About this Site

This site is built as . I’ll be posting with moderate frequency—a long post every couple of weeks, and a few shorter posts in between. I hope to keep most of the content original, and to avoid simply posting links to other Buddhist websites. If a post does refer to an article on another site, it will always be an article to which I have something to add, or about which I have some substantial comment to make.

Contributing Articles

I’d like to receive articles from others who are interested in Buddhism—especially the study of the Buddha’s teachings as those have been transmitted in the Pali Canon and the major Mahayana sutras. I am particularly interested in how those teachings help us deal with a world that seems to be falling apart, and with our engaged response to events and situations. I intend to avoid stridency and doctrinal disputation.

If you are interested in publishing an article on the Dharma Study site, simply send it to me. I can accept virtually any format—email message, Word document, text file, html document—and I will try to do an intelligent job of interpreting any notes you send with the article, or any directions regarding how you’d like to see it formatted (although I will insist that the final formatting conform to the Dharma Study style sheet). I may suggest some editings or slight emendations, any of which will be open to discussion and/or negotiation.

If I accept an article for publication, I will convert it to a form compatible with the Dharma Study style. I will send you a link to the article after it has been formatted but before it has been made public, and I will not publish it without your approval. You maintain copyright on anything you submit; let me know if you’d like to use a more restrictive license than the Creative Commons license that covers most of the other material on the site.

Posting Comments

Whether or not you contribute articles to Dharma Study, we welcome your comments on anything we publish. Before you can post a comment, though, you have to register, or, if you’ve already registered, log in. Even after you register, the first time you post a comment, there will be a delay before it appears on the site, because the first comment has to be approved. Once that first comment is approved, though, it’s clear sailing, and your comments will appear right after you post them.

When you register, please take the time to fill out your profile page; please use your real name, and, in the “About Yourself” section, take a moment to write a brief note about why you are interested in Buddhism and what you hope to get from this website.

And please feel free to send me an email any time. I welcome questions about articles you may wish to write, pointers to other good Buddhist sites, and any comments you might have about this site, and I will be grateful for any suggestions about the type of content you’d like to see on Dharma Study.