thezensite:updates to this site

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

The Zen Master in America: Dressing the Donkey with Bells and Scarves by Stuart Lachs added to Critical Zen page

May

Link to Engaged Zen Foundation added to Zen Links Miscellaneous page and Zen Centers page

link to Lotus and Rose site added to Zen Links Miscellaneous

April

Zen in Europe: A Survey of the Territory by Alioune Koné added to Zen Essays: Miscellaneous page

Zen: its origin and its significance by John Wu added to Historical Zen page

March

book review of Heinrich Dumoulin's Zen Enlightenment: Origins and Meaning reviewed by Vladimir K. added to Book Reviews page

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

Overview of Chinese Commentaries of the Lotus Sutra by Kanno Hiroshi added to Sutras & Translations page

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

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

The Emptiness of Christ: A Mahayana Christology by John Keenan added to Zen Philosophy page

Volume2 of Nishijima & Cross translation of Dogen's Shobogenzo added to Dogen Teachings page

D. T. Suzuki's 1935 Manual of Zen Buddhism added to Miscellaneous Zen Essays page

link to Treeleaf Zendo added to Zen Centers page

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

Hiroshi Kanno: The Modern Significance of the Lotus Sūtra added to Zen Philosophy page

January

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

G. Buhler: The Discovery of Buddha's Birthplace added to Historical Zen page

remove & fix various links

provide links from reading list to Amazon books (ongoing project!)

thezensite's own extensive reading list welcomes the new year

Archive: 2004;2005;2006; 2007; 2008
2010
August
29	book review by Vladimir K of Shohaku Okumura's Realizing Genjokoan: The Key to Dogen's Shobogenzo added to Zen Book Reviews page
20	link to Zen Kenya added to Zen Centers page
9	book review by Victor Sōgen Hori of Shoji Yamada's Shots in the Dark: Japan, Zen and the West added to Zen Book Reviews page
July
31	book review by Vladimir K of David R Loy's The World is Made of Stories added to Zen Book Reviews page
31	book review by Vladimir K of Grace Schireson's Zen Women: beyond tea ladies, iron maidens and macho masters added to Zen Book Reviews page
25	Kemmyō Taira Satō 's D. T. Suzuki and the Question of War has been added to Critical Zen page
17	Sueki Fumihiko's Chinese Buddhism and the Anti-Japan War has been added to Critical Zen page
14	Moriya Tomoe's Social Ethics of New Buddhists has been added to Critical Zen page
6	I've add a "book of the month" to Zen Book Reviews page
5	book review by Vladimir K of Steven Heine's Zen Skin, Zen Marrow: Will the Real Zen Buddhism Please Stand Up? added to Zen Book Reviews page
June
30	book review by Larry Smith of Robert Aitken's The Practice of Perfection: The Paramitas from a Zen Buddhist Perspective added to Zen Book Reviews page
30	book review by Victor Forte of Steven Heine's Zen Skin, Zen Marrow: Will the Real Zen Buddhism Please Stand Up? added to Zen Book Reviews page
21	book review by Helen J Beroni of Steven Heine's Zen Skin, Zen Marrow: Will the Real Zen Buddhism Please Stand Up? added to Zen Book Reviews page
18	Anton Sevilla;s Approaching the Language of Zen: Clarke, Heidegger, and the Meaning of Articulation in Zen Koans has been added to Philosophical Zen page
15	book review by Vladimir K of Daishin Morgan's Buddha Recognizes Buddha added to Zen Book Reviews page
12	Link to Throssel Hole Abbey added to Zen Centers page
2	Link to Clearmind Zen Center added to Zen Centers page
April
30	link to Rochester Zen Center added to Zen Centers page
30	link to teishos by Kankan Roshi, director of Cold Mountain Sangha at Rutgers University added to Commentaries & Teishos page
3	Youru Wang: The Pragmatics of ‘Never Tell Too Plainly’: indirect communication in Chan Buddhism added to Zen Philosophy page and Koan Studies page
March
21	Carl Hooper: Koan Zen and Wittgenstein’s Only Correct Method in Philosophy added to Zen Philosophy page and Koan Studies page
21	James D. Sellmann & Hans Julius Schneider Liberating Language in Linji and Wittgenstein added to Zen Philosophy page and Koan Studies page
21	Kirill Ole Thompson: When a White Horse Is Not a Horse added to Zen Philosophy page
January
10	A talk by Harada Tangen Roshi added to Zen Teachings page