Zen category: 918 books
One Robe, One Bowl
The Zen Poetry of Ryokan
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
The hermit-monk Ryokan, long beloved in Japan both for his poetry and for his character, belongs in the tradition of the great Zen eccentrics of China and Japan. His reclusive life and celebration of nature and the natural life also bring to mind his younger American contemporary, Thoreau. Ryokan's...
Sit Down and Shut Up
Punk Rock Commentaries on Buddha, God, Truth, Sex, Death, and Dogen's Treasury of the Right Dharma Eye
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
In 2003 Brad Warner blew the top off the Buddhist book world with his irreverent autobiography/manifesto Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock Monster Movies and the Truth about Reality. Now in his second book Sit Down and Shut Up Brad tackles one of the great works of Zen literature the Shobogenzo by thirteenth-century...
by Kazuaki Tanahashi
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2000
Enlightenment Unfolds is a sequel to Kaz Tanahashi's previous collection, Moon in a Dewdrop, which has become a primary source on Dogen for Western Zen students. Dogen Zenji (1200–1253) is unquestionably the most significant religious figure in Japanese history. Founder of the Soto school of Zen...
Beating the Cloth Drum
Letters of Zen Master Hakuin
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Hakuin Ekaku (1685–1769) is one of the most influential figures in Zen Buddhism. He revitalized the Rinzai Zen tradition (which emphasizes the use of koans, or unanswerable questions, in meditation practice), and all masters of that school today trace their lineage back through him. He is responsible...
Realizing Genjokoan
The Key to Dogen's Shobogenzo
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
Dogen, the thirteenth-century Zen master who founded the Japanese Soto school of Zen, is renowned as one the world's most remarkable religious geniuses. His works are both richly poetic and deeply insightful and philosophical, pointing to the endless depths of Zen exploration. And almost precisely...
Sitting with Koans
Essential Writings on Zen Koan Introspection
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
The Zen tradition has just two main meditative practices: shikantaza, or "just sitting"; and introspection guided by the powerful Zen teaching stories called koans. Following in the tradition of The Art of Just Sitting (endorsed as a "A book we have needed for a long, long time"), this new anthology...
Pagan Portal-Zen Druidry
Living a Natural Life, With Full Awareness
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Taking both Zen and Druidry and embracing them into your life can be a wonderful and ongoing process of discovery, not only of the self but of the entire world around you. Looking at ourselves and at the natural world around us, we realise that everything is in constant change and flux - like...
The Goose Is Out
Zen in Action
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
There is a famous Zen story about a disciple, Riko, who once asked his master Nansen to explain to him the old Zen koan of the goose in the bottle. Namely, if a man puts a gosling into a bottle, and feeds the gosling through the bottle’s neck until it grows and becomes a goose and then there is...
Three-Hundred-Mile Tiger
The Record of Lin-Chi Translation and Commentary by Sokei-An
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Sokei-an translated the Record of Lin-chi (Lin-chi lu) from 1931 to 1933, in his first series of lectures. He felt that Americans needed original Chinese Zen source materials, translated and commented upon by a Zen master, and there were no such materials in those early days. Sokei-an was the first...
by Michael Hetherington
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Living a more balanced and peaceful life through the teachings of Zen. A collection of Quotes from: - Bodhidarma - Dogen Zenji - Lao Tzu - Zhuang-Tzu - Confuscious - D.T. Suzuki - Buddha - Shunryu Suzuki - Huang Po plus a number of other Zen stories, Koans and proverbs...
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..................................................
Dang Dang Doko Dang
The Sound of the Empty Drum
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Osho sees Zen not as a historical spiritual tradition, but as the future of a humanity that has matured to the point that people no longer need religions controlled by “priesthoods” and based on fearful superstitions that cripple people’s innate intelligence and divide them from one another. This...
JUNG E LE FILOSOFIE ORIENTALI
Il libro per conoscere e amare la cultura Yoga, il Buddhismo e la Meditazione Zen, il Tao, i Mandala e l'I Ching
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Carl Gustav Jung è da ritenersi non solo uno storico psichiatra e psicoanalista ma anche e soprattutto un grandissimo studioso delle culture e filosofie orientali. Se vogliamo, in tal senso, fu un vero e proprio precursore rispetto al crescente interesse verso dottrine tanto antiche quanto affascinanti,...
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...