Zen Buddhism category: 725 books
Zen Beyond All Words
A Western Zen Master's Instructions
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
Zen Beyond All Words contains a selection of talks given by Zen Master Wolfgang Kopp.
In the spirit of the ancient Chinese Zen Cha'an masters, Wolfgang Kopp teaches a direct and powerful Zen Buddhism. He conveys neither a theoretical system nor a one-sided dogmatism of sitting. Rather, Master...
Zen Poems of China and Japan
The Crane's Bill
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
“Excellent . . . A fine introduction to Chinese and Japanese Zen poetry for all readers” from the editors of Zen Poetry: Let the Spring Breeze Enter (Choice).
Capturing in verse the ageless spirit of Zen, these 150 poems reflect the insight of famed masters from the ninth century to the...
Mud and Water
The Collected Teachings of Zen Master Bassui
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
The fourteenth-century Zen master Bassui was recognized as one of the most important Zen teachers of his time. Accessible and eloquent, these teachings cut to the heart of the great matter of Zen, pointing directly to the importance of seeing our own original nature and recognizing it as Buddhahood...
by Venerable Myokyo-Ni The Vene
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
This Zen guide offers a readable, helpful interpretation of a classic pillar of Zen training.
The Venerable Myokyo-ni is one of today's most distinguished teachers in the Rinzai Zen tradition. In Gentling the Bull she offers an insightful explanation of the Ten Ox-Herding Pictures, showing...
Zen Odyssey
The Story of Sokei-an, Ruth Fuller Sasaki, and the Birth of Zen in
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Explore two lives—and a relationship—that profoundly shaped American Zen.
Ruth Fuller Sasaki and Sokei-an Shigetsu Sasaki: two pioneers of Zen in the West. Ruth was an American with a privileged life, even during the height of the Great Depression, before she went to Japan and met D. T....
by Huang Po His Yun
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
This Historical text from the direct teaching of the Zen master, Huang Po, allows the Western reader to gain an understanding of Zen from the original source, one of the key works in its teachings; it also offers deepening and often startling insights into the rich treasures of Eastern thought.
Huang...
Having Once Paused
Poems of Zen Master Ikkyu (1394-1481)
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
The influence of Zen Master Ikkyu (1394-1481) permeates the full field of medieval Japanese aesthetics. Though best known as a poet, he was central to the shaping and reshaping of practices in calligraphy, Noh theater, tea ceremony, and rock gardening, all of which now define Japan’s sense of its...
The Essential Teachings of Zen Master Hakuin
A Translation of the Sokko-roku Kaien-fusetsu
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
A fiery and intensely dynamic Zen teacher and artist, Hakuin (1685–1768) is credited with almost single-handedly revitalizing Japanese Zen after three hundred years of decline. As a teacher, he placed special emphasis on koan practice, inventing many new koans himself, including the famous "What...
by Thomas Cleary
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 1993
Throughout Zen history, stories and anecdotes of Zen masters and their students have been used as teaching devices to exemplify the enlightened spirit. Unlike many of the baffling dialogues between Zen masters preserved in the koan literature, the stories retold here are penetratingly simple but with...
by D. T. Suzuki
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
This reissued introduction presents the nature, technique and practice of Zen. A Japanese Zen master, Dr Suzuki taught regularly in the USA and Europe..................................................
by Soyen Shaku, Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Zen for Americans
by Soyen Shaku And tr. by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
A collection of essays on Buddhism.
THIS little work is a collection of some of the lectures delivered by the Right Reverend Soyen Shaku., Lord Abbot of Engaku-ji and Kencho-ji, Kamakura, Japan, during his sojourn in...
Zen Battles
Modern Commentary on the Teachings of Master Linji
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2009
One of the key tenets of the Zen school of Mahayana Buddhism is that each one of us is already a Buddha—our enlightenment is inherent within us, and the practice of mindfulness is the tool to bring this truth to our full awareness. While it can bring much relief, this simple statement does not preclude...
by Alan Watts
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2010
A fervent, lifelong student of Zen, Alan Watts shows us that it is both an experience — a singular, powerful moment of realization — and a simple way of life, with an awareness that affects every moment of every day. Adopted by mainstream America in a way that carries only a vague association...
How to Cook Your Life
From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2005
In the thirteenth century, Zen master Dogen—perhaps the most significant of all Japanese philosophers, and the founder of the Japanese Soto Zen sect—wrote a practical manual of Instructions for the Zen Cook. In drawing parallels between preparing meals for the Zen monastery and spiritual training,...