See more books by Richard on cuke page.

Koshin Ogui
Zen Shin Talks with links to much on Suzuki and him

on Amazon

Bill Porter (Red Pine)
Red Pine books
The Heart Sutra

at Local Bookstore | on Amazon

Nancy Wilson Ross
Buddhism: A Way of Life and Thought

at Local Bookstore | on Amazon

Zen Women by Grace Schireson

at Local Bookstore | on Amazon

Tai Sheridan
His website - with a list of books and quotes from reviews

His books on Amazon

Tai has kindly made these books available in the EPUB format which can be read with many freely available apps for computers, tablets and phones. He has requested that donations be given to Cuke Archives if you download the books from these links:

• Buddha in Blue Jeans Five Book Zen Anthology - Gift.epub
• Zen Heaven and Hell - Gift.epub
• Plum Blossom Zen - Contemplating Dogen - Gift .epub
• Buddhacarita - Gift.epub

Kazuaki Tanahashi
Treasury of the True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen's Shobo Genzo

Books on his website
at Local Bookstore | on Amazon

Katherine Thanas
The Truth of This Life

at Local Bookstore | on Amazon

American Koan: Imagining Zen and Self in Autobiographical Literature by Ben Van Overmeire (which features DC's Thank You and OK!). Listen to the Cuke podcast.

at Local Bookstore | on Amazon

Brad Warner
Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality

at Local Bookstore | on Amazon
All Brad's books on Amazon

Seeing One Thing Through: The Zen Life and Teachings of Sojun Mel Weitsman

at Local Bookstore | on Amazon

Older Books on Zen and Buddhism ⤒ top of page

1958, The Zen Teaching of Huang Po translated by John Blofeld

at Local Bookstore | on Amazon

1961, The Blue Cliff Record translated by Thomas Cleary
(Other translations available)
at Local Bookstore | on Amazon

Edward Conze
1958, Buddhist Wisdom Books: Containing The Diamond Sutra and The Heart Sutra
A book all students studied at first Tassajara practice period.

Buddhist Wisdom, 2001 edition
at Local Bookstore | on Amazon

1967, The Three Pillars of Zen by Philip Kapleau

at Local Bookstore | on Amazon

1957, The Soto Approach to Zen by Reiho Masunaga who lived and taught at the SFZC in the eighties (out of print?)

Other books on Amazon

1959, Zen Buddhism
Peter Pauper Press

on Amazon

1959, What the Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula

at Local Bookstore | on Amazon

Paul Reps
1958, Zen Flesh, Zen Bones

at Local Bookstore | on Amazon

1966, Zen Dust by Isshu Miura and Ruth Fuller Sasaki

at Local Bookstore | on Amazon

1971, The Recorded Sayings of Layman P'ang, Ruth Fuller Sasaki (Translator)

on Amazon

interview with Dana Fraser

1934, The Training of the Zen Buddhist Monk by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
Along with Watts, most influential

at Local Bookstore | on Amazon

Alan Watts
1957, The Way of Zen
Most mentioned book (plus other books and Watt's TV and radio shows) as sparking their first interest in practice

at Local Bookstore | on Amazon

Books on Philosophy and Religion ⤒ top of page

Ram Dass
1971, Be Here Now
Included Tassajara schedule (PDF) which brought Ted Marshall to ZC. See text on Ram Dass page (thanks Ted Howell).

at Local Bookstore | on Amazon

Norman Fischer (cuke page with many other titles)
Experience: Thinking, Writing, Language, and Religion
Norman Fischer's website

at Local Bookstore | on Amazon

Arnie Kotler
Books by and edited by Arnie Kotler (incomplete)

Engaged Buddhist Reader
on Amazon

Being Peace
on Amazon

The New Religions by Jacob Needleman
A lot on the SFZC, Tassajara, and Shunryu Suzuki. Maybe the first to do so.

Read some of it

at Local Bookstore | on Amazon

The Discipline of Freedom by Phillip Olson

at Local Bookstore | on Amazon

Robert Pirsig and Wendy Pirsig
On Quality: An Inquiry into Excellence: Unpublished and Selected Writings

Harper Collins page for On Quality

at Local Bookstore | on Amazon

Harry Roberts
Walking in Beauty

at Local Bookstore | on Amazon

Suzuki excerpt from New Gods in America by Peter Rowley

on Amazon

Gary Snyder
All his books on Amazon

at Local Bookstore | on Amazon

Huston Smith
1958, The World's Religions

Books by Huston Smith

at Local Bookstore | on Amazon

Histories ⤒ top of page

Margot Doss interview
San Francisco At Your Feet, must be first mention of Suzuki in a book - 1959 walk through Japantown.

on Amazon

Rick Fields
How the Swans Came to the Lake  
with a section about Shunryu Suzuki

at Local Bookstore | on Amazon

Richard Jaffe
Neither Monk nor Layman

at Local Bookstore | on Amazon

Marilyn McDonald
A Brief History of Tassajara
from Cuke Press 2018

at Local Bookstore | on Amazon

John K. Nelson
Experimental Buddhism (not the one who lived at ZC)

at Local Bookstore | on Amazon

Rebecca Solnit website
Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas
with Footprints of Suzuki Shunryu & Zen groups
See Dharma Wheels and Fish Ladders

at Local Bookstore | on Amazon

Steve Tipton
Getting Saved from the Sixties: The Transformation of Moral Meaning in American Culture
(based on interviews with students in and around SFZC in the 1970s.)

at Local Bookstore | on Amazon

Books by Steve Tipton

Brian Victoria
Zen at War

at Local Bookstore | on Amazon

Books on Psychology and Medicine ⤒ top of page

Edward Conze’s The Psychology of Mass Propaganda presents a commentary on the psychology of propaganda during the rise of fascism in Europe in the 1930s. It discusses the conditions which generate vulnerability to misinformation in human societies, and thus offers insight into how propaganda may be "withstood." Completed in 1939, during the period of Conze’s own inflection from Marxist philosophy to Buddhist studies, the original manuscript was never published and is now in print for the first time. Edited and with a new introduction by Richard N. Levine and Nathan H. Levine. Published by Routledge | at Local Bookstore | on Amazon.

Jack Elias
Finding True Magic

at Local Bookstore | on Amazon

Molly Jones
White Magic

on Amazon

Food, Culture, Biology and Architecture ⤒ top of page

1968, Whole Earth Catalog, Stewart Brand (Editor)

on Amazon

The Esselen Indians of the Big Sur Country by Gary S. Breschini and Trudy Haversat, Coyote Press

on Amazon

Esselen Indians

Tim Buckley
Standing Ground

at Local Bookstore | on Amazon

Paul Discoe
Zen Architecture

on Amazon

"Paul Discoe was in on the ground floor of Zen architecture in the United States. In the 1960s he became a student of Zen Buddhism, studying and building at the Tassajara complex in northern California. His own wood-based Zen-Buddhism architectural structures and renovations in the United States and Europe are the focus of this book…." - from Amazon. Cover and sample pages from the publisher.

Wendy Johnson
Gardening at the Dragon's Gate 

on Amazon

Deborah Madison
The Greens Cookbook

at Local Bookstore | on Amazon

All Books by Deborah on Amazon

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