Navayana Organizations
Triratna Buddhist Order and Community
The Triratna Buddhist Order and Community is a worldwide movement of people who try to engage with the Buddha’s teachings in the conditions of the modern world. Neither monastic nor lay, we are simply Buddhists, at varying stages of commitment and understanding, adopting to the best of our ability in our lives the ethical standards of the Dharma.
Trailokya Bauddha Mahasangha Sahayaka Gana
Trailokya Bauddha Mahasangha Sahayaka Gana is the Indian wing of the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order, whose members are gone for refuge to Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha and taken ten precepts of body, speech and mind from Ven.Sangharakshita or his senior disciples. The order is central to this new Buddhist movement and founded in 1979 by Sangharakshita, an English Buddhist who had lived in India for 20 years until 1964. During this time he became well known and appreciated by Dr. Ambedkar. After the latter's death he did what he could to help the new Buddhist movement in India to survive and grow. In 1964 he returned to U.K. to help develop the Buddhist movement there, founding the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order. The TBMSG/FWBO is now an international Buddhist movement with over sixty centers on five continents.
Theravada, Mahayana, and Vajrayana Organizations
Buddha Net List of Lineages and Schools
This list of and comparison between schools and lineages is a starting point for learning more about an individual school. Buddha Net E-Study also offers many lessons common to all schools of Buddhism.
Buddha Net Directory of Masters and Their Organizations
The Directory of Masters and Their Organizations is intended as a resource for those who read a book by a master, see or hear him/her in the media, and wish to find out more. It is a guide to some of the more important masters, particularly those operating in the West, and to the organisations they create: the places you can go to find out more or practise their teachings. To be included, a master must usually have at least five centres or five commercially-published books.
Buddha Net World Buddhist Directory
For a comprehensive lists including Theravada, Mahayana, and Vajrayana organizations around the world, please visit Buddha Net World Directory and search for organizations near you.
Do Ngak Dzong: Castle of Sutra and Mantra
Do Ngak Dzong (Tib. Castle of Sutra and Mantra) is Ngak'chang Karma Yeshe Namgyal Rinpoche's organization based in the United States. Many of Rinpoche's teachings can be found for free on the site and DND offers teachings both online and in-person with Ngak'chang Yeshe Namgyal Rinpoche. DND also offers Buddhists a way to connect with and get involved in Rinpoche's ongoing Bodhichitta Projects.
Youth Buddhist Association
YBS India (Youth Buddhist Society India) is a volunteer, governmental,non-sectarian, non-profit, non-political people’s development movement based on Engaged Buddhism established in the year 1986 in Sankisa by Mr.Suresh Chandra Bauddha in Uttar Pradesh, India. YBS has brought grass root initiative, involvement, and development of mind among thousands of villagers and the human race in India.
The Vajrayana Foundation
The Vajrayana Foundation is a Tibetan Buddhist retreat and teaching center founded by Lama Tharchin Rinpoche. It is a Nyingma center in the Dudjom Tersar tradition. Also a non-profit organization, it was created by Lama Tharchin Rinpoche to establish the Buddha Dharma in the West. The main retreat center for the Vajrayana Foundation is Pema Osel Ling (Lotus Land of Clear Light), located in Santa Cruz, California.