GENERAL
Robert Aitken, Taking the Path of Zen, San Francisco: North Point Press, 1982.
__________, The Morning Star: new and selected Zen writings, Shoemaker & Hoard, 2003. buy now
Kenneth Ch'en, Buddhism in China: A Historical Survey, Princeton University Press, 1966. buy now
Thomas Cleary, trans., Dhammapada: The Sayings of Buddha, New York: Bantam, 1995. buy now
Thomas Cleary, Minding Mind: A course in Basic Meditation, Boston & London: Shambhala, 1995. buy now
Heinrich Dumoulin, Zen Buddhism: A History, 2 vols. New York: Macmillan, 1988, 1990. (book review here) buy now
Bernard Fauré, The Rhetoric of Immediacy: A Cultural Critique of Chan/Zen Buddhism, Princeton University Press, 1994, (1991). (book review here) buy now
Gill Farrer-Halls, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Buddhist Wisdom: A Complete Introduction to the Principles and Practices of Buddhism, Quest Books,2000. buy now
Nelson Foster and Jack Shoemaker, eds. The Roaring Stream: A New Zen Reader. New York: Ecco Press, 1996. buy now
Steven Heine, Zen Skin, Zen Marrow: Will the Real Zen Buddhism Please Stand Up?, Oxford University Press, 2007. buy now
Steven Heine & Dale S. Wright (eds), Zen Ritual: Studies of Zen Buddhist Theory in Practice, New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. buy now
__________, Zen Classics: Formative Texts in the History of Zen Buddhism, New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. buy now
__________, The Zen Canon: Understanding the Classic Texts, New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. (book review here) buy now
Kenneth Kraft, Zen: Tradition and Transition: A Sourcebook by Contemporary Zen Masters and Scholars, Grove Press, 1994. buy now
Thomas P. Kasulis, Zen Action/Zen Person, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1981. buy now
Dainin Katagiri, Returning to Silence: Zen Practice in Daily Life, Boston & London: Shambhala, 1988. buy now
Kenneth Kraft, ed., Zen: Tradition and Transition : A Sourcebook by Contemporary Zen Masters and Scholars, Grove/Atlantic, 1989 buy now
Robert C. Lester, Buddhism: The Path to Nirvana, Prospect Heights: Waveland Press, 1998, (1987) buy now
John Daido Loori, Cave of Tigers: Modern Zen Encounters, New York: Weatherhill, 2000. (book review here) buy now
__________, Finding The Still Point: A Beginner’s Guide to Zen Meditation, Mt. Tremper: Dharma Communications, 1996. buy now
Lu K'uan Yü (Charles Luk), Ch'an and Zen Teaching (3 volumes),York Beach: Weiser, Inc, 1993, (1960). buy now
Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi & Bernard Glassman, On Zen Practice: Body, Breath, Mind, Boston: Wisdom, 2002. buy now
Isshu Miura & Ruth Fuller Sasaki, The Zen Koan, San Diego: Harvest Books, 1993 (1965) buy now
Kōgen Mizuno, Buddhist Sutras: Origin, Development, Transmission,
Tokyo: Kōsei Publishing Co., 1995 (1982) (book review here) buy now
Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen Keys: A Guide to Zen Practice, (Clefs Pour le Zen, 1973) New York: Doubleday, 1974. buy now
Stephen Prothero, The White Buddhist: The Asian Odyssey of Henry Steel Olcot, Indiana University Press, 1996. (book review here) buy now
Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught: Revised and Expanded Edition with Texts from Suttas and Dhammapada, Grove Press, 1974. buy now
Sokei-An Shigetsu Sasaki, Zen Pivots: Lectures on Buddhism and Zen, Weatherhill, 1998. (book review here) buy now
Katsuki Sekida, Zen Training: Methods and Philosophy, Shambhala, 2005. buy now
Nyogen Senzaki and Ruth Strout-McCandless, Buddhism and Zen, North Point Press, 1988. buy now
Shambhala, The Shambhala Dictionary of Buddhism and Zen, Boston & London: Shambhala, 1991. buy now
John S. Strong,
The Experience of Buddhism: Sources and Interpretations, Wadsworth Publishing, 2007. buy now
Paul Reps & Nyogen Senzaki, Zen Flesh, Zen Bones, North Clarendon: Tuttle, 1998, (1957) buy now
Katsuki Sekida, Zen Training: Methods and Philsophy, New York: Weatherhill, 1983 (1975) buy now
Shunryu Suzuki, Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen, New York, HarperOne, 2003. (book review here) buy now
Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, New York: Weatherhill, 1970. buy now
Holmes Welch, The Practice of Chinese Buddhism, Harvard University Press, 1967. buy now
Janwillem van de Wetering, The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery, New York: Pocket Books, 1972. buy now
Paul Wienpahl, The Matter of Zen: a brief account of zazen, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1965. buy now
Takeuchi Yoshinori (ed) Buddhist Spirituality (2 volumes), New York: The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1995, 1999 buy now
SACRED TEXTS
Thomas Cleary, trans., The Flower Ornament Scripture: A Translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra, Shambhala, 1993. buy now
Hsuan Hua, trans., The Shurangama Sutra: Sutra Text and Supplements Only, Buddhist Text Translation Society, 2003. buy now
Moti Lal Pandit, trans.,The Lankavatara Sutra: A Mahayana Text, Coronet, 1999. buy now
Red Pine (Bill Porter) trans., , The Platform Sutra: The Zen Teaching of Hui-neng, Counterpoint, 2006. buy now
_______________, The Heart Sutra, Counterpoint, 2005. buy now
_______________, The Diamond Sutra, Counterpoint, 2002. buy now
Burton Watson, trans., The Lotus Sutra, Columbia University Press, 1993. buy now
_______________, The Vilamakirti Sutra, Columbia University Press, 2000. buy now
Philip Yampolsky, The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch, Columbia University Press, 1978. buy now
ZEN AND THE WEST
Enid Adam and Philip J Hughes, The Buddhists in Australia, Canberra: Australian
Government Publishing Service, 1996. (book review here) out of print
Robert Aitken, Original Dwelling Place: Zen Essays, Upland: Counterpoint, 1996. (book review here) buy now
Stephen Batchelor. Awakening of the West: the Encounter of Buddhism and Western Culture, London: Aquarian, 1994. (book review here) buy now
David Chadwick, Thank You and Ok!: An American Zen Failure in Japan, Boston: Shambhala, 1994. buy now
_______________, Crooked Cucumber: The Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki, Broadway, 2000. buy now
James William Coleman, The New Buddhism: The Western Transformation of an Ancient Tradition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001 (book review here) buy now
Michael Downing, Shoes Outside the Door: Desire, Devotion, and Excess at San Francisco Zen Center, Washington: Counterpoint, 2001. (book review here) buy now
Heinrich Dumoulin, Zen Buddhism in the 20th Century, New York: Weatherhill, 1992. buy now
Rick Fields, How the Swans Came to the Lake: A Narrative History of Buddhism in America, 3rd ed., Boston & London: Shambhala, 1992 (1981) (book review here) buy now
Philip Kapleau, The Three Pillars of Zen: Teaching, Practice and Enlightenment, rev. ed., New York: Anchor/Doubleday, 1980 (1965) buy now
Philip Kapleau, Zen: Dawn in the West, New York: Anchor/Doubleday, 1980. buy now
Peter Matthiessen, Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982, London: Collins Harvill, 1986. buy now
Charles S. Prebish, and Martin Baumann, eds., Westward Dharma: Buddhism Beyond Asia, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. (book review here) buy now
David L. Preston, The Social Organization of Zen Practice: Constructing Transcultural Reality, Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. buy now
Sokei-An Shigetsu Sasaki, Zen Pivots: Lectures on Buddhism and Zen, Weatherhill, 1998. (book review here) buy now
Gary Snyder, Earth House Hold: Technical Notes and Queries to Fellow Dharma Revolutionaries, New York: New Directions Publishing Co., 1969. buy now
Manfred Steger & Perl Besserman, Grassroots Zen, Tuttle, 2002. buy now
Carole
Tonkinson, Big Sky Mind: Buddhism and the Beat Generation, New York: Riverhead
Books, 1995 (book review here) buy now
Janwillem van de Wetering, Afterzen: Experiences of a Zen Student Out on His Ear , New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2001. buy now
__________, A Glimpse of Nothingness: Experiences in an American Zen Community, New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1999. buy now
Duncan Ryuken Williams and Christopher S. Queen, eds. American
Buddhism. Methods and Findings in Recent Scholarship, Richmond:
Curzon Press, 1999. (book review here) buy now
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Contemporary Zen Masters
Robert Aitken, Taking the Path of Zen, San Francisco: North Point Press, 1982.
__________, The Gateless Gate: The Wu-Men Kuan (Mumonkan), Northpoint Press, 1997. buy now
__________, Encouraging Words: Zen Buddhist Teachings for Western Students, New York: Panetheon. buy now
Reb Anderson, Warm Smiles from Cold Mountains: Dharma Talks on Zen Meditation, Berkeley: Rodmell, 2005. buy now
Charlotte Joko Beck, Nothing Special: Living Zen, New York: HarperCollins, 1995. buy now
Dr. Andrew Shugyo Daijo Bonnici: Boundless Intimacy: The Eye And Treasury Of Core-Self, Dog Ear Publishing, 2014 buy now
David Chadwick, Crooked Cucumber: The Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki, Broadway, 2000. buy now
__________, Zen Is Right Here: Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki, Author of “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind“, Shambhala, 2007. buy now
James Ishmael Ford, In This Very Moment: A Simple Guide to Zen Buddhism, Skinner House Books , 2002. buy now
Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen Keys: A Guide to Zen Practice, Three Leaves, 1994. buy now
Thich Nhat Hanh and Bernard Glassman, On Zen Practice: Body, Breath, Mind, Wisdom Publications, 2002. buy now
Philip Kapleau Roshi, The Three Pillars of Zen: Teaching, Practice, and Enlightenment, Anchor; Rev Exp edition, 1989. buy now
Dainin Katagiri, You Have to Say Something, Boston: Shambhala, 2000. buy now
__________, Returning to Silence: Zen Practice in Daily Life, Boston & London: Shambhala, 1988. buy now
John Daido Loori, Mountain Record of Zen Talks, Boston: Shambhala, 1988. buy now
__________, The Art of Just Sitting, Second Edition: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza, Wisdom Pub., 2004 buy now
__________, The Eight Gates of Zen: A Program of Zen Training, Shambhala, 2002 buy now
__________, The Heart of Being: Moral and Ethical Teachings of Zen Buddhism, Dharma Communications, 2009 buy now
__________, Cave of Tigers: Modern Zen Encounters, New York: Weatherhill, 2000. (book review here) buy now
Taizan Maezumi Roshi, Appreciate Your Life: the Essence of Zen Practice, Boston: Shambhala Classics, 2002. buy now
Toni Packer, The Silent Question: Meditating in the Stillness of Not-Knowing, Boston: Shambhala, 2007. buy now
__________, The Work of This Moment, Boston: Shambhala, 2007. buy now
Daigaku Rumme, trans., The Essence of Zen: The Teachings of Sekkei Harada, Wisdom, 2008. buy now
Nyogen Senzaki, Eloquent Silence: Nyogen Senzaki's Gateless Gate and Other Previously Unpublished Teachings and Letters, Wisdom Publications, 2008. buy now
Nyogen Senzaki and Ruth Strout-McCandless, Buddhism and Zen, North Point Press, 1988. buy now
Seung Sahn, Only Don't Know: Selected Teaching Letters of Zen Master, Shambhala, 1999. buy now
Sokei-An, Zen Pivots: Lectures on Buddhism and Zen, New York: Weatherhill, 1998. (book review here) buy now
Shunryu Suzuki, Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen, New York, HarperOne, 2003. (book review here) buy now
__________, Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai, University of California Press, 2001. buy now
__________, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, New York: Weatherhill, 1970. buy now
Kazuaki Tanahashi, Endless Vow: The Zen Path of Soen Nakagawa, Shambhala, 1996. buy now
Kosho Uchiyama, Opening the Hand of Thought, Revised and Expanded Edition: Foundations of Zen Buddhist Practice, Wisdom, 2004. buy now
DŌGEN
Masao Abe, A Study of Dōgen: His Philosophy and Religion, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992. buy now
Carl Bielefeldt, Dogen's Manuals of Zen Meditation, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. (book review here) buy now
Thomas Cleary, trans., Record of Things Heard: From the Treasury of the Eye of the True Teaching, Boulder: Prajna Press, 1980. buy now
Thomas Cleary, trans., Shōbōgenzō: Zen Essays by Dōgen, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1986. buy now
Thomas Cleary, trans., Rational Zen: The Mind of Dogen Zenji, Boston & London: Shambhala, 1993 buy now
Francis Cook, trans., How to Raise an Ox: Zen Practice as Taught in Zen Master Dōgen's Shōbōgenzō, Summerville: Wisdom, 2002 (1978) buy now
Francis Cook, trans., Sounds of Valley Streams: Enlightenment in Dogen's Zen, Albany: SUNY Press, 1989. buy now
Hee-jin Kim, Eihei Dōgen: Mystical Realist, Revised, Third Edition, Wisdom Pub., 2004 (1975). buy now
Hee-Jin Kim, Dōgen on Meditation and Thinking: A Reflection on his View of Zen, Albany: SUNY Press, 2007. buy now
Steven Heine, Did Dogen Go to China?: What He Wrote and When He Wrote It, Oxford University Press, 2006. (read Heine's essay) buy the book now
Steven Heine, Dōgen and the Kōan Tradition: A Tale of Two Shōbōgenzō Texts, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994 (book review here) buy now
Takashi James Kodera, Dogen's Formative Years in China, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980. buy now
William R. LaFleur, ed., Dōgen Studies, Kuroda Institute, Studies in East Asian Buddhism, no. 2, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1985. buy now
Taigen Daniel Leighton, Visions of Awakening Space and Time: Dōgen and the Lotus Sutra, New York: Oxford UP, 2007. buy now
Taigen Daniel Leighton and Shohaku Okumura, trans. Dōgen's Extensive Record: A Translation of the Eihei Koroku, Boston: Wisdom Pub., 2004. buy now
Taigen Daniel Leighton and Shohaku Okumura, trans. The Wholehearted Way: a translation of Eihei Dōgen's Bendowa, with commentary by Kōshō Uchiyama Roshi, Tuttle Pub., 1997. buy now
Taigen Daniel Leighton and Shohaku Okumura, trans. Dōgen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community, A Translation of Eihei Shingi. Albany: SUNY Press, 1996. buy now
John Daido Loorie & Kazuaki Tanahashi, The True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dōgen's Three Hundred Koans, Boston & London: Shambhala, 2005. buy now
Reiho Masunaga, A Primer of Soto Zen: a Translation of Dōgen's Shōbōgenzō Zuimonki, London and Henley: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972. buy now
Dennis Genpo Merzel, Beyond Sanity and Madness: the Way of Zen Master Dōgen, Boston: Tuttle, 1994. buy now
Rev. Hubert Nearman, Shōbōgenzō: The Treasure House of the Eye of the True Teaching, Shasta Abbey, 2007 (free for download here)
Gudo Nishijima, trans., Master Dogen’s Shinji Shōbōgenzō: 301 Koan Stories, Woking: Windbell, 2003. (book review here) buy now
Gudo Nishijima & Chodo Cross, trans., Master Dogen’s Shōbōgenzō, (4 volumes), Woking: Windbell, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1999. buy now
Joan Stambaugh, Impermanence is Buddha-nature: Dogen's Understanding of Temporality, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990. buy now
Kazuaki Tanahashi, ed., Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dogen, San Francisco: North Point Press, 1985. buy now
Kazuaki Tanahashi, ed. Beyond Thinking: A Guide to Zen Meditation (by Zen Master Dogen), Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2004. buy now
Norman Waddell and Masao Abe, trans., The Heart of Dogen's Shōbōgenzō, New York, SUNY, 2002. buy now
Hakuun Yasutani, Flowers Fall: A Commentary on Zen Master Dogen’s “Genjokoan”,
Boston: Shambhala, 1996. buy now
JAPAN
Mikael S. Adolphson, The Gates of Power: Monks, Courtiers, and Warriors in Premodern Japan, University of Hawaii Press, 2000. buy now
William M. Bodiford, Sōtō Zen in Medieval Japan, Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 1993. buy now
Bernard Faure, Visions of Power: Imagining Medieval Japanese Buddhism, Princeton University Press, 2000. buy now
Brian D. Ruppert, Jewel in the Ashes: Buddha Relics and Power in Early Medieval Japan, Harvard University Asia Center, 2000. buy now
Jacqueline I. Stone, Original Enlightenment and the Transformation of Medieval Japanese Buddhism, University of Hawaii Press, 2003. buy now
KOANS
Robert Aitken, trans., The Gateless Barrier: The Wu-Men Kuan (Mumonkan), Berkeley, North Point Press, 1990.
Thomas Cleary, trans., No Barrier: Unlocking the Zen Koan, New York: Bantam, 1993. buy now
__________, Transmission of Light: Zen in the Art of Enlightenment by Zen Master Keizan, (Denkoroku), San Francisco: North Point, 1990. buy now
__________, Book of Serenity: One Hundred Zen Dialogues, Hudson: Lindisfarne Press, 1990. buy now
__________, Secrets of the Blue Cliff Record: Zen Comments by Hakuin and Tenkei, Boston & London: Shambhala, 2000. (book review here) buy now
Thomas Cleary & J. C. Cleary, trans., The Blue Cliff Record, Boston & London: Shambhala, 1992. buy now
Francis H. Cook, trans., The Record of Transmitting the Light: Zen Master Keizan’s "Denkoroku.” Los Angeles: Center Publications, 1991. buy now
Steven Heine, Opening a Mountain: Koans of the Zen Masters, New York: Oxford, 2002. (book review here) buy now
Steven Heine and Dale S. Wright, eds., The Koan: Texts and Contexts in Zen Buddhism, New York: Oxford, 2000. (book review here) buy now
Alexander Holstein, trans., Pointing at the Moon: 100 Zen Koans from Chinese Masters, Rutland & Tokyo: Tuttle,1993.
Victor Sogen Hori, Zen Sand: The Book of Capping Phrases for Koan Practice, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2003. (book review here) (complete introduction free download)
Thomas Yūhō Kirchner, Entangling Vines: Zen Koans of the Shūmon Kattōshū, Kyoto: Tenryu-ji Institute for Philosophy and Religion, 2004. (book review here) buy now
Trever Legget, Samurai Zen: The Warrior Koans, London: Routledge, 2nd ed., 2003. buy now
Trever Legget, Zen and the Ways - Translations of Koans from the Kamakura Period of Japanese Zen, Boston: Tuttle, 1989.
John Daido Loori, ed., Sitting with Koans: Essential Writings on the Practice of Zen Koan Introspection, Boston: Wisdom Pubs., 2006. buy now
John Daido Loori, Two Arrows Meeting in Mid-air: The Zen Koan, ed. Bonnie Myotai Treace and Konrad Ryushin Marchaj, Boston: Tuttle, 1994. buy now
John Daido Loorie & Kazuaki Tanahashi, The True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen's Three Hundred Koans, Boston & London: Shambhala, 2005. buy now
Isshu Miura & Ruth Fuller Sasaki, The Zen Koan, San Diego: Harvest Books, 1993 (1965) buy now
Gudo Nishijima, trans., Master Dogen’s Shinji Shōbōgenzō: 301 Koan Stories, Woking: Windbell, 2003. (book review here) buy now
Katsuki Sekida, trans., Two Zen Classics: the Gateless Gate & the Blue Cliff Records, New York: Weatherhill, 1977. buy now
Nyogen Senzaki & Ruth Strout McCandless, The Iron Flute: 100 Zen Koans, Boston: Tuttle, 2000. buy now
Zenkei Shibayama, Gateless Barrier: Zen Comments on the Mumonkan, Boston & London: Shambhala, 2000, (1974). buy now
Gerry Shishin Wick, The Book of Equanimity: Illuminating Classic Zen Koans, Boston: Wisdom, 2005. buy now
Koun Yamada, Gateless Gate, Somerville: Wisdom, 2004 (1979). buy now
MAHAYANA AND THE ORIGINS
OF ZEN (CHAN) IN CHINA
Wendi L. Adamek, The Mystique of Transmission: On an Early Chan History and its Contexts, New York : Columbia University Press, 2007. buy now
William M. Bodiford, ed., Going Forth: Visions of Buddhist Vinaya, Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2005. buy now
Robert E. Buswell, Jr., and Robert M. Gimello, eds. Paths to Liberation: The Marga and its Transformations in Buddhist Thought, Honolulu: Univ. of Hawaii Press, 1992. buy now
Chang Chung-yüan, trans., Original Teachings of Ch'an Buddhism Selected from The Transmission of the Lamp, New York: Pantheon Books, 1969. buy now
Thomas Cleary, trans. Zen Essence: The Science of Freedom, Boston & London: Shambhala, 1989. buy now<
Thomas Cleary, Entry Into the Inconceivable: An Introduction to Hua-yen Buddhism, Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 1983 buy now
J. C. Cleary, trans., Zen Dawn: Early Zen Texts from Tun Huang, Boston & London: Shambhala, 1986. buy now
Francis Dojun Cook, Hua-yen Buddhism: The Jewel Net of Indra. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. buy now
Patricia Ebrey and Peter Gregory, eds., Religion and Society in T'ang and Sung China, Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 1993. buy now
Bernard Faure, The Will to Orthodoxy: A Critical Genealogy of Northern Chan Buddhism, Standford University Press, 1997. (book review here and here) buy now
Andy Ferguson, Zen’s Chinese Heritage: The Masters and their Teachings. Boston: Wisdom, 2000. buy now
Robert M. Gimello and Peter N. Gregory, eds., Studies in Ch'an and Hua-yen, Kuroda Institute, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1983. buy now
Peter N. Gregory, Tsung-mi and the Sinification of Buddhism, Kuroda Institute, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2002. (book review here) buy now
Peter N. Gregory, Inquiry Into the Origin of Humanity: An Annotated Translation of Tsung-mi's Yuan jenlun with a Modern Commentary, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1995. (book review here) buy now
Peter N. Gregory, ed., Sudden and Gradual: Approaches to Enlightenment in Chinese Thought, Honolulu: U. of Hawaii Press, 1987. buy now
_______________, Traditions of Meditation in Chinese Buddhism, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1986. buy now
Steven Heine and Dale S. Wright, eds. The Zen Canon: Understanding the Classic Texts, New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. (book review here) buy now
_______________, Zen Classics: Formative Texts in the History of Zen Buddhism, New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. buy now
John Kieschnick, The Eminent Monk: Buddhist Ideals in Medieval Chinese Hagiography, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997. (book review here) buy now
Taigen Daniel Leighton, trans., Cultivating the Empty Field: The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi (revised, expanded ed.). Boston: Tuttle, 2000. buy now
Lu K'uan Yü (Charles Luk), Ch'an and Zen Teaching (3 volumes),York Beach: Weiser, Inc, 1993, (1960). buy now
Lu K'uan Yü (Charles Luk), The Transmission of the Mind Outside the Teaching, Evergreen, 1975.
John R. McRae, The Northern School and the Formation of Early Ch'an Buddhism, Kuroda Institute, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1986. buy now
_______________,Seeing Through Zen: Encounter, Transformation, and Genealogy in Chinese Chan Buddhism, Berkeley: Univ. of Calif. Press, 2003. (book reviews here, here, and here) buy now
James Mitchell, Soto Zen Ancestors in China, San Francisco: Ithuriel's Spear, 2005. buy now
Christine Mollier, Buddhism and Taoism Face to Face: Scripture, Ritual, and Iconographic Exchange in Medieval China, University of Hawaii Press, 2008. buy now
William F. Powell, trans., The Record of Tung-shan, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1986. buy now
Morten Schlütter, How Zen Became Zen: The Dispute over Enlightenment and the Formation of Chan Buddhism in Song-Dynasty China, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2008. buy now
Frederick J. Streng, Emptiness: A Study in Religious Meaning, Nashville: Abingdon, 1967. buy now
Robert A.F. Thurman, trans., The Holy Teaching of Vimalakirti: a Mahayana scripture, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001, (1976). buy now
Marsha Weidner, ed., Cultural Intersections in Later Chinese Buddhism, Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001. (book review here) buy now
Albert Welter, The Linji Lu and the Creation of Chan Orthodoxy: The Development of Chan's Records of Sayings Literature, New York: Oxford University Press, 2008, buy now
Dale S. Wright, Philosophical Meditations on Zen Buddhism, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1998. (book review here) buy now
Philip B. Yampolsky, The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch: the text of the Tun-Huang manuscript, translated with notes. New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1967. (sutra available here)
Yifa, The Origins of Buddhist Monastic Codes in China: An Annotated Translation and Study of the Chanyuan Qinggui, Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2002. (book review here) buy now
The Chinese Masters
Urs App, trans., Master Yunmen: From the Record of the Chan Teacher "Gate of the Clouds", New York: Kodansha, 1994. buy now
John Blofeld, trans., Ch'an Master Hui Hai: Zen Teaching of Instantaneous Awakening, Buddhist Pub. Group, 2006. buy now
__________, The Zen Teaching of Huang Po: On the Transmission of Mind, New York: Grove, 1958. buy now
Buddhist Text Translation Society, The Sixth Patriarch's Dharma jewel platform sutra : with the
commentary of Venerable Master Hsuan Hua, Burlingame: Buddhist Text Translation Society, 2001 (1977). (free download here)
Chang Chung-yüan, trans., Original Teachings of Ch'an Buddhism Selected from The Transmission of the Lamp, New York: Pantheon Books, 1969. buy now
Cheng Chien Bhikshu, trans., Sun-Face Buddha: The Teachings of Ma-tsu and the Hung-chou School of Ch'an, Fremont: Jain Publishing, 1991. buy now
J. C. Cleary, trans., Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui, Boston & London: Shambhala, 2006 (1977) buy now
_______________, Instant Zen: Waking Up in the Present (Foyan), Berkeley: North Atlantic, 1994. buy now
_______________, A Tune Beyond The Clouds: Zen Teachings frm Old China (Shiqi Xinyue), Berkeley: Asian Humanities Press, 1990. buy now
J. C. Cleary & Thomas Cleary, trans., Zen Letters: Teachings of Yuanwu, Boston & London: Shambhala, 1994. buy now
Thomas Cleary, trans., Stopping and Seeing: A Comprehensive Course in Buddhist Meditation by Chih-i, Boston: Shambhala, 1997. buy now
James Green, trans., The Recorded Sayings of Zen Master Joshu (Chao-chou Chan-Shih Yu-Lu), Boston: Shambhala, 1998. buy now
_______________, The Sayings of Layman P'ang: A Zen Classic of China, Boston: Shambhala, 2009. buy now
John Jorgensen; Inventing Hui-neng, the Sixth Patriarch: Hagiography And Biography in Early Ch'an, Brill Academic, 2005 buy now
Taigen Daniel Leighton with Yi Wu, trans., Cultivating the Empty Field: The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi, San Francisco:Northpoint, 1991.
John McRAe, trans., Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch, Berkeley: Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research, 2000. (free download here)
William Powell, trans., The Record of Tung-shan, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1986. buy now
Red Pine, trans. The Zen Teachings of Bodhidharma, San Francisco:North Point Press, 1987. buy now
Irmgard Schloegl, trans., The Record of Rinzai, London: The Buddhist Society, 1975. (free download here)
Burton Watson, trans., The Zen Teachings of Master Lin-Chi, Boston & London: Shambhala, 1993. (book review here) buy now
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