Below are links to suggested Buddhist web sites offering articles that explore diverse perspectives on Buddhist teachings, practices, and current events. Included below are a couple of free online books in PDF form.
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.
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.
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.
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 Dharma.
THE SEEKER’S GLOSSARY OF BUDDHISM: This free online book in PDF form is a compendium of excerpts and quotations from some 350 works by monks, nuns, professors, scholars and other laypersons from nine different countries, in their own words or in translation. This is an excellent necessary resource for those seeking greater intellectual and historical knowledge of Buddhism in general.
MEANING OF CONVERSION by Sangharakshita: This free online book in PDF form explores the topic of religious conversion. If someone is a Buddhist in the West, the chances are they have converted to Buddhism. But what does this mean? In this book the Buddhist life is viewed as a process of conversion at deeper and deeper levels – as a perpetual revolution.