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2005
December
31 Zen and Buddhism by Maseo Abe added to ZenEssays page
31 link to The Gospel of Buddha by Paul Carus added to ZenTeachings page
31 link to Boundless Way Zen center added to ZenTeachings page
27 Zen Buddhism and Environmental Ethics by Simon P James reviewed by Eric Sean Nelson added to ZenBookReviews page
27 Mindfullness in the Marketplace: Compassionate Response to Consumerism by Allen Badiner (ed) reviewed by Eric Sean Nelson added to ZenBookReviews page
22 Transcendence East and West by David Loy added to ZenEssays page
19 link to Korean Son Master Seung Sahn's Kwan Um School of Zen added to ZenTeachings page
19 Roshi and His Teachers, Dharma Transmission, and the Rochester Zen Center Lineage by Roshi Bodhin Kjolhede link added to ZenEssays page
16 link to Glasgow Zen Group added to ZenTeachings page
8 Empty Cloud's Essentials of Ch'an Practice added to ZenTeachings page
8 Empty Cloud: the Teachings of Xu Yun e-book added to ZenTeachings page
7 The Eightfold Path for the Household e-book by Jack Kornfeld added to ZenEssays page
4 Mountains and Rivers Order of Zen Buddhism link added to ZenTeachings page
4 White Wind Zen Community link added to ZenTeachings page
4 New section, Zen Centers, added to ZenTeachings page
4 The Autobiography & Maxims of Chan Master Han Shan pdf book added to ZenTeachings page
1 link to American Zen Teachers Association list of members' centers added to ZenLinks page
November
21 Changes made to navigation bar on all pages. Please let me know if you have problems as these links work via JavaScript.
13 link to St John of the Cross's Dark Night of the Soul added to NonZenTopics page
13 Hakuin's :Song of Zazen added to ZenTeachings page
08 What is the Zen Master Talking About by Stewart W Holmes added to ZenEssays page
08 Nagarjuna by David Berger link added to ZenEssays page
08 Nagarjuna and Chi-Tsang on the Value of 'This World': a reply to Kuang-ming Wu's critique of Indian and Chinese Madhyamika Buddism by Robert Magliola added to ZenEssays page
08 Critical Comments on Nishida's Use of Chinese Buddhism by Gereon Knopf added to ZenEssays page
08 A Survey of 12thC Japanese Buddhism by Karen Andrews added to ZenEssays page
06 Dipa Ma-The Life and Legacy of a Buddhist Master by Amy Schmidt reviewed by Lindsay K added to ZenBookReviews page
03 Women in Buddhism site link added to ZenLinks page
03 Hakuin's Letter in Answer to an Old Nun of the Hokke Sect added to ZenTeachings page
03 The Sudden/Gradual Polarity: A Recurrent Theme In Chinese Thought by Peter N Gregory added to ZenEssays page
October
29 Time and Emptiness in the Chao-Lun Berman by Michael Berman added to ZenEssays page
29 Philosophical Meditations on Zen Buddhism by Dale S Wright book review by Joseph S. O'Leary added to ZenBookReviews
29 A Biography of Acarya Nagarjuna by Sera sMad Geshe Lobsang Tharchin added to ZenTeachings page
29 Why Did Bodhidharma Came from the West excerpt from AMA Say's book added to ZenTeachings page
27 Life and Death teisho by AMA Samy added to ZenTeachings page
26 Language against its own mystifications: Deconstruction in Nagarjuna and Dogen by David R Loy added to ZenEssays page
26 Illocution, No-Theory and Practice in Nagarjuna’s Skepticism: Reflections on the Vigrahavyavartani by Douglas L Berger link added to ZenEssays page
26 Nagarjuna's Middle Way by Jonah Winters link added to ZenEssays page
26 Dependent Arising and the Emptiness of Emptiness: Why did Nagarjuna start with causation? by Jay Garfield added to ZenEssays page
25 Chinese Buddhist Religious Disputation by Mary Garrett added to ZenEssays page
25 Nagarjuna and the Limits of Thought by Jay Garfield & Graham Priest added to ZenEssays page
22 Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra translation by Robert A F Thurman  link added to ZenTeachings page
22 Mulamadhyamakakarika translation by Stephen Batchelor link added to ZenTeachings page
22 Stephen Batchelor home page link added to ZenLinks page
22 Nagarjuna: Master of Paradox, Mystic or Perpetrator of Fallacies? by Richard P Hayes added to ZenEssays page
17 Buddhist Illogic:a critical analysis of Nagarjuna's arguments by Avi Sion link added to ZenEssays page
16 Chan/Zen Studies in English: the State of the Field by Bernard Faure added to ZenEssays page
15 Buddhist Philosophy link added to ZenEssays page
15 Historical Understanding: The Ch'an Buddhist Transmission Narratives and Modern Historiography by Dale S Wright added to ZenEssays page
15 Journey into Emptiness: Dogen, Merton, Jung and the Quest for Transformation By Robert Jingen Gunn reviewed by Harold Coward added to ZenBookReviews page
12 John Tarrant talks and teishos link added to ZenTeachings page
12 Female teachers of Zen link provided on ZenTeachings page to a site that lists current female Zen teachers
12 Talks & Essays by Zen teacher Joan Sutherland of the PZI link added to ZenTeachings page
12 Is Madhyamaka Buddhism Really the Middle Way? by David Burton link added to ZenEssays page
3 Integrating Buddhist Philosophy and Peacemaking Theory: Further Thought for Development by John Walsh; link added to ZenEssays Page
September
27 On the Ten Grave Precepts talk by Robert Aitken added to ZenTeachings page
27 link to Killing the Buddha added to NonZenTopics page
25 Rethinking Transcendence: The Role of Language in Zen Experience by Dale S Wright added to ZenEssays page
21 The Problem of the Historical Nagarjuna Revisited by Ian Mabbett added to ZenEssays page
20 The Putative Fascism of the Kyoto School and the Political Correctness of the Modern Academy by Graham Parkes added to ZenEssays page
20 On the Nonduality of Good and Evil: Buddhist Reflections on the New Holy War by David R. Loy added to ZenEssays page
19 Original Dwelling Place:Zen Essays by Robert Aitken reviewed by Robert Goss added to ZenBookReviews
18 Zen Teaching, Zen Practice: Philip Kapleau and The Three Pillars of Zen edited by Kenneth Kraft reviewed by Vladimir K. added to ZenBookReviews
17 Maseo Abe, Zen Buddhism and Social Ethics by Daniel Palmer added to ZenEssays page

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 Jung, Christianity and Buddhism by James W. Heisig added to NonZentopics page
12 The Benefits and Pitfalls of the Teacher-Meditator Relationship by Stuart McLeod added to ZenTeachings page
12 Finding Safe Harbor: Buddhist Sexual Ethics in America by Stephanie Kaza added to ZenEssays page
August
14 The Doctrinal Transformation of 20th Century Chinese Buddhism: Master Yinshun's interpretation of the tathagatagarbha doctrine by Scott Hurley added to ZenEssays page
   
   

 

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July
26 Zen and the Art of Postmodern Philosophy: Two Paths of Liberation from the Representational Mode of Thinking by Carl Olson-book reviewed by Robert Magliola added to ZenBookReviews page
23 Is There Historical Consciousness Within Chan? by John Maraldo added to ZenEssays page
22 The Myth of Zen in the Art of Archery by Yamada Shoji added to ZenEssays page
22 Engaged Buddhism: New and Improved!(?) Made in the U. S. A. of Asian Materials by Thomas Freeman Yarnall added to ZenEssays page
21 Characteristics of Buddhism in Australia by Michelle Spuler added to ZenEssays page
21 Buddhism in China: a Historical Survey by Whalen Lai added to ZenEssays page
21 Autobiography of Hui Neng (from the Platform Sutra) added to ZenTeachings page
21 Buddhist Contribution to Social Welfare in Australia by Patricia Sherwood added to ZenEssays page
21 Buddhism, Human Rights and the Japanese State by John Peek added to ZenEssays page
20 Happiness: a physician/biologist looks at life by Joseph N Abraham M.D. reviewed by Vladimir K. added to ZenBookReviews page
18 changed the zensite search page from Google search to Scroogle search. Added search box to title page
17 The Ridiculous Teachings of Wrong Way Rajneesh by Christopher Calder added to NonZenTopics page
12 Real Buddhas Don't Laugh: Attitudes towards Humour and Laughter in Ancient India and China by Michael Clasquin added to ZenEssays page
03 Public talk by Thich Nhat Hanh on Sept25, 2001 added to ZenTeachings page along with some other relavent links.
June
14 The Core Elements of Indian Buddhism Introduced into Tibet by Yamaguchi Zuiho added to ZenEssays
14 Logic of the Diamond Sutra by Shigenori Nagatomo added to ZenEssays page
13 link to teishos by Gerry Shishin Wick of Great Mountain Zen Center added to ZenTeachings page
11 Opening A Mountain: Kōans Of The Zen Masters by Steven Heine; Kōan: Texts And Contexts In Zen Buddhism edited by Steven Heine and Dale S. Wright; reviewed by Eric Sean Nelson added to ZenBookReviews page
11 Zen And The Art Of Postmodern Philosophy: Two Paths Of Liberation From The Representational Mode Of Thinking by Carl Olson, reviewed by Robert Magliola added to ZenBookReviews page
May
27 link to Journal of Global Buddhism added to ZenLinks page
27 The Zen Teachings of Lin-ji by Burton Watson reviewed by Urs App added to ZenBookReviews page
27 The Zen Teachings of Rinzai ebook added to ZenTeachings page
27 Ox Herding Pictures link added to ZenTeachings page
26 The Textual History of the Linji lu (Record of Linji): The Earliest Recorded Fragments by Albert Welter added to ZenEssays page
April
19 Legends in Ch'an: the Northern/Southern Split, Hui-neng and the Platform Sutra by Vladimir K. added to ZenEssays page
10 Inquiry into the Origin of Humanity: An Annotated Translation of Tsung-mi's Yuan-jen lun with a Modern Commentary by Peter N. Gregory reviewed by Albert Welter added to ZenBookReviews page
6 The Enduring Significance of T'an-luan by Roger Corless added to ZenEssays page
6 Relativity and Transcendence in the Platform Sutra of Hui-Neng: On Polarities and their Philosophical Significances by Chung-Ying Cheng added to ZenEssays page
6 The Enderstanding of Mind in the Northern line of Ch'an (Zen) by Robert B. Zeuschner added to ZenEssays page
6 T'an Ching (Platform Scripture) by Bielefeldt and Lancaster added to ZenEssays page
5 Two links to the Platform Sutra with commentary by Tripitaka Master Hua added to ZenTeachings page
5 Zen Buddhism:a history by Heinrich Dumoulin reviewed by John Jorgensen added to ZenBookReviews
5 The Tun-Huang version of the Platform Sutra translated by Philip Yampolsky added to ZenTeachings
3 Attitudes Towards Canonicity and Religious Authority in Tang Chan by Mario Poceski added to ZenEssays
2 Onto-Epistemology of Sudden Enlightenment in Chan Buddhism by Chung-Yin Chen added to ZenEssays
March
31 The Emergence of Ch'an Buddhism: a revisionist perspective by Charles W Swain added to ZenEssays
31 The Will to Orthodoxy: A Critical Genealogy of Northern Chan Buddhism by Bernard Faure reviewed by Franz Metcalf added to ZenBookReviews page
28 Added Google zensite search to all pages. You can now search the zensite or the Web.
24 Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch translated by Philip Yampolsky added to ZenTeachings page
22 The Enduring Significance of T’an-luan by Roger Corless added to ZenEssays page
21
The Will to Orthodoxy: A Critical Genealogy of Northern Chan Buddhism by Bernard Faure reviewed by Jeffrey Dippmann added to ZenBookReviews page
21 Robes Purple and Gold: Transmission of the Robe in the Lidai fabio ji by Wendi L. Adamek added to ZenEssays page
19 From India to China: Transformations in Buddhist Philosophy by Linda Holt added to ZenEssays page
6 Emancipation from what? The concept of freedom in classical Ch'an Buddhism by Dale Wright added to ZenEssays page
6 The Importance of Hinayana and Mahayana by Neils Hammer added to ZenEssays page
6 Place and Being-time: Spatiotempral Cocepts in the Thought of Nishida Kitaro by Rein Raud added to ZenEssays page
6 Koans in the Dogen Tradition : How and Why Dogen Does what he Does with Koans by Steven Heine added to ZenEssays page
5 Questions in the Making: A Review Essay on Zen Buddhist Ethics in the Context of Buddhist and Comparative Ethics by Mark Unno added to ZenEssays page
5 Letter from David Loy on September 11, 2001 attacks added to ZenEssays page
5 Engaged Buddhism: A Skeleton in the Closet? by Brian Victoria added to ZenEssays page
3 Added links to the Biona Library and Ida B. Wells Memorial Sutra Librarysutra collections to the ZenTeachings page.
February
26 Nagarjuna's fundamental doctrine of Pratityasamutpada by Ewing Chinn added to ZenEssays page
25 The Incomprehensibility of God: A buddhist reading of Aquinas by James L Fredericks added to ZenEssays page
25 Nagarjuna and the doctrine of "skillful means" by John Schroeder added to ZenEssays page
23 The Eminent Monk: Buddhist Ideals in Medieval Chinese Hagiography by John Kieschnick reviewed by Robert Ford Campany added to ZenBookReviews page
12 re-design navigation links on most pages
9 link to Master Hsu (Xu) Yun (Empty Cloud) website added to ZenTeachings page
9 Discussion of Time in Mahayana Texts by Lewis Lancaster added to ZenEssays page
January
30 link added to ZenTeachings page to teishos by James Ishmael Ford
30 A Note on Dharma Transmission and the Institutions of Zen by James Ishmael Ford link added to ZenEssays page
27 Can the Concept of Enlightenment Evolve? by Michael P Levine added to ZenEssays page
27 The Circle of the Way: Reading the Gospel of Thomas as a ChristZen Text by Kenneth Arnold added to ZenEssays page.
19 link to Professor Eric Nelson's Zen Philosophy course added to ZenLinks page
19 In Defense of Dharma:Just-War Ideology in Buddhist Sri Lanka by Tessa J. Bartholomeusz reviewed by Eric Nelson added toZenBookReviews page
19 Opening a Mountain: Koans of the Zen Masters by Steven Heine
Koans: Texts and Contexts In Zen Buddhism edited by Steven Heine and Dale S. Wright
reviewed by Eric Nelson added to ZenBookReviews page
19 Zen War Stories by Brian Victoria reviewed by Eric Nelson added to ZenBookReviews page
16 Site move: This site has moved to a new server and has a new name. The old site at www.vladk.com will not be updated. All new material can be found here .
4 Zen at War by Brian Victoria reviewed by Fabio Rambelli added to ZenBookReviews page
4 Zen at War by Brian Victoria reviewed by Vladimir K. added to ZenBookReviews page
2 Zen at War by Brian Victoria reviewed by David Loy added to ZenBookReviews page