Here's a look at some of the other Buddhist Blogs on the web.
The Blogisattva Organization is pleased to announce the nominees for the 2008 Blogisattva Awards honoring English-language Buddhism blogging during calendar year 2007. This is the third annual iteration of the awards which are given wholly for merit, and not as a measure of blogs’ popularity.
This year, ten accomplished buddhobloggers participated in the gathering of candidates and the voting that determined this year’s nominations and/or
will participate in the voting that determines the winners, to be announced on February 24.
There are 26 categories of awards with an aggregate 132 nominations, making for a bounty of worthy honorees.
The prime purpose of the awards is to introduce Buddhists -- and others with a nascent interest in Buddhism -- to some of the great many excellent, varied Buddhism blogs that are out there, as close as a click away.
The 2008 nominees are:
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| Justin Whitaker's American Buddhist in England, with his American Buddhist Perspective, is nominated for Blog of the Year, Best Philosopy or Psychology Blog and four post awards. Also, Justin is a contributor to Progressive Buddhism which is up for two nominations.
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| Danny Fisher's Danny Fisher is a nominee for Blog of the Year, Best Kind and Compassionate Blog, Best Single Photo and three blog post awards. Danny, himself, is up for The Wordsmithing Award.
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| Konchog Norbu's Dreaming of Danzan Ravjaa is nominated for Blog of the Year, Svaha! It is also up for Best Kind and Compassionate Blog, three post awards and Best Photo.
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| William Harryman's Integral Options Cafe is up for ten awards this year, including Blog of the Year, Svaha! Bill's blog was a big winner last year.
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| One foot in front of the other, blogged by Michael, is a nominee for Blog of the Year, and in eight other categories. Michael is also nominated for The Wordsmithing Prize.
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Blog of the year, Svaha!; 5 nominees; [blog; blogger]:
Best Post of the Year; 5 nominees; ["post"; blog; blogger]:
Best Achievement in Skilled Writing (The Wordsmithing Award); 5 nominees; [blogger, blog(s)]:
Best New Blog, 2007; 5 nominees; [blog, blogger(s)]:
Best Achievement Blogging on Buddhist Practice or Dharma; 5 nominees; [blog; blogger(s)]:
Best Buddhist Practice or Dharma Post; 10 nominees; ["post"; blog; blogger]:
Best Achievement Blogging in the First Person [as a diarist; writing of events in one's life; offering thoughts; or by venturing out into the world, gonzo style]; 5 nominees; [blog, blogger]:
Best "Life" Blog Post [Best Achievement Blogging in the First Person (as a diarist; writing of events in one's life; or offering personal thoughts)]; 10 nominees; ["post"; blog; blogger]:
Best Achievement Blogging on Matters Philosophical or Psychological; 3 nominees; [blog, blogger]:
Best Philosophy or Psychology Post; 5 nominees; ["post"; blog; blogger]:
Best Achievement Blogging on Matters Scientific; 3 nominees; [blog; blogger]:
Best Science Blog Post; 5 nominees; ["post"; blog; blogger]:
Best Achievement in Kind and Compassionate Blogging; 5 nominees; [blog, blogger]:
Best Kind and Compassionate Blog Post; 5 nominees; ["post"; blog; blogger]:
Best Achievement Blogging Opinion Pieces or about Political Issues; 5 nominees; [blog, blogger(s)]:
Best Opinion or Political Blog Post; 5 nominees; ["post"; blog; blogger]:
Best Engage-the-World Blog Post; 5 nominees; ["post"; blog; blogger]:
Best Achievement in Clean, Straightforward, Unaffected Design; 5 nominees; [blog, blogger]:
Best Achievement in Wonderful, Remarkable, Elegant Design; 5 nominees; [blog; blogger]:
Best Achievement in Creation or Use of Graphics in a Blog [awarded for use within posts for overall effect] ; 5 nominees; [blog, blogger(s)]:
Best Single Photograph, taken by blogger or an associate, used in a post; 5 nominees; [Photo link; description; "post"; blog; blogger]:
- Photo link; "A Western pilgrim sitting among the small stupas and votives at the Mahabodhi Mahavihara."; "India Post #23"; Danny Fisher; Danny Fisher
- Photo link; "One of the things you learn from meditating is how your own mind is like a meadow."; "Foggy meadow";Hoarded Ordinaries; Lorianne DiSabato
- Photo link; "...the proceedings marking the first anniversary of the consecration of Khamariin Khiid’s sacred Shambhala site..."; "Special Delivery"; Dreaming of Danzan Ravjaa; Konchog Norbu
- Photo link; "Tompkins Square / East Village / Manhattan"; "Untitled [Jan 15, 07]"; One foot in front of the other; Michael
- Photo link; "Peg attains perfect stillness and silence..." From the post "The teaching of emptiness by Zen master Peg"; Ordinary Mind Zen - Austin; Peg Syversen
Best Achievement with Use of Quotations in a Blog; 3 nominees; [blog; blogger]:
Best Achievement in Wide Range of Topic Interests Blogging; 5 nominees; [blog, blogger]:
Best Niche Blog, Unusual-Function Blog, Blog Service, or a Serial within a Blog; 3 nominees; [blog, blogger(s)]:
- Buddhist Military Sangha; Lt. Jeanette Shin et al
- Dharma-Burgers [2 & 2a]; Rod Meade Sperry; [Dharma-Burgers was moved rather recently, its blogging programming taken out from under it. But the posts can still be seen at the links given [2 & 2a] as part of theworsthorse.net ezine where Dharma-Burgers resides.]
- Gratitude; Serial within a blog; Integral Options Cafe; William Harryman
Best Multi-Part Blog Post ; 5 nominees; [post series; blog; blogger]:
Best Achievement with Humor in a Blog Post ; 5 nominees; ["post"; blog; blogger]:
"tnx for posting this.. Along with 3 other facilitators, I am co facilitator of the Community Dharma Leader Program at Spirit Rock - a 2 year leadership training. One of the central focuses of the training is diversity and inclusion of marginalized communities. It's taken a lot of hard work by some POC (People of Colour) Dharma leaders and community - to make conscious some of the issues raised in this article. It takes a particular kind of focus to explore bringing accessibility to Dharma, and visibility, to those communities who are marginalized because of race, sexual orientation, class, economic income - at present in the West, Dharma teachers, resources, power, narrative, tends to be very much in the white middle-upper class domain. As we can see from the dialogue around gender equity in Buddhist monasticism, it takes a lot to educate about the impact of assumed entitlement - how that tends to exclude, dis-empower and undermine the growth of leadership in those who are not offered the same levels of support, encouragement, resources and respect. Entitlement makes huge amounts of the lived reality, of those who struggle as a consequence of disparity, entirely invisible. I see Awakening not only a transcendence of our conditioned views about those who appear different - but Awakening is a process that directly uncovers and makes conscious our learned individual, cultural and collective prejudice's. This is painful work and requires much inner honesty and reflection."
