Overviews

• BuddhaSasana by Binh Anson
• Buddhayana Quarterly — news of the Buddhist world
• Buddhist bibliography — books on Buddhism in English (extensive — perhaps complete!)
• Internet Guide to Buddhism and Buddhist Studies
• Journal of Global Buddhism
• Open Directory - Society: Religion: Faiths and Beliefs: Buddhism

Theravada

• Sadhu! The Theravada Buddhism Web Portal

Non-monastic traditions

• Dzogchen, "the great perfection" — teaches that purity of mind is always present and needs only to be recognized.
  • Lama Surya Das' Dzogchen Foundation: "Buddhism for the West." Material on this site is nonsectarian: it values and draws from all the traditions of Buddhism. Still it is general, not technical. For instruction, you need to attend a retreat.
  • In Dzogchen; The Importance of Sem-de in the Aro gTer, Khandro Dechen Tsedrup Rolpa'i Yeshe describes some rather esoteric aspects of the teaching. However some nuggets that I noted with interest were:
    • the idea that karma is "not a mechanistic system of cause and effect but in reality an illusory manifestation of perception and response.... [that is, karma is] the 'form aspect' of pattern that [plays] in relation to the 'emptiness aspect' of chaos...."
    • the statement that Sem-de "provides a means of access to Dzogchen practice which by-passes or skips the stages of [some traditional Tantric trainings.]"
    • "Sem-de is ...comprised of detailed teachings on the nature of Mind and how that is differentiated from dualistic mind. It describes in detail how dualistic mind is affected by practice, with regard to the sem-nyams - the experiences of emptiness an form through which one discovers the instant-presence of rigpa [innate awareness, the true nature of mind]."
  • The Aro Tradition — the home site of the above article. A lineage of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism
• Kokoro Institute — heart-centered Buddhism, with Ken Daigan O'Neill Kyoshi and Karan Gardner O'Neill. This site gives an important correction to most people's picture of Buddhism in the West.
• Pure Land Home/Index
• Shinran and Jodoshinshu
• Western Pure Land Buddhism

Other interesting traditions

• Falun Dafa — mixes elements of Buddhism and Taoism with a derivation of traditional qi gong exercises
• T'ien-t'ai/Tendai Buddhism — the tradition founded by Chi-i

Political Struggle / Exposés

• 1993 Dharamsala Open Letter — dealing with the ethics of teachers
• Chinese Bhiksunis in the Ch'an Tradition — documents misogyny in non-Ch'an scriptures
• The Emperor's Tantric Robes — Interview of June Campbell by Helen Tworkov, on the patriarchy, misogyny, and secrecy of Tibetan monasticism. Originally from the Winter 1996 Tricycle.
• The Friends of the Western Buddhist Order - the FWBO's own site
• FWBO Exposé - thorough documentation of fraud, manipulation and sexual abuse by its leader Sangharakshita; and of the cultic, non-Buddhist and misogynist doctrines of the FWBO
• Zen at War, by Brian (Daizen) A. Victoria — review by Fabio Rambelli
• The Zennist - Dark Zen - The Teachings of Mystical Zen Buddhism — Zen at its most opaque

Unclassifiable?

• Ashoka's dreamer — a Buddhist Opera!