Below are links to suggested Buddhist web sites offering articles that explore diverse perspectives on Buddhist teachings, practices, and current events.
NEWS
BUDDHISM TODAY: This online magazine provides a multitude of excellent articles dealing with human rights, ethics, environmental and political issues, economics, meditation, management, holy places, science, poetry and general Buddhist teachings.
BUDDHISTDOOR GLOBAL is an online platform offering diverse Buddhist articles, news, and opinions, focusing on contemporary issues, teachings, and culture to inspire and inform practitioners worldwide.
ARTICLES
TATHATAGARBHA DOCTRINE: This short primer summarizes the origins, development, and philosophy of this influential Mahayana Buddhist teaching, which proposes that all beings contain within themselves the inherent virtues and wisdom of a Buddha (aka Buddha-nature). Over the millenia, it has specifically shaped Chan, Thien, Zen, and Pure Land traditons.
TOWARDS A BUDDHIST THEISM: This pdf article explores the thesis that Buddhism has no God, insofar as it is taken to apply to Buddhism universally, is false. It explores the central Buddhist treatise, The Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana, through the lense of perfect being theology.
THE AWAKENING OF FAITH IN THE MAHAYANA: Attributed to the second century C.E. by the Indian scholar, master and literary writer, Asvaghosa, this seminal text offers a comprehensive summary of Mahayana Buddhism.
BUDDHANET.NET is a comprehensive online resource for Buddhist education, offering a vast array of articles, e-books, study guides, and multimedia to support practitioners and those exploring the Buddha Dharma.
NEMBUTSU.INFO: This Australian web site offers an excellent introduction to Shin Buddhism with a variety of articles from many insighful Western adherents. It covers the nature of Amida and the Pure Land, Shinjin, the Sacred Name (Nembutsu), Mahayana philosophy, Shin’s history, and views on meditation, and so much more.
SHIN DHARMA NET: Affliatated with the late and esteemed Rev. Alfred Bloom, this web site offers a excellent resources, a Shin study course, sutras, documents, poetry, good links and more.