Books by Time Period
Books by Time Period
Years 1900-2000
- A First Zen Reader
- A Taste of Freedom: Selected Dhamma Talks
- A Tiger’s Cave – translations of Japanese Zen Texts – pub 1964
- Attaining the Way – A Guide to the Practice of Chan Buddhism
- Buddhism and Zen
- Echoes on Mt. Kaya – Selections on Korean Buddhism
- Everything Arises, Everything Falls Away-Teachings on Impermanence and the end of Suffering
- Food for the Heart: The Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah
- Gems along the Way
- Getting the Buddha Mind-On the Practice of Chan Retreat
- Life in the Rolling Mirror
- Light of the Kensei
- Manual of Zen Buddhism
- Mindfulness with Breathing
- Novice to Master: An Ongoing Lesson in the Extent of My Own Stupidity
- On Zen Practice: Body, Breath, and Mind
- Opening the Hand of Thought – Foundations of Zen Buddhist Practice
- Returning to Silence: Zen Practice in Daily Life
- Subtle Wisdom: Understanding Suffering, Cultivating Compassion Through Ch’an Buddhism
- Teachings of Zen
- The Three Ages of Zen
- The Way of Korean Zen
- Zen and Japanese Culture
- Zen and the Ways
- Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind – Informal talks on Zen meditation and practice
Years 1700-1800
- Hakuin’s Precious Mirror Cave
- Taoist Meditation: Methods for Cultivating a Healthy Mind and Body
- The Practice of Zen
- The Roaring Stream – A New Zen Reader
- The Three Ages of Zen
- The Undying Lamp of Zen – The Testament of Zen Master Torei
- Zen Sourcebook: Traditional Documents from China, Korea, and Japan
Years 1600-1700
Years 1500-1600
- Great Doubt: Practicing Zen in the World
- Minding Mind: A course in Basic Meditation
- Pure Land, Pure Mind: The Buddhism of Masters Chu-hung and Tsung-pen
- The Mirror of Zen: The Classic Guide to Buddhist Practice by Zen Master So Sahn
- The Practice of Zen
- The Roaring Stream – A New Zen Reader
- Zen Sourcebook: Traditional Documents from China, Korea, and Japan
Years 1400-1500
- A First Zen Reader
- Essential Zen
- Minding Mind: A course in Basic Meditation
- The Practice of Zen
- The Roaring Stream – A New Zen Reader
- Timeless Spring: A Soto Zen Anthology
- Warrior of Zen: The Diamond-Hard Wisdom Mind of Suzuki Shosan
- Zen Sourcebook: Traditional Documents from China, Korea, and Japan
Years 1300-1400
- A Buddha from Korea: The Zen Teachings of T’aego
- A First Zen Reader
- Essential Zen
- Minding Mind: A course in Basic Meditation
- Mud and Water – A Collection of Talks by the Zen Master Bassui
- The Practice of Zen
- The Roaring Stream – A New Zen Reader
- Timeless Spring: A Soto Zen Anthology
- Wild Ways: Zen Poems of Ikkyu (Companions for the Journey)
- Zen Sourcebook: Traditional Documents from China, Korea, and Japan
Years 1200-1300
- Beyond Thinking – A guide to Zen Meditation
- Dialogues in a Dream
- Dogen – Shobogenzo Volume 1
- Dream Conversations On Buddhism and Zen
- Enlightenment Unfolds: The Essential Teachings of Zen Master Dogen
- Essential Zen
- Master Dogen’s Shobogenzo Book 2
- Minding Mind: A course in Basic Meditation
- Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dogen
- Shobogenzo – The Eye and Treasury of the True Law Volume 1
- Shobogenzo – The Eye and Treasury of the True Law Volume 2
- Shobogenzo – The Eye and Treasure of the True Law Volume 4
- Sun At Midnight – Poems and Sermons of Muso Soseki
- The Awakening of Zen
- The Original Face: An Anthology of Rinzai Zen
- The Practice of Zen
- The Roaring Stream – A New Zen Reader
- The Three Ages of Zen
- Timeless Spring: A Soto Zen Anthology
- Zen Master Dogen: An Introduction with Selected Writings
- Zen Sourcebook: Traditional Documents from China, Korea, and Japan
Years 1100 – 1200
- Cultivating the Empty Field: The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi
- Essential Zen
- Minding Mind: A course in Basic Meditation
- Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui
- The Awakening of Zen
- The Gateless Gate -Zen Comments on the Mumonkan
- The Practice of Zen
- The Roaring Stream – A New Zen Reader
- Timeless Spring: A Soto Zen Anthology
- Tracing Back the Radiance – Chinul’s Korean Way of Zen
- Zen Essence: The Science of Freedom
- Zen Sourcebook: Traditional Documents from China, Korea, and Japan
- Zen’s Chinese Heritage: The Masters and Their Teachings
Years 1000-1100
- Cultivating the Empty Field: The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi
- Essential Zen
- Immortal Sisters – Sectret Teachings of Taoist Women
- Instant Zen – Waking up in the Present
- Minding Mind: A course in Basic Meditation
- Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui
- The Awakening of Zen
- The Practice of Zen
- The Roaring Stream – A New Zen Reader
- Timeless Spring: A Soto Zen Anthology
- Zen Essence: The Science of Freedom
- Zen Flesh Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings
- Zen Letters Teachings of Yuanwu
- Zen Sourcebook: Traditional Documents from China, Korea, and Japan
- Zen’s Chinese Heritage: The Masters and Their Teachings
Years 900 – 1000
- Conception of Chan in the Zongjing Lu
- Essential Zen
- Immortal Sisters – Sectret Teachings of Taoist Women
- Minding Mind: A course in Basic Meditation
- Teachings of Zen
- The Awakening of Zen
- The Golden Age of Zen: The Classic Work on the Foundation of Zen Philosophy
- The Practice of Zen
- The Recorded Sayings of Chan master Lin-chi Hui-chao of Chen Prefecture
- The Roaring Stream – A New Zen Reader
- Timeless Spring: A Soto Zen Anthology
- Zen Essence: The Science of Freedom
- Zen Flesh Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings
- Zen Sourcebook: Traditional Documents from China, Korea, and Japan
- Zen’s Chinese Heritage: The Masters and Their Teachings
Years 800-900
- Essential Zen
- Five Houses of Zen
- Four Huts – Asian Writings on the Simple Life
- Immortal Sisters – Sectret Teachings of Taoist Women
- Minding Mind: A course in Basic Meditation
- Sangha Instruction -The Record of Linji
- Teachings of Zen
- The Golden Age of Zen: The Classic Work on the Foundation of Zen Philosophy
- The Roaring Stream – A New Zen Reader
- The Zen Teaching of Huang po on the Transmission of Mind
- The Zen Teachings of Master Lin-Chi
- Timeless Spring: A Soto Zen Anthology
- Zen Essence: The Science of Freedom
- Zen Flesh Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings
- Zen Sourcebook: Traditional Documents from China, Korea, and Japan
- Zen Teaching of Rinzai
- Zen’s Chinese Heritage: The Masters and Their Teachings
Years 700-800
- Ch’an Master Hui Hai- Zen Teaching of Instantaneous Awakening
- Essential Zen
- Five Houses of Zen
- Immortal Sisters – Sectret Teachings of Taoist Women
- Minding Mind: A course in Basic Meditation
- Northern School and Formation of Early Chinese Ch’an Buddhism
- Sun-Face Buddha: The Teachings of Ma-Tsu and the Hung-Chou School of Ch’an
- Teachings of Zen
- The Golden Age of Zen: The Classic Work on the Foundation of Zen Philosophy
- The Roaring Stream – A New Zen Reader
- Timeless Spring: A Soto Zen Anthology
- Zen Dawn: Early Zen Texts from Tun Huang
- Zen Essence: The Science of Freedom
- Zen Flesh Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings
- Zen Sourcebook: Traditional Documents from China, Korea, and Japan
- Zen’s Chinese Heritage: The Masters and Their Teachings
Earliest Writings
- A Day in the Life: The Empty Bowl and Diamond Sutras
- Awakening of the Heart: Essential Buddhist Sutras and Commentaries
- Awakening to the Tao
- Cave Temples of Mogao at Dunhuang
- Early Buddhist Scriptures
- Early Chan in China and Tibet- The Fundamental Expedient Teachings for Calming the Mind which Attain
- Early Ch’an in China and Tibet
- Essential Zen
- Immortal Sisters – Sectret Teachings of Taoist Women
- Mindfulness with Breathing
- Song of Mind: Wisdom from the Zen Classic Xin Ming
- The Buddha Speaks: A Book of Guidance from the Buddhist Scriptures
- The Buddhist Tradition in India, China, and Japan
- The Lankavatara Sutra: Translation and Commentary
- The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch
- The Platform Sutra – The Zen Teaching of Hui-neng
- The Roaring Stream – A New Zen Reader
- The Secret of the Golden Flower
- The Secrets of Chinese Meditation
- The Surangama Sutra
- The Way and Its Power: Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching and Its Place in Chinese Thought
- The Wisdom of Lao Tzu
- The Wisdom of Laotse
- The Wisdom of the Zen Masters
- The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
- Timeless Spring: A Soto Zen Anthology
- Zen Flesh Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings
- Zen is for Everyone – The Xiao Zhi Guan text by Zhi Yi
- Zen Sourcebook: Traditional Documents from China, Korea, and Japan
- Zen’s Chinese Heritage: The Masters and Their Teachings
Recommended
- A Buddha from Korea: The Zen Teachings of T’aego
- A Day in the Life: The Empty Bowl and Diamond Sutras
- A Tiger’s Cave – translations of Japanese Zen Texts – pub 1964
- Attaining the Way – A Guide to the Practice of Chan Buddhism
- Awakening to the Tao
- Cave Temples of Mogao at Dunhuang
- Essential Zen
- Hakuin’s Precious Mirror Cave
- Instant Zen – Waking up in the Present
- Mindfulness with Breathing
- Minding Mind: A course in Basic Meditation
- Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dogen
- Mud and Water – A Collection of Talks by the Zen Master Bassui
- One Robe, One Bowl – The Zen Poetry of Ryokan
- Returning to Silence: Zen Practice in Daily Life
- Subtle Wisdom: Understanding Suffering, Cultivating Compassion Through Ch’an Buddhism
- The Golden Age of Zen: The Classic Work on the Foundation of Zen Philosophy
- The Lankavatara Sutra: Translation and Commentary
- The Roaring Stream – A New Zen Reader
- The Secrets of Chinese Meditation
- The Zen Teaching of Huang po on the Transmission of Mind
- The Zen Teachings of Master Lin-Chi
- Unborn: The Life and Teachings of Zen Master Bankei
- Zen Essence: The Science of Freedom
- Zen Letters Teachings of Yuanwu
- Zen Master Dogen: An Introduction with Selected Writings
- Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind – Informal talks on Zen meditation and practice
- Zen’s Chinese Heritage: The Masters and Their Teachings
