Japanese Zen Guides

Kazuaki Tanahashi: A Guide for Readers
Zen and Tea: A Guide for Readers
Zen and Chan in 2022
Chan, Zen, and Mahayana Buddhism in 2021
Zen in Japan: Up to the Meiji Restoration
The Buddhist Translations of Thomas Cleary: A Reader’s Guide
The Works of Zen in the Song Dynasty
The Samurai and Zen
Rinzai Zen
Hakuin Ekaku: A Reader’s Guide
Dogen: A Guide to His Works
Early Zen in Japan
The Works of the Chan & Zen Patriarchs
The Works of Zen in the Tang Dynasty
The Great Koan Collections
Zen Buddhism: A Reader’s Guide to the Great Works
Remembering Yvonne Rand
Issan Dorsey Finds Zen
The Perfection of Patience
The Six Paramitas: A Reader’s Guide
The Heart Sutra: A Reader’s Guide
Tea Masters | An Excerpt from The Book of Tea
Buddhist Poetry – A Reader Guide
Book Club Discussion | Single White Monk
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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Haiku: A Reader’s Guide
Samurai and Japanese Culture Reader’s Guide: The Works of Master Translator and Author William Scott Wilson
The Art of Haiku