Rev. Danny Fisher

As previously mentioned, The Blogisattva Awards, honors for English-language blogging previously spearheaded by our friend Tom Armstrong a few years back, have been revived.  (Full disclosure: I’m a panelist for them this year.)  Over at Shambhala Sun Space, our main man and editor Rod Meade Sperry interviews The Reformed Buddhist‘s Kyle Lovett about the it all.  Here’s a little taste of Kyle:

The growth of online Buddhist blogging in the last three years has been astronomical, and every month there seems to be a new and unique voice coming forward. It truly is a community whose reach seems almost endless. There are monastic blogs, ordained and lay teacher blogs, academic blogs, news and link websites and of course just about every tradition of Buddhism blogged about by individual practitioners.

We are also seeing more and more teachers writing online, to reach out to students and those practitioners who don’t have the luxury of a Sangha nearby their homes. Its amazing: I was chatting on Twitter with Sharon Salzberg a couple weeks ago; I mean, where else could someone just strike up a conversation with such a well known teacher. What the online world has to offer real world folks is truly tremendous! I think as the growth of Buddhism explodes here in North America, we are finding more and more folks turning to the online Buddhist community for information and support, to fill that teacher and flesh and blood Sangha gap that exists today.

Read the rest here.