Buddhism and Zen Suggested Reading List

Soto Zen
Chapel Hill Zen Center	Chant Book (Click on link above to download as PDF)
Tenshin Reb Anderson	Bring Upright: Zen Meditation and the Bodhisattva Precepts The Third Turning of the Wheel, Wisdom of the Samdhinirmocana Sutra Entering the Mind of Buddha, Zen and the Six Heroic Practices of Bodhisattvas
Charlotte Joko Beck	Everyday Zen Nothing Special
Edward Espe Brown	The Most Important Point: Zen Teachings of Edward Espe Brown, edited by Danny S. Parker
David Chadwick	Crooked Cucumber, the Life and Zen Teachings of Shunryu Suzuki
Francis Cook	How to Raise an Ox Sounds of Valley Streams: Enlightenment in Dogen's Zen
Dainin Katagiri	Returning to Silence, Zen in Daily Life You Have to Say Something Each Moment is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time The Light that Shines Through Infinity
Jakusho Kwong	No Beginning, No End: The Intimate Heart of Zen Mind Sky, Zen Teaching on Living and Dying
Bokusan Nishiari, et al., translators	Dogen's Genjokoan: Three Commentaries
Shohaku Okumura	Realizing Genjokoan, the Key to Dogen's Shobogenzo Living by Vow Soto Zen, An Introduction to Zazen Dogen's Shobogenzo Zuimonki: The New Annotated Translation — also including Dogen's Waka Poetry with Commentary Heart of Zen — Practice without Gaining-mind The Mountains and Waters Sutra, A Practitioner's Guide to Dogen's Sansuikyo
Shinshu Roberts	Being Time
Shunryu Suzuki	Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness, Zen Talks on the Sandokai not always so, practicing the true spirit of Zen
Kazuaki Tanahashi, translator	Moon in a Dewdrop, Writings of Zen Master Dogen Enlightenment Unfolds Beyond Thinking Treasury of the True Dharma Eye
Kosho Uchiyama	How to Cook Your Life Opening the Hand of Thought Deepest Practice, Deepest Wisdom
Sojun Mel Weitsman	Seeing One Thing Through: The Zen Life and Teachings of Sojun Mel Weitsman
Other Buddhist Books
Pema Chodron	When Things Fall Apart Places that Scare You Practicing Peace in Times of War
Darlene Cohen	Turning Suffering Inside Out: A Zen Approach to Living with Physical and Emotional Pain
Henepola Gunaratana	Mindfulness in Plain English
Taigen D. Leighton with Yi Wu, translators	Cultivating the Empty Field: The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi Just This is It
Walpola Rahula	What the Buddha Taught
Larry Rosenberg and David Guy	Breath by Breath: The Liberating Practice of Insight Meditation
Thich Nhat Hanh	Miracle of Mindfulness The Heart of Understanding Old Path, White Cloud The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching Understanding Our Mind
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Soto Zen

Other Buddhist Books

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