About Zen: Further Reading

The Three Pillars of Zen

Philip Kapleau (ed.)

Zen Mind Beginner’s Mind

Shunryu Suzuki

Zen and Japanese Culture

D.T. Suzuki

Sitting with Koans

John Daido Loori

Mumonkan(s)

Zenkei Shibayama (Zen Comments on the Mumonkan)

Kôun Yamada (The Gateless Gate)

Robert Aitken (The Gateless Barrier)

Nyogen Senzaki (Eloquent Silence)

The Book of Mu

James Ishmael Ford, ed.

Introduction to Zen Koans

James Ishmael Ford

Bring Me the Rhinoceros

John Tarrant

The Art of Just Sitting 

John Daido Loori, ed.

Taking the Path of Zen

Robert Aitken

A Zen Wave

Robert Aitken (a study of Bashô’s haiku)

Cold Mountain

100 Poems by Tang poet, Han Shan

Transl. Burton Watson

Moon in a Dewdrop

Dogen Zenji

A Flower Does Not Talk

Zenkei Shibayama

Ending the Pursuit of Happiness

Barry Magid

Who Dies?

Stephen Levine

Zen’s Chinese Heritage

Andy Ferguson

Eco Dharma

David R. Loy

A First Zen Reader

Trevor Leggett

Zen in English Literature and Oriental Classics

R.H. Blyth

Everyday Zen

Charlotte Joko Beck