Page Text: Robert Aitken, trans., The Gateless Barrier: The Wu-Men Kuan (Mumonkan), Berkeley, North Point Press, 1990.
Thomas Cleary, trans., No Barrier: Unlocking the Zen Koan, New York: Bantam, 1993. buy now
__________, Transmission of Light: Zen in the Art of Enlightenment by Zen Master Keizan, (Denkoroku), San Francisco: North Point, 1990. buy now
__________, Book of Serenity: One Hundred Zen Dialogues, Hudson: Lindisfarne Press, 1990. buy now
__________, Secrets of the Blue Cliff Record: Zen Comments by Hakuin and Tenkei, Boston & London: Shambhala, 2000. ( book review here ) buy now
Thomas Cleary & J. C. Cleary, trans., The Blue Cliff Record, Boston & London: Shambhala, 1992. buy now
Francis H. Cook, trans., The Record of Transmitting the Light: Zen Master Keizan’s "Denkoroku.” Los Angeles: Center Publications, 1991. buy now
Steven Heine, Opening a Mountain: Koans of the Zen Masters, New York: Oxford, 2002. ( book review here ) buy now
Steven Heine and Dale S. Wright, eds., The Koan: Texts and Contexts in Zen Buddhism, New York: Oxford, 2000. ( book review here ) buy now
Alexander Holstein, trans., Pointing at the Moon: 100 Zen Koans from Chinese Masters, Rutland & Tokyo: Tuttle,1993.
Victor Sogen Hori, Zen Sand: The Book of Capping Phrases for Koan Practice, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2003. ( book review here ) ( complete introduction free download )
Thomas Yūhō Kirchner, Entangling Vines: Zen Koans of the Shūmon Kattōshū, Kyoto: Tenryu-ji Institute for Philosophy and Religion, 2004. ( book review here ) buy now
Trever Legget, Samurai Zen: The Warrior Koans, London: Routledge, 2nd ed., 2003. buy now
Trever Legget, Zen and the Ways - Translations of Koans from the Kamakura Period of Japanese Zen, Boston: Tuttle, 1989.
John Daido Loori, ed., Sitting with Koans: Essential Writings on the Practice of Zen Koan Introspection, Boston: Wisdom Pubs., 2006. buy now
John Daido Loori, Two Arrows Meeting in Mid-air: The Zen Koan, ed. Bonnie Myotai Treace and Konrad Ryushin Marchaj, Boston: Tuttle, 1994. buy now
John Daido Loorie & Kazuaki Tanahashi, The True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen's Three Hundred Koans, Boston & London: Shambhala, 2005. buy now
Isshu Miura & Ruth Fuller Sasaki, The Zen Koan, San Diego: Harvest Books, 1993 (1965) buy now
Gudo Nishijima, trans., Master Dogen’s Shinji Shōbōgenzō: 301 Koan Stories, Woking: Windbell, 2003. ( book review here ) buy now
Katsuki Sekida, trans., Two Zen Classics: the Gateless Gate & the Blue Cliff Records, New York: Weatherhill, 1977. buy now
Nyogen Senzaki & Ruth Strout McCandless, The Iron Flute: 100 Zen Koans, Boston: Tuttle, 2000. buy now
Zenkei Shibayama, Gateless Barrier: Zen Comments on the Mumonkan, Boston & London: Shambhala, 2000, (1974). buy now
Gerry Shishin Wick, The Book of Equanimity: Illuminating Classic Zen Koans, Boston: Wisdom, 2005. buy now
Koun Yamada, Gateless Gate, Somerville: Wisdom, 2004 (1979). buy now
MAHAYANA AND THE ORIGINS
OF ZEN (CHAN) IN CHINA
Wendi L. Adamek, The Mystique of Transmission: On an Early Chan History and its Contexts, New York : Columbia University Press, 2007. buy now
William M. Bodiford, ed., Going Forth: Visions of Buddhist Vinaya, Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2005. buy now
Robert E. Buswell, Jr., and Robert M. Gimello, eds. Paths to Liberation: The Marga and its Transformations in Buddhist Thought, Honolulu: Univ. of Hawaii Press, 1992. buy now
Chang Chung-yüan, trans., Original Teachings of Ch'an Buddhism Selected from The Transmission of the Lamp, New York: Pantheon Books, 1969. buy now
Thomas Cleary, trans. Zen Essence: The Science of Freedom, Boston & London: Shambhala, 1989. buy now
Thomas Cleary, Entry Into the Inconceivable: An Introduction to Hua-yen Buddhism, Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 1983 buy now
J. C. Cleary, trans., Zen Dawn: Early Zen Texts from Tun Huang, Boston & London: Shambhala, 1986. buy now
Francis Dojun Cook, Hua-yen Buddhism: The Jewel Net of Indra. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. buy now
Patricia Ebrey and Peter Gregory, eds., Religion and Society in T'ang and Sung China, Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 1993. buy now
Bernard Faure, The Will to Orthodoxy: A Critical Genealogy of Northern Chan Buddhism, Standford University Press, 1997. (book review here and here ) buy now
Andy Ferguson, Zen’s Chinese Heritage: The Masters and their Teachings. Boston: Wisdom, 2000. buy now
Robert M. Gimello and Peter N. Gregory, eds., Studies in Ch'an and Hua-yen, Kuroda Institute, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1983. buy now
Peter N. Gregory, Tsung-mi and the Sinification of Buddhism, Kuroda Institute, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2002. ( book review here ) buy now
Peter N. Gregory, Inquiry Into the Origin of Humanity: An Annotated Translation of Tsung-mi's Yuan jenlun with a Modern Commentary, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1995. ( book review here ) buy now
Peter N. Gregory, ed., Sudden and Gradual: Approaches to Enlightenment in Chinese Thought, Honolulu: U. of Hawaii Press, 1987. buy now
_______________, Traditions of Meditation in Chinese Buddhism, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1986. buy now
Steven Heine and Dale S. Wright, eds. The Zen Canon: Understanding the Classic Texts, New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. ( book review here ) buy now
_______________, Zen Classics: Formative Texts in the History of Zen Buddhism, New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. buy now
John Kieschnick, The Eminent Monk: Buddhist Ideals in Medieval Chinese Hagiography, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997. ( book review here ) buy now
Taigen Daniel Leighton, trans., Cultivating the Empty Field: The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi (revised, expanded ed.). Boston: Tuttle, 2000. buy now
Lu K'uan Yü (Charles Luk), Ch'an and Zen Teaching (3 volumes),York Beach: Weiser, Inc, 1993, (1960). buy now
Lu K'uan Yü (Charles Luk), The Transmission of the Mind Outside the Teaching, Evergreen, 1975.
John R. McRae, The Northern School and the Formation of Early Ch'an Buddhism, Kuroda Institute, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1986. buy now
_______________,Seeing Through Zen: Encounter, Transformation, and Genealogy in Chinese Chan Buddhism, Berkeley: Univ. of Calif. Press, 2003. (book reviews here , here , and here ) buy now
James Mitchell, Soto Zen Ancestors in China, San Francisco: Ithuriel's Spear, 2005. buy now
Christine Mollier, Buddhism and Taoism Face to Face: Scripture, Ritual, and Iconographic Exchange in Medieval China, University of Hawaii Press, 2008. buy now
William F. Powell, trans., The Record of Tung-shan, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1986. buy now
Morten Schlütter, How Zen Became Zen: The Dispute over Enlightenment and the Formation of Chan Buddhism in Song-Dynasty China, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2008. buy now
Frederick J. Streng, Emptiness: A Study in Religious Meaning, Nashville: Abingdon, 1967. buy now
Robert A.F. Thurman, trans., The Holy Teaching of Vimalakirti: a Mahayana scripture, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001, (1976). buy now
Marsha Weidner, ed., Cultural Intersections in Later Chinese Buddhism, Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001. ( book review here ) buy now
Albert Welter, The Linji Lu and the Creation of Chan Orthodoxy: The Development of Chan's Records of Sayings Literature, New York: Oxford University Press, 2008, buy now
Dale S. Wright, Philosophical Meditations on Zen Buddhism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. ( book review here ) buy now
Philip B. Yampolsky, The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch: the text of the Tun-Huang manuscript, translated with notes. New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1967. ( sutra available here )
Yifa, The Origins of Buddhist Monastic Codes in China: An Annotated Translation and Study of the Chanyuan Qinggui, Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2002. ( book review here ) buy now
The Chinese Masters
Urs App, trans., Master Yunmen: From the Record of the Chan Teacher "Gate of the Clouds", New York: Kodansha, 1994. buy now
John Blofeld, trans., Ch'an Master Hui Hai: Zen Teaching of Instantaneous Awakening, Buddhist Pub. Group, 2006. buy now
__________, The Zen Teaching of Huang Po: On the Transmission of Mind, New York: Grove, 1958. buy now
Buddhist Text Translation Society, The Sixth Patriarch's Dharma jewel platform sutra : with the commentary of Venerable Master Hsuan Hua, Burlingame: Buddhist Text Translation Society, 2001 (1977). ( free download here )
Chang Chung-yüan, trans., Original Teachings of Ch'an Buddhism Selected from The Transmission of the Lamp, New York: Pantheon Books, 1969. buy now
Cheng Chien Bhikshu, trans., Sun-Face Buddha: The Teachings of Ma-tsu and the Hung-chou School of Ch'an, Fremont: Jain Publishing, 1991. buy now
J. C. Cleary, trans., Swampland Flowers: The Letters and Lectures of Zen Master Ta Hui, Boston & London: Shambhala, 2006 (1977) buy now
_______________, Instant Zen: Waking Up in the Present (Foyan), Berkeley: North Atlantic, 1994. buy now
_______________, A Tune Beyond The Clouds: Zen Teachings frm Old China (Shiqi Xinyue), Berkeley: Asian Humanities Press, 1990. buy now
J. C. Cleary & Thomas Cleary, trans., Zen Letters: Teachings of Yuanwu, Boston & London: Shambhala, 1994. buy now
Thomas Cleary, trans., Stopping and Seeing: A Comprehensive Course in Buddhist Meditation by Chih-i, Boston: Shambhala, 1997. buy now
James Green, trans., The Recorded Sayings of Zen Master Joshu (Chao-chou Chan-Shih Yu-Lu), Boston: Shambhala, 1998. buy now
_______________, The Sayings of Layman P'ang: A Zen Classic of China, Boston: Shambhala, 2009. buy now
John Jorgensen; Inventing Hui-neng, the Sixth Patriarch: Hagiography And Biography in Early Ch'an, Brill Academic, 2005 buy now
Taigen Daniel Leighton with Yi Wu, trans., Cultivating the Empty Field: The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi, San Francisco:Northpoint, 1991.
John McRAe, trans., Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch, Berkeley: Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research, 2000. ( free download here )
William Powell, trans., The Record of Tung-shan, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1986. buy now
Red Pine, trans. The Zen Teachings of Bodhidharma, San Francisco:North Point Press, 1987. buy now
Irmgard Schloegl, trans., The Record of Rinzai, London: The Buddhist Society, 1975. ( free download here )
Burton Watson, trans., The Zen Teachings of Master Lin-Chi, Boston & London: Shambhala, 1993. ( book review here ) buy now