The present paper attempts an evaluation of the situation of Buddhist studies in the age of digital resources and networked communication from the perspective of an individual scholar, as opposed to viewing this situation from the perspective of learned societies or institutions. Attention is drawn to three different aspects: communication, electronic resources, and methods. Traditional modes both of informal communication and formal communication through scholarly journal articles are contrasted with the new means to communicate using modern computer networks. Electronic resources presently available are screened and evaluated, with the focus being placed on canonical collections in different Buddhist languages. The main questions asked are reliability and fitness for scholarly research. As evolving new methodology in Humanities Computing in general, but also in Buddhist studies, markup is considered as a conditio sine qua non in the creation of electronic resources and scholars are urged to get familiar with the basic methods involved.