thezensite:updates to this site

This page lists all the changes to thezensite. Check here regularly to see what's new. Previous years' updates have been moved to separate pages. Click on the links to view the archive but be warned that many of the direct links no longer work due to redesigns of this site. Use the search function to find files. Questions, broken links, suggestions, etc, please .

Archive: 2004;2005;2006; 2007; 2008, 2009, 2010 , 2011, 2012, 2013,

2009

December

A Note On Dharma Transmission And The Institutions Of Zen by James Myoun Ford added to Critical Zen page

Emptiness and the Institutional Suicide of Chinese Buddhism by Neal Donner added to Nagarjuna page

November

The Bright Field of Spirit: The Life and Teachings of Chan Master Hongzhi Zhengjue by Matthew Gidin added to Historical Zen page

link to Sweeping Zen photostream added to Miscellaneous Zen links page

October

link to Chicago Zen Center added to Zen Centers page

Buddhist Philosophy: essential readings by William Edelglass, Jay L. Garfield reviewed by Eric S. Nelson added to Zen Book Reviews page

Keeping It Real:Chan and The Pursuit of Experience by Matthew Gindin added to Zen History page

How To Practice Zen link added to Miscellaneous Teachings page

September

The Aitken-Shimano Letters by Vladimir K. and Stuart Lachs added to Critical Zen page

August

Yasutani Hakuun Roshi - a biographical note by Paul David Jaffe added to Historical Zen page

link to e-Sangha portal added to Zen Links Miscellaneous page

July

Robert Aitken on Taking Responsibility added to Zen Teachings, Miscellaeous page

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

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
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