American Buddha Online Library Provides Educational Resources and Forum For Science and Philosophy

American-Buddha.com provides free resources for educators and students. Classical literature, movie reviews and images, and cutting edge commentary vie for your attention in a lively, commercial-free space. Educational use of media permitted for American Buddha Online Library members.

(PRWEB) August 7, 2004 -- Are there still fun, individualistic websites out there, created by people fueled with an altruistic vision to share exciting information with lively minds? The American-Buddha.com website is determined to be sure the answer to that question is yes. The website has become internationally popular, and a large number of educational and government websites link to the site because of the broad cross-disciplinary reach of its content.

The website provides resources for teachers and students looking for resources on classical philosophy, the scientific method, empirical analysis, free speech, and progressive news and political analysis. The website provides a media archive of images and text that are available to members of the American Buddha Online Library ("ABOL"), and ABOL membership is free.

The website, which features lots of imagery and color, is obviously a labor of love. The reason for the energy becomes clear when you visit the Bulletin Board, which has received international attention as the primary Internet venue for critiquing Buddhism as it currently has developed in America. Ambu, who was herself a Tibetan Buddhist for over twenty years, attributes both the website's humanistic orientation, and the Bulletin Board's cathartic atmosphere, to a single goal: "When I got out of Tibetan Buddhism after twenty years, I had many superstitious ideas I had acquired from the lamas, and had to re-establish a foundation of rational thinking. It helped me a great deal to read Thomas Paine, Rene Descartes, Voltaire, Loren Eiseley, and other great thinkers, because in reading them I learned to value my own mind. I also like to put up screencaps from my favorite movies, and to put up reviews and discuss the movies I think are fun. Balancing knowledge with fun. That is what I try to do on my website. Please come visit, and join ABOL."