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American Buddhism: Methods and Findings in Recent Scholarship
edited by D.R. Williams and C.S.Queen
reviewed by Martin Baumann buy this book
Answer Your Love Letters
by Adam Genkaku Fisher
reviewed by Reverend Fa Dao Shakya
The Art of Just Sitting
by John Daido Loori (ed)
reviewed by Vladimir K.
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Awakening of the West: The Encounter of Buddhism and Western Culture
by Stephen Batchelor buy this book 
reviewed by Adriano Lanza
Big Sky Mind: Buddhism and the Beat Generation. Edited by Carole Tonkinson, with Introduction by Stephen Prothero
reviewed by Richard Hughes Seager buy this book now
The Book of Enlightened Masters: Western Teachers in Eastern Traditions
By Andrew Rawlinson
reviewed by David Kinsley
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Buddha Recognizes Buddha
by Daishin Moran
reviewed by Vladimir K
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The Buddhists in Australia
by Enid Adam & Philip J Hughes
Buddhism in Western Australia
by Enid Adam
reviewed by Helen Waterhouse
from: Journal of Buddhist Ethics Vol.3 1996
Buddhism in a Foreign Land
by Robert Mann buy this book now
reviewed by Amadeo Solé-Leris
This book is a collection of Dharma talks by the Theravadin teacher Robert Mann of The House of Inner Tranquility in Wiltshire, England. from Journal of Buddhist Ethics, Vol.3 1996
Buddhism Without Beliefs: a contempory guide to awakening
by Stephen Batchelor
reviewed by Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi
“…an intelligent and eloquent attempt to articulate the premises of the emerging secular Buddhism and define the parameters of a dharma practice appropriate to the new situation.” buy this book
reviewed by Urgyen Sangharakshita
"Though there is much in Batchelor's book that I find unacceptable and which I deplore, fortunately there is also much that is acceptable to me and in which I can rejoice."
A Critique of “Buddhism Without Beliefs”
A critical look at Steve Batchelor's book by Punnadhammo Bhikkhu
Buddhist Phenomenology: A Philosophical Investigation of Yogacara Buddhism and the Ch'eng Wei-shih Lun by Dan Lusthaus
reviewed by Charles Muller
Buddhist Philosophy: essential readings
by William Edelglass, Jay L. Garfield
reviewed by Eric S. Nelson
Buddhist Sutras: Origin, Development, Transmission by Kogen Mizuno
reviewed by Vladimir K. buy this book
Cave Of Tigers: Modern Zen Encounters
by John Daido Loori
reviewed by Vladimir K. buy now
Crooked Cucumber: The Life and Teachings of Shunryu Suzuki
by
David Chadwick buy this book
This link will take you to a site dedicated to Suzuki. Includes reviews, interviews, biography and a whole lot of other stuff. Too bad the site is so ugly. There's a review of this book by Eddy Street here.
Cultural Intersections in Later Chinese Buddhism Marsha Weidner, ed.
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reviewed by John R McRae
source: H-Buddhism, H-Net Reviews, March, 2003
Dipa Ma-The Life and Legacy of a Buddhist Master by Amy Schmidt
reviewed by Lindsay K. buy this book now
Dogen and the Koan Tradition: A Tale of Two Shõbõgenzõ
Texts
by Steven Heine; reviewed by Joseph S. O'Leary
Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 21/1 buy this book
Dogen's Manuals of Zen Meditation
by Carl Bielefeldt
reviewed by Ryuichi Abe buy this book
Dream Conversations on Buddhism and Zen by Muso Kokushi
translated and edited by Thomas Cleary
reviewed by Fred H Martinson
from: Journal of Chinese Philosophy 22:1 1995.03 PP.99-101
The Eminent Monk: Buddhist Ideals in Medieval Chinese Hagiography
by John Kieschnick
A brief review by Eric Reinders, Journal of Buddhist Ethics, Volume 5 1998
reviewed by Robert Ford Campany buy this book
Emptiness Appraised: a critical study of Nagarjuna's philosophy
by David F. Burton
reviewed by William Edelglass buy this book
The Emptiness of Emptiness: An introduction to Early Indian Madhyamika
by C. W. Huntington, Jr
reviewed by Frederivk J. Streng buy this book
Entangling Vines: Zen Koans of the Shūmon Kattōshū
by Thomas Yūhō Kirchner
reviewed by Taigen Dan Leighton, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 33/1 (2006) buy this book now
The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way:
Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika
by Jay L. Garfield
reviewed by Mark Siderits buy this book
The Golden Age of Zen: Zen Masters of the T'ang Dynasty by John C. Wu,
with an Introduction by Thomas Merton buy this book
reviewed by Frank J Hoffman
Healing Deconstruction: Postmodern Thought in Buddhism and Christianity
edited by David Loy buy this book
reviewed by Mark D. Wood
The Zen Canon: Understanding the Classic Texts
edited by Steven Heine & Dale S. Wright
reviewed by Vladimir K. buy this book now
Zen Enlightenment: Origins and Meaning
By Heinrich Dumoulin
reviewed by Vladimir K.
Zen Keys: a guide to Zen Practice by Thich Nhat Hanh
reviewed by Frank J Hoffman buy this book now
Zen Koans: recent works on the Zen koan:
Opening A Mountain: Kōans Of The Zen Masters by Steven Heine
Kōan: Texts And Contexts In Zen Buddhism edited by Steven Heine and Dale S. Wright
reviewed by Eric Sean Nelson
from: Buddhist-Christian Studies 24.1 (2004)
Zen at War by Brian Daizen A. Victoria buy this book
reviewed by Vladimir K.Zen War Stories by Brian (Daizen) A. Victoria reviewed by David Loy. This is a follow-up to Victoria's Zen at War (reviewed above). buy this book
reviewed by Fabio Rambelli
another review byJosh Baran
another review by David Loy
A debate about this book by some of Deshimaru's sangha and Brian Victoria is here. (This debate has been removed from the Deshimaru site and is no longer available.)
Jiun Kubota, who calls himself The 3rd Patriarch of the Religious Foundation Sanbo-kyodan offered an apology for Haku'un Yasutani Roshi's support of WWII and his anti-semitism but this has been removed from their website.
Kemmyō Taira Satō: D. T. Suzuki and the Question of War contradicts many of Victoria's assertions about D T Suzuki.
Steven Heine's A Critical Survey of Works on Zen since Yampolsky An excellent survey of significant writings on Zen Buddhist studies since 1967. Includes a very useful bibliography of articles, books, monographs and theses of significant works. Highly recommended.
AMA Samy's Book recommendations:
a reading list which includes Zen, meditation and psychology. Includes links to some book reviews. The list can be downloaded as a pdf document.
Chapel Hill Zen Center recommended reading list. This group is led by Pat Phelan and is associated with Suzuki's San Francisco Zen Center.
Clouds in Water Zen Center: has an extensive recommended reading list. Clouds in Water center in St Paul, Minnesota is in the Dainin Katagiri lineage.
Dr. Ron Epstein's reading list for his "philosophy 501" university course. An interesting list with a great variety of readings. Books academics would read but of interest to Zen students.
Kenyon College in Ohio has an extensive Zen bibliography here as part of their Religious Study programme.
The Kwan Um School of Zen recommended reading list. An extensive reading list which includes books by their master, Seung Sahn, books on Korean Zen, other Zen traditions, koan studies and sutras. Very comprehensive.
John Daido Loori has an extensive reading list here.
Liverpool Zen Group: an extensive (and eclectic) collection of recommended readings.
Steven Newton's collection of useful books. Steve is part of the Portland, Oregon Zen community and recommends Robert Aitken's books as well as others. Also, there's an interesting little collection of "primary texts".
Unstructured Buddhist Bibliography: this site has over 3,000 Buddhist books listed, many with links to Amazon. It's just in alphabetical order so I don't know how one is to use this list. But here it is and I have no idea why an insurance company would publish such a list.
Everyone knows about Amazon but here are some other sources that may not be as well known. I'll add more as I find them. Note: I make no claims about any of these sites and provide links as a service to my readers. I recieve no money from any of these sites. Use them at your own risk.
Bagchee.com: a Delhi based bookseller. Includes rare and collectibles as well as multimedia products.
Eastern Books Corporation: This link will take you to their Buddhist section of over 1,000 books. Many other books also available. Based in India, so prices are most reasonable.
HindiBooks: the link will take you to their Buddhist book section. Prices are in US$, Pound Sterling or Indian Rupees. This link will take you to their home page.
Inward Path Publishers: This Penang, Malaysia based publisher disseminates Buddhist books for FREE. You pay only the shipping costs. Their catalogue page is here.
Saujanya Books: based in New Delhi, this bookseller specialises in Tibetan, Buddhist, Muslim texts as well as other topics. It lists about 1855 Buddhist books alone. It distributes books in English, Sanskrit and Tibetan. And the prices, which include airmail shipping, are considerably cheaper than Amazon. Worthy of a browse.
Vedams Books from India: this link will take you to their Buddhist section. A huge selection of books available. Here is their home page.
