| Archive: 2004;2005;2006; 2007; |
| 2004 |
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| December |
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Holidays: there will be no changes during December. A happy and safe and peaceful holiday period to you all. And thanks to those who have written to me. Much appreciated. |
| November |
| 29 |
Buddhist Philosophy and It's European Parallels and part two Spurious Parallels to Buddhist Philosophy by Edward Conze added to ZenEssays page |
| 29 |
How Buddhist Was Plato? by Robert Ellis added to ZenEssays page |
| 22 |
The mind as the buddha-nature: The concept of the Absolute in Ch'an Buddhism by Yun-hun Jan added to ZenEssays page |
| 21 |
The Sõtõ Sect and Japanese Military Imperialism in Korea by Nam-lin Hur added to ZenEssays page |
| 21 |
Cave of Tigers: Modern Zen Encounters by John Daido Loori reviewd by Vlad K. added to ZenBooksReviews page |
| 20 |
Ch'an metaphors: Waves, water, mirror, lamp by Whalen Lai added to ZenEssays page |
| 19 |
Why the Dalai Lama Should Read Aristotle by Stephen McCarthy added to ZenEssays page |
| 16 |
Papers from Dogen Zen and Its Relevance for Our Time added to ZenEssays page |
| 16 |
Dogen Studies section added to ZenEssays page |
| 16 |
Dogen's 300 Koans and the Kana Shobogenzo by John Daido Loori added to ZenEssays page |
| 16 |
repair a number of broken links. Please report any broken links. Thank you. |
| 16 |
Land of No Buddha: reflections of a sceptical buddhist by Richard P Hayes reviewed by Vladimir K. added to ZenBooksReview page |
| 12 |
Causality As Soteriology: An Analysis of The Central Philosophy of Buddhism added to ZenEssays page |
| 9 |
Some Problems of Interpretation:the early and late writings of Dogen added to ZenEssays page |
| 8 |
Soto Zen Project Texts (translations of Dogen) added to ZenTeachings page |
| 7 |
Translating Dogen: Thoughts on the Soto Zen Text Project by Carl Bielefeldt added to ZenEssays page |
| 7 |
Engaged Zen Foundation added to ZenLinks page |
| 7 |
The Gospel of Buddha added to ZenTeachings page |
| October |
| 28 |
Dharma the Cat link added to NonZenTopics page (even though it's about Zen) |
| 28 |
Zen Stories to Tell Your Neighboursadded to ZenLinks page |
| 28 |
The Dialectics of Nothingness: A Reexamination of Shen-hsiu and Hui-neng by Stephen Laycock added to ZenEssays page |
| 26 |
The Platform Saatra of the Sixth Patriarch by Ven. Sheng-yen added to ZenEssays page |
| 25 |
The understanding of mind in the Northern line of Ch'an (Zen) by Robert B. Zeuschner added to ZenEssays page |
| 24 |
The Zen Poetry of Dogen: verses from the mountain of eternal peace by Steven Heine reviewed by Taigen Dan Leighton added to ZenBooksReview page |
| 24 |
Buddhism Without Beliefs: a contempory guide to awakening by Stephen Batchelor reviewed by Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi added to ZenBooksReview page |
| 24 |
Buddhism in a Foreign Land by Robert Mann reviewed by Amadeo Solé-Leris added to ZenBooksReview page |
| 24 |
Early Buddhism: some recent misconceptions by Henry Cruise added to ZenEssays page |
| 24 |
The Dharma Has Come West: a survey of recent studies and sources by Martin Baumann added to ZenEssays page |
| 24 |
Instructions to the Cook by Bernard Glassman & Rick Fields reviewed by Duncan R. Williams added to ZenBooksReview page |
| 24 |
Land of No Buddha: reflections of a sceptical Buddhist by Richard P. Hayes reviewed by Martin Baumann added to ZenBooksReview page |
| 24 |
Philosophical Meditations on Zen Buddhism by Dale S. Wright reviewed by Steven Heine added to ZenBooksReview page |
| 24 |
American Buddhism by Williams & Queen reviewed by Martin Baumann added to ZenBooksReview page |
| 24 |
Western Buddhist Teachers by Andrew Rawlinson added to ZenEssays page |
| 23 |
A Chinese Madyamaka Theory of Truth: The case of Chi-tsang by Ming-Wood Liu added to ZenEssays page |
| 23 |
The Zen Philsopher: a review article on Dogen scholarship in English by P. Kasulis added to ZenEssays page |
| 23 |
Article on Victoria's Zen War Stories added to ZenBookReviews page |
| 23 |
The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika by Jay L. Garfield reviewed by Mark Siderits added to ZenBookReviews page |
| 23 |
The Book of Enlightened Masters: Western Teachers in Eastern Traditions by Andrew Rawlinson
reviewed by David Kinsley added to ZenBookReviews page |
| 21 |
Dogen's Manuals of Zen Meditation Carl Bielefeldt reviewed by Ryuichi Abe added to ZenBookReviews page |
| 21 |
Big Sky Mind: Buddhism and the Beat Generation. Edited by Carole Tonkinson, with Introduction by Stephen Prothero reviewed by Richard Hughes Seager added to ZenBookReviews page |
| 20 |
The White Buddhist: The Asian Odyssey of Henry Steel Olcott by Stephen Prothero book review by Matthew Mulligan Goldstein added to ZenBookReviews page |
| 19 |
The Yogaacaaraa and Maadhyamika interpretation of the Buddha-nature concept in Chinese Buddhism by Ming-Wood Liu added to ZenEssays page |
| 18 |
The Antecedents of Encounter Dialogue in Chinese Ch'an Buddhism by John McRae added to ZenEssays page |
| 17 |
Nargarjuna's Twelve Gate Treatise: translated, with Introductory Essays, Comments, and Notes by Hsueh-Li Cheng book review by Alan Fox added to ZenBookReviews |
| 17 |
The Emptiness of Emptiness:An introduction to Early Indian Madhyamika by C. W. Huntington, Jr
book review by Frederivk J. Streng added to ZenBookReviews |
| 10 |
On Zen (Ch’an) Language and Zen Paradoxes by Chung-Ying Cheng added to ZenEssays page |
| 10 |
The Place of Chan in Post-Modern Europe by John H. Crook added to ZenEssays page |
| 10 |
How the Swans Came to the Lake by Rick Fields reviewed by Vladimir K. added to ZenBookReviews |
| September |
| 14 |
fix a whole bunch of broken links (a never-ending job! please let me know if I've missed any) |
| 14 |
Video & talk by Thich Nhat Hanh added to ZenTeachings page |
| 04 |
Seeing Through Zen by John R. McRae reviewed by Vladimir K. added to ZenBookReviews |
| August |
| 22 |
Zen Pivots by Sokei-An reviewed by Vladimr K. added to ZenBookReviews |
| 14 |
Goodchild'sSpeech And Silence In The Mumokan: And Examination of the Use of Language In Light of the Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze added toZenEssays page |
| 14 |
Cheng's Roots of Zen Buddhism added toZenEssays page |
| 9 |
Mikkelson's Who Is Arguing About the Cat? Moral Action and Englightenment According to Dogenadded to ZenEssays page |
| 9 |
Victor Hori's personal account of translating Zen Sand added to Zen Teachings page and to ZenEssays page. |
| 8 |
Multi-language sutra translations link added to Zen Teachings page |
| 7 |
Gabyo: Painted Rice Cakes translated by Yasuda Joshu and Anzan Hoshin added to Zen Teachings page |
| 7 |
Zenki : Translation by Thomas Cleary added to Zen Teachings page |
| 7 |
Uji: Dogen's essay on time translated by Reiho Masunaga and by Dan Welch and Kazuaki Tanahashi added to Zen Teachings page |
| 7 |
Kuge (Flowers of Space) translated by Yasuda Joshu and Anzan Hoshin added to Zen Teachings page |
| 7 |
Genjokoan: translations of this seminal text by Robert Aitken & Kazuaki Tanahashi , Thomas Cleary , Reiho Masunaga , Nishiyama & Stevens and a teisho on the text by Shohaku Okumura added to Zen Teachings page |
| 7 |
Blue Cliff Record Quiz added to Zen humour section, NonZen Topics Page |
| 7 |
The Taoist Influence on Hua-yen Buddhism: A Case of the Sinicization of Buddhism in China added to ZenEssays page |
| 6 |
Reinventing the Wheel:A Buddhist Response to the Information Age book reviewed by Michael G. Barnhartadded to ZenBookReviews page |
| 3 |
The Rationalist Tendency in Modern Buddhist Scholarship: A Revaluation essay added to ZenEssays page |
| 2 |
Shoes Outside the Door: Desire, Devotion, and Excess at San Francisco Zen Center book review by Frederick Crews added to ZenBookReviews page |
| 1 |
Philosophical Meditations on Zen Buddhism by Dale S. Wright reviewed by Whalen Lai added to ZenBookReviews. |
| 1 |
Emptiness Appraised: a critical study of Nagarjuna's philosophy by David F. Burton
reviewed by William Edelglass added to ZenBookReviews page. |
| July |
| 30 |
Add D.T. Suzuki's Manual of Zen Buddhism to Zen Teachings page |
| 29 |
Add book review of Healing Deconstruction: Postmodern Thought in Buddhism and Christianity, reviewed by Mark D. Wood to ZenBookReviews page. |
| 29 |
Add book review of Re-inventing the Wheel: A Buddhist Response to the Information Age, reviewed by Michael G. Barnhart to ZenBookReviews page. |
| 29 |
Add Jiun Kubota of the Sanbo-kyodan offers an apology for Haku'un Yasutani Roshi's support of WWII and his anti-semitism to ZenEssays page. |
| 24 |
Add link to Dogen's Instructions for the Tenzo and Commentary on this text by Mel Weitsman to Zen Teachings page |
| 24 |
Add link to Gitter-Yelen Art Centre's Zen art to ZenLinks page. |
| 24 |
Add link to 10 Oxherding Pictures to Zen Teachings page |
| 24 |
Add links to information about the Heart Sutra to Zen Teachings page |
| 18 |
More updates to ZenMasters lists on Zen Teachings page |
| 8 |
Add Beginning Anew essay by Sister Annabel Laity to Zen Teachings page |
| 8 |
Add The Disputed Place Of"A Special Transmission" Outside The Scriptures in Ch'an essay by Prof. Albert Welter to ZenEssays page |
| 8 |
Add Dealing with the Modern Crisis of Religiosity: Reflections from the Aum Case by Charles Muller to NonZen Topics page |
| 8 |
Remove Robert Aitken's & Nelson Foster's recommended reading lists from ZenBookReviews page. Site no longer active. |
| 7 |
update Zen Masters lists on Zen Teachings page |
| 7 |
Add Zen Humour section to NonZen Topics page |
| June |
21 |
Add Zen Teachings of Nagarjuna essay to ZenEssays page |
| May |
20 |
Link to Taoist Culture and Information Centre add to NonZentopics page |
| 17 |
Link to Zen Unbound's Tasty Zen Links added to ZenLinks page |
| 17 |
Added another link to the reading lists on ZenBookReviews page |
| April |
| 04 |
Zen in South America:interview with Augusto Alcalde, 1991 added to ZenTeachings |
| 04 |
Interview with Augusto Alcalde, 2004, added to ZenTeachings page |
| March |
| 23 |
Dr. Ron Epstein's reading list for his "philosophy 501" added to ZenBookReviews page |
| 23 |
Chapel Hill Zen Center recommended reading list added to ZenBookReviews page |
| 23 |
The Kwan Um School of Zen recommended reading list added to ZenBookReviews page |
| 23 |
Nelson Foster's recommended book list added to ZenBookReviews page |
| 23 |
Robert Aitken's recommended book list added to ZenBookReviews page |
| 18 |
Book review of Suzuki's Not Always So added to ZenBookReviews page |
| 08 |
add link to Sekida's translation of Mumonkan to ZenTeachings page |
| February |
| 15 |
Book review of The Art of Just Sitting added to ZenBookReviews page |
| January |
| 28 |
Add link to complete translation of Mumonkan to ZenTeachings page. |
| 28 |
Peter D. Hershock: From Vulnerability to Virtuosity: Buddhist Reflections on Responding to Terrorism and Tragedy. How do Buddhists approach the terrorism abroad in our world? Hershock has some ideas. Link added to ZenEssays page. |
| 28 |
Buddhist Peace Fellowship: well-known Buddhist organisation dedicated to social change.
One of the founders, Nelson Foster asks the question, How Shall We Save the World? in this engaging essay. David R. Loy responds. Links added to ZenLinks and ZenEssays pages. |
| 5 |
Interview with Julian Barbour: The End of Time Link added to NonZenTopics page. |
| 5 |
Fix formatting on Stuart Lach's reply to my essay. |
| 4 |
Zen Unbound Magazine : a link added to this site |
| 4 |
The Time We Thought We Knew by Brian Greene: a New York Times essay added to NonZenTopics page |
