Link Directory

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Buddhism
Blogs & Journals
Literature Archives
Music
PBV Resources
Search Engines
Webmastery
Zines



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Buddhism

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★ BuddhaNet

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

Buddhistdoor Global

A free online non-sectarian Buddhist journal.

cuke.com

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

Daily Zen quote & monthly articles.

DharmaNet

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.

The Engaged Zen Foundation Defunct

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.

Himalayan Art Resources

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.

★ Internet Sacred Text Archive: Buddhism

Texts ranging from the Jataka tales, to The Gateless Gate, to Arthur Waley’s translation of Japanese Nō plays, to A Buddhist Bible.

★ Lion’s Roar

An non-sectarian, independent, bimonthly Buddhist magazine.

Plum Village

The official website of the Plum Village monastery founded by Thich Nhat Hanh. Read his life story and his translation of the Heart Sutra.

Poetry Chaikhana: Buddhist Poetry

Poems of Tibetan and Zen traditions.

SkyDancer Defunct

A site by Catherine Holmes Clark featuring feminist interpretations of Buddhist philosophy.

Western Buddhist Review

A free journal that publishes scholarly articles on contemporary Buddhism published by the Triratna Buddhist Community.

Women Active in Buddhism Defunct

Representing female Buddhist teachers, nuns, and scholars, and female Buddhas, bodhisattvas, and Buddhist figures.

Zen Buddhism WWW Virtual Library Defunct

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

The Zen Site

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.

The Zen Sunsite Defunct

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.




Blogs & Journals

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Bewildering Stories Eye-searing colors

A curious and prolific online literary magazine

Dissecting the Left (With Love) Pop-ups Substack

Articles that gently criticize leftist strategies and promote empathy and wellbeing

★ Love of All Wisdom

Long-running blog with thoughts on religion and philosophy

The Marginalian

Literature through the lens of essayist Maria Popova

Movies Silently

Fun reviews of silent films

★ Melon’s Thoughts GIF heavy

Personal musings, articles, guides to web-weaving and game-making, and recipes of the Melon King

The Rumpus

Contemporary literature, interviews with authors, book recommendations




Music

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Any Decent Music

Discover critically-acclaimed new music releases

Billie Holiday Discography

A wonderful site that indexes Billie Holiday records & includes many rare and beautiful photos of Lady Day.

★ Second Hand Songs

Discover different versions of the same song. Especially awesome for fans of jazz standards.

Music Streams

91.7 The River

A hobbyist radio station that plays 60s-90s pop music. Run by MarshmelloSUCKS, who also runs an alt rock and a dance station

J-Club

Two jazz streams, one for 30s-40s American jazz, and one for Japanese jazz.

Radio Browser

A directory of music streams on the web

Radio Garden

Listen to radio streams across the world.

★ WPRB Princeton

Their tagline “New Jersey’s only radio station” may or may not be true, but they are my favorite by far. Shows vary from experimental, ambient music to jazz, to punk rock, reggae, folk, indie, etc.

★ WRTI Classical & Jazz

24/7 classical & jazz programming




Power-based Violence Resources

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“Power-based violence” is an umbrella term for various types of abuse, including sexual abuse and assault, dating violence, domestic violence, and stalking.

How Communities Can Support Survivors of Stalking .PDF 

A guide by Survivor Guides that discusses different forms of stalking (including through new mediums such as social media), survivors’ lives, and how they can be supported.

Speak Up & Stay Safe(r)

Measures to protect yourself from online harrassment.

Supporting a Survivor of Sexual Assault .PDF 

A guide to help build compassion and understanding towards survivors. Intersectional & mindful of the nuanced issues that survivors face. Print double-sided & flip on the short side.

Unconsenting Media

Know if a movie, TV show, or book contains sexual violence before going in.




Literature Archives

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★ Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is home to an astounding amount of public domain books, magazines, and zines. You can also borrow many titles as long as you have a free account.

Best Poems

An encyclopedia of famous poems by famous poets.

e.e. cummings free poetry archive

Public domain works of e.e. cummings.

★ Internet Sacred Text Archive

Sacred texts and other writings ranging from Native American stories, to Grimoires, to LGBT writings including the poems of Sappho, to groundbreaking feminist texts, and so much more. This site is an incredible resource.

Marxists Internet Archive

Marxist writings and archives of publications from around the world.

★ Lantern

Old media-related magazines dating back to 1849.

Library Genesis

Searchable database of published works.

★ Luminarium

A pretty-looking archive of English literature spanning from the medieval era to the 18th century.

Poet Seers

“Illuminating” poetry from around the world.

Poetry Chaikhana

Sacred poetry from around the world, from the 2nd century to the present-day.

Poets’ Corner

Mostly traditional English poetry.

The Pulp Magazines Project

Pulp mags from 1896-1946.

Rumi’s Rubaiyat

Rumi’s quatrains translated into English by Zara Houshmand.

Sovereign Womb Collective Zine Library Eye-searing colors

Zines on political topics varying from reproductive rights, to anti-racism, to self-care.

★ Theoi Project

A reference guide to Greek mythology and home to a library of translated texts and an art gallery.

★ Wisdom Portal

A pretty 90s website by a poet named Peter Y. Chou. Contains various poems (collections of republished works, & updated with new original poetry as well), quotes, even (démodé) pages on web design. The site is really lovely and functions as a sort of “home page” for the internet, but unfortunately many of the links out are now defunct.




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DuckDuckGo

Boring & utilitarian, but it gets the job done. Their mobile browser blocks ads.

Wiby

Search for Web 1.0 pages.

★ Margninalia Search

An engine whose goal is to find web pages that are genuinely interesting – meaning, less listicles and SEO-laden shit, more content that actually takes effort to write. Read more about it here. It also shows which pages contain scripts, trackers, cookies, etc.




Webmastery

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HTML & CSS

Sadgrl Tutorials

Guides to HTML, CSS, & hosting a site on Neocities

Templaterr

Themes intended to help beginners learn to customize HTML & CSS, + Javascript nav bars for your site. Templaterr was a big help to me when I started coding this website.

W3Schools

HTML, CSS, & Javascript guides. Also a useful reference for learning what certain attributes mean.

Web Zine 01

Want to dip your toes into working with HTML for the very first time? Follow this little guide to building your first website. Created by Zach Mandeville




Zines

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Tools

Electric Zine Maker Eye-searing colors GIF heavy

Freeware that seems kind of like Kid Pix but for zines.

★ EZM Reader Eye-searing colors

Javascript code by Jeremy Oduber that makes your zine (or any book) readable on the web. I use it for my zines.

★ Internet Archive: Zines

Thousands and thousands of zines to look through. Be sure to check the unsorted section as well.

The Book of Zines

Zine links and articles. Some links are dead.

★ Zine Machine

A quick guide that not only answers “What’s a zine?,” but also shows you how to make one that’s both a webpage and print-ready minizine using CSS!

Zinester homepages

Bluef00t

Printable full-size and minizines.

Hodgepodge Zines

Web-readable and printable mini-zines.

K•R•Y•P•T•A

Someone who’s been making zines since the early 2000s.

Metaparadox

Zinester since 2014. Runs a zinester Discord server and webring.

Museum of Idiots

Homepage of Quinn Collard, creator of various zines


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