Japanese Zen Guides

Rinzai Zen This is part of a series of articles on the arc of Zen thought, practice, and history, as presented in The Circle of the Way: A Concise History of Zen from the Buddha to the Modern World. You can start at the beginning of this series or simply explore from here.

Japanese Culture

Japanese Zen

Zen

Zen Buddhism

Hakuin Ekaku: A Reader’s Guide

Hakuin Ekaku This is part of a series of articles on the arc of Zen thought, practice, and history, as presented in The Circle of the Way: A Concise History of Zen from the Buddha to the Modern World. You can start at the beginning of this series or simply explore from here.

Dogen: A Guide to His Works

Dogen: A Guide to His Work This is part of a series of articles on the arc of Zen thought, practice, and history, as presented in The Circle of the Way: A Concise History of Zen from the Buddha to the Modern World. You can start at the beginning of this series or

Early Zen in Japan This is part of a series of articles on the arc of Zen thought, practice, and history, as presented in The Circle of the Way: A Concise History of Zen from the Buddha to the Modern World. You can start at the beginning of this series or simply explore

The Works of the Chan & Zen Patriarchs

The Works of the Chan & Zen Patriarchs This is part of a series of articles on the arc of Zen thought, practice, and history, as presented in The Circle of the Way: A Concise History of Zen from the Buddha to the Modern World. You can start at the beginning of this

The Works of Zen in the Tang Dynasty

The Works of Zen in the Tang Dynasty This is part of a series of articles on the arc of Zen thought, practice, and history, as presented in The Circle of the Way: A Concise History of Zen from the Buddha to the Modern World. You can start at the beginning of this

The Great Koan Collections

The Great Koan Collections This is part of a series of articles on the arc of Zen thought, practice, and history, as presented in The Circle of the Way: A Concise History of Zen from the Buddha to the Modern World. You can start at the beginning of this series or simply explore

Zen Buddhism: A Reader’s Guide to the Great Works

Zen Buddhism: A Reader's Guide to the Great Works There have been surprisingly few clear introductions to the full range of the East Asian tradition of what is popularly commonly referred to, in its Japanese variant, as Zen Buddhism but also known as Chan, Soen, and Tien in original Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese. All these

Remembering Yvonne Rand

Yvonne’s dear friend and colleague, Zen priest and teacher Jisho Warner, composed the following obituary of Yvonne Rand. You can also view our profile of Yvonne here. Yvonne Rand, September 23, 1935 – August 19, 2020 no wind, yet the windbells keep on ringing —Kokan Shiren Yvonne Rand (née Boye), a significant member of

Issan Dorsey Finds Zen

"Tommy" Dorsey, Zazen, and Suzuki-Roshi An excerpt from Street Zen Tommy (Issan): “So off I went barefoot, patched pants, long hair. We got up an hour before you were supposed to be there: me, Mickey, and James used to come with us sometimes too. We’d get up in the morning, have a cup of coffee, smoke

Buddhist Biography/Memoir

Japanese Zen

1 2 3

Topics

All
Buddhist Biography/Memoir
Japanese Zen