ZEN (SON) IN KOREA
Thomas Cleary, trans., A Buddha From Korea: The Zen Teachings of T'aego, Boston & Shaftesbury: Shambhala, 1988.
Robert E. Buswell, Jr., Tracing Back the Radiance: Chinul's Korean Way of Zen, Honolulu: Univ. of Hawaii Press, 1992. buy now
Robert E. Buswell, Jr., The Zen Monastic Experience, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. buy now
Peter H. Lee, Lives of Eminent Korean Monks: The Haedong Kosung Chon, Harvard University Press, 1969. buy now
Su-nim Mu Seong, Thousand Peaks: Korean Zen: Tradition and Teachers, Primary Point, 2006. buy now
Richard Shrobe, Don't-Know Mind: The Spirit of Korean Zen, Boston & London: Shambhala, 2004. buy now
ZEN IN VIETNAM
Thich Nhat Hanh, Master Tang Hoi: First Zen Teacher in Vietnam and China, Parallax, 2002.
Cuong Tu Nguyen, Zen in Medieval Vietnam: A Study and Translation of Thi`ên Uyên Tâp Anh. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997. buy now
Thich Thien An, Buddhism and Zen in Vietnam: In Relation to the Development in Asia, Charles Tuttle, 1975. buy now
WOMEN AND ZEN
Sandy Boucher, Turning the Wheel: American Women Creating the New Buddhism, San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1988.
Beata Grant, Daughters of Emptiness: Poems of Chinese Buddhist Nuns, Sommerville: Wisdom, 2003. buy now
Nan Shin (Nancy Amphoux), Diary of a Zen Nun, London: Rider & Co., 1987. buy now
Susan Murcott, First Buddhist Women: Poems and Stories of Awakening, Parallax Press, 2006. buy now
Diana Y. Paul, Women in Buddhism: Images of the Feminine in the Mahayana Tradition, 1985. buy now
Grace Schireson, Zen Women: Beyond Tea Ladies, Iron Maidens and Macho Masters, Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2009 buy now
Ellen S. Sidor, A Gathering of Spirit: Women Teaching in American Buddhism, Cumberland, Rhode Island: Primary Point Press, 1987. buy now
Karma Tsomo, ed., Innovative Buddhist Women: Swimming Against the Stream, RoutledgeCurzon, 2000. buy now
ZEN, ETHICS, AND POLITICS
Robert Aitken, The Mind of Clover: Essays in Zen Buddhist Ethics, San Francisco: Northpoint, 1984.
Allen Badiner, ed., Mindfulness in the Marketplace: Compassionate Response to Consumerism,
Berkeley: Parallax Press, 2002. (book review here) buy now
Tessa J. Bartholomeusz, In Defense of Dharma:
Just-War Ideology in Buddhist Sri Lanka, London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2002. (book review here) buy now
Fred Eppsteiner, ed., The Path of Compassion: Writings on Socially Engaged Buddhism, Berkely: Parallax Press, 1988. buy now
Thich Nhat Hanh, Interbeing: Fourteen Guidelines for Engaged Buddhism, Berkely: Parallax Press, 1987. buy now
Charles Wei-hsun Fu and Sandra A. Wawrytko, eds., Buddhist Ethics and Modern Society, an international symposium, Greenwodd Press, 1991. buy now
Simon P. James, Zen Buddhism and Environmental Ethics, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2004. (book review here) buy now
Stephanie Kaza, ed., Hooked!: Buddhist Writings on Greed, Desire, and the Urge to Consume, Shambhala, 2005. buy now
Kenneth Kraft, ed., Inner Peace, World Peace: Essays on Buddhism and Nonviolence, Albany: SUNY Press, 1993. buy now
John Daido Loori, The Heart of Being: Moral and Ethical Teachings of Zen Buddhism, Dharma Communications, 2009 buy now
Hammalawa Saddhatissa, Buddhist Ethics: The Path to Nirvana, 1970; rpt. London: Wisdom Publications, 1987. buy now
ZEN AND PHILOSOPHY
Masao Abe, Zen and Comparative Studies, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997.
Masao Abe, Zen and Western Thought, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1985. buy now
James H. Austin, Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1998 buy now
Bernard Faure, The Rhetoric of Immediacy: A Cultural Critique of Chan/Zen Buddhism, Princeton: Princeton University Press (book review here) buy now
Frederick Franck, ed., The Buddha Eye: An Anthology of the Kyoto School and its Contemporaries, Bloomington: World Wisdom, 2004. buy now
Robert Jingen Gunn, Journey Into Emptiness: Dogen, Merton, Jung, And The Quest For Transformation, New York: Paulist Press, 2000 (book review here) buy now
Steven Heine, Existential and Ontological Dimensions of Time in Heidegger and Dogen, 1985. buy now
James W. Heisig, Philosophers of Nothingness: An Essay on the Kyoto School,
Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2001. (book review here) buy now
Toshihiko Izutsu, Toward a Philosophy of Zen Buddhism, 1982. buy now
Nishida Kitaro (David A. Dilworth, trans.), Last Writings: Nothingness and the Religious Worldview, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1987 (1949). buy now
Paul Kjellberg, Philip J. Ivanhoe, eds., Essays on Skepticism, Relativism, and Ethics in the Zhuangzi, SUNY Press, 1996. buy now
William R. LaFleur, ed., Dogen Studies, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1985. buy now
David Loy, ed., Healing Deconstruction: Postmodern Thought in Buddhism and Christianity, Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1996. (book review here) buy now
Carl Olson, Zen And The Art Of Postmodern Philosophy: Two Paths Of Liberation From The Representational Mode Of Thinking, New York: State University of New York Press, 2000. (book review here) buy now
Joan Stambaugh, Impermanence is Buddha-nature: Dogen's Understanding of Temporality, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990. buy now
Paul Williams, Mahayana Buddhism: The Doctrinal Foundations, Routledge, 2008. buy now
Nāgārjuna & Mādhyamika
David F.
Burton, Emptiness Appraised: A Critical Study of Nāgārjuna’s Philosophy, Richmond: Curzon Press, 1999. (book review here)
Hsueh-li Cheng, Empty Logic: Madhyamika Buddhism from Chinese Sources, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1991 (1984) buy now
Hsueh-li Cheng, Nagarjuna's Twelve Gate Treatise: Translated with Introductory Essays, Comments, and Notes, Springer, 1982. (book review here) buy now
Jay L. Garfield, trans., The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika,New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. (book review here) buy now
C. W. Huntington, Jr., with Geshe Namgyal Wangchen, The Emptiness of Emptiness: an introduction to early Indian Madhyamka, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989. (book review here) buy now
David J. Kalupahana, trans., Mulamadhyamakakarika of Nagarjuna: The Philosophy of the Middle Way, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2004 (1986) buy now
David Ross Komito, trans., Nagarjuna's "seventy stanzas": a buddhist psychology of emptiness, Ithaca, New York: Snow Lion Publications, 1987 (book review here) buy now
Ming-Wood Liu, Madhyamika Thought in China, Brill Academic, 1997. (book review here) out of print
Gadjin M. Nagao, Madhyamika and Yogacara: A Study of Mahayana Philosophies : Collected Papers of G.M. Nagao, New York: SUNY, 1991. buy now
ZEN MONASTIC LIFE
Robert E. Buswell, Jr., The Zen Monastic Experience, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992.
Shohei Ichimura, trans.,
The Baizhang Zen Monastic Regulations, Berkeley: Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research, 2006. (free download here)
Jon Covell and Yamada Sobin, Zen at Daitoku-ji, Tokyo: Kodansha, 1974. buy now
Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi and Bernard Tetsugen Glassman, eds., On Zen Practice, 2 vols., 1976, 1977. buy now
Soko Morinaga, Novice to Master: An Ongoing Lesson in the Extent of My Own Stupidity Boston: Wisdom, 2002) buy now
Giei Sato and Eshin Nishimura, Unsui: A Diary of Zen Monastic Life, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1973. buy now
Janwillem van de Wetering, A Glimpse of Nothingness: Experiences in an American Zen Community, New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1999. buy now__________, The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery,
New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1999. buy now
ZEN AND THE ARTS
Ryuichi Abe, trans., Peter Haskel, trans., Great Fool: Zen Master Ryokan: Poems, Letters, and Other Writings, University of Hawaii Press, 1996. buy now
Robert Aitken, A Zen Wave: Basho's Haiku & Zen, New York, Weatherhill, 1978.
Galit Aviman, Zen Paintings in Edo Japan (1600-1868): Playfulness and Freedom in the Artwork of Hakuin Ekaku and Sengai Gibon, Ashgate, 2014 buy from Amazon
Faubion Bowers, ed., The Classic Tradition of Haiku: An Anthology, Dover, 1996. buy now
Dorothy Britton, trans., A Haiku Journey: Basho's Narrow Road to a Far Province, Kodansha International, 2002. buy now
Beata Grant, Daughters of Emptiness: Poems of Chinese Buddhist Nuns, Sommerville: Wisdom, 2003. buy now
Steven Heine, The Zen Poetry Of Dogen: Verses from the Mountain of Eternal Peace,
Boston: Charles E. Tuttle Co. Inc., 1997. (book review here) buy now
Won-Chun Kim, trans., Christopher Merrill, trans., Because of the Rain: An Anthology of Korean Zen Poetry (Companions for the Journey), White Pine Press, 2006. buy now
Saigyo, (William R. LaFleur, trans.) Awesome Nightfall: The Life, Times and Poetry of Saigyo, Boston: Wisdom, 2003. buy now
Gregory P.A. Levine, Daitokuji: The Visual Cultures of a Zen Monastery, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005. buy now
Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu, Boston & London: Shambhala, 2004 (1965). buy now
Kakuzo Okakura, The Book of Tea: The Classic Work on the Japanese Tea Ceremony and the Value of Beauty, Kodansha International, 2006. buy now
David Pollack, Zen Poems of the Five Mountains, Scholars Pr., 1985. buy now
Jane Reichhold, Basho: The Complete Haiku, Kodansha International, 2008. buy now
J.P. Seaton and Dennis Maloney, A Drifting Boat: Chinese Zen Poetry, White Pine Press, 1995. buy now
Andrew Schelling, The Wisdom Anthology of North American Buddhist Poetry, Wisdom Publications, 2005. buy now
Gary Snyder, Riprap & Cold Mountain Poems, San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1969. buy now
Frederic Spiegelberg, Zen, Rocks & Waters, NY: Pantheon, 1961. buy now
John Stevens, trans., One Robe, One Bowl: the Zen Poetry of Ryokan, Weatherhill, 2006. buy now
Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikemoto, eds., Penguin Book of Zen Poetry, Hardmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1981. buy now
D.T. Suzuki, Zen and Japanese Culture, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970 (1959). buy now
D. E. Tarver, trans., The Way of the Living Sword: The Secret Teachings of Yagyu Munenori, iUniverse, Inc., 2003. buy now
Norman Waddell, trans., The Old Tea Seller: Baisao, Life and Zen Poetry in 18th Century Kyoto, Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2008. (book review here) buy now
Burton Watson, trans., Ryōkan---Poet of Japan, New York: Columbia University Press, 1977. buy now