As part of the further research for the subject of my final project (the changes undergone by buddhist associations and their activities in Hong Kong since the handover) of the New Media course, I have done some intensive browsing and found the following blogs and sites dedicated to Buddhism with feeds.
Global news
The Buddhist Channel - this site contains news items related to Buddhist organisations and groups all over the world. The other one is the religion sectionof Global Voices Online - again it keeps me up-to-date with news of all major religions. These are good information resources to keep me posted on the latest developments. They enable me to have a better understanding of religions and how are they related to aspects of of our daily life.
Personal blogs
As for personal blogs by buddhists with feeds, I could only find two so far. They are Buddha Warrior and Vincent Lai’s Impermanence blog. Buddha Warrior is operated by a Hong Kong Chinese named Raymond Lam who shares his thoughts about Buddha’s teachings and reflects on how they are applied to everyday life. Vincent Lai, who is a university undergraduate in the UK, uses this blog to keep his journals and I am looking out for comments in his blog from Hong Kong bloggers.
It seems rather difficult to locate Hong Kong personal blogs with feeds. I have found the University of Hong Kong Centre for Buddhist Studies’ alumni association blog. However there is no feed function. I plan to ask professors at the HKU’s buddhist studies centre to recommend a few active ones. I will also contact organizations listed in this directory of buddhist centres in Hong Kong.
Because I would like to keep myself informed of any new buddhism-related activities in Hong Kong, I will visit the following websites from time to time:
News of activities and events and government policies
Website of Home Affairs Bureau
Associations
Website of Hong Kong Buddhist Association
Academic study and activities
Website of the HKU’s Centre for Buddhist Studies
Website of the Centre for the Studies of Humanistic Buddhism at Chinese University of Hong Kong
Social services
Website of the Buddhist Youth Association in Hong Kong
Website of Buddhist Association Children and Youth Centre
2 responses so far ↓
1 Vincent // Mar 1, 2007 at 5:44 am
I am not sure if this is helpful, I did come across some websites (not blogs) that are quite active in Buddhism discussion in HK.
Yahoo Knowledge (http://hk.knowledge.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=102204489)
Many of the questions are quite general, but if you go through it there are occasionally some posts which might be useful for your project.
特區佛教天地 - This is a forum maintained by some HK Buddhists.
Hope it helps.
Namo Amituofo
2 Wilson Lau New Media » Week 4 assignment, tagging, Technorati // Mar 5, 2007 at 3:48 am
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