With Ryokan and Basho we end our story of Zen. Of course, our
strories were but a small sampling of Zen's vast history. And with
this in mind we offer recommendations for further study.
| Bankei Zen, Peter Haskell (Grove Weidenfeld
- 1984 - out of print) |
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| The Clouds Should Know Me By Now , Red
Pine, Mike O'Connor ed. (Wisdom Publications- 2000) |
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| The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain,
Red Pine (Copper Canyon Press - 2000) |
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| The Elements of Zen, David Scott & Tony
Doubleday (Element Books - 1992- out of print) |
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Essays in Zen Buddism,
D.T. Suzuki (Grove - 1961) |
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| Essential Zen. Kaz Tanahashi and David
Schneider (Harper - 1995 - out of print) |
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| The Golden Age of Zen, John Wu (World
Wisdom - 2004) Just reissued! |
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| A History of Zen Buddhism, Heinrich
Dumoulin (Beacon Press - 1971/1997) |
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| The Lankavatara Sutra, D.T. Suzuki
(Provenance Editions - 2003) |
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| Nine-Headed Dragon River , Peter Matthiessen
(Shambhala - 1998) |
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| Penetrating Laughter,
Hakuin's Zen and Art, Kaz Tanahashi (1987 - Overlook Press) |
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| Ryokan: Zen Monk-Poet of Japan , Burton
Watson (Columbia U. Press - 1977) |
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| Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures
of Zen Master Ta Hui. J.C. Cleary (Shambhala - 2006) |
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| Trust in Mind, Mu Soeng (Wisdom Publications
- 2004) - On Sengcan's Hsin Shin Ming - highly recommended! |
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| The Unborn : The Life and Teachings of Zen
Master Bankei, Norman Wadell (North Point Press - 2000) |
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| The Way of Zen, Alan Watts (Vintage
- 1957) Reissued 1999 - a classic, unfortunately disregarded
these days |
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| Zen and the Birds of Appetite, Thomas Merton
(New Directions - 1968) |
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| Zen and Zen Classics, R.H. Blyth (Hokuseido
Press - 1988) Out of print - worth searching for! |
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| Zen Flesh, Zen Bones , Paul Reps (ed.)
(Tuttle -1998) |
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| The Zen Koan: Its History and Use in Rinzai
Zen, Isshu Miura, Ruth Sasaki (Harvest/HBJ Book - 1984) |
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| Zen Master Class, Stephen Hodge |
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| The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma, Red Pine (North
Point Press - 1989) |
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| The Zen Teachings of Master Lin-chi, Burton Watson
(Columbia U. Press- 1999) |
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| A Zen Wave, Robert Aitken (Shoemaker & Hoard
- 2003) |
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Nor does the story of Zen end with Hakuin and Basho. In the future Ashoka will offer a course that will examine the history of Zen's coming to the West.