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Went to the library yesterday. To my great disappointment, there aren’t many English or Chinese Buddhist books to borrow. I heard it’s the same for the central National Library’s borrowable collection. Am wondering if it’s the same case islandwide. I wasn’t expecting an entire room of Buddhist books but two rows on a single shelf of is really pathetic. And the rows are not even very packed. Let’s not forget the selections are not exactly updated. Neither is there much variety. Some of the Chinese books are really old and in bad shape.<\/p>\n
It made me wonder whether the libraries are doing any active sourcing for new books. If they do, I’m sorry to say it’s a helluva lousy job they are doing. Comparing the volumes of Buddhist books with other religions’ books, they are truly few and far behind. If the libraries are not so keen on religious books, maybe they can be less biased by allocating every religion with a fixed number of them, to not favour one over another.<\/p>\n
In Singapore, 43% of its citizens (and increasing) are Buddhists of various traditions. If religious ratio as a guide is anything to go by as a guide for purchasing materials, there should be much more Buddhist stuff, and with a wide range too. It does not do much justice at all. Gosh. I’m glad the Buddhist community has its own libraries to promote Buddhism. As history’s longest teaching founder of a world religion, the Buddha taught for 45 years. His works and commentaries on them deserve proper archiving to share with the public.<\/p>\n
Some Buddhist Libraries in Singapore<\/strong> If you know any other local organisation with a ‘decently’ sized library, please add on the list by commenting below!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Went to the library yesterday. To my great disappointment, there aren’t many English or Chinese Buddhist books to borrow. I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[386],"class_list":["post-3040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-dharma","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBuddha of Medicine Welfare Society : www.bmws.org.sg<\/a>
\nKong Meng San Phor Kark See Monastery : www.kmspks.org\/library<\/a>
\nTai Pei Organisation : \u00a0www.dabei.org.sg<\/a>
\nSingapore Buddhist Youth Mission : www.sbym.org.sg<\/a>
\nSingapore Buddhist Welfare Services : www.sbws.org.sg<\/a>
\nThe Singapore Buddhist Lodge : www.sbl.org.sg<\/a>
\nThe Buddhist Library : www.buddhlib.org.sg<\/a><\/p>\n