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2006
December
19 No new material will be added during December as I'm busy redesigning this entire web site. I hope to have the new site up and running by January. Hopefully, the new site will be cleaner and easier to navigate. Have a happy and safe holiday season. May all beings be happy.
November
4 link to Buddhist Dictionary added to NonZenTopics page
4 ink to German version of the Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra added to ZenTeachings page.
4 link to English version Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra added to ZenTeachings page.
4 koan collection Shoyo Roku added to ZenTeachings page.
October
31 link to HindiBooks added to ZenBookReviews page
29 link to A-Z Photo Dictionary of Japanese Buddhism added to ZenLinks page
27 teishos by Leonardo  Anfolsi  Reiyo  Zenji in Italian and English added to ZenTeachings page.
19 link to Dharma Tallks by Korean Zen (Seon) Masters added to ZenTeachings page.
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link to Buddhapia.com added to ZenLinks page
19 link to Chung Tai Zen Center of Sunnyvale added to ZenTeachings page.
18 The Prajna Paramita Sutra translated and chanted by Allen Ginsberg added to ZenTeachings page.
18 link to Siddham.org sutra translation page added to ZenTeachings page.
18 link to Fodian.net sutra translations added to ZenTeachings page.
18 new catagory started in ZenTeachings of non_English sites. Three Italian Zen sites added to ZenTeachings page.
17 In Search of Longevity and Good Karma: Chinese Diplomatic Missions to Middle India in the Seventh Century by Tansen Sen added to NonZenTopics page
15 link to teisho by Rev. Master Daizui McPhillamy When Mountains Are Mountains added to ZenTeachings page
15 link to teisho by Ryotan Igarashi on Diverse Aspects of Complexity in Dogen Zenji's Shobogenzo added to ZenTeachings page
15 link to teisho by Ross Bolleter on Tung Shan's Fourth Rank added to ZenTeachings page
15 The Ultimate Reality Transcends What Can Be Expressed in Words by Edwin A Burtt added to NonZenTopics page
12 Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder: Chasing Zen Clouds by Christine Heller added to NonZenTopics page
05 Was Jesus a Buddhist? by James M Hanson added to NonZenTopics page
1 The Northern Ch'an School And Sudden Versus Gradual Enlightenment Debates In China And Tibet by Gary L Ray added to ZenEssays page
September
25 "Adding Legs to a Snake": A Reanalysis of Motivation and the Pursuit of Happiness from a Zen Budhist Perspective by Robert W Gaskins added to ZenEssays page
25 Buddhism in a Nutshell: the Four Seals of Dharma by Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche added to ZenTeachings page
17 Two Buddhisms Further Considered by Paul David Numrich added to ZenEssays page
16 An Exploration of Jack Kerouac's Buddhism: text and life by Sarah Haynes added to ZenEssays page
15 Zen Master Dogen Meets a Thirteenth-century Postmodernist by Terry Muck added to ZenEssays page
2 The Logical Form of Catu.sko.ti: A New Solution by R. D. Gunaratne added to ZenEssays page
2 Understanding Naagaarjuna's Catuskoti by R. D. Gunaratne added to ZenEssays page
July
7 There will be no updates to this site until mid-September when I return from overseas.
 

 

 

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May
27 link to The Gospel of Buddha by Paul Carus added to ZenLinks page
26 The Pragmatics of 'Never Tell Too Plainly': indirect communication in Chan Buddhism by Youru Wang added to ZenEssays page
21 The New Buddhism: The Western Transformation of an Ancient Tradition by James William Coleman book reviewed by Vladimir K. added to ZenBookReviews page
11 link to 58 Meditations added to ZenTeachings page
11 Person as Narration: the Dissolution of 'Self' and 'Other' in Ch'an Buddhism by Peter D Hershock added to ZenEssays page
6 Global Buddhism: Developmental Periods, Regional Histories, and a New Analytical Perspective by Martin Baumann added to NonZenTopics page
6 Engaged Buddhism: a Skeleton in the Closet? by Brian Daizen Victoria added to ZenEssays page
6 Westward Dharma: Buddhism Beyond Asia edited by Charles S. Prebish, and Martin Baumann reviewed by Kay Koppedrayer added to ZenBookReviews page
6 The Buddhists in Australia by Enid Adam & Philip J Hughes Buddhism in Western Australia by Enid Adam reviewed by Helen Waterhouse added to ZenBookReviews page
3 Awakening of the West: The Encounter of Buddhism and Western Culture by Stephen Batchelor reviewed by Adriano Lanza added to ZenBookReviews page
1 Buddhism by Numbers assembled by Vladimir K. added to ZenEssays page
April
29 link to Zen Buddhism and Western Scholarship: Will the Twain Ever Meet? by Charles Muller added to ZenEssays page
29 Buddhist Phenomenology: A Philosophical Investigation of Yogacara Buddhism and the Ch'eng Wei-shih Lun by Dan Lusthaus reviewed by Charles Muller added to ZenBookReviews page
29 link to Three New Buddhist Reference Works reviewed by Charles Muller added to ZenBookReviews page
25 The Riddle of the First Buddhist Council by Biswadeb Mukherjee added to ZenEssays page
25 link to Vedams Books from India added ZenBookReviews page
25 link to Bagchee.com booksellers added to ZenBookReviews page
25 link to article on Evolution of the Buddha Image added to ZenLinks page
25 link to Governement of Tibet in Exile page on Tibetan Buddhism added to ZenLinks page
25 link to complete text of D. T. Suzuki's Manual of Zen Buddhism added to ZenTeachings page
25 link to translation of the Dhammapada added to ZenTeachings page
22 link to Twenty sutra translations added to ZenTeachings page
22 link to translation of the Lotus Sutra added to ZenTeachings page
17 link to Dogen Symposium papers added to ZenEssays page
17 link to Zen Friends and Dharma Eye journals added to ZenLinks page
16 link to OrientalArchitecture.com added to NonZentopics page
16 more links to various Buddhist pilgrimage sites added to PhotoEssay page
16 link to Maha-Kala.com added to ZenLinks page
15 link to Eastern Book Corporation added to ZenBookReviews page
15 commentary on Dogen's Uji (The Time-Being) by Dharmavidya David Brazier addedd to ZenTeachings page
13 link to The Buddhist Channel news site added to NonZenTopics page
13 link to Belinda Sweet's ZenPainting gallery added to ZenLinks page
13 link to Theravadan site Access to Insight added to NonZenTopics page
13 link to Hui Hai's The Essential Gateway to Truth by Means of Instantaneous Awaking added to ZenTeachings page
12 link to a vast Buddhist Bibliography added to ZenBookReviews page
12 link to Vipassana eBooks added to NonZenTopics page
12 Heart Sutra translation by the Dzogchen Center added to ZenTeachings page
12 new catagory started: Book Sources added to ZenBookReviews page
10 link to two sites devoted to Hsu Yun added to ZenTeachings page.
2 link to poems by Hsu Yun (Empty Cloud) on the Ox-herding pictures added to ZenEssays page
2 link to Leonard Cohen home page added to NonZenTopics page
2 link to Sparsabhumi, Buddhist and Indiologcal Studies added to ZenLinks page
2 links to information about Buddhist pilgrimages to India (ongoing project) added to Photo Essay Introduction page, ZenEssays page
2 link to Buddhism, an Introduction by John C Powers added to ZenEssays page
2 link to AMA Samy's Book recommendations added to ZenBookReviews page
2 link to Clouds in Water Zen Center book list added to ZenBookReviews page
1 Photo Essay: On the Buddha Trail in India by Vladimir K. added to ZenEssays page
March
27 link to Stray Thoughts on Meditation by Shinzen Young added to ZenTeachings page
25 link to Kalavinka Dharma Treasury added to ZenLinks page
20 Linked translations of 7 different translation of Genjo Koan compiled by Gary Furman added to ZenTeachings page.
9 link to Tibetan Museum Society added to ZenLinks page
January
12 No changes will be made to thezensite until early March as I'm going overseas. Please do not write until I return. Thank you.
1 link to Modern Zen Teachers added to ZenTeachings page
1 link to Ordinary Mind Zendo added to ZenTeachings page