CHAN/ZEN/SON/THIEN BUDDHISM
Partial Bibliography

• Stephen Addiss, ed. Zen Sourcebook: Traditional Documents from China, Korea, and Japan. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2008.
• Robert Aitken, Taking the Path of Zen. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1982.
• Kenneth Ch'en, Buddhism in China: A Historical Survey (pp. 350-408), 1964.
• Heinrich Dumoulin, Zen Buddhism: A History, 2 vols. New York: Macmillan, 1988, 1990.
• Bernard Fauré, The Rhetoric of Immediacy: A Cultural Critique of Chan/Zen Buddhism, 1991.
• Nelson Foster and Jack Shoemaker, eds. The Roaring Stream: A New Zen Reader. Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, 1996.
• Steven Heine and Dale S. Wright, eds., Zen Masters. NY: Oxford UP, 2010.
• Thomas P. Kasulis, Zen Action/Zen Person. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1981.
• Dainin Katagiri, Returning to Silence: Zen Practice in Daily Life. Boston & London: Shambhala, 1988.
• Kenneth Kraft, ed., Zen: Tradition and Transition
• Robert C. Lester, Buddhism: The Path to Nirvana
• John Daido Loori, Mountain Record of Zen Talks, 1988.
• Lu K'uan Yü, Ch'an and Zen Teaching (2 series), 1960.
• Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen Keys, 1974.
• Paul Reps, Zen Flesh, Zen Bones
• D.T. Suzuki, The Zen Doctrine of No Mind: the Significance of the Sutra of Hui-neng, 1949.
• D.T. Suzuki, Manual of Zen Buddhism, 1934.
• D.T. Suzuki, Essays in Zen Buddhism (3 series), 1949, 1953, 1953.
• Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. New York: Weatherhill, 1970.
• Janwillem van de Wetering, The Empty Mirror. New York, Pocket Books, 1972.
• Paul Wienpahl, The Matter of Zen. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1965.

• Wendi L. Adamek, The Mystique of Transmission: On an Early Chan History and its Contexts. New York : Columbia University Press, 2007.
• William M. Bodiford, ed., Going Forth: Visions of Buddhist Vinaya. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2005.
• Robert E. Buswell, Jr., and Robert M. Gimello, eds. Paths to Liberation: The Marga and its Transformations in Buddhist Thought. Honolulu: Univ. of Hawaii Press, 1992. Chapters by McRae and Gimello.
• Cheng Chien Bhikshu, Sun-Face Buddha: The Teachings of Ma-tsu and the Hung-chou School of Ch'an
• Chang Chung-yüan, trans., Original Teachings of Ch'an Buddhism Selected from The Transmission of the Lamp. New York: Pantheon Books, 1969.
• Alan Cole, Fathering Your Father: The Zen of Fabrication in Tang Buddhism. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 2009.
• Patricia Ebrey and Peter Gregory, eds., Religion and Society in T'ang and Sung China. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 1993
• Bernard Faure, Chan Insights and Oversights: An Epistemological Critique of the Chan Tradition. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.
• Bernard Faure, Chan Buddhism in Ritual Context (London: Routledge, 2003)
• Robert M. Gimello and Peter N. Gregory, eds., Studies in Ch'an and Hua-yen, 1983.
• Beata Grant, Eminent Nuns: Women Chan Masters of Seventeenth-Century China. Honolulu: Univ. of Hawaii Press, 2008.
• Peter N. Gregory, ed., Sudden and Gradual: Approaches to Enlightenment in Chinese Thought. Honolulu: U. of Hawaii Press, 1987.
• Peter N. Gregory, Tsung-mi and the Sinification of Buddhism, 1991.
• John Jorgensen, Inventing Hui-neng, the Sixth Patriarch: Hagiography and Biography in Early Ch'an. Leiden: Brill, 2005.
• Taigen Daniel Leighton, trans., Cultivating the Empty Field: The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi, rev. expanded ed. (Boston: Tuttle, 2000).
• Miriam Levering, "Ta-hui and Lay Buddhists: Ch'an Sermons on Death," in David W. Chappell, ed., Buddhist and Taoist Practice in Medieval Chinese Society, 1987.
• Miriam Levering, "Stories of Enlightened Women in Ch'an and the Chinese Buddhist Female Bodhisattva/Goddess Tradition," in Karen L. King, ed., Women and Goddess Traditions: In Antiquity and Today (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1997)
• Miriam Levering, "Women Ch'an Masters: The Teacher Miao-tsung as Saint," in Arvind Sharma, ed., Women Saints in World Religions (Albany: SUNY Press, 2000)
• Lu K'uan Yü, The Transmission of the Mind Outside the Teaching, 1975.
• John R. McRae, The Northern School and the formation of Early Ch'an Buddhism, 1986.
• John R. McRae, Seeing Through Zen: Encounter, Transformation, and Genealogy in Chinese Chan Buddhism. Berkeley: Univ. of Calif. Press, 2003.
• William F. Powell, trans., The Record of Tung-shan. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1986.
• Morten Schlütter, How Zen Became Zen: The Dispute over Enlightenment and the Formation of Chan Buddhism in Song-Dynasty China. Honolulu: Univ. of Hawaii Press, 2008.
• Frederick J. Streng, Emptiness: A Study in Religious Meaning, 1967.
• Robert A.F. Thurman, trans., The Holy Teaching of Vimalakirti, 1976.
• Albert Welter.  The Linji lu and the Creation of Chan Orthodoxy: The Development of Chan's Records of Sayings Literature (NY: Oxford University Press, 2008). Review.
• Albert Welter. Yongming Yanshou's Conception of Chan in the Zongjing lu: a Special Transmission Within the Scriptures. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
• Paul Williams, Mahayana Buddhism
• Jiang Wu, Enlightenment in Dispute: The Reinvention of Chan Buddhism in Seventeenth-Century China. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
• Philip B. Yampolsky, The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch. New York and London: Columbia UP, 1967.
• Yifa. The Origins of Buddhist Monastic Codes in China: An Annotated Translation and Study of the Chanyuan qinggui. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2002.
• Chun-fang Yü, "Ta-hui Tsung-kao and Kung-an Ch'an," in Journal of Chinese Philosophy, vol. 6 (1979)

• Robert Aitken, trans., The Gateless Barrier [Mumonkan], 1990.
• William Bodiford, Soto Zen in Medieval Japan, 1993.
• Thomas Cleary, The Original Face: An Anthology of Rinzai Zen. New York: Grove Press, 1978.
• Martin Collcutt. Five Mountains. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1981.
• Jon Covell and Yamada Sobin, Zen at Daitoku-ji. Tokyo: Kodansha, 1974.
• Steven Heine, Shifting Shape, Shaping Text: Philosophy and Folklore in the Fox Koan (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1999). App. II: Translation of "Pai-chang's Monastic Rules"
• Steven Heine, Opening a Mountain: Koans of the Zen Masters (NY: Oxford, 2002)
• Steven Heine and Dale S. Wright, eds., The Koan: Texts and Contexts in Zen Buddhism (NY: Oxford, 2000)
• Steven Heine and Dale S. Wright, eds. The Zen Canon: Understanding the Classic Texts. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Steven Heine and Dale S. Wright, eds. Zen Classics: Formative Texts in the History of Zen Buddhism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
• Yoel Hoffmann, trans. Every End Exposed: The 100 Koans of Master Kido [Hsü-t'ang]: With the Answers of Hakuin-zenji (Brookline, Mass.: Autumn Press [distributed by Random House], 1977). Translation of part of the Japanese collection Gendai soji Zen hyoron, compiled by Hau HÇÇ, the original Chinese title of which is: Hsü-t'ang ho-shang yü lu.
• Miura Isshu and Ruth F. Sasaki, The Zen Koan. New York: Harcourt, 1965.
• John Daido Loori. Two Arrows Meeting in Mid-air: The Zen Koan, ed. Bonnie Myotai Treace and Konrad Ryushin Marchaj (Boston: Tuttle, 1994)
• John Daido Loori, ed. The Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza. Boston: Wisdom Pubs., 2002.
• John Daido Loori, ed., Sitting with Koans: Essential Writings on the Practice of Zen Koan Introspection. Boston: Wisdom Pubs., 2006.
• Soko Morinaga, Novice to Master: An Ongoing Lesson in the Extent of My Own Stupidity (Wisdom, 2002)
• Irmgard Schloegl. The Zen Teaching of Rinzai. Berkeley: Shambhala, 1975.
• Katsuki Sekida, trans., Two Zen Classics: Mumonkan & Hekiganroku, 1977.
• Zenkei Shibayama, Zen Comments on the Mumonkan, 1974.
• Isabel Stirling, Zen Pioneer: The Life & Works of Ruth Fuller Sasaki; foreword by Gary Snyder. Emeryville: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2006.
• Norman Waddell, trans., The Essential Teachings of Zen Master Hakuin
• Norman Waddell and Masao Abe, trans., The Heart of Dogen's Shobogenzo. Albany SUNY Press, 2002.
• Duncan Ryuken Williams, The Other Side of Zen: A Social History of Soto Zen Buddhism in Tokugawa Japan. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 2005.
• Philip B. Yampolsky, The Zen Master Hakuin: Selected Writings. New York: Columbia University Press, 1971.

• Masao Abe, A Study of Dogen, 1992.
• Carl Bielefeldt, Dogen's Manuals of Zen Meditation, 1988.
• Thomas Cleary, trans., Shobogenzo.: Zen Essays by Dogen. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1986.
• Francis Cook, trans., How to Raise an Ox: Zen Practice as Taught in Zen Master Dogen's Shobogenzo
• Francis Cook, trans., Sounds of Valley Streams: Enlightenment in Dogen's Zen, Albany: SUNY Press, 1989.
• Hee-jin Kim. Dogen Kigen: Mystical Realist. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1975, 1987.
• Hee-Jin Kim. Dogen on Meditation and Thinking: A Reflection on his View of Zen. Albany: SUNY Press, 2007.
• Takashi James Kodera, Dogen's Formative Years in China. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980.
• William R. LaFleur, ed., Dogen Studies. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1985.
• Taigen Daniel Leighton and Shohaku Okumura, trans. DÇgen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community. A Translation of Eihei Shingi. Albany: SUNY Press, 1996.
• Taigen Daniel Leighton and Shohaku Okumura, trans. Dōgen's Extensive Record: A Translation of the Eihei KÇroku. Boston: Wisdom Pub., 2004.
• Taigen Daniel Leighton. Visions of Awakening Space and Time: DÇgen and the Lotus Sutra. NY: Oxford UP, 2007.
• Joan Stambaugh, Impermanence is Buddha-nature: Dogen's Understanding of Temporality, 1990.
• Kazuaki Tanahashi, ed., Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dogen. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1985.
• Kazuaki Tanahashi, ed. Beyond Thinking: A Guide to Zen Meditation (by Zen Master Dogen). Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2004
• Yuho Yokoi, Zen Master Dogen: An Introduction with Selected Writings, 1976.

• Paula K.R. Arai, "Soto Zen Nuns in Modern Japan: Keeping and Creating Tradition," in Nanzan Bulletin, vol. 14 (1990)
• Robert E. Buswell, Jr., The Zen Monastic Experience. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992.
• Jon Covell and Yamada Sobin, Zen at Daitoku-ji. Tokyo: Kodansha, 1974. Chapter 6 (Life at the Temple).
• Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi and Bernard Tetsugen Glassman, eds., On Zen Practice, 2 vols., 1976, 1977.
• Giei Sato and Eshin Nishimura, Unsui: A Diary of Zen Monastic Life
• D.T. Suzuki, Manual of Zen Buddhism (ch. 6), 1935.

• Robert Aitken, A Zen Wave: Basho's Haiku & Zen. New York, Weatherhill, 1978.
• Yasuichi Awakawa, Zen Painting. Translated by John Bester (Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1970)
• Helmut Brinker and Hiroshi Kanazawa, Zen: Masters of Meditation in Images and Writings, translated by Andreas Leisinger (Zürich: Artibus Asiae, 1996)
• Jon Covell and Yamada Sobin, Zen at Daitoku-ji. Tokyo: Kodansha, 1974. Chapters 3-5 (The Tea Ceremony, The Gardens, The Paintings)
• Steven Heine, A Blade of Grass: Japanese Poetry and Aesthetics in Dogen Zen, 1989.
• Eugen Herrigel, Zen in the Art of Archery. New York: Vintage Books, 1971.
• Shin'ichi Hisamatsu, Zen and the Fine Arts. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1971.
• William R. LaFleur, Awesome Nightfall: The Life, Times and Poetry of Saigyo
• Gregory P.A. Levine, Daitokuji: The Visual Cultures of a Zen Monastery. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005.
  
• David Pollack, Zen Poems of the Five Mountains, 1985.
• David Pollack, Poems of the Five Mountains: An Introduction to the Literature of the Zen Monasteries, 1992.
• Frederic Spiegelberg, Zen, Rocks & Waters. NY: Pantheon, 1961.
• Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikemoto, eds., Penguin Book of Zen Poetry. Hardmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1981.
• D.T. Suzuki, Zen and Japanese Culture, 1959.
• Kazuaki Tanahashi, Penetrating Laughter: Hakuin's Zen and Art. Woodstock: Overlook Press, 1984.
• Stephanie Wada, The Oxherder: A Zen Parable Illustrated. NY: George Braziller, 2002.
• Nobuyuki Yuasa, trans., Matsuo Basho: The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches. Hardmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1966.

• Martine Batchelor and Son'gyong sunim. Women in Korean Zen: Lives and Practices. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006.
• Robert E. Buswell, Jr. The Korean Approach to Zen: The Collected Works of Chinul. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1983.
• Robert E. Buswell, Jr. Tracing Back the Radiance: Chinul's Korean Way of Zen, 1992.
• Robert E. Buswell, Jr.The Zen Monastic Experience. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992.
• Kusan Sunim. The Way of Korean Zen. New York: Weatherhill, 1985.

• Cuong Tu Nguyen, Zen in Medieval Vietnam: A Study and Translation of Thi`ên Uyên Tâp Anh. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997.
• Thich Thien An, Buddhism and Zen in Vietnam, 1975.

• Nancy Barnes, "Women in Buddhism." In Arvina Sharma, ed., Women in World Religions. New York: SUNY Press, 1987.
• Martine Batchelor and Son'gyong sunim. Women in Korean Zen: Lives and Practices. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006.
• Sandy Boucher, Turning the Wheel: American Women Creating the New Buddhism. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1988.
• Deborah Hopkinson, Michele Hill and Eileen Kiera, eds., Not Mixing Up Buddhism - Essays on Women and Buddhist Practice. Fredonia, N.Y: White Pine Press, 1986.
• Anne Carolyn Klein. "Finding a Self: Buddhist and Feminist Perspectives." In Clarissa W. Atkinson, et. al., eds., Shaping New Vision: Gender and Values in American Culture. Ann Arbor and London: UMI Research Press, 1987. 191-218.
• Nan Shin (Nancy Amphoux). Diary of a Zen Nun. London: Rider & Co., 1987.
• Diana Y. Paul, Women in Buddhism: Images of the Feminine in the Mahayana Tradition, 1985.
• Ellen S. Sidor, A Gathering of Spirit: Women Teaching in American Buddhism. Cumberland, Rhode Island: Primary Point Press, 1987.
• Sandra Wawrytko, "On the Path to Ultimate Awakening: Women's Liberation in the Context of Taoism and Ch'an/Zen," in Fu and Wawrytko, eds., Buddhist Ethics and Modern Society, 1991.

• Chicago Review, vol. 12, no. 2 (1958)
• Rick Fields, How the Swans Came to the Lake: A Narrative History of Buddhism in America, 3rd ed. Boston: Shambhala, 1992.
• First Zen Institute of America, Cat's Yawn: The Thirteen Numbers Published from 1940 to 1941. New York, 1947.
• Philip Kapleau, The Three Pillars of Zen, rev. ed., 1980.
• Philip Kapleau, Zen: Dawn in the West, 1980.
• Jack Kerouac, Dharma Bums, 1958.
• Diane Morgan, The Buddhist Experience in America. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2004.
• Charles S. Prebish, Luminous Passage: The Practice and Study of Buddhism in America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
• Charles S. Prebish and Kenneth K. Tanaka, eds., The Faces of Buddhism in America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
• David L. Preston, The Social Organization of Zen Practice: Constructing Transcultural Reality. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
• Richard Hughes Seager, Buddhism in America. NY: Columbia University Press, 1999.
• Gary Snyder, Earth House Hold: Technical Notes and Queries to Fellow Dharma Revolutionaries. New York: New Directions Publishing Co., 1969.
• Gary Snyder, Riprap & Cold Mountain Poems. San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1969.
• Gary Storhoff and John Whalen-Bridge, eds., American Buddhism as a Way of Life. Albany: State University of New York Press, c\2010.
• Joan Qionglin Tan, Han Shan, Chan Buddhism and Gary Snyder's Ecopoetic Way. Brighton [England]; Portland, Or.: Sussex Academic Press, 2009.
• Thomas A. Tweed and Stephen Prothero, eds., Asian Religions in America: A Documentary History. NY: Oxford UP, 1999.
• Helen Tworkov, Zen in America: Profiles of Five Teachers. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1989.
• Duncan Ryu-ken Williams and Christopher S. Queen, eds., American Buddhism: Methods and Findings in Recent Scholarship. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, 1999.

• Masao Abe, Zen and Western Thought, 1985.
• Masao Abe, "The Problem of Time in Heidegger and Dogen," in Abe, A Study of Dogen, 1992.
• Arifuku Kogaku, "The Problem of the Body in Nietzsche and Dogen," in Graham Parkes, ed., Nietzsche and Asian Thought. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.
• Frederick Franck, ed., The Buddha Eye: An Anthology of the Kyoto School, 1991.
• Steven Heine, Existential and Ontological Dimensions of Time in Heidegger and Dogen, 1985.
• Toshihiko Izutsu, Toward a Philosophy of Zen Buddhism, 1982.
• William R. LaFleur, ed., Dogen Studies. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1985.
• Joan Stambaugh, Impermanence is Buddha-nature: Dogen's Understanding of Temporality. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990.
• James H. Austin, Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1998)

ZEN, ETHICS, AND POLITICS

• Fred Eppsteiner, ed., The Path of Compassion: Writings on Socially Engaged Buddhism
• Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace
• Charles Wei-hsun Fu and Sandra A. Wawrytko, eds., Buddhist Ethics and Modern Society, 1991.
• Kenneth Kraft, ed., Inner Peace, World Peace: Essays on Buddhism and Nonviolence. Albany: SUNY Press, 1993.

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