Zen Buddhism category: 725 books
Silence and Noise
Growing Up Zen in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
A fresh new voice in American Buddhism -- a twenty-nine-year-old raised among Buddhists in California -- offers wisdom for both longtime practitioners and a new generation of students in this fascinating memoir of his Zen upbringing.
Over half a century ago, when the first Zen Masters came to America,...
The Sutra of Hui-neng, Grand Master of Zen
With Hui-neng's Commentary on the Diamond Sutra
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 1998
Hui-neng (638–713) is perhaps the most beloved and respected figure in Zen Buddhism. An illiterate woodcutter who attained enlightenment in a flash, he became the Sixth Patriarch of Chinese Zen, and is regarded as the founder of the "Sudden Enlightenment" school. He is the supreme exemplar...
Zen and Zen Classics 1
From the Upanishads to Huineng
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
This is not a dry scholarly book on Zen. It is a fascinating introduction into a study of self-enlightenment and inner reason that has been a driving force of all Japanese culture. Written by Reginal Horace Blyth (1898-1964) this is a volume free of the dry pedantry that has hobbled so many well meaning...
by Kusan Sunim
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2009
The power and simplicity of the Korean Zen tradition shine in this collection of teachings by a renowned modern master, translated by Martine Batchelor. Kusan Sunim provides a wealth of practical advice for students, particularly with regard to the uniquely Korean practice of hwadu, or sitting with...
Appreciate Your Life
The Essence of Zen Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2002
Here is the first major collection of the teachings of Taizan Maezumi Roshi (1931-1995), one of the first Japanese Zen masters to bring Zen to the West and founding abbot of the Zen Center of Los Angeles and Zen Mountain Center in Idyllwild, California. These short, inspiring readings illuminate Zen...
The Supreme Doctrine
Psychological Studies in Zen Thought
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
(With an Introduction by Aldous Huxley)
In its Eastern aspects—Chinese, Hindu, and Japanese—Zen Buddhism has proved a puzzle, although a stimulating one, to the Western mind. Himself a Westerner, Dr. Benoit has approached it through an occidental manner of thinking. “For the first time,...
Zen Training
Methods and Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2005
Zen Training is a comprehensive handbook for zazen, seated meditation practice, and an authoritative presentation of the Zen path. The book marked a turning point in Zen literature in its critical reevaluation of the enlightenment experience, which the author believes has often been emphasized at...
Introduction to Zen Koans
Learning the Language of Dragons
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
An indispensible guide to koans, teaching the reader about the importance of lineage, the practice of “just sitting,” and koan practice as paths to awakening.
“This marvelous book opens the treasure house of Zen and yet, happily, does not dispel its mystery*.* James Ford, an excellent...
Eat Sleep Sit
My Year at Japan's Most Rigorous Zen Temple
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
At the age of thirty, Kaoru Nonomura left his family, his girlfriend, and his job as a designer to undertake a year of ascetic training at Eiheiji, one of the most rigorous Zen training temples in Japan. This book is Nonomura's account of his experiences. He skillfully describes every aspect of training,...
Complete Poison Blossoms from a Thicket of Thorn
The Zen Records of Hakuin Ekaku
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Following his translation of just over half the original text in 2014, Norman Waddell presents the complete teaching record of Zen master Hakuin, now available in English with extensive explanations, notes, and even the wry, helpful comments that students attending Hakuin’s lectures inscribed in...
Opening a Mountain
Kōans of the Zen Masters
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2004
With the growing popularity of Zen Buddhism in the West, virtually everyone knows, or thinks they know, what a koan is: a brief and baffling question or statement that cannot be solved by the logical mind and which, after sustained concentration, can lead to sudden enlightenment. But the truth about...
Mente Zen, mente de principiante (Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind)
Charlas informales sobre la Meditaci¢n y la Pr ctica del Zen
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 7, 2015
En los más de cuarenta años que han transcurrido desde su publicación original, Mente Zen, mente de principiante se ha convertido en uno de los grandes clásicos de la espiritualidad moderna, muy querido, continuamente releído y profusamente recomendado como el mejor libro que se puede leer sobre...
by Howard Fast
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
Bestselling author Howard Fast’s straightforward introduction to Zen meditation
Howard Fast began to formally practice Zen meditation after turning away from communism in 1956. The Art of Zen Meditation, originally published by the antiwar political collective Peace Press in 1977, is the...
by Roshi P. Kapleau
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
In this classic work of spiritual guidance, the founder of the Rochester Zen Center presents a comprehensive overview of Zen Buddhism. Exploring the three pillars of Zen—teaching, practice, and enlightenment—Roshi Philip Kapleau, the man who founded one of the oldest and most influential Zen centers...