- Han Yu's Memorial to Buddhism - http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/hanyu.html
One of the leaders in the Confucian counterattack on Buddhism was the classical prose stylist and poet Han Yu (768-824 CE), who in 819 CE composed this vitriolic polemic attacking Buddhism. A champion of rationalism, Han Yu wished to suppress Daoism as well as Buddhism.
- Call For a New Buddhism - http://home.att.net/~meditation/Buddhism.html
Claiming that the West must develop its own Jeffersonian Buddhism based on noble principles of dignity and respect for all.
- Buddhism - http://members.ozemail.com.au/~ksolway/j14.html
A transcript from The Hour of Judgment radio series in which two Buddhists from the Dae Kwang Sa Zen Temple in Brisbane are interviewed by the rationalist hosts.
- Criticism of Buddhism - http://www.vexen.co.uk/religion/buddhism_criticism.html
Criticism of its content and religious core but praise of its social efforts & politics
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