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When students are beginners, whether they have the mind of the Way or not, they should carefully read and study the Sagely Teachings of the sutras and shastras. ~Dogen  (Record of Things Heard [zuimonki] Thomas Cleary)

Zen and Buddhist Books
Aitken, Robert. Taking the Path of Zen.
____. Original Dwelling Place: Zen Buddhist Essays
____. The Practice of Perfection: The Paramitas from a Zen Buddhist Perspective.

Barrett, William, ed. Zen Buddhism: Selected Writings of D.T. Suzuki.

Chang Chung-yuan. Original Teachings of Ch'an Buddhism.

Chang, Garma, C.C., A Prologue to Hwa Yen, The Buddhist Teaching of Totality

Cleary, Thomas. The Original Face: An Anthology of Rinzai Zen.
____. Timeless Spring: A Soto Zen Anthology.

Foster, Nelson, and Shoemaker, Jack, The Roaring Stream: A New Zen Reader

Kapleau, Roshi Philip. The Three Pillars of Zen.

Luk, Charles (Lu K'uan Yü). Ch'an and Zen Teaching, 3 Vols.
____. Secrets of Chinese Meditation,

Murti, T.R.V. The Central Philosophy of Buddhism: A Study of the Madhyamika System

Nhat Hanh, Thich. The Diamond that Cuts through Illusion: Commentaries on the Prajñaparamita Diamond Sutra.
____. The Miracle of Mindfulness.
____. Peace is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life.
____. Zen Keys. New York.

Sheng-yen, Master, with Dan Stevenson. Hoofprint of the Ox: Principles of the Chan Buddhist Path as Taught by a Modern Chinese Master.

Zenkai Shibayama. A Flower Does Not Talk: Zen Essays.

App, Urs, Master Yunmen: From the Record of the Chan Master "Gate of the Clouds

Blofeld, John, The Zen Teaching of Huang Po
____. The Zen Teaching of Instantaneous Awakening

Braverman, Arthur, trans. Mud and Water: A Collection of Talks by the Zen Master Bassui.

Broughton, Jeffrey L. The Bodhidharma Anthology: The Earliest Records of Zen. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999.

Buswell, Robert. The Korean Approach to Zen: The Collected Works of Chinul

Cleary, J.C., trans. Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui.

Cleary, Thomas. The Book of Serenity: One Hundred Zen Dialogues.
____. Classics of Buddhism and Zen, The Collected Translations of Thomas Cleary, 5 volumes, Boston, MA: Shambhala, 2001-2002
____. Sayings and Doings of Pai-Chang.

Conze, Edward. Buddhist Wisdom Books.

Cook, Francis Dojun, trans. The Record of Transmitting the Light: Zen Master Keizan's Denkoroku.

Green, James, The Recorded Sayings of Zen Master Joshu

Hakeda, Yoshito, S., The Awakening of Faith

Leighton, Daniel and Yi Wu. Cultivating the Empty Field: The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi.

Ogata, Sohaku, trans., The Transmission of the Lamp: Early Masters.

Powell, William F. The Record of Tung-shan.

Price, A. F., & Mou-lam, Wong, The Diamond Sutra & The Sutra of Hui-Neng,

Red Pine, trans. The Diamond Sutra: Text and Commentaries Translated from Sanskrit and Chinese.
____. The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
Suzuki, Daisetz T. The Lankavatara Sutra.
Thurman, Robert A. F. The Holy Teachings of Vimalakirti: A Mahayana Scripture.

Waddell, Norman, trans. The Essential Teachings of Zen Master Hakuin.
____. The Unborn: Life and Teachings of Zen Master Bankei, 1622-1693. 
____. Wild Ivy: The Spiritual Autobiography of Zen Master Hakuin.

Watson, Burton, trans., The Zen Teachings of Master Lin-Chi

Yampolsky, Philip, trans. The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch
          ____. The Zen Mater Hakuin: Selected Writings

          

Bielefeldt, Carl. Dogen's Manuals of Zen Meditation.
____. Recarving the Dragon: History and Dogma in the Study of Dogen, in Dogen Studies, Lafleur, William R.
____.
Shobogenzo: Zen Essays by Dogen

Kim, Hee-Jin. Dogen on Meditation and Thinking: A Reflection on His View of Zen.
____. Eihei Dogen: Mystical Realist, Revised, Third Edition.
____. Flowers of Emptiness, Selections from Dogen’s Shobogenzo, The Edwin Mellen Press, New York, 1985

Kodera, Takashi James. Dogen's Formative Years in China.

Lafleur, William R., ed. Dogen Studies.

Leighton, Daniel, and Okumura, Shohaku, Dogens Extensive Record: A Translation of the Eihei Koroku,

Nishijima, Gudo, (Translator) and Cross, Chodo, (Translator), Master Dogen’s Shobogenzo, Book 1-4,

Stambaugh, Joan. Impermanence is Buddha-Nature: Dögen's Understanding of Temporality.

Tanahashi, Kazuaki, ed.
Enlightenment Unfolds: The Essential Teachings of Zen Master Dogen
____. Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dogen.

Aitken, Robert, trans. The Gateless Barrier: The Wu-men kuan (Mumonkan)

Cleary, Thomas and J.C. Cleary, trans. The Blue Cliff Record

Cleary, Thomas, The Book of Serenity: One Hundred Zen Dialogues


____. Sectrets of The Blue Cliff Record

Heine, Steven and Dale S. Wright, eds. The Koan: Texts and Contexts in Zen Buddhism.


Heine, Steven. Dogen and the Koan Tradition

Zenkai Shibayama. The Gateless Barrier: Zen Comments on the Mumonkan.



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