Zen category: 918 books
Tibetan Zen
Discovering a Lost Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Until the early twentieth century, hardly any traces of the Tibetan tradition of Chinese Chan Buddhism, or Zen, remained. Then the discovery of a sealed cave in Dunhuang, full of manuscripts in various languages dating from the first millennium CE, transformed our understanding of early Zen. This...
Zen's Chinese Heritage
The Masters and Their Teachings
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2011
Zen's Chinese Heritage traces twenty-five generations of inlightened Buddhist teachers, supplementing their core teachings with history, biography, and poetry. The result is an intimate and profound human portrait of the enlightened Zen ancients, and an unprecedented look into the depths of the rich...
Secrets of the Blue Cliff Record
Zen Comments by Hakuin and Tenkei
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2002
The Blue Cliff Record is a classic text of Zen Buddhism, designed to assist in the activation of dormant human potential. The core of this extraordinary work is a collection of one hundred traditional citations and stories, selected for their ability to bring about insight and enlightenment. These...
Hakuin on Kensho
The Four Ways of Knowing
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2006
Kensho is the Zen experience of waking up to one’s own true nature—of understanding oneself to be not different from the Buddha-nature that pervades all existence. The Japanese Zen Master Hakuin (1689–1769) considered the experience to be essential. In his autobiography he says: "Anyone...
Zen
Merging of East and West
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
In this companion volume to The Three Pillars of Zen, Kapleau establishes guidelines for Western practitioners of Zen Buddhism, offering appealing, simple answers to the questions Westerners most often ask. Among the topics discussed in this informative, user-friendly book: "Transcendental...
Just Grab the Dust Rag
Confessions of a Deluded Zen Student Who Never Learned A Thing
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Just Grab The Dust Rag (Confession of a Deluded Zen Student Who Never Learned A Thing) is a personal journey through almost forty years of Zen practice in New York with a Japanese Zen Master. Filled with often humorous personal encounters with not only Zen Masters, but other students, friends and...
by Marc Brookhuis
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Zen Buddhism is well known for its stories and anecdotes. It is more likely that the reader remembers the contents than if it were presented as dry theory. Many stories in this book are educational, have a moral or provide an insight. Most of the stories derive from Zen Buddhism but the author will...
Visions of Awakening Space and Time
Dōgen and the Lotus Sutra
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2007
As a religion concerned with universal liberation, Zen grew out of a Buddhist worldview very different from the currently prevalent scientific materialism. Indeed, says Taigen Dan Leighton, Zen cannot be fully understood outside of a worldview that sees reality itself as a vital, dynamic agent of...
The Essence of Zen
The Teachings of Sekkei Harada
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
The Essence of Zen is an expert's guided tour of the ins and outs of the tradition's approach to meditation, enlightenment, and the oneness of all things. To read it is to enter into one of modern Japanese Zen's most subtle and sophisticated minds.
Sekkei Harada skillfully pushes us to drop...
Invoking Reality
Moral and Ethical Teachings of Zen
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2007
There is a common misconception that to practice Zen is to practice meditation and nothing else. In truth, traditionally, the practice of meditation goes hand-in-hand with moral conduct. In Invoking Reality, John Daido Loori, one of the leading Zen teachers in America today, presents and explains...
Butterflies on a Sea Wind
Beginning Zen
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Anne Rudloe was attracted to Zen as a college student. But it seemed premature for a 21-year-old to focus on the difficulties of life when she'd hardly begun to live. Twenty-five years later, she was ready to explore the spiritual discipline that originated in Asian monasteries more than a millennium...
Momma Zen
Walking the Crooked Path of Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Combining humor, honesty, and plainspoken advice, Momma Zen distills the doubts and frustrations of parenting into vignettes of Zen wisdom.
Drawing on her experience as a first-time mother, and on her years of Zen meditation and study, Miller explores how the daily challenges of parenthood...
by Nathan Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2000
Most books about Kung Fu or Karate deal with techniques or history. Few examine the underlying purpose of these arts, or approach them as a tool for spiritual, rather than physical, development. Barefoot Zen is a brave new approach to the martial arts, which clearly demonstrates that the traditional...
The Zen Arts
An Anthropological Study of the Culture of Aesthetic Form in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
The tea ceremony and the martial arts are intimately linked in the popular and historical imagination with Zen Buddhism, and Japanese culture. They are commonly interpreted as religio-aesthetic pursuits which express core spiritual values through bodily gesture and the creation of highly valued objects....