Kazuaki Tanahashi Guides

Kazuaki Tanahashi: A Guide for Readers
Zen and Chan in 2022
Zen in Japan: Up to the Meiji Restoration
Dogen: A Guide to His Works
Zen Buddhism: A Reader’s Guide to the Great Works
The Heart Sutra: A Reader’s Guide
Poems of the Legendary Hermit Hanshan | An Excerpt from The Complete Cold Mountain
Art in a Time of Global Crisis | An Excerpt from Painting Peace
Buddhist Poetry – A Reader Guide
A Walk with Dogen into Our Time

A Walk with Dogen into Our Time

In 1954 poet Allen Ginsberg wrote a poem called “Song” that acknowledges the weight of our human circumstance and suf­fering in a particular and somewhat unusual way. I believe it may also provide a gateway to the following writings by Zen master Eihei Dogen, who addressed the nature of reality as he came to understand the world of people and things through his lifetime practice of Zen.

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Hidden Treasure – The True Dharma Eye
About Kazuaki Tanahashi: An Interview with Roshi Joan Halifax