and my spouse were sealed for time and all eternity. i replaced into quite enthusiastic about the potential for having the flexibility to attend classes that now somewhat of vacationing btw a one hundred fifty-2 hundred miles and using 3-4 hrs., that's a 10-15 minute stress of in the area of five short miles. All carry particular position in my heart and are equivalent in my estimation. i desire to visit and do classes in different temples around the country and sometime, the international.

Answer 4

LOL. If I recall correctly, America ia a pre-dominantly Christian country. For Buddhism, I'm afraid you'll have to visit either Tibet or China, if you really are interested. I'm afraid the internet is constituted as part of the "worldly desires" thing and hence all monastries are still without computers, unfortunately.

Answer 5

try check www.buddhanet.net ... i don't know if there's online sanghas but hey do have good books in library section.