This website may have an old-fashioned layout, but it contains an impressive amount of both useful and fun content to explore. Highlights include an interactive Buddha Zine, a library of digital texts, educational materials, and more ebooks and downloads
A free online non-sectarian Buddhist journal.
Archive on the life of Shunryu Suzuki created by his biographer, David Chadwick (Crooked Cucumber). See also the sister-site shunryusuzuki.com, featuring archives of Suzuki’s lectures. Chadwick’s personal “non-Zense” site can be found at cuke-annex.com.
Daily Zen quote & monthly articles.
If you can get past the poorly-designed front page, there are really cool things here, such as comprehensive guidebooks on Zen Buddhism, Dōgen’s Genjo Koan, and the Heart Sutra, as well as free ebooks.
An American nonprofit founded by Kobutsu Malone that aims to teach zazen practice to incarcerated people, with an overall anti-incarceration stance. See their publication The Gateway Journal.
A gallery of Himalayan art, much of it Buddhist, and also some Bon and Hindu art. Aside from the wonderful art, there are comprehensive glossaries of Tibetan Buddhist terms, manifestations of Buddha and Avalokiteshvara, and Buddhist-Hindu equivalents.
Texts ranging from the Jataka tales, to The Gateless Gate, to Arthur Waley’s translation of Japanese Nō plays, to A Buddhist Bible.
An non-sectarian, independent, bimonthly Buddhist magazine.
The official website of the Plum Village monastery founded by Thich Nhat Hanh. Read his life story and his translation of the Heart Sutra.
Poems of Tibetan and Zen traditions.
A site by Catherine Holmes Clark featuring feminist interpretations of Buddhist philosophy.
A free journal that publishes scholarly articles on contemporary Buddhism published by the Triratna Buddhist Community.
Representing female Buddhist teachers, nuns, and scholars, and female Buddhas, bodhisattvas, and Buddhist figures.
A directory of Zen sites from the early days of the World Wide Web. Many of the links are dead. This site is interesting if you’re in the mood for some web archeology
This site’s layout is a bit difficult to navigate, but click around. It is full of free essays and books, and there are new articles being posted to this day.
Old website from the 90s. It may help to navigate using Internet Archive. Known for hosting a translation of The Gateless Gate, an essential set of koans. You may also find the glossary and reading list useful.
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