Literature

Recommended reading

A Selection from the Zen River Library

Maezumi Roshi and Genpo Roshi

Maezumi, Taizan. Appreciate your life.

Maezumi, Taizan. Teaching of the Great Mountain.

Maezumi, Taizan and Glassman, Bernie. On Zen Practice.

Maezumi, Taizan and Glassman, Bernie. The Hazy Moon of Enlightenment

Merzel, Genpo. The Eye Never Sleeps.

Merzel, Genpo. Beyond Sanity and Madness.

Merzel, Genpo. 24/7 Dharma.

Merzel, Genpo. The Path of the Human Being.

Merzel, Genpo. Big Mind - Big Heart: Finding Your Way.

 

Other successors in the White Plum lineage

Bays, Chozen. Jizo Bodhisattva

Fletcher, Tenshin and Scott, David.  The Way of Zen.

Glassman & Fields. Instructions to the Cook.

Glassman, Tetsugen. Bearing Witness.

Glassman, Bernie. Infinite Circle: Teachings in Zen.

Loori, Daido. The Eight Gates of Zen.

Loori, Daido. The Heart of Being: Moral and Ethical Teachings of Zen Buddhism.

Loori, Daido. Two Arrows Meeting in Mid-Air: The Zen Koan.

Matthiessen, Peter. The Nine-Headed Dragon River.

Wick & Perez. The Great Heart Way.

 

Related contemporary teachers

Aitken, Robert. Taking the Path of Zen.

Beck, Joko. Everyday Zen.

Deshimaru, Taisen. Sit: Zen Teachings of Master Taisen Deshimaru

Katagiri, Dainin. Returning to Silence.

Katagiri, Dainin. You have to say something

Katagiri, Dainin. Each moment is the universe.

Kapleau, Philip. Three Pillars of Zen: Teaching, Practice and Enlightenment.

Sekkei, Harada. The Essence of Zen

Shibayama, Zenkei. A Flower Does Not Talk.

Shimano, Eido. Golden Wind.

Shimano, Eido. Points of Departure.

Suzuki, Shunryu. Zen Mind, Beginners Mind.

Suzuki, Shunryu. Branching Streams Flow In The Darkness.

Uchiyama, Kosho. From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightment.

 

Dogen Zenji

Shobogenzo (four volumes). Nishijima & Cross.

Shobogenzo Zuimonki. Shohaku Okumura.

Shinji Shobogenzo. Gudo Nishijima.

Dogen's Extensive Record (Eihei Koroku). Leighton & Okumura.

Dogen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community (Eihei Shingi). Leighton & Okumura.

Enlightenment Unfolds. Kazuaki Tanahashi.

Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dogen. Kazuaki Tanahashi.

 

Dogen Studies

Cook, Francis. How to Raise an Ox.

Heine, Steve. Did Dogen Go To China?

Kim, Hee-Jin. Eihei Dogen, Mystical Realist.

Kim, Hee-Jin. Dogen on Meditation and Thinking.

Kodera, Takashi James. Dogen's Formative Years in China. (Prajna Press, 1980)

Kosho Uchiyama. The Wholehearted Way (Bendowa). Okumura & Leighton.

Leighton, Daniel. Visions of Awakening Space and Time: Dogen and the Lotus Sutra.

Uchiyama, Kosho. How to Cook Your Life.

Yasutani, Hakuun. Flowers Fall (on Genjokoan)

 

Selected Old Masters

Bankei. Bankei Zen. Norman Waddell.

Bankei. The Unborn. Norman Waddell.

Bassui. Mud & Water. Arthur Braverman.

Bodhidharma. The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma. Red Pine.

Hakuin. The Essential Teachings of Zen Master Hakuin. Norman Waddell.

Hakuin. Zen Master Hakuin. Yampolsky, Philip.

Hongzhi. Cultivating the Empty Field. Daniel Leighton.

Huang Po. The Zen Teaching of Huang Po. John Blofeld.

Hui Hai. The Zen Teaching of Hui Hai on Sudden Illumination. John Blofeld.

Joshu. The Recorded Sayings of Zen Master Joshu. James Green.

Layman P'ang. The Recorded Sayings of Layman P'ang. Ruth Fuller Sasaki.

Rinzai. The Record of Rinzai. Irmgard Schloegl.

Ummon. Master Yunmen. Urs App.

Engo. Zen Letters, Teachings of Yuanwu. Cleary & Cleary.

 

Koan Collections

The Gateless Barrier. Zen Comments on the Mumonkan. Zenkei Shibayama.

Two Zen Classics. Mumonkan and Hegikanroku. Katsuki Sekida.

Secrets of the Blue Cliff Record. Zen Comments by Hakuin and Tenkei. Thomas Cleary.

The Book of Serenity. (Shoyoroku). Thomas Cleary.

The Book of Equanimity. Shishin Wick.

The Transmission of the Light (Denkoroku). Thomas Cleary.

The Zen Koan. (Including Tozan's Five Ranks); Miura & Sasaki.

 

Sutras

In the Buddha's Words. Bhikkhu Bodhi.

The First Discourse of the Buddha. Rewata Dhamma.

Avatamsaka Sutra. The Flower Ornament Scripture. Thomas Cleary.

The Diamond Sutra and The Sutra of Hui Neng. A.F. Price and Wong Mu Lan.

The Diamond Sutra. Red Pine.

Lankavatara Sutra. D.T.Suzuki.

The Lotus Sutra. Burton Watson.

The Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines. Edward Conze.

Mother of the Buddhas. Meditation on the Prajnaparamita Sutra. Lex Hixon.

The Sutra of Complete Enlightenment. Master Sheng-yen.

Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra. Charles Luk.

Shantideva. A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life. Wallace & Wallace.

 

Zen General

Bodiford, William. Soto Zen in Medieval Japan

Chadwick, David. Crooked Cucumber; The Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki.

Chadwick, David. Thank You and OK.

Chang, Chung-Yuan. Original Teachins of Chan Buddhism

Cleary, Thomas. Timeless Spring, an anthology of Soto Zen.

Heine, Steven & Wright, Dale S. Zen Ritual.

Heine, Steven. Zen Skin, Zen Marrow.

Ikeda, Daisaku. The Living Buddha. (transl. Burton Watson). (Weatherhill, 1996)

Maura Soshin O'Halloran. Pure Heart, Enlightened Mind.   

Scott, David & Doubleday, Tony. The Elements of Zen.

Suzuki, D.T. Essays in Zen Buddhism (three volumes)

Suzuki, D.T. Zen and Japanese Culture

Wu, John. The Golden Age of Zen.

Tibetan Buddhism

Fremantle & Trungpa. Tibetan Book of the Dead.

sGampopa. The Jewel Ornament of Liberation. H.V. Guenther

Sogyal Rinpoche. Tibetan Book of Living and Dying.

Surya Das. Awakening the Buddha Within.

Traleg Rinpoche. Mind at Ease.

Trungpa, Chögyam. Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism.

Trungpa, Chögyam. The Myth of Freedom.

Trungpa, Chögyam. Journey without Goal.

The Flight of the Garuda. Keith Dowman.

 

Buddhism General

Buddhism General

Fields, Rick. How the Swans Came to the Lake.

Leighton, Taigen Daniel. Bodhisattva Archetypes (Faces of Compassion[=new title])

Huntington, C.W. The Emptiness of Emptiness.

Rahula, Walpola. What the Buddha Taught. (Grove Press)

Revel, Jean-Francois & Ricard, Matthieu. The Monk and the Philosopher.

Skilton, Andrew. A Concise History of Buddhism.

Snelling, John. The Buddhist Handbook. (Rider, 1998) 

Shambhala Dictionary of Buddhism and Zen; translated by Michael H. Kohn (Shambhala, 1991)

 

Buddhism General

Western Mystics

Johnston, William. The Cloud of Unknowing.

Merton, Thomas. No Man Is and Island.

Smith, Elisabeth & Chalmers, Joseph. A Deeper Love.

Fox, Matthew. Original Blessing.

Mitchell, Stephen. The Gospel According to Jesus

 

Buddhism General

Spiritual Psychology

Dass & Blish. Compassion in Action.

Epstein, Mark. Thoughts Without a Thinker.

Goleman, Daniel. Emotional Intelligence.

Kabat-Zinn, Jon. Wherever You Go There You Are.

Ricard, Matthieu. Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill

Ulsamer, Bertold. The Healing Power of the Past.

Welwood, John. Toward a Psychology of Awakening.

 

 

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