Silent Rain
http://www.ultranet.com/~cm/silent
A highly recommended site for lay Western Buddhists that features various illuminating writings and talks by Western Buddhist monk Ajahn Amaro, of Abhayagiri Monastery in Redwood Valley, California, drawn from a book called "Silent Rain." Abhayagiri is a Buddhist community in the tradition of the Thai Buddhist teacher Ajahn Chah and Ajahn Amaro has inherited much of that great teacher's personal, approachable and direct teaching style. Visit Hundred Mountain's "Reading Room" for a sample of one of talks printed on this site.

Daily Zen
www.dailyzen.com:
A calming, spare and refreshing site. It features an ever-changing display of Zen quotes and jokes, plus peaceful and colorful vistas in its "Cyber Garden" and more. A welcome quiet pull-off for reflection on the turbocharged, excitable Internet throughway.

Dhammapada
http://wsrv.clas.virginia.edu/~cam4z/home.htm:
Type in "Dhammapada" in a search engine and hundreds of hits will come back, pointing you to various web renderings of this worldwide spiritual classic, which is a collection of 423 verses containing the Buddha's essential teachings. But this site deserves kudos for the elegant way it has packaged the Dhammapada, translated as 'The Way of Truth' or 'Verses of Truth' as uttered by the Buddha. For best effect, you need a frames-capable browser (version 3 and higher of Netscape and Internet Explorer and others), although the introduction page cited above offers a non-frames version. This is a classic, much-esteemed translation by Venerable Acharya Buddharakkhita of the Dhammapada, which is full of vivid similes, cut-to-the-chase insights and beautiful, inspiring maxims.

Access to Insight
http://world.std.com/~metta/index.html
Anyone interested in pursuing Buddhist study and meditation practice in the Therevada tradition (Therevada, the oldest Buddhist tradition, means "Way of the Elders"), should certainly investigate this deep, rich and enrichening site. It contains not only the Pali Buddhist canon (The Tipitaka), but articles, books, commentaries and dhamma talks by teachers and scholars that offer a wealth of plain-spoken insights into the teachings of the Buddha.