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BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS

The following list is recommended readings for those wishing to learn more about Soto Zen Buddhism and deepen their practice.

Lay Practice Readings

The Heart of Being by John Daido Loori

Nothing Special – Charlotte Joko Beck

Everyday Zen – Charlotte Joko Beck

No Beginning, No End – Jakusho Kwong-Roshi

Returning To Silence – Dainin Katagiri-Roshi

Opening The Hand Of Thought – Kosho Uchiyama

From The Zen Kitchen To Enlightenment -Eihei Dogen- Zengi And Kosho Uchiyama-Roshi

The Kyosaku (Archive Volume I) – Rev. Zengaku Soyu Matsuoka-Roshi

The Mind Of Clover– Robert Aitken

Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind – Shunryo Suzuki-Roshi

Taking the Path of Zen – by Robert Aitken

Zen Flesh, Zen Bones – Paul Reps and Nyogen Senzaki

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki

Practice Path Readings

USA-Japan

The Kyosaku – Rev. Zengaku Soyu Matsuoka-Roshi

Mokurai -Rev. Zengaku Soyu Matsuoka-Roshi

Atlanta Soto Zen Center Chant Book

Sitting Under the Bodhi Tree – Soto Zen Educ. Center

Zen Mind Beginner’s Mind – Shunryo Suzuki Roshi

Dogen Zen – Shohaku Okumura Roshi

Shobogenzo-zuimonki – Eihei Dogen, Shohaku Okumura (Translation)

The Wholehearted Way – Okumura, Leighton (Translation)

Dogen’s Extensive Record – Okumura,Leighton (Translation)

Zen Master Eihei Dogen’s Monastic Regulations I – Shohei (Translation)

Dogen’s Manuals of Zen Meditation – Carl Bielefeldt

Dogen’s 300 Koans – Shohaku Okumura (Translation)

Japan

The Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo –by Kosho Uchiyama, Shohaku Okumura (Translation),
Molly Jokei (Editor)

Opening the Hand of Thought: Foundations of Zen Buddhist Practice – by Kosho Uchiyama, Jisho Warner (Editor), Shohaku Okumura (Editor), Thomas Wright (Editor)

The Right Dharma-Eye Treasury – Eihei Dogen

(Shobogenzo) Nishijima and Cross Trans 

Nishiyama Trans 

China

The Platform Sutra; The Zen Teaching of Hui-neng – Red Pine Trans

Zen’s Chinese Heritage – Andy Ferguson (Pre-Soto and Soto lineage Chapters beginning on pages: 15, 20, 24, 25, 29, 37, 48, 71, 97, 107, 142, 180, 210, 213, 216, 218, 219, 223, 226, 256, 258, 290, 312, 334, 360, 363, 384, 404, 405, 417, 419, 438, 450, 454, 461)

Book of Serenity; One Hundred Zen Dialogues – Thomas Cleary Trans 

The Zen Teachings of Homeless Kodo - Kodo Uchiyama and Shohaku Okumura

India

The Zen Teachings of Bodhidharma – Red Pine

The Diamond Sutra – Red Pine

The Heart Sutra – Red Pine

The Surangama Sutra – Charles Luk

Sutras & Shastras available in various translations: 

The Four Noble Truths

The Lankavatara Sutra

The Lotus Sutra (Threefold)

The Vimalakirti Sutra

The Ekottara Agama Sutra

Treatise on the Middle Way (Madhyamaka-karika)

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