Zen is the transmission outside of words. But there sure are a lot of books about Zen. We look at some of the best books on Zen. Soto Zen, that is.
Treeleaf (https://www.treeleaf.org/)
Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance (https://amzn.to/3H2vNKp)
Kosho Uchiyama Roshi: Opening the Hand of Thought: Foundations of Zen Buddhist Practice (https://amzn.to/44uGlwT)
Kosho Uchiyama Roshi: How to Cook Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment (https://amzn.to/3NI5jls)
Shunryu Suzuki: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice (https://amzn.to/43jNwXv)
Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings (https://amzn.to/3PMDviM)
Philip Kapleau Roshi: The Three Pillars of Zen: Teaching, Practice, and Enlightenment (https://amzn.to/3pJNM4m)
Shohaku Okumura: Realizing Genjokoan: The Key to Dogen's Shobogenzo (https://amzn.to/3Q2lDk7)
Dogen's Genjo Koan: Three Commentaries (https://amzn.to/44eqS4n)
Shohaku Okumura: The Mountains and Waters Sutra: A Practitioner's Guide to Dogen's "Sansuikyo" (https://amzn.to/44jEITa)
Steven Heine: Readings of Dōgen's "Treasury of the True Dharma Eye" (https://amzn.to/44ecjh3)
Steven Heine: Dogen: Japan's Original Zen Teacher (https://amzn.to/3rgCe9o)
Taigen Dan Leighton: Visions of Awakening Space and Time: Dōgen and the Lotus Sutra (https://amzn.to/44czKHH)
Kosho Uchiyama Roshi: Deepest Practice, Deepest Wisdom: Three Fascicles from Shobogenzo with Commentary (https://amzn.to/3XJ4U6X)
Kazuaki Tanahashi: Enlightenment Unfolds: the essential teachings of Dogen (https://amzn.to/3PLsazk)
Kazuaki Tanahashi: Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dogen (https://amzn.to/3pzHXXe)
Will Johnson: The Posture of Meditation (https://amzn.to/3D2nT2X)
Barbara Hoetsu O'Brien: The Circle of the Way - A Concise History of Zen from the Buddha to the Modern World (https://amzn.to/3PIHgWg)
Jonathan Landaw & Stephan Bodian: Buddhism For Dummies (https://amzn.to/44wpWYH)
Diana St. Ruth: Simple Guide to Zen Buddhism (https://amzn.to/3pFrdhe)
Sky Above, Great Wind: The Life and Poetry of Zen Master Ryokan, translated by Kazuaki Tanahashi (https://amzn.to/44vv0N8)
Kazuaki Tanahashi: The Complete Cold Mountain: Poems of the Legendary Hermit Hanshan (https://amzn.to/46O2DvA)
Red Pine: The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain (https://amzn.to/3rgElKm)
Norman Fischer & Susan Moon: What Is Zen?: Plain Talk for a Beginner's Mind (https://amzn.to/3JMMn3R)
Stephen Batchelor: The Art of Solitude (https://amzn.to/3D2Nx7S)
Brian Daizen Victoria: Zen at War (https://amzn.to/3NE5QF1)
Suggested BOOKS & MEDIA on Zen Practice (Treeleaf) (https://www.treeleaf.org/forums/showthread.php?5711-Suggested-BOOKS-MEDIA-on-Zen-Practice)
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