• Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT) is the homepage of the organization to which Khachoe Ghakyil belongs.
• Ösel Shen Phen Ling is a Tibetan Buddhist site with information, pictures, articles and Dharma talks.
• Quiet Mountain is a resource guide to all four schools of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.

Thangkas

• The Art of Tibet site is a magnificent Web exhibit of hundreds of gorgeous thangkas (Tibetan religious paintings).
• New York's Padmasambhava Buddhist Center offers an online thangka gallery.
• Images and information on female Buddhas may be found on the Female Buddhist Deities page on the Women Active in Buddhism site.

Sand mandalas

• The Sand Mandala pages on the ArtNetwork site explain the construction and significance of Tibetan sand mandalas.   Illustrated with colour photographs.
• History in the Making:   an article on the nuns of Keydong Thukche Choling, a sister nunnery in Kathmandu, who made a sand mandala during their visit to Trinity College in Hartford, CT in 1998.   From the Hartford Advocate.
• The Center of the Circle: A Mandala Resource includes a large section of fascinating links on Tibetan sand mandalas.
• Healing The Earth is an online exhibit based upon the 1997 visit of the monks of Drepung Loseling Monastery to the Canadian Museum of Civilization, showing their day-by-day construction of the Medicine Buddha sand mandala.

• Ven. Thubten Chödron, an American nun, examines the history of women's ordination in Buddhism in Nuns in the Buddhist Tradition: A Brief History.  See also her book Modern Blossoms of the Dharma: Living as a Buddhist Nun (published January 2000).
• Details of the dismantling of a sand mandala by the nuns of Keydong Thukche Choling Nunnery, also of Kathmandu, during a visit to Hartford, CT in 1998.
• History in the Making is an article about the historical significance of Tibetan nuns creating sand mandalas, from the Hartford Advocate.
• For further information and links on Buddhist nuns, see the Women's Ordination page on the Women Active in Buddhism site.
• Sakyadhita - the International Organization of Buddhist Women - also includes resources on women's ordination, including an online booklet on ordination in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.

• USA guide to Dharma centers (DharmaNet)
• Directory of Vajrayana (Tibetan Buddhist) centers (DharmaNet)
• Tricycle's Dharma center directory (Tricycle Magazine)
• Buddhist centres in Canada (George Klima)
• Female Buddhist teachers in North America (Women Active in Buddhism)
• Osel Shen Phen Ling Tibetan Buddhist Center - a stellar example of a Buddhist community website

• Holy Names College - Oakland, CA, March 23-April 3.
• Lion's Roar Mandala - Sacramento, CA, April 4-6.
• Thubten Choling - Victoria and Duncan, BC, May 27-28.
• Zuru Ling Society - Vancouver, BC, June 1-10.
• Flowing the Sacred River conference (Midwest Odyssey) - River Falls, WI, August 3.
• TIBETWestMichigan - Grand Rapids, MI, August 18-19.
• Kadampa Center - Raleigh, NC, October 20-31.
• Charleston Tibetan Society - Charleston, SC, November 2-3.
• Shi-Ho Center - San Diego, December 4.