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
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
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)
