Find out what's happening on BuddhaNet.Net and at its new home at the Bodhi Tree Forest Monastery and Retreat Centre in the hinterland of Byron Bay near Lismore in Northern New South Wales, Australia.

The World Buddhist Directory Database is online - at last!

The new World Buddhist Directory database is in the final testing phase and has gone live as of December 2006. This will greatly enhance search functionality and provide a range of statistics on Buddhist Organisations world-wide, as well as speeding up the addition of new entries and making any changes to existing ones. An email will be sent to all current organisations listed in the directory providing a web page where their existing entries can be updated for the new database format.

We ask Buddhist organisations and centres world-wide to check their directory listing/s for accuracy and/or come up with new listings in their locality. There are online forms for each region. This is a service that will benefit the growth of the Buddha Dharma world-wide - please help us to help you - it is a free non-sectarian service supported entirely by the generosity or Dana of the World Wide Buddhist Sangha - to make a much appreciated secure donation, click here.

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NEW HOME OF BUDDHANET.NET

FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE SOUGHT TO DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN OUR PROPERTY

Bodhi Tree Forest Monastery & Retreat Centre - home of Buddhanet.net - is asking for financial support from the larger National and International Buddhist community.

Currently we are paying back the loan for the 95 acres of beautiful land, associated buildings and infrastructure at Tullera, five minutes from Lismore in the Northern Rivers of New South Wales, Australia.

We need help to create, maintain and sustain the development of the Monastery and Retreat Centre; and, to establish a new home for Buddhanet.net. Our Monastery and Retreat Centre - as well as Buddhanet.net - is run by the Buddha Dharma Education Association (BDEA Inc.), a not-for-profit Buddhist organisation, and is supported entirely by Dana (donations). The BDEA Inc. was established in 1992 by Venerable Pannyavaro Thera who was ordained in Thailand over 20 years ago. Ven. Pannyavaro is Vice-president of the World Fellowship of Buddhists and the Buddhist Federation of Australia.

Our current situation is this:

We are repaying the loan back at AUD$1,500 per month out of limited funds We have already spent AUD$25,000 on internal roads, grading and clearing on the property

Buddhanet.net is currently run from a new office we are building at Bodhi Tree. BuddhaNet is one of the largest Buddhist websites in the world with over 750,000 hits per day; is ranked number one on the Google search engine; has won many major international awards; and has recently been acknowledged by National Geographic and PC Magazine as one of the top websites on the Internet.

What we need help with:

•AUD$A1,500 monthly repayment of the loan.
•AUD$1,000 pledged recurrently per month are the extra funds we require to cover expenses.
•AUD$500 to be pledged recurrently per month to cover the further development of Buddhanet.net
•Donations (Dana) by way of a tractor, tools, materials, equipment, food or labour.

DONATION

If you would like to contribute to BDEA by helping us maintain the Bodhi Tree Forest Monastery and Retreat Centre as well as support the ordained Sangha.

• To make a much appreciated secure donation, click here.