The Wanderling
He's everywhere!

This man is an elusive figure. There are hints of bio, background, especially of his early association with his unnamed mentor in the fifties in California, who had been both with Yasutani Roshi and Ramana, but solid, no.

His site, though scattered, is huge, with all kinds of material about almost anything in the fields of zen and Caribbean shamanism, + lots more. He has a course of study, Awakening 101, pages on many current living awakened ones, pages on venerable ancients, a whole section on women, mainly Buddhist-related, an extensive guru list, and tons of pages of general guidance on the path.

It's organic and sprawling, but intricately interlinked, linking also to outside sites. One of the most fascinating aspects of this interconnectedness is that his collection is not very systematic in the usual sense. Forget site map, there is nothing for it when visiting but to wander from one page to another without much sense of where you're going, and usually without completing the page you're on, which you may return to only after a long garden path. In reading, you become a wanderer.

One more tidbit is the domain structure. The Wanderling has undertaken to create his project in free website places, assembling a myriad of apparently different sites, but all interwoven. As the free website places fold and merge and change their rules, he shifts accordingly, thus a migration happens on this level as well. [Correction 2006: The Wanderling informs me that some of his material is now hosted on paid servers.]

Some of his (sub)domains currently are:
angelfire.com/electronic/bodhidharma
angelfire.com/electronic/awakening101/
angelfire.com/realm/bodhisattva/
angelfire.com/electronic/zennun/
angelfire.com/indie/anna_jones1/
geocities.com/the_wanderling/
geocities.com/jiji_muge/
geocities.com/upakaascetic/
geocities.com/zennun12_8/
sped2work.tripod.com/ <==> members.tripod.com/SpEd2work/
wanderling.tripod.com/

The geocities.com/zennun12_8/ area seems to be the most thematically focused, being about women and their underappreciated role in Buddhism, but it is not the only place such pages reside. 

Happy wandering!

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