Genre: <span>Nonfiction</span>

Classics of Buddhism and Zen : the collected translations of Thomas Cleary : volume one : Zen lessons : Zen essence : the five houses of Zen : minding mind : instant Zen

Volume One of Classics of Buddhism and Zen contains teachings predominantly from the Chinese Zen (Chan) tradition, including the writings of revered Chinese masters such as Pai-chang, founder of the Chan monastic tradition; Huang-po, one of the forefathers of the Lin-chi-tsung or Rinzai school; Foyan, the great master of the twelfth-century Chinese Zen “renaissance”; and…

October 28, 2013

How to raise an ox : Zen practice as taught in Zen Master Dogen’s Shobogenzo, including ten newly translated essays

In this work Francis Dojun Cook has translated ten practice-oriented chapters of Master Eihei Dogen’s masterwork, the Shobogenzo, in which Dogen discusses what is involved in the wholehearted, moment-to-moment practice of Zen, with numerous examples from the lives of past masters.

October 28, 2013

Sounds of valley streams : enlightenment in Dogen’s Zen, translation of nine essays from Shobogenzo

October 28, 2013

Silence to light : Japan and the shadows of war

May 28, 2013

The way of the samurai : Yukio Mishima on Hagakure in modern life

April 22, 2013

In praise of shadows

April 22, 2013

On a Small Bridge in Iraq

April 22, 2013

Underground

Covers the 1995 Tokyo Gas Attack, during which agents of a Japanese cult released a gas deadlier than cyanide into the subway system, as documented in interviews with its survivors, perpetrators, and victim family members. In March 1995, agents of a Japanese religious cult attacked the Tokyo subway system with sarin, a gas twenty six…

April 22, 2013

Genre: Nonfiction