• Opening the Hand of Thought by Kosho Uchiyama

Roshi (2004 Edition) **
• Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki

Roshi **

and

• Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of

Zen by Shunryu Suzuki Roshi **
• A Heart To Heart Chat On Buddhism With Old

Master Gudo by Gudo Wafu Nishijima Roshi (Jundo
Cohen, Translator) **
• To Meet the Real Dragon, Gudo Wafu Nishijima

Roshi
• Sit Down and Shut Up by Brad Warner **
• Nothing Special: Living Zen by Charlotte Joko

Beck **

and

• Everyday Zen: Love & Work by Charlotte Joko

Beck **
• Ending the Pursuit of Happiness: A Zen Guide by

Barry Magid
• No Death, No Fear by Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh
• Asking about Zen: 108 Answers, Rev. Jiho

Sargent **
• The Art of Just Sitting, edited by John Daido

Loori
• Returning to Silence by Dainin Katagiri Roshi

**
• You Have to Say Something by Dainin Katagiri

Roshi
• The Essence of Zen by Sekkei Harada Roshi
• The Zen Teaching of "Homeless" Kodo by Kosho

Uchiyama Roshi **
• One Robe One Bowl by Ryokan
• Bankei Zen: Translations from The Record of

Bankei translated by Peter Haskel
• The Zen Teaching of Huang Po translated by John

Blofeld
• Meditation Now or Never by Steve Hagen
• Zen and the Brain by Dr. James Austin


MASTER DOGEN:
• From The Zen Kitchen To Enlightenment: Refining

Your Life by Eihei Dogen; Kosho Uchiyama Roshi

(Translator) **

and/or

• Nothing Is Hidden : Essays on Zen Master

Dogen's Instructions for the Cook by Shohaku

Okumura Roshi **
• The Wholehearted Way, A Commentary on Dogen’s

Bendowa by Kosho Uchiyama Roshi **
• Master Dogen's Shobogenzo-Zuimonki available

online: **
global.sotozen-net.or.jp/eng/index.html#
• Enlightenment Unfolds (the essential teachings

of Dogen) by Kazuaki Tanahashi **
• Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dogen

by Kazuaki Tanahashi **
• Master Dogen’s Shobogenzo (4 Volumes),

translated by Nishijima-Cross
• Eihei Dogen: Mystical Realist, Revised, Third

Edition (Paperback) by Hee-Jin Kim
• Dogen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community

(Eihei Shingi), Leighton/Okumura
• Dogen's Extensive Record (Eihei Koroku),

Leighton/Okumura


BASIC BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY:
• Buddhist Philosophy, A Historical Analysis by

David J. Kalupahana **
• In the Buddha's Words: An Anthology of

Discourses from the Pali Canon, Bhikkhu Bodhi
(Editor)
• The Life of the Buddha by Bhikkhu Nanamoli
• What the Buddha Taught: Revised and Expanded

Edition by Walpola Rahula
• Mahayana Buddhism, The Doctrinal Foundations,

by Paul Williams
• Buddhism Is Not What You Think by Steve Hagen

**
• Buddhism Without Beliefs by Stephen Batchelor


BUDDHIST SUTRAS & ZEN CLASSICS:
• Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Talks

on the Sandokai by Shunryu Suzuki Roshi
• The Heart Sutra by Red Pine (Bill Porter)

and

• Heart of Understanding: Commentaries on Heart

Sutra by Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh
• The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch by

Hui-neng and Philip Yampolsky

and/or

• The Platform Sutra: The Zen Teaching of

Hui-Neng translated Red Pine (Bill Porter)

and/or

• The Sutra of Hui-Neng, Grand Master of Zen With

Hui-neng’s Commentary on the Diamond Sutra
translated by Thomas Cleary
• The Zen Teachings of Bodhidharma, Red Pine
• The Diamond Sutra, Thich Nhat Hanh
• The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way:

Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika by Nagarjuna and

Jay L. Garfield

or

• Mulamadhyamakakarika of Nagarjuna: The

Philosophy of the Middle Way by Nagarjuna and

David J. Kalupahana


HISTORY OF ZEN BUDDHISM:
• Zen Buddhism, Volume 1: A History (India &

China) by Heinrich Dumoulin

and

• Zen Buddhism, Volume 2: A History (Japan) by

Heinrich Dumoulin
• The Record of Transmitting the Light (Keizan

Zenji's Denkoroku), F. Cook
• Living and Dying in Zazen (Biographies of

Sawaki Roshi, Uchiyama Roshi and others
associated with Antai-ji) by Arthur Braverman


KOAN COLLECTIONS:
• Gateless Barrier: Zen Comments on the Mumonkan

by Zenkai Shibayama Roshi

and/or

• Book of Serenity: One Hundred Zen Dialogues by

Thomas Cleary

and/or

• Master Dogen's Shinji Shobogenzo (Koan

Collection) by Gudo Nishijima Roshi


BUDDHIST ETHICS:
• The Mind of Clover: Essays in Zen Buddhist

Ethics by Robert Aitken Roshi
• Zen at War by Brian Victoria
• The New Social Face of Buddhism: A Call to

Action by Ken Jones
• The New Buddhism by David Brazier
• At Hells Gate by Claude Anshin Thomas