Zen Buddhism category: 725 books
Subtle Sound
The Zen Teachings of Maurine Stuart
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 1996
Maurine Stuart (1922–1990) was one of a select group of students on the leading edge of Buddhism in America: a woman who became a Zen master. In this book, she draws on down-to-earth Zen stories, her friendships with Japanese Zen teachers, and her experiences as a concert pianist to apply the inner...
Illuminating Silence
Insights on the Path of Chinese Zen Meditation
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
An insider's guide to the principles of Chan – or Chinese Zen – this book gives unfiltered access to the kind of illuminating experience with a Zen Master that is usually only available to a few fortunate practitioners.
Having originated in China in the 6th century, Chan Buddhism is now...
by Donald W. Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Masao Abe: A Zen Life of Dialogue is a compilation of essays that cover the life and work of Masao Abe, perhaps one of the greatest Zen Buddhist communicators of the twentieth century.
Masao Abe has opened up a rich dialogue between Japan and the West. He is considered the leading living Zen...
Zen Light
Unconventional Commentaries on the Denkoroku
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
The Denkoroku, or "Record of Transmitting the Light," contains the enlightenment stories of the earliest Zen ancestors. In Zen Ught, the author comments on this Buddhist classic, which he studied as part of his own advanced Zen training.
Sensei Barragato brings the varied experiences...
The Ecstasy of Enlightenment
Teaching of Natural Tantra
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1998
The Ecstasy of Enlightenment is an inside look at the spiritual world of Tantra--one of themost sophisticated, alluring, and controversial forms of Buddhism. Cleary unlocks the mysteries of the Carya-Giti, a collections of teachings by more than twenty famous Siddhas, or Tantric adepts, who lived during...
Hoofprint of the Ox
Principles of the Chan Buddhist Path as Taught by a Modern Chinese Master
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2002
Revered by Buddhists in the United States and China, Master Sheng-yen shares his wisdom and teachings in this first comprehensive English primer of Chan, the Chinese tradition of Buddhism that inspired Japanese Zen. Often misunderstood as a system of mind games, the Chan path leads to enlightenment...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 1976
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 1976
Unlike most other formal religions, the Japanese school of Zen Buddhism has no canonized corpus of sacred literature which will reveal the "truth" to diligent readers. There are, however, numerous collections of anecdotes and aphorisms that may serve to convey the sensibility which underscores...
by Sreechinth C
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2018
Shunryu Suzuki was the most famous Soto Zen monk of the twentieth century and the very first one who popularized Zen Buddhism from Japan to the western world. ‘San Francisco Zen Center’, the first Buddhist monastery outside Asia was founded by him. This Japanese Soto Zen priest is the author of...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Dogen and Soto Zen builds upon and further refines a continuing wave of enthusiastic popular interest and scholarly developments in Western appropriations of Zen. In the last few decades, research in English and European languages on Dogen and Soto Zen has grown, aided by an increasing awareness on...
by Robert Aitken
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2009
“In this sprightly collection of 188 short texts, [Aitken] offers brief stories, observations, memories, and commentaries.” —Spirituality & Practice
For more than four decades, Robert Aitken Roshi has taught thousands of people the Buddhist practice of Zen meditation, and has led hundreds...
Not One Single Thing
A Commentary on the Platform Sutra
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Explore the seminal Platform Sutra, with one of the greatest living Zen masters as a guide.
A lodestone of Zen Buddhism, the Platform Sutra presents the life, work, and wisdom of Eno, or Huineng, the fascinating and much-loved seventh-century Sixth Patriarch of Chinese Zen. He was an illiterate...
Unfathomable Depths
Drawing Wisdom for Today from a Classical Zen Poem
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Navigate a forgotten classic poem and enrich your practice with famed Zen master Sekkei Harada.
Three of the most pressing issues in any discussion of modern Zen are the true nature and function of Dharma transmission, how to appropriately practice with koans, and how to understand the "just...
Essential Buddhism
A Complete Guide to Beliefs and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Four hundred million people call themselves Buddhists today. Yet most Westerners know little about this powerful, Eastern-spawned faith. How did it begin? What do its adherents believe? Why are so many Westerners drawn to it?
Essential Buddhism responds to these questions and many more, offering an...
by Brian Schell
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Welcome to the world of Buddhism!
Americans and others in the West have certain expectations and images that come to mind when the word "Buddhist" comes up. Most people have seen the Dalai Lama on the news or in magazines, and he has almost become synonymous with Buddhism in general....