Newsgroups: alt.etext From: dharma@netcom.com (Barry Kapke) Subject: GASSHO - Buddhist e-journal Message-ID: Summary: announcement of Jan/Feb issue Keywords: Buddhism Organization: DharmaNet International Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 22:29:50 GMT Lines: 116 GASSHO Electronic Journal of DharmaNet International and the Global Online Sangha Volume 1, Number 2 ISSN 1072-2971 January/February 1994 ======================================================================= Editor-in-Chief: Barry Kapke dharma@netcom.com or Fidonet: 1:125/33.0 Copy Editor: John Bullitt john.bullitt@metta.ci.net Contributing Editor: Charles S. Prebish csp1@psuvm.psu.edu Board of Advisors: Robert Aitken Roshi Amaro Bhikkhu Carl Bielefeldt Bhikkhu Bodhi Thubten Chodron T. Matthew Ciolek Roger Corless Gangcen Tulku Rinpoche Maha Ghosananda Joseph Goldstein Joan Halifax Ayya Khema Anne C. Klein Jack Kornfield Jacqueline Mandell Ken McLeod Andrew Olendzki Charles S. Prebish Alan Senauke Thanissaro Bhikkhu others to be announced ======================================================================== GASSHO is a Buddhist newsletter, published by DharmaNet International, P.O. Box 4951, Berkeley, CA 94704-4951, a not-for-profit organization. ======================================================================== Table of Contents: {1} EDITORIAL: Message from the Editor {2} NEWS: Dharamsala Goes E-mailing {3} DHARMANET NEWS: Dharma Book Transcription Project; Electronic Growth in 1993 {4} LETTERS {5} DIALOGUE: The First Precept: Reverence for Life (Thich Nhat Hanh) {6} ARTICLE: The Greatest Gift (John Bullitt) {7} ARTICLE: The Academic Study of Buddhism in America: A Current Analysis (Charles S. Prebish) {8} ARTICLE: Exploring New Approaches: The Barre Center for Buddhist Studies (Andrew Olendzki) {9} ARTICLE: The American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting: 1993 {10} PRACTICE: Nothing Special (Ayya Khema) {11} CALENDAR: January - March 1994 {12} REVIEWS: "Fundamentalism, Anyone?" (Richard Hayes) {13} RESOURCES: Publishers - Book, Audio, Video, Electronic {14} SANGHA: Massachusetts Dharma Centers (USA) {15} A PARTING THOUGHT {16} ABOUT GASSHO ======================================================================= How to Get Electronic Copies of GASSHO: ======================================================================= Internet users may receive GASSHO by electronic subscription in Mailing List format. Send an email message to: dharma@netcom.com asking to subscribe to GASSHO. This is *not* a Listserv. Back issues are available by anonymous ftp to the Dharma Electronic Files Archive at FTP.NETCOM.COM (192.100.81.100). 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