thezensite:updates to this site

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

2007
December
5	link to Black Moon Zendo added to Zen Teachings: Zen Centers page
5	Answer Your Love Letters by Adam Genkaku Fisher reviewed by Reverend Fa Dao Shakya added to Zen Book Reviews page
3	The Non-Logical Character of Zen by Hajime Nakamura added to Zen Teachings Koan Studies page
1	Robert H. Sharf: The Zen of Japanese Nationalism added to Historical Zen page (also Critical Zen page)
1	Of Heretics and Martyrs in Meiji Japan: Buddhism and Its Persecution by James Edward Ketelaar book reviewed by Jacqueline Stone added to Zen Book Reviews page
November
19	The Whole Heart of Zen: The Complete Teachings from the Oral Tradition of Ta-Mo by Sifu John Bright-Fey reviewed by Ned Mudd added to Zen Book Reviews page
11	Dogen's Zen View of Interdependence by Norimoto Iino added to Dogen Studies page
11	Living with the Devil: a Meditation on Good and Evil by Stephen Batchelor reviewed by Vladimir K. added to Zen Book Reviews page
10	Shodoka (song of enlightement) added to Zen Teachings Translations
6	Cultural Intersections in Later Chinese Buddhism, Marsha Weidner, ed. reviewed by John R McRae, added to Zen Book Reviews page
6	Seeing through Zen: Encounter, Transformation, and Genealogy in Chinese Chan Buddhism by John McRae book review by Albert Welter added to Zen Book Reviews page
October
28	The Scripture Preached by the Buddha on the Total Extinction of the Dharma translation added to Zen Teachings Translations page
15	link to Comunidad Budista Soto Zen: a Soto Zen group based in Spain added to Non-English Sites & Teachings page
13	link to Empty Universe added to Zen Links Miscellaneous page
13	John Tarrant Roshi talks about the koan Mu added to Commentaries & Teishos page
11	Madhyamika Thought in China by Ming-Wood Liu reviewed by Whalen Lai added to Zen Book Reviews page
6	Shodo Harada On the Heart Sutra teisho and link to The Way of Zazen added to Commentaries & Teishos page
6	On Thoughts in Zazen by Vladimir K added to Commentaries & Teishos page
3	Silence and Words in Zen Buddhism by Shizuteru Ueda added to Zen Philosphical page
September
29	Letting Go: The Story of Zen Master Tosui by Peter Haskel reviewed by David E Riggs added to Zen Book Reviews page
29	Opening a Mountain: Koans of the Zen Masters. by Steven Heine reviewed by Dale S Wright added to Zen Book Reviews page
29	Seeing Through Zen: Encounter, Transformation, and Geneology in Chinese Ch'an Buddhism by John McRae, reviewed by George A Keyworthy added to Zen Book Reviews page
16	Buddhist Sutras: Origin, Development, Transmission by Kogen Mizuno; book review by Vladimir K. added to Zen Book Reviews page
10	Link to Zen Tails added to Non-Zen Sites page
10	Link to Buddhist Tourism added to Non-Zen Sites page
10	Link to Lotus Meditation Center added to Zen Centers page
July
16	Working with Koans by John Tarrant added to Koan Studies page and Commentaries & Teishos page
16	Tsung Mi and the Sinification of Buddhism by Peter N. Gregory book review by T Griffith Foulk added to Book Reviews page
8	The Koan as Ritual Performance by Barry Stephenson added to Koan Collections & Studies page
Updates will be sporadic in the next few months as I am overseas.

May
30	Why They Say Zen is Not Buddhism: Recent Japanese Critiques of Buddha-Nature by Paul Swanson added to Zen Essays: Critical Zen page
26	The Rhetoric of Immediacy: A Cultural Critique of Chan/Zen Buddhism by Bernard Faure reviewed by Stephen F Teiser added to Book Reviews page
26	The Origins of Buddhist Monastic Codes in China: An Annotated Translation and Study of the Chanyuan qinggui by Yifa reviewed by Jiang Wu added to Book Reviews page
26	Some Talks by Hakuin added to Commentaries & Teishos page
25	link to Heart Sutra Commentary by the Venerable Master Hsüan Hua added to Translations & Sutra page
15	Zen Keys by Thich Nhat Hanh and The Golden Age of Zen by John C. Wu both reviewed by Frank J Hoffman added to Book Reviews page
14	Is Zen a Philosophy? by Henry Rosemont, Jr. added to Zen Essays Philosophical page
13	Zen Language in Our Times: the case of Pojo Chinul's huatau meditation by Jin Y Park added to Zen Essays Philosophical page
12	Doctrine and the Concept of Truth in Dōgen's Shōbōgenzō by Dale S Wright added to Zen Essays: Dogen Studies page
11	link to Meditations: a spiritual logbook by Avi Sion added to Non-Zen Miscellaneous page
8	link to Shambhala Sun added to Zen Links Journals page
6	A link to a brief biography/obituary of Buddhist scholar Philip Yampolsky added to Zen Links Miscellaneous page
5	On the Soteriological Significance of Emptiness by Mark Siderits added to Nagarjuna page and Philosophical Zen page.
4	Kyojukaimon and Commentary. Giving and Receiving the Teaching of the Precepts by Rev. Master Jiyu-Kennet and Reading the Kyojukaimonby David Powers added to Commentaries and Teishos page

April
30	Faxian (Fa-hsien) on Buddhist Kingdoms, ca. 400 translated by James Legge added to Zen Essays: Historical Zen page
29	Ch'an (Zen) Buddhism in China Its History and Method by Hu Shih added to Zen Essays: Historical Zen page
28	Transformation of Buddhism in China by Wing-Tsit Chan added to Zen Essays: Historical Zen page
27	The Wu-men kuan (J. Mumonkan) The Formation, Propagation, and Characteristics of a Classic Zen Kōan Text by Ishii Shūdō & Albert Welter added to Koan Collections page and Zen Essays: Historical Zen page
6	Ta-hui Tsung-kao and Kung-an Ch'an by Chun-Fang Yu added to Zen Essays: Historical Zen page
5	The Daruma-shū, Dōgen, and Sōtō Zen by Bernard Faure added to Zen Essays: Dogen Studies
5	Did Dogen Go to China? by Steven Heine added to Zen Essays: Dogen Studies
4	The Hunag-po Literature by Dale Wright added to Zen Essays: Historical Zen page

March
10	Remembering Dogen: Eiheiji and Dogen Hagiography by William Bodiford added to Zen Essays: Dogen Studies page
6	Second Buddha : Nagarjuna—Buddhism's Greatest Philosopher by David Loy added to Zen Essays: Nagarjuna page
6	An Analysis Of The Koans In The Mu Mon Kwan by John Fisher added to Zen Teachings: Koan Studies
5	book review by Taigen Dan Leighton of Thomas Yūhō Kirchner's Entangling Vines: Zen Koans of the Shūmon Kattōshū added to Zen Book Reviews page
4	Ma-Tsu Tao-I And The Unfolding Of Southern Zen added to Historical Zen page

February
17	link to Montreal Zen Center added to Zen Centers page
15	The Precious Garland Ratnavali of Nagarjuna added to Translations and Sutras page
8	Mountains and Waters teisho by Subhana Barzaghi added to Zen Teachings: Commentaries and Teishos page
8	Three Language-Related Methods In Early Chinese Chan Buddhism by Desheng Zong added to Zen Essays: Philosophical page
4	link to Taitong Temple added to Zen Links MIscellaneous page
2	Chuang-Tzu and the Chinese Ancestry of Ch'an Buddhism by Livia Knaul added to Historical Zen page

January
28	Translation & Commentary by Prof. Pajin of Hsin Hsin Ming added to Translations and Sutras page
28	link to Diamond Sutra: a new translation by Alex Johnson added to Translations and Sutras page
27	additional links to Hsin Hsin Ming added to Translations and Sutras page
25	link to Diamond Sangha Sutras added to Translations and Sutras page
20	link to Pacific Asia Museum added to Non-Zen Miscellaneous page
20	link to Norman Fischer's talk Suzuki Roshi's Way added to Miscellaneous Teachings page and the Commentaries and Teishos page
20	fix link to Paul Reps's 10 Bulls on Miscellaneous Teachings page
20	link to Sojun Mel Weitsman's The Heart Sutra and the Mantra of Our Life added to Commentaries and Teishos page
16	link to Huntington Library Archive of Buddhist and Related Art added to Non_Zen Miscellaneous page
16	link to interview with Thomas Cleary added at to Non_Zen Miscellaneous page
8	The Lotus Sutra as a Source for Dogen's Discourse Style by Taigen Dan Leighton added to Zen Essays: Dogen Studies page
8	link to Charles Muller's East Asian Apocryphal Scriptures: Their Origin and Role in the Development of Sinitic Buddhism added to Zen Essays: Historical Essays page
8	link to e-book Verses Delineating The Eight Consciousnesses by Tripitaka Master Hsuan-Tsang Of The Tang Dynasty added to Zen Teachings: Translations and Sutra page
8	link to Charles Muller article Innate Enlightenment and No-thought: A Response to the Critical Buddhist Position on Zen added to Zen Essays: Philosophical page
8	link to The Transformation Of Consciousness Into Wisdom In The Chinese Consciousness-Only School According To The Cheng Wei-Shi Lun added to Zen Essays: Philosophical page
8	link to Bibliography Index About Buddhism in China added to Zen Links: Journals and Academic Sites of Interest
8	link to exhibition of rare tankas by the Central Institute of Buddhist Studies added to Non-Zen Miscellaneous page
8	link to Dunhuang Art Seen Through the Eyes of Duan Wenjie added to Non-Zen Miscellaneous page
7	Bodhidharma as Textual and Religious Paradigm by Bernard Faure added to Zen Essays: Philosophical page
7	link to Open Directory world-wide Zen centers added to Zen Teachings: Zen Centers page
6	link to The Worst Horse added to non-Zen sites page
6	Glossary of Japanese terms used in sesshin added to Zen Teachings Miscellaneous page
6	link to Zen for Americans (Sermons of a Buddhist Abbot) online book by Soen Shaku added to Zen Teachings Miscellaneous page
6	link to Glossary of Zen Names and Terms as Used in the Kwan Um School added to Zen Links Miscellaneous page
6	link to Koans of the Zen Librarian added to Non-Zen Miscellaneous page
6	Gradual Enlightenment, Sudden Enlightenment and Empiricism by Ivan Strenski added to Philosophical page
6	link to The Rootless Root: the Unix koans of Master Foo added to Non-Zen Miscellaneous page
6	link to 101 Zen Stories (from Zen Flesh, Zen Bones) added to Koan Studies page
1	link to Wong Mou-Lam's translation of The Platform Sutra added to added to Historical Zen page