Episode 104: The Best Zen Books

Zen is the transmission outside of words. But there sure are a lot of books about Zen. We look at some of the best books on Zen. Soto Zen, that is.

• Treeleaf
• Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance
• Kosho Uchiyama Roshi: Opening the Hand of Thought: Foundations of Zen Buddhist Practice
• Kosho Uchiyama Roshi: How to Cook Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment
• Shunryu Suzuki: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
• Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings
• Philip Kapleau Roshi: The Three Pillars of Zen: Teaching, Practice, and Enlightenment
• Shohaku Okumura: Realizing Genjokoan: The Key to Dogen's Shobogenzo
• Dogen's Genjo Koan: Three Commentaries
• Shohaku Okumura: The Mountains and Waters Sutra: A Practitioner's Guide to Dogen's "Sansuikyo"
• Steven Heine: Readings of Dōgen's "Treasury of the True Dharma Eye"
• Steven Heine: Dogen: Japan's Original Zen Teacher
• Taigen Dan Leighton: Visions of Awakening Space and Time: Dōgen and the Lotus Sutra
• Kosho Uchiyama Roshi: Deepest Practice, Deepest Wisdom: Three Fascicles from Shobogenzo with Commentary
• Kazuaki Tanahashi: Enlightenment Unfolds: the essential teachings of Dogen
• Kazuaki Tanahashi: Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dogen
• Will Johnson: The Posture of Meditation
• Barbara Hoetsu O'Brien: The Circle of the Way - A Concise History of Zen from the Buddha to the Modern World
• Jonathan Landaw & Stephan Bodian: Buddhism For Dummies
• Diana St. Ruth: Simple Guide to Zen Buddhism
• Sky Above, Great Wind: The Life and Poetry of Zen Master Ryokan, translated by Kazuaki Tanahashi
• Kazuaki Tanahashi: The Complete Cold Mountain: Poems of the Legendary Hermit Hanshan
• Red Pine: The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain
• Norman Fischer & Susan Moon: What Is Zen?: Plain Talk for a Beginner's Mind
• Stephen Batchelor: The Art of Solitude
• Brian Daizen Victoria: Zen at War
• Suggested BOOKS & MEDIA on Zen Practice (Treeleaf)

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