thezensite: updates page

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2008
April
12	repost Rein Raud's Rein Raud: ‘Place’ And ‘Being-Time’: Spatiotemporal Concepts In The Thought Of Nishida Kitarō And Dōgen Kigen on Dogen Studies page and Zen Essays Philsophical page
7	Update Complete Shobogenzo page and Dogen Teachings page
March
28	remove dead link to Kalavinka Dharma Treasury from Nagarjuna_and_Madhyamika page
28	remove links to Buddhistinformation.com from Translations & Sutras page
26	The Complete Shobogenzo, translated by Rev. Hubert Nearman of Shasta Abbey added to Dogen Teachings page
13	The Circle of the Way: Reading the Gospel of Thomas as a ChristZen Text by Kenneth Arnold added to Zen Essays Miscellaneous
February
10	Mechanisms of Mindfulness by Shauna L. Shapiro, Linda E. Carlson, John A. Astin, Benedict Freedman added to Zen Essay: Miscellaneous
10	Salvation By Paradox: On Zen And Zen-like Thought by Ben-Ami Scharfstein added to Zen Essays: Philosophical
10	Add reading list from Liverpool Zen Group and update John Daido Loori link on Book Review Reading List page.
9	A Critical Survey of Works on Zen since Yampolsky by Steven Heine added to Zen Essays:Miscellaneous and Book Review Reading List.
2	book review of The Zen Canon: Understanding the Classic Texts, eds. Steven Heine & Dale S. Wright, reviewed by Vladimir K. added to Zen Book reviews page
January
24	translation of The Awakening Of Faith In Mahayana added to Zen Teachings: Translations page
24	Beat Zen, square Zen, and Zen. (Zen Buddhism as practiced in China, Japan and the US) by Alan Watts added to Zen Essay Miscellaneous
2007
December
5	link to Black Moon Zendo added to Zen Teachings: Zen Centers page
5	Answer Your Love Letters by Adam Genkaku Fisher reviewed by Reverend Fa Dao Shakya added to Zen Book Reviews page
3	The Non-Logical Character of Zen by Hajime Nakamura added to Zen Teachings Koan Studies page
1	Robert H. Sharf: The Zen of Japanese Nationalism added to Historical Zen page (also Critical Zen page)
1	Of Heretics and Martyrs in Meiji Japan: Buddhism and Its Persecution by James Edward Ketelaar book reviewed by Jacqueline Stone added to Zen Book Reviews page
November
19	The Whole Heart of Zen: The Complete Teachings from the Oral Tradition of Ta-Mo by Sifu John Bright-Fey reviewed by Ned Mudd added to Zen Book Reviews page
11	Dogen's Zen View of Interdependence by Norimoto Iino added to Dogen Studies page
11	Living with the Devil: a Meditation on Good and Evil by Stephen Batchelor reviewed by Vladimir K. added to Zen Book Reviews page
10	Shodoka (song of enlightement) added to Zen Teachings Translations
6	Cultural Intersections in Later Chinese Buddhism, Marsha Weidner, ed. reviewed by John R McRae, added to Zen Book Reviews page
6	Seeing through Zen: Encounter, Transformation, and Genealogy in Chinese Chan Buddhism by John McRae book review by Albert Welter added to Zen Book Reviews page
October
28	The Scripture Preached by the Buddha on the Total Extinction of the Dharma translation added to Zen Teachings Translations page
15	link to Comunidad Budista Soto Zen: a Soto Zen group based in Spain added to Non-English Sites & Teachings page
13	link to Empty Universe added to Zen Links Miscellaneous page
13	John Tarrant Roshi talks about the koan Mu added to Commentaries & Teishos page
11	Madhyamika Thought in China by Ming-Wood Liu reviewed by Whalen Lai added to Zen Book Reviews page
6	Shodo Harada On the Heart Sutra teisho and link to The Way of Zazen added to Commentaries & Teishos page
6	On Thoughts in Zazen by Vladimir K added to Commentaries & Teishos page
3	Silence and Words in Zen Buddhism by Shizuteru Ueda added to Zen Philosphical page
September
29	Letting Go: The Story of Zen Master Tosui by Peter Haskel reviewed by David E Riggs added to Zen Book Reviews page
29	Opening a Mountain: Koans of the Zen Masters. by Steven Heine reviewed by Dale S Wright added to Zen Book Reviews page
29	Seeing Through Zen: Encounter, Transformation, and Geneology in Chinese Ch'an Buddhism by John McRae, reviewed by George A Keyworthy added to Zen Book Reviews page
16	Buddhist Sutras: Origin, Development, Transmission by Kogen Mizuno; book review by Vladimir K. added to Zen Book Reviews page
10	Link to Zen Tails added to Non-Zen Sites page
10	Link to Buddhist Tourism added to Non-Zen Sites page
10	Link to Lotus Meditation Center added to Zen Centers page
July
16	Working with Koans by John Tarrant added to Koan Studies page and Commentaries & Teishos page
16	Tsung Mi and the Sinification of Buddhism by Peter N. Gregory book review by T Griffith Foulk added to Book Reviews page
8	The Koan as Ritual Performance by Barry Stephenson added to Koan Collections & Studies page
Updates will be sporadic in the next few months as I am overseas.

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