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Web sites with extensive teachings
Web sites with audio teachings
DharmaNet's introduuction to Zen page
Frequently Asked Questions
alt.zenLecture On Zen
Alan Watts
Manual of Zen Buddhism
T.D. Suzuki
T.D. Suzuki
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Peaceful Life
Dainin Katagiri
The Ethical Precepts and Philosophical Tenets of Zen Buddhism
The Five Wonderful Mindfulness Trainings
Thich Nhat HanhThe Bodhisattva Precepts in Soto Zen Buddhism
Rev. Shohaku OkumuraThe Second Precept: Generosity
Thich Nhat Hanh
Reb Anderson
The foundations of mindfulness
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness (the Satippatthana Sutra or Mindfulness Sutra) originates in the Pali Canon and has found its way – in a variety of forms – into many of the major schools of Buddhism. Although often not taught in Zen centers in the West, this sutra provides the student with the foundations of awareness and mindfulness, including mindfulness of body, feelings, consciousness and mental objects.
DharmaNet's Theravadan teachings on the four Foundations of Mindfulness: The Satippatthana Sutra
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness
Thich Nhat Hanh – a dharma talk
Thich Nhat Hanh's wonderful translation and presentation of the four foundations of mindfulness.
Mindfulness Sutra
Norman Fischer's series of seven talks on the mindfulness sutra
Ashoka course on the Zen Meditation: Entering the Path
Taught by John daishin Buksbazen, Zen Center of Los AngelesMy Zazen Sankyu Notebook #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 #11 #12 #13 #!4
Rev. Issho FujitaThe Practice of Zazen
A brief illustrated guide.
Norman Fischer talks about concentration in Zazen and the Six Jhana StatesThe Way of Zazen
Shodo Harada RoshiPrinciples of Zazen (Shobogenzo zazen gi)
Dogen Zenji – Treasury of the Eye of the True Dharma - Book 11
Faith Mind Inscription (Hsin-hsin Ming)
See Sengsan above
The Heart Sutra
Compare 42 translations of the Heart Sutra
Robert Aitken Roshi and Diamond Sangha's version
The Lotus Sutra
The Lotus Sutra
Burton Watson's translationZen And the Lotus Sutra
A Series of Seminars at the Berkeley Zen Center ~ 1999Diamond Sangha Sesshin Sutra Book
Norman Fischer– a series of five talks
Lankavatara Sutra
Introduction to the Lankavatara Sutra, D.T. Suzuki
Surangama Sutra
Norman Fischer– a series of five talks
These sites have extensive sutra translations:
Working with Koans
John Tarrant, RoshiNorman Fischer
Talks and essays on koans at Everyday ZenAn Introduction to Zen with Stories and Riddles Told by the Zen Masters
The Gateless Gate
Ekai, called MumonThe Gateless Gate
Translated by Eiichi ShimomisseIs There a Zen Person Around Here?
John Daido Loori comments on koans from Dogen's Treasury of the True Dharma Eye.From The True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen’s Three Hundred Koans, translated by Kazuaki Tanahashi (Shambhala Pub.)Quick! Who Can Save This Cat?
"Nanchuan Cuts the Cat," that most controversial of koans
Zoketsu Norman Fischer
Translation by Thomas Cleary
Translation by Thomas Cleary
Notes on Gassho and Bowing
Taizan Maezumi Roshi with John Daishin Buksbazen (On Zen Practice)Is Zen a Philosophy?
Henry Rosemont, Jr.argues that, putting aside the soteriological function of Zen, it is a philosophy, or at least has philosophy embedded in it.Truth and Zen : a very philosophical look
T. P. Kasulis looks at how Aristotle, Thomas, Hui Neng, Lin Chi and Dogen approached the issue of 'truth'.Critical Considerations on Zen Thought
Shiro Matsumot discusses zen thought and the cessation of thinking and aatman/Buddha nature.Person as Narration: the Dissolution of 'Self' and 'Other' in Ch'an Buddhism
Peter D. Hershock discusses how 'self' and 'other' are only "conventions within a story" as Buddhism recognises neither. The implications of this for 'karma' are explored and Hershock sees tun-wu not as "sudden enlightenment" but as "readiness to awaken." A very interesting and important point is raised here. f
On Zen (Ch'an) Language and Zen Paradoxes
Chung-Ying Cheng inquires into the logical and semantical significances of the dialogic exchanges (kung-an, koan) in Zen language and discourse.
Onto-Epistemology of Sudden Enlightenment in Chan Buddhism
Chung-Ying Cheng explores the epistemology of enlightenment and the relationships between enlightenment and knowledge.
Bodhidharma as Textual and Religious Paradigm
Bernard Faure uses structural criticism to analyse Bodhidharma's life as a literary piece belonging to the genre of hagiography, rejecting obsolete concepts of historical individuality and all methodological extremes to reach a new, limited understanding of "Bodhidharma's coming from the West".Speech And Silence In The Mumokan: And Examination of the Use of Language In Light of the Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze
Philip Goodchild
Schools
The Rinzai Roku by Zen Master Rinzai The Sayings of Master Rinzai (A Selection)
D.T. SuzukiHistory of the Soto Zen School
T. Griffith Fouke
The Face of Buddhism and Shintoism in Japanese Art
A Zen Wave: Basho's Haiku and Zen
Robert AitkenZen Poems of China and Japan: The Crane's Bill
Lucien Stryk, translator
Coming Down from the Zen Clouds: A Critique of the Current State of American Zen
Stuart LachsLiturgy Project - On Creating American Zen
By John Tarrant and Joan Sutherland source?Purifying the Mind
By Nonin ChowaneyThe Dharma of "Homeless Kodo"
Sawaki Kodo with commentaries by Uchiyama Kosho
Web sites with extensive teachings
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sites with audio teachings
Clouds in Water Zen Center talks