Zen category: 918 books
One Hundred Days of Solitude
Losing Myself and Finding Grace on a Zen Retreat
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
In One Hundred Days of Solitude: Losing My Self and Finding Grace on a Zen Retreat, American teacher of Korean Zen Jane Dobisz (Zen Master Bon Yeon), recalls her first solitary meditation stint in the woods. Luckily, this is not just a recounting of a winter's worth of cabin fever. Instead, Dobisz...
Red Thread Zen
Humanly Entangled in Emptiness
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
A radical, life-affirming book that reconciles Zen with our embodied humanity.
Love, attachment, the passions, gender, carnality, birth, bodily being, mortality, belonging, suffering, hope, despair, personhood, imagination, vitality, the struggle to be fully human—how do these things dwell wholly...
by Ludovica Scarpa
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 31, 2010
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 31, 2010
Zorro è un gatto speciale, ha una medaglietta ma appartiene solo a se stesso, malgrado il nome non vuole lasciare alcun segno, è calmo e sereno, libero e autonomo, non si lamenta, non si preoccupa, non brontola, non si annoia. Non ha bisogno di argomenti per essere un buon gatto, lo è e basta....
Awakening and Insight
Zen Buddhism and Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Buddhism first came to the West many centuries ago through the Greeks, who also influenced some of the culture and practices of Indian Buddhism. As Buddhism has spread beyond India, it has always been affected by the indigenous traditions of its new homes. When Buddhism appeared in America and Europe...
Selfless Insight: Zen and the Meditative Transformations of Consciousness
Zen and the Meditative Transformations of Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
Attention, self-consciousness, insight, wisdom, emotional maturity: how Zen teachings can illuminate the way our brains function and vice-versa.
Managing Zen
Il centro del movimento è un punto immobile
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 16, 2013
“La ruota gira, ma il perno che consente il movimento rimane immobile.
E così chiunque abbia il compito di coordinare persone, gruppi, strutture o eventi, dovrà sapersi rendere immobile, se vorrà essere il reale perno della ruota e consentirne il movimento.
Dovrà cioè trovare il proprio centro...
Tibetan and Zen Buddhism in Britain
Transplantation, Development and Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2007
This book analyses the transplantation, development and adaptation of the two largest Tibetan and Zen Buddhist organizations currently active on the British religious landscape: the New Kadampa Tradition (NKT) and the Order of Buddhist Contemplatives (OBC). The key contributions of recent scholarship...
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...
Zen Dogs
Meditations for the Wise Minds of Dog Lovers
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
A treasury of Buddhist wisdom from the great teachers . . . plus cute doggie photos.
Join some cuddly dogs for encouragement from Buddhist teachers like Thích Nhất Hanh and the Buddha himself in Zen Dogs. Don’t let the adorable canines fool you—they have plenty of mindfulness wisdom...
Zen Bunnies
Meditations for the Wise Minds of Bunny Lovers
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
A treasury of Buddhist wisdom from the great teachers . . . plus cute bunny photos.
Join some cuddly bunnies for encouragement from Buddhist teachers like Thích Nhất Hanh and the Buddha himself in Zen Bunnies. Don’t let the adorable bunnies fool you—they have plenty of mindfulness wisdom...
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,...
Chan Heart, Chan Mind
A Meditation on Serenity and Growth
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
A great book for those familiar with Zen, newcomers curious about Chan, and anyone who appreciates beauty.
Enter the essence of Chinese Zen from the perspective of a young, dynamic, Western-educated teacher. Master Guojun offers an intimate, lyrical portrayal of life lived in the rich tradition...
Zen Haiku:
Haiku Derived from the Zen Teachings of Huang Po on Mind Transmission
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Ancient Zen wisdom in easy to understand haiku poetry!
Cyber Zen
Imagining Authentic Buddhist Identity, Community, and Practices in the Virtual World of Second Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Cyber Zen ethnographically explores Buddhist practices in the online virtual world of Second Life. Does typing at a keyboard and moving avatars around the screen, however, count as real Buddhism? If authentic practices must mimic the actual world, then Second Life Buddhism does not. In fact, a critical...