art, writing, theatre

Alyce Santoro: The star of the Horse's first full-length interview: here  | or, here 
Andre Slob: Frequent and funny Shambhala Sun cartoonist.
Andy Goldsworthy in TIME: He's never said he's
a Buddhist, but he sure could be.
Awake - Art & Buddhism: here
Meet performance poet Ed Bok Lee
"'Buddha' [the play] reaches nirvana" 
Brush Mind / The Art of Kaz Tanahashi: here
"Buddhaloupist" author Sandra Cisneros:  here  |  and here
Christopher Moore:  His book, A Dirty Job, is a killer.
Dharma Dog: here
Explore Art: This amazing site brings Buddhist  art to life in a whole new way.
Gregg Chadwick: Chadwick is one amazing painter.
Hazaad.com: here
Jan-Ru Wan: Stunning Buddhist art, all in thread and fabric.
Jesse Alick, a "queer, out-positive African American Buddhist playwright," interviewed
John Giorno: Audio files from the self-described "proto-punk gay Tibetan Buddhist poet."

Kelli Bickman: A great artist who you've seen here.
Artist Kenji Harada: "guided by the Buddhist  idea that emptiness is everything eternal."
Leonard Cohen's Book of Longing: here
Miranda July: a Buddhist connection?
Padmadelic: "Music | Art  | Buddhism"
Roi James: here
Sacred Skull: Indie artists.
The art of  the Sad Monk
Sanford Biggers: here 
A new (2007) Sanford Biggers show
Spalding Gray: here. The man was a giant. The Patron Saint of Worst Horses.
What Web: The "online adjunct" of What Book!? Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop.
Visions of Enlightenment: Nice Buddhist Art glossary from the Pacific Asia Museum.
Richard X. Zawitz: "Zen sculptor"

being black & buddhist 

"Black Buddha" (not, in fact, Buddhist) 
"Get Your Meditation On." Angel GETS IT.
"Guess Who's Coming to Dharma?" From the Village Voice.
Proud Black Buddhist: "The African and African American Nichiren Shoshu Cultural Buddhist Website."
"Something Has to Change" From the Shambhala Sun. 

The Roots of Suffering: Reviews of Dreaming Me and Being Black
Zen Under the Skin: "Reflections of an African-American Practitioner"

blogs & personal sites

A great blog's look at "Zen" green tea liqueur (and more).
We love this Buddhist-friendly activist blog.
Autobot Matrix Journal: here  
Buddha Cab: here
The Buddha is My DJ: here
We love this Buddhist-friendly activist blog.
Cafe Philos: here
Big Red Buddha's Buddhasphere: Chairman Miso's list of Buddhist blogs is a great reource.
The 2007 Blogisattva Award winners are here. Good stuff.
The Dharma of Star Wars blog, (StarWars.com)
Dreaming of Danzan Ravjaa, "An American Buddhist monk in & out of Mongolia: Religion, Culture, History, & Birdlife".
Living Tonglin: here  
Moonpointer: Nice, smart site.
Monkey Mind: from James Ishmael Ford, UU minister and Zen master. He's well plugged-in.
My Zen Life: here
ok smile: here
Ottmar Liebert: here 
Read Philip Ryan. He's got his finger on the pulse -- and man, can he write!

Precious Metal, the blog: from Horse friend/contributor Nate DeMontigny.
Presentation Zen: here
"some short poems": poems, Dharma-inflected and not. And, short!
Reduce. Reuse. Reincarnate! Altoids prayer wheels and pocket shrines.
Susan Piver's blog (NY Times bestseller and Horse contributor) Relaunched in July 07.
TMCG: here  
The Buddhist Blog: here
The Worst Horse's blog, "Dharma-Burger Drive-Thru"
Tricycle's blogs: here 
Tyson Williams: here
Barry Graham's Urban Monk
"Wanna-Be Buddhist:" here.
Zen Unbound's Blogmandu: here

buddhism, meditation, & other religions

Beliefnet: here. Did you know that Beliefnet's really good?
Shocker! Jack Chick is not down with the Dharma
"How to Witness to Buddhists": EffectiveEvangelism.com has got it all figured out.

IslamandBuddhism.com: "False Spirituality to a Materialist Culture"?
UU Buddhist Fellowship: here

celebrity buddhists (or, "celebrity" "buddhists")

Celebrity Buddhists Fascinating! And, completely dubious!
Orlando Bloom on being Buddhist (and more), here.
Jim Carrey's pro-Aung San Suu Kyi  video 
Richard Gere: that  burning him in effigy thing.
David Lynch: Not a Buddhist, but this is awesome.
Marc Quinn's Kate Moss / Buddha hybrid.
Paris Hilton to reach "perfect wisdom and enlightenment"?

More Paris Hilton: Turning to Buddha at the Bodhi Tree Bookstore
Nice piece on Rick Rubin, here.
Russell Simmons on hip-hop, meditation, and more in The New York Times.

comedy and comedians

20 percent? Seems high. But then, we have no shortage of material. (The Onion.)
Bush: a bodhisattva? The Daily Show video!
The Onion Magazine "covers" Burma (2007)
Gawker's (First? Only?) "Zen Koan of the Day"
Gary Shandling's had twenty-five+ years of meditation and Buddhist practice? (Scroll.)
James Inman: Described as a cross between Don Rickles and Henry Rollins. You gotta love a guy whose site includes links to Bill Hicks, Elvis Costello, and The Tibetan Book of the Dead.

Mike Myers' "latest racial romp," "Dharma" teacher Guru Pitka
The Onion Magazine cover, March 26, 2006: here 
'America's Fascination with Buddhism': here. Also from The Onion.
The Onion Strikes Again: here
South Park's Trey Parker:  "My father tried to raise me Buddhist"
"Yoga toons": Buddha takes a yoga class

comix

Alan Watts Theatre: "Zen" and more -- from  the producers of South Park?!?
The hyper-violent "Buddhist Monkey": see some of it here.
Bodhi Tree Creations: here.
Buddhist Hell sculpture reproduction: The Horse wants one.
FlyByMind: A sweet little urban meditation animation.
Dharma the Cat: here  
Herojig: here  
Meditation for Compu-Geeks

Just a silly little New Yorker cartoon we found: here
Two more New Yorker cartoons you should see: here, and here
Osama Tezuka's Buddha: here  
Religious Affiliations of Comic Book Characters. Seriously?
SINFEST!
Tintin and Tibet: here
Zen Karmics: A Horse favorite.

Dalai Lama, The: man, myth, Ocean of Wisdom

GWB talks HHDL -- at The Onion
CNN Video: The Dalai Lama loves grits?
CNN video: Laughing with the Dalai Lama
The Dalai Lama's Land Rover on eBay (came with a 3-day session with His Holiness). Winning bid? $82K.
HHDL receives the US Congressional Gold Medal  VIDEO  |  STORY

Letterman: Top 10 Things Bush asked the Dalai Lama 
Professor Tenzin Gyatso! The Dalai Lama's Emory Univ. appointment (CNN); more
Slate's HHDL/Dubya convo (See related links, too.)

dharma tattoos

Buddha Needle tattooing (Thailand): here
Buddhist tattoos on Flickr: here and here
E-Sangha discussion of Buddhism & tattoos: here.
Inked Blog's Buddhist Tattoos Overview: here
Inked Buddhist tattoo stories: 1  2
A new Horse favorite: InkEssential
A Dharma tattoo, in Vice's Do's and Don'ts. Buttons shall be pushed.

Vice asks: "Why the fuck did you get a tattoo of the Dalai Lama?"
GREAT tattoo site and blog: YOSO

See also: The Horse's articles on Buddhist tattoos: "Body Vows" - Part One | Part Two | Part Three

film, tv, advertising, business

07's Buddhist Film Fest: what's playing?
Act Normal (film): here
A Monkey's Tale:  About an 8-minute cartoon produced for a Buddhist cultural center outside Hong Kong
Blindsight, the movie: Climbing the Himalayas,  blind.
Buddha's Lost Children: "currently the longest-runnning film in Dutch cinemas."
Buddhist ringtones: really.
2007 film: "Buddha Wild"
The Burmese Harp: see this movie! (And watch the trailer, in the VOTM archive.)
Darth Matt: The blog of the lovable author of The Dharma of Star Wars.
SO cool: "The Dhamma Brothers" 
Dhamma Brothers in the NYTimes!
Elevator Meditations: "Marketing Bliss" (Ick.)
Groundhog Day: thoughts on the film's Buddhist connections.
'I'm a Buddhist in Big Pharmaceuticals. Is that cool?': here
International Buddhist Film Festival:  click here
"It's like 'Zen, wrapped in karma, and dipped
in chocolate' good." A short comment on one of the stupidest commercials ever. Scroll down to 'Chip Bits,' point #4.
"Lost"  in Tricycle: here
MasterCard on "living in the moment." (Scroll
to "That Would Go Great With That!")
Meditate and Destroy: (see "Punk and Metal")
Meet "The Buddha Wrangler" (NYTimes; requires registration)
Tons of Buddhism-inspired movie reviews
Recalling a Buddha (film): here

Red Doors: here and here  and here
"Selling Karma, Hoping for a Positive Return"
"She of Little Faith": Details of the 'Lisa becomes a Buddhist' episode of The Simpsons.
"Sexed-up" film on Hiuen Tsang, the 7th-century monk who travelled to India and took back Buddhist sutras, angers Chinese
Stallone, filming new Rambo film in Burma, witnesses horrors and speaks up. (Oct 2007)
"Take a Moment to Meditate": Starwood Hotels online "Zen Garden"
Back online! The great short film, Thought Moments.
"True Happiness is not out there." -- David Lynch on meditation
Vajra Sky Over Tibet on FilmThreat.com:  "Among the greatest" religion films 
White Collar Zen: here
Who's seen this Japanese film, about a "punk rocker who has to become a Buddhist monk in order to inherit a mountain temple"?
Words of My Perfect Teacher, the movie.
Yet another ad with Buddhist monks. . .
Yoda/Buddha wallpaper: here. 
"Zen and the art of poetic filmmaking"
Zen Noir: Marc Rosenbush's playful, moving film. Read the Horse's article about it here

gay, lesbian, bi, trans, intersexual, & buddhist

Gay Buddhist Fellowship: Based in SF, but has useful internet tools including audio files and a discussion group.
Gay Buddhist Open Forum: Very smart. Pithy reviews of various sites, and links.
Lesbian Buddhist E-Sangha Links: Links for Lesbian Buddhist, general Buddhist Women's sites, and web and regional resources.
LGBTI Buddhist Community: "Resources for the Lesbian, Gay, Bi, and Trans Community."

LinksPitaka: Simple and very well-fleshed out links and resources. Way more complete than this section.
The Buddhist Religion and Homosexuality: A useful breakdown. Good book links. Note: a couple of generalisms here make for dubious points here and there. So be a little careful.
The Gay Men's Buddhist Sanga links page: Also quite thorough.

general sport, games, gaming, & health

Gamers: check "Bad Gods"
Buddhist Poker champ Andy Black
D&D heads: have you played "Tibet"?
The Eightfold Path on Jeopardy!
Out of the Box with Unique' (of the WNBA's Sparks): here
Sidd Finch: Into baseball? Then you've got to  know about him.
"Soccer Zen"?

Speaking of Grace: "An unusual take on the mind-body connection with yoga teacher Matthew Sanford, a paraplegic since the age of 13."
You gotta see the Team Tibet manual 
TheFatManWalking.com: here  
USA Shaolin Temple: here

happenings

A show not to miss at the NY Public Library
Buddha's Lost Children: Documentary about a kickboxer turned Buddhist monk playing in LA.
Buddhist-inspired play in NYC, The Landlord
Buddha: Triumph & Tragedy of the Great Sage: A recent play in Cambridge, Mass, playing elsewhere, too.

Discovering Buddhist Art, Seeking the Sublime: .Be sure to check out their interactive walk through the collection, near the page's top.
In NY? You may want to go see this.
The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama: featuring work by Bill Viola, Laurie Anderson, Richard Avedon, and more.

hip-hop

Adam Yauch (MCA of Beastie Boys): here. He's been quiet for a while now. Click here to read the lyrics to 'Bodhisattva Vow.'
"Buddhism and Hip Hop": A short reference to a documentary in progress. Doesn't seem to really have much to do with hip hop.
Controversial Tibetan lama releases rap CD (Click, then scroll down a bit.)
Dhamma Rap: here -- "Thailand To Introduce New Genre Of Hip-Hop To Youth." Yikes.
DJ Shambhala (as opposed to the hip-hop duo)
DJ Spooky's "Buddhist Hip-hop Mix": Spooky rules.
Kunga 219: here  
Kid Beyond: Buddhist-influenced "singer / beatboxer /
songwriter / one-man band." More here.
Maxi Jazz / Faithless: here

Oaxerai: A Buddhism-informed hip-hop/spoken word artist from Philadelphia. His site includes mp3 tracks for download.
Rick Rubin: "A balance of rattle and OM", and a nice shot of Rick's sitting-room Buddha
Russell Simmons, "who adheres to Buddhist principles," a Beliefnet "Most Inspiring Person" nominee.
Shambhala: here or here -- What a great, great album The Lotus of... is. Seriously. Buy it.
Taskforce (interview): here
The "Wu-Tang Clan Manual": Helpfully blurring the lines between Buddhism, martial arts,  and gangster films.
Wu-Tang breakdown: here. Know your Wu members. (So you can help blur the lines between Buddhism, martial arts, and gangster films!)

magazines

Amma in Esquire? Yep.
Amma in Radar? (What's next? Maxim?)
Buddhadharma: This Buddhist practitioner's journal should, by by rights,  be stodgy and adventurous. It ain't.
Comment on Tricycle's Horse review
Inquiring Mind: here. Great writing. 
Mandala A Tibetan Buddhist Journal for the organization, the FPMT. "We offer the combined knowledge of Buddha's teachings and the modern way of life.'"

Shambhala Sun:  For new and older practitiuoners alike.  Big-ups for their progressiveness.
Tricycle - The Buddhist Review: "America's biggest Buddhist magazine." Lots of blogs and podcasts.
Tricycle's "28-day Meditation Challenge. The evolution of a great idea?
Turning Wheel: here. The Journal of Engaged Buddhism.

media & general pop-culture

American Sky Burial: Love it: it's silly and smart. Includes video, complete with music from the late, great Wesley Willis.
"Ask Buddha Britney." See also: Britney: An Appreciation.
Buddhawatch: here
Buddhism on the Echo Chamber Project: here
"Commodification of Buddhism": The press release for the 2003 event at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. You can order the program, a full-color, double-sided poster featuring examples and an interview with Pico Iyer, here.
DharmaPop: Defunct. Let's hope it comes back. 
A top catchphrase of '06: "Here it is, your moment of Zen"
Mark Morford: "Let us get drunk and meditate" 

Newsweek on young Buddhists, June 06
"Speaking for the Buddha?": A report from 2005's odd  'Buddhism and the Media' conference at Berkeley.
Stephen T. Asma on Buddhism, pop-culture, & more: here & here
Mr. Popular: 1997 article on Buddhism and pop-culture from Outside.
This is what we're talking about.
Zen and Popular Culture: An interview with Zenshin Roshi 
ZENtertainment: A Buddhism-and-Pop Culture discussionboard.

merch

BigHappyBuddha.com: here
Buddha Air: here
"Buddha Balls": As seen in TIME. (Yes, really: "Buddha Balls.")
The Buddha FLASK
The Buddha G-string panty: yanked
Buddha PUDDING MOLDS?
Buddha Wheel: "A game of many lives"
Chocolate Buddhas? Way back, Cat Stevens found himself on a plane with a Buddha in one hand, and a box of chocolates in the other. He was so vexed by the seeming duality of his desires that he named an album for the incident. So what are we to make of this?

Dharmacrafts: See our "Friends and faves" section.
Diane von Furstenberg's $9,600 "Sutra Bracelet," and more
First there were Buddha Bobbleheads. Now this.
"Improve Your Karma, Drink the Dharma." For real.
Kipuka Trading: here
Turns out Nirvana is in New York
Om Sweet Om: "Stitch on your swirly skirt and say OMMMM."
"Zero emissions, No Noise": ZENN cars
Buy your own Zen temple!

music (general)

About  Acid Mothers Temple's album, Nam Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo (2007-8-26 archive).
Buddhist-inspired Jazz/folk band Akron/Family. See also here, & here.
Alejandro Escovedo: here
Arthur Russell : Allen Ginsberg called Russell's work "Buddhist bubblegum music."
Beth Orton: here   
Big Rude Jake: here  
Bluegrass Intentions: here
Bowie spent time in a Buddhist monastery?
The Cult's Ian Astbury meets Dalai Lama; "connects dots between Buddhism and rock" on '07 CD
Duncan Sheik: here
Eve Decker: here and here
Gary Dyson's Heart Sutra Dance Mix. Download it for free here.
Go-Go's fans: Belinda's a Buddhist
Greg Davis: [link expired]
Herbie Hancock on his Buddhism (and more) 
"Herbie (Hancock), Fully Buddhist"
High Mountain Tempel [sic]: "The kind of music Eno would
make for a Philip K. Dick film set in Tibet."
Jah Wobble: A  favorite. See our article about his album, Mu.
Kusala Bhikshu: "The Blues Harmonica and Buddhism."
Thanks to John Bullitt for the tip.
Dharma for dub-heads: Jetsunma
Joni Mitchell: a self-described "Buddhist-Gnostic hybrid"
July '07: LIVE EARTH kicks off at Japanese Buddhist  temple
Lou Reed talks meditation and tai chi
Ottmar Liebert's blog: here

Padma Soundsystem: Inventive, electronic, organic, and beautiful. 
Philip Glass: here.
Ravenna: She lists her influences as Tegan and Sara, Joan Baez, Milarepa, and Sakyong Mipham, among others. Her first album, Bloom, was half-acoustic, half-electronic; just right for the wee small hours. Her beautiful second record, Dharmasong, is a giant leap.
Rosanne Cash: "closer to being a Buddhist than any other religion."
Rahul Sarma's music in Buddhism doc.
Singa Rinpoche album update (2007)
Somma: "Dub / Nu Jazz" - with Tibetan monks
Stuart Davis/Dharma Pop: here. Stuart's good. Adventurous.
'07's Tibet House event sounds like it was pretty great. (Rolling Stone.)
Music to benefit the US Campaign for Burma
Violent Femmes: Buddhist?
Weezer: Frontman Rivers Cuomo isn't a Buddhist, but he's a pretty devout meditator. And a hell of a songwriter. Ask anybody. Or see this Tricycle article, here.
Weird: this record-setting band likes to say they met at a "Buddhist disco."
Musician Patrick Wolf: "being a Buddhist" = "taking it on the chin"?
Shambhala Sun interviews Radiohead's Thom Yorke (circa the OK Computer era)

news (selects) & general news resources

Ashoka: The "E-Dharma University." Run by visionary people.
Attack of the Buddhist Geeks
The BBC's Buddhist News
Buddhist Channel: here
Chogyam Trungpa Legacy Project
DharmaNet: relaunched.
Meditation in the Classroom (NYTimes)
"Miss Tibet" irks Buddhists
New Zealand's "Buddha Boom"
Now, this is a resource!
Ven. Kobutsu Malone takes on "plunging." (See comments.)

ReligionLink.org's section of articles on Buddhism
Topix's Buddhism News
UC Irvine's Intro to Zen Meditation course
"Vajrayana" -- added to the Oxford English Dictionary on March 15, 2007
Wanna see something cool?" The Buddhist Maps Project.
Wildmind.org's extensive 'Meditation in the News' page 
The Zen Site: here

pets & animals

Cesar Millan is always talking about how dogs
live in the Now; notice the statuary in his Dog Psychology Center
Hama, the "Buddhist monk-dog"
Little Lotus Hearts: here. These people are pretty cool.

The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill: This documentary will make an animal lover out of anyone, and its implict Dharma is undeniable
Zen Puppy: Dog treat company playfully working a Buddhist angle.

photography

e m i: here
Gregory Palmer/Kinworks: This site launched with Greg's photos as a part of its initial design. His influence and guidance remain key.
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Best photographer ever. We're just saying.

Mandala's photo contest
Shobophoto / Josh Bartok: Urban abstract photography from Dharma teacher and "Body Vows" contributor, Josh Bartok.

punk & metal

Asunder: Somewhat Buddhist-inspired doom-metal.
Brad Warner / Hardcore Zen:  the blog, the book, and the SuicideGirls column. Also: Warner  goes after Zen teachers Genpo Merzel and Daido Loori
Buddhist Punk: This UK/US clothing designer/manufacturer seems to be neither Buddhist nor punk. Guess they know a good buzzword when they hear one. Or two.
Buddhist Punk Records: Distributed by EMI. Seems to be defunct or rebuilding. Assumed to be related to the above.
A new review of Fancy Dance, the Japanese punk/Zen film
Garuda: Just a short reference to this death-metal band named after the 'Holy Bird' of Hinduism and Buddhism.
The Firstborn: 'The Unclenching of Fists': This Portuguese death-metal band has written a concept album based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead. An absolute Worst Horse fave.
Sample tracks and lyrics available at the site.
Lamb of God singer a Zennie?( via Brad Warner) 
Louise Landes Levi / 'Guru Punk': W.T.F.?
Meditate and Destroy: A documentary  "about punk rock, spirituality, and inner rebellion," starring Noah Levine.

Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, DharmaPunx, and Teens
Noah Levine / DharmaPunx: Noah is always on the move, always shaking things up. What he's doing is major.
"The New York Dolls' newfound 'Buddhist rhetoric": Check the lyrics quoted in this Village Voice article. More like the New Age Dolls.
Ruin: The prototypical "Buddhist punk band." here  |  and here   |  and here  |  and here  |  soundfiles here | and see our interview with the band, here
Stalin's War ("hardcore rock") in Mandala: here
The Japanese Buddhist "punk priestess" (and, cat lover)
Top Floor Circus: Bizzaro Shanghai band in Tibetan monks' robes.
The Warriors:  These guys released a CD called "Beyond the Noise," based entirely on Herman Hesse's Siddhartha.
Zen and the Angry Samoans:  A brief and silly anecdote from a Metafilter discussion. Second paragraph from the top.
'Zen and the Art of Slam Dancing': click here
"Zen and the Art of, Well, Um, Zen": "Aging punk," author, and good-guy Rich Mackin waxes about, well, um, Zen.

sanghas (and other groups) of note

Beware!
"The Buddha Was Wrong"? Uh, okay.
Cool community project: Dharma House
Join the Do No Harm Movement
Enter the Matrix Mandala Garden
New sanghas for Phoenix & San Diego!

New York Insight Meditation Center: here
No Monks, No Magic, No Mumbo Jumbo:" Open Mind Zen
The new Shambhala.org. 
Welcome to Sentient City.

surfing, skateboarding, & more

The Bhikkhu surfboard
The Bodhidharma skateboard!
Geshe Sonam, "Surfing Monk": "It's a form of meditation, a way of focusing and stopping the mind from thinking."
Jaimal Yogis on "The Zen of Surfing: Triple threat: Jaimal is a devoted writer, surfer, and Buddhist .

The Satori Movement: here  |  and here  | and see our interview with its founder, here.
The Shambhala skateboard deck (also, the Buddha)
"Throw Down like a Skate Monk": here
Vultures Peak Center for Freestyle Rodeo Slacklining Research: here

web audio, etc.

Buddhist Geeks interviews Ethan Nichtern
Buddhist Channel interviews Brad Warner
Buddhanet: here
The "most popular" Buddhist podcasts

Bob Thurman on Becoming Buddha -- on the Web - a talk, via Ted.com
Sutta Readings: here
Zencast: here

Buddhadharma This beautiful Buddhist 'Practitioner's Quarterly' strikes the perfect balance between reverence and progressiveness, with a keen eye for surprising art direction.

Buddhascope No longer maintained, this site was documenting the intersection of Buddhism and pop-culture long before the Horse was around.

Darth Matt The site of Matthew Bortolin, author of The Dharma of Star Wars. People don't get nicer than Matthew.

Dharmacrafts Beautiful and practical stuff for your practice and your home, from very good people. You can't go wrong.

Elephant magazine / The Mindful Life Boulder, Colorado-based, but deserving a wider audience, this magazine and its various side projects are dedicated to "yoga, organics, sustainability,  genuine spirituality, independent business and the contemplative arts." Great links page.

An online version of the FM3 Buddha Machine

Interdependence Project Ethan Nichtern is SO onto something.
Check him out.

John Bullitt's sites: http://www.suttareadings.net | www.accesstoinsight.org
Bullitt recognized early on that the web is invaluable for getting the Buddhist teachings out there and has accordingly devoted the bulk of his time to these  two pioneering sites. John is a gentleman and a workhorse.

Killing the Buddha "A forum for the supposedly non-religious to think and talk about what religion is, is not and might be."

Philip Ryan has got his finger on the pulse -- and man, can he write!

Precious Metal The blog that was begat from this article.

Shambhala This hip-hop duo is seriously excellent. Check out 
samples on their new site or on on their MySpace page, here.

Shambhala Sun This is the sister publication to Buddhadharma. It's also beautifully designed (and has won awards to prove it). It's also newcomer-friendly, boundary-pushing, filled with great writing, and supportive of the Horse.

The West Memphis Three Dedicated to undoing one of the most bald-faced injustices of our time. For an article on the WM3/Buddhism connection, click here, or here, or read the Horse's story, here.

Wisdom Publications This non-profit Buddhist publisher prints the absolute classics but is also about moving things forward. This is manifest in books like Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies, and the Truth about Reality,  The Dharma of Star Wars, and two books of Buddhist short stories.

Are you down with the Wu Tai Shan Clan?

THESE ARE MAYBE THE BEST DIRECTORIES OF PLACES TO ENGAGE IN MEDITATION AND/OR BUDDHIST PRACTICE:
WISDOM PUBLICATIONS' LIST
(Scroll down to "Sangha Directory")
SHAMBHALA SUN'S LIST
TRICYCLE'S LIST