thezensite:updates to this site

July
15	reformat Kevin Schilbrack's Metaphysics in Dogen on Dogen Studies & Philosophical pages
2	Nagarjuna's Seventy Stanzas: A Buddhist Psychology of Emptiness by David Ross Komito book reviewed added to Book Reviews page
June
28	add link to World Buddhist Directory to Zen centers page
28	check links; remove dead links. If you find more dead links please let me know. Thanks.
23	The Road to Nowhere: Koans and Deconstruction of the Zen Saga by Mary Jaksch added to Koan Studies page
7	add link to Upaya Institute and Zen Center to Zen Centers page
7	Tricycle links added to Misc. Zen links
5	Dogen and the Koan Tradition: A Tale of Two Shõbõgenzõ Texts by Steven Heine book review by Joseph O'Leary added to Zen Books Reviewed
5	Philsophers of Nothingness by James W. Heisig book reviewed by Joseph O'Leary added to Zen Books Reviewed
3	corrected layout design. If you are still having problems with this site, please let me know.
May 2008
26	Note: it seems that my redesigned main pages don't work with some monitors. The problem is with high resolution monitors. If you have difficulty with these pages, please reduce the resolution of your monitor to 1024x768 and it'll work fine. And yes, I'm trying to find a solution so please bear with me. It may take a week or two to find a solution. My apologies for the inconvenience.
24	Soto Zen in America by John MacRae added to Zen Essays: Miscellaneous
21	link to Joseph S. O'Leary site added to Zen Links Journals & Academia page
21	link to Spirit Rock Meditation Center added to Zen Centers page
20	add link to Ancient Dragon Zen Gate to Zen Centers page
16	redesign main pages
12	repost Rein Raud's Rein Raud: ‘Place’ And ‘Being-Time’: Spatiotemporal Concepts In The Thought Of Nishida Kitarō And Dōgen Kigen on Dogen Studies page and Zen Essays Philsophical page
7	Update Complete Shobogenzo page and Dogen Teachings page
April
12	repost Rein Raud's Rein Raud: ‘Place’ And ‘Being-Time’: Spatiotemporal Concepts In The Thought Of Nishida Kitarō And Dōgen Kigen on Dogen Studies page and Zen Essays Philsophical page
7	Update Complete Shobogenzo page and Dogen Teachings page

March
28	remove dead link to Kalavinka Dharma Treasury from Nagarjuna_and_Madhyamika page
28	remove links to Buddhistinformation.com from Translations & Sutras page
26	The Complete Shobogenzo, translated by Rev. Hubert Nearman of Shasta Abbey added to Dogen Teachings page
13	The Circle of the Way: Reading the Gospel of Thomas as a ChristZen Text by Kenneth Arnold added to Zen Essays Miscellaneous
February
10	Mechanisms of Mindfulness by Shauna L. Shapiro, Linda E. Carlson, John A. Astin, Benedict Freedman added to Zen Essay: Miscellaneous
10	Salvation By Paradox: On Zen And Zen-like Thought by Ben-Ami Scharfstein added to Zen Essays: Philosophical
10	Add reading list from Liverpool Zen Group and update John Daido Loori link on Book Review Reading List page.
9	A Critical Survey of Works on Zen since Yampolsky by Steven Heine added to Zen Essays:Miscellaneous and Book Review Reading List.
2	book review of The Zen Canon: Understanding the Classic Texts, eds. Steven Heine & Dale S. Wright, reviewed by Vladimir K. added to Zen Book reviews page
January 2008
24	translation of The Awakening Of Faith In Mahayana added to Zen Teachings: Translations page
24	Beat Zen, square Zen, and Zen. (Zen Buddhism as practiced in China, Japan and the US) by Alan Watts added to Zen Essay Miscellaneous

Archive: 2004;2005;2006; 2007;
2009
July
2	Robert Aitken on Taking Responsibility added to Zen Teachings, Miscellaeous page
2	James Legge (transl.): A Record of Buddhistic KingdomsBeing an Account by the Chinese Monk Fa-Hien of his Travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in Search of the Buddhist Books of Discipline Translated and annotated with a Corean recension of the Chinese added to Zen Essays Historical Zen page
June
14	letter to Richard Rudin, President of Board of Directors, Zen Studies Society, 1995, by eight American Zen masters regarding Eido Shimano Roshi added to Critical Zen page
7	The Zen Master in America: Dressing the Donkey with Bells and Scarves by Stuart Lachs added to Critical Zen page
May
30	Link to Engaged Zen Foundation added to Zen Links Miscellaneous page and Zen Centers page
16	link to Lotus and Rose site added to Zen Links Miscellaneous
April
21	Zen in Europe: A Survey of the Territory by Alioune Koné added to Zen Essays: Miscellaneous page
12	Zen: its origin and its significance by John Wu added to Historical Zen page
March
25	book review of Heinrich Dumoulin's Zen Enlightenment: Origins and Meaning reviewed by Vladimir K. added to Book Reviews page
24	Introduction to Vol. 1 of Dumoulin's Zen History by John McRae and Introduction to Zen History, Vol. 2 by Victor Hori added to Historical Zen page
5	Overview of Chinese Commentaries of the Lotus Sutra by Kanno Hiroshi added to Sutras & Translations page
5	A belated response to Hu Shih and D.T. Suzuki. (debate on Ch'an and Zen Buddhism in Philosophy East and West, vol. 3, p. 3 an p. 25, April 1953) by James Sellman added to Miscellaneous Essays page
1	Zen Talks on the Sandokai by Shasta Abbey Abbot Reverend Master Eko Little. Link added to Commentaries and Teishos page. Removed version of same by Shunryu Suzuki
February
23	The Emptiness of Christ: A Mahayana Christology by John Keenan added to Zen Philosophy page
21	Volume2 of Nishijima & Cross translation of Dogen's Shobogenzo added to Dogen Teachings page
21	D. T. Suzuki's 1935 Manual of Zen Buddhism added to Miscellaneous Zen Essays page
17	link to Treeleaf Zendo added to Zen Centers page
17	book review by Vladimir K. of Michael Downing's Shoes Outside the Door: Desire, Devotion, and Excess at San Francisco Zen Center added to Book Reviews page
1	Hiroshi Kanno: The Modern Significance of the Lotus Sūtra added to Zen Philosophy page

January
25	The problem with orthodoxy in Zen Buddhism: Yongming Yanshou’s notion of zong in the Zongjin lu (Records of the Source Mirror) by Albert Welter added to Historical Zen page
24	G. Buhler: The Discovery of Buddha's Birthplace added to Historical Zen page
12	remove & fix various links
3	provide links from reading list to Amazon books (ongoing project!)
1	thezensite's own extensive reading list welcomes the new year
2008
December
28	book review of Dream Conversations on Buddhism and Zen, reviewed by Fred Martinson added to Zen Book Reviews
27	John R McRae's translation of the Platform Sutra added to Translations/Sutras pages
26	Baizhang Zen Monastic Regulations translated by Shohei Ichimura added to Translations/Sutras page
25	link to Buddhist Military Sangha added to Zen Links Miscellaneous page
25	Volume 1 of Nishijima & Cross's translation of the Shobogenzo added to Dogen Teachings page
25	a Hungarian translation of the Hsin-hsin Ming has been added to Miscellaneous Teachings-Non-English and the Translations/Sutras pages
25	Dereification in Zen Buddhism by Robert J. Moore added to Zen Essays: Philosophy page
8	English translation of La Mia Dottrina: Il Tuo Occhio Spalancato added to Miscellaneous Teachings Non-English
8	link to Buddhist publisher Inward Path added to Zen Book Reviews page
November
30	Andy Ferguson's Zen Ancestors in China Lineage Chart added to Historical Zen page
30	link to translation of the Mumonkan, The Gateless Checkpoint, by Gregory Wonderwheel added to Koan Studies page
29	link to Budhism Links added to Zen links Miscellaneious page
15	John Wright: Language and emptiness: An interview with Norman Fischer added to Zen Essays Miscellaneous page
14	The Kasaya Robe of the Past Buddha Kasyapa in the Miraculous Instruction Given to the Vinaya Master Daoxuan (596-667) by Koichi Shinohara added to Zen Historical pages
12	The Logic and Limits of the Genealogical Model for Chan History by Elizabeth Morrison added to Zen History section
August
31	NEW section, Cults, added to Non-Zen Miscellaneous page. Traumatic Abuse in Cults added to this section.
30	link to Fazang's Treatise on the Golden Lion added to Commentaries & Teishos page
30	Translation of Sayings of the Buddha in 42 Sections added to Translations & Sutra page
23	The Old Tea Seller: Baisao; Life and Zen Poetry in 18th Century Kyoto by Norman Waddell, reviewed by Vladimir K. added to Zen Books Reviewed