New Bibliography

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In-house publications & limited printings
Books by students and related below
below also a few key Buddhist books from the Suzuki era
Old Bibliography Page with more books listed
DC Books
Cuke Press books


Books by and about Shunryu Suzuki

Books by and About Shunryu Suzuki with more info

Suzuki's College Disertation page

Excerpts featuring Suzuki from various books

 

ZMBM cover Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind edited by Trudy Dixon and Richard Baker (uncredited)

back cover of original ZMBM

ZMBM cuke page | ZMBM.net

ZMBM 50th anniversary cover 50th Anniversary Issue of ZMBM

ZMBM at 50 with notes (the afterword to the 50th anniversary issue of ZMBM by DC)

ZMBM.net

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon

Abridged - It's on Youtube

Peter Coyote

on Amazon


Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen edited by Edward Brown

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon


Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai
Mel Weitsman
& Michael Wenger (Editors)

For more info go to Branching Streams.

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon


Wind Bell: Teachings from the San Francisco Zen Center - 1968-2001 edited by Michael Wenger & Erlich, Gretel

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon


All SFZC Wind Bells

The Trikaya - edited by Tim Buckley from Shunryu Suzuki lectures on the Lotus Sutra.

Vol. 8: 69-03, Complete Wind Bell

Read on as text file


Dogen's Genjo Koan: Three Commentaries
This unique edition of Dogen's Genjo Koan (Actualization of Reality) contains three separate translations and several commentaries by a wide variety of Zen masters. Nishiari Bokusan, Shohaku Okamura, Shunryu Suzuki, Kosho Uchiyama. Sojun Mel Weitsman, Kazuaki Tanahashi, and Dairyu Michael Wenger all have contributed to the presentation.

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon


Remembering the Dragon: Recollections of Suzuki Roshi by his Students
Gil Fronsdal - editor

Published by Sati Center and SFZC in 2004 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary.

Available for a donation: bookstore@sfzc.org (415) 354-0397
PDFs: High resolution  - low resolution


Zen Is Right Now and a slightly redone Zen Is Right Here - 2021


on Amazon

By Shunryu Suzuki
Edited by David Chadwick

ZIRH page with the whole book

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon

(paperback)

Zen is Right Here once was
To Shine One Corner of the World: Moments with Shunryu Suzuki


Crooked Cucumber  - 1st edition

2nd edition and audiobook page

DC home page

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon


Books by Students and related
an incomplete list


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

A young painter, coming of age in San Francisco's bohemian 1950s, meets his teacher—Shunryu Suzuki, a pivotal figure in Buddhist America—and dedicates his life to continuing Suzuki Roshi's teachings.

Seeing One Thing Through begins with a series of autobiographical memories and reflections going back to Sojun Mel Weitsman's boyhood in Southern California, his coming of age as an artist and a seeker in the vibrant San Francisco of the 1950s, and his encounter with Zen in one remarkable teacher, Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. From that moment, and for nearly sixty years after, Weitsman's life took the direct path of Zen—as a student, as a teacher, and as one of the first generations of American Zen masters. The larger portion of the book is a collection of Weitsman's edited talks, his articulation of "ordinary mind," and his strong belief that Zen as a way of life is available to all. - Amazon link


The Psychology of Mass Propaganda 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 (on sale April 2023). Amazon link.



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

Harper Collins page for On Quality

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon



New 2018!

A Brief History of Tassajara by Marilyn McDonald
from Cuke Press

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon

Reb Anderson



Warm Smiles
at local indie bookstore
on Amazon

Being Upright
at local indie bookstore
on Amazon


Many Suzuki stories
Other books by Edward Brown

Edward Brown



Tomato Blessings
at local indie bookstore
on Amazon

by all means
at local indie bookstore
on Amazon


Nothing Holy about It website
features Suzuki and Katagiri

Tim Burkett

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon


17 pages on Shunryu Suzuki all added up - more on Dainin Katagiri

Thank You and OK! home page - read the whole book

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon

Books by David Chadwick


Gratefully Remembering Kobun to be available soon

DC chapter from this book


How the Swans Came to the Lake by Rick Fields  
with excerpt about Shunryu Suzuki

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon


Seeds for a Boundless Life by Blanche Hartman

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon


Dainin Katagiri



Returning to Silence
at local indie bookstore
on Amazon

You Have to Say Something
at local indie bookstore
on Amazon

Each Moment Is the Universe
at local indie bookstore
on Amazon

Keep Me in Your Heart a While
at local indie bookstore
on Amazon


Les Kaye



Zen at Work
at local indie bookstore
on Amazon

A Sense of Something Greater
at local indie bookstore
on Amazon

Joyously Through the Days
at local indie bookstore
on Amazon


Jakusho Kwong



No Beginning, No End
at local indie bookstore
on Amazon

Breath Sweeps Mind
on Amazon


The Truth of This Life
Katherine Thanas cuke page

at local indie bookstore

on Amazon


Sun Buddhas, Moon Buddhas
Excerpt about Shunryu Suzuki

Elsie Mitchell

at local indie bookstore | 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 indie bookstore | on Amazon


Books by Lew Richmond

Work As A Spiritual Practice
at local indie bookstore
on Amazon

Healing Lazarus
at local indie bookstore
on Amazon

 

Aging as a Spiritual Practice
at local indie bookstore
on Amazon

A Whole Life's Work
at local indie bookstore
on Amazon

Music by Lew Richmond

Lew Richmond


A Flora of Tassajara
David Rogers page

PDF of this book


Also see Rogers' A TASSAJARA SCRAP-BOOK Literature Pertaining to Tassajara Hot Springs, Santa Lucia Mountains, Monterey County, California from 1861 to 1949 - (PDF) - 265 pages (1997)


Books by David Schneider

The Teacup and the Skullcup
Trungpa & Suzuki

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon

Street Zen
Issan Tommy Dorsey

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon

Crowded by Beauty
Philip Whalen

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon



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

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon

Rebecca Solnit website


Nothing on My Mind
features Suzuki and Katagiri

Erik Storlie

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon


Mitsu Suzuki



Temple Dusk
at local indie bookstore
on Amazon

A White Tea Bowl
at local indie bookstore
on Amazon


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 indie bookstore | on Amazon

Books by Steve Tipton

Steve Tipton  


Born In Tibet
Epilogue from third edition featuring Suzuki


Chogyam Trungpa

at local indie bookstore

on Amazon

Dragon Thunder by Diana J. Mukpo
Shunryu Suzuki in this book

at local indie bookstore
on Amazon


Zen in America by Helen Tworkov

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon


 

Michael Wenger

Thirty-Three Fingers
at local indie bookstore
on Amazon

49 Fingers
at local indie bookstore
on Amazon

Umbrella Man: Recollections of Sojun Mel Weitsman by his dharma heirs

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon

Mel Weitsman  



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

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon

Esselen Indians

Coyote Press



The Zen Environment with Shunryu Suzuki and Sotan Tatsugami and more

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon

Marian (Derby) Wisberg  

 


More Books by students and related


Remembering Myogen Steve StückyRemembering Myogen Steve Stücky
by Renshin Bunce (2023)
on Amazon


The Path of AlivenessThe Path of Aliveness: A Contemporary Zen Approach to Awakening Body and Mind
by Zenki Christian Dillo (2022)
on Amazon


Dogen's Manuals of Zen Meditation by Carl Bielefeldt

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon


The Call of Spiritual Emergency by Emma Bragdon

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon


Standing Ground by Tim Buckley

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon


Three Charles Stories by Jed Linde

on Amazon


A Guided Tour of Hell
Sam Bercholz, founder of Shambhala Publications.

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon


Fire Monks by Colleen Morton Busch

Tassajara Area Fire History

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon


Sleeping Where I Fall
Excerpt about Human Be-in mentioning Suzuki

Peter Coyote

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon


Zen Architecture by Paul Discoe

at local indie bookstore | 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.


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

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon


Shoes Outside the Door
Michael Downing Books

Cuke page for this book

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon


Deep Fool by Barry S. Eisenberg
Focuses on his rape of a guest at Tassajara

DC on this in Tassajara Stories

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon


Finding True Magic by Jack Elias

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon


Andy Ferguson

Zen's Chinese Heritage
at local indie bookstore
on Amazon

Tracking Bodhidharma
at local indie bookstore
on Amazon



Experience: Thinking, Writing, Language, and Religion

Norman Fischer website


at local indie bookstore | on Amazon


Stephan and Ina May Gaskin

Suzuki story from Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May Gaskin

Spiritual Midwifery
at local indie bookstore
on Amazon

Amazing Dope Tales
at local indie bookstore
on Amazon


Falling Through the Ice by J. D. Hiestand
He grew up in family involved in Los Altos Haiku Zendo

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon


Two of Natalie's books featuring Dainin Katagiri: The Long Quiet Highway and The Great Failure

Natalie Goldberg books

The Great Spring
at local indie bookstore
on Amazon

Long Quiet Highway
at local indie bookstore
on Amazon

The Great Failure
at local indie bookstore
on Amazon


Books, mainly poetry, by Jane Hirshfield

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon


Richard Jaffe

Neither Monk nor Layman
at local indie bookstore
on Amazon

Selected Works of D.T. Suzuki, Volume I
at local indie bookstore
on Amazon


Gardening at the Dragon's Gate by Wendy Johnson

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon


White Magic by Molly Jones

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon


Books by and edited by Arnie Kotler (incomplete)

Arnie Kotler

Engaged Buddhist Reader
at local indie bookstore
on Amazon

Being Peace
at local indie bookstore
on Amazon


The many Buddhist Books by Taigen Dan Leighton and others he suggests

on Amazon

Dogen's Extensive Record
at local indie bookstore
on Amazon

Just This Is It
at local indie bookstore
on Amazon

Two excerpts with Suzuki commentary on this page

Taigen Dan Leighton


The Zen Follies

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon

All Fil Lewitt books

Fil Lewitt  


The Greens Cookbook

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon

All Books by Deborah Madison

Deborah Madison  


A Heart Blown Open: The Life and Practice of Junpo Denis Kelly Roshi by Keith Martin-Smith Excerpts with Suzuki

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon

DC on this book  


Nine-Headed Dragon River by Peter Matthiessen

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon


Books by Susan Moon

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon


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

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon


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

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon


The Discipline of Freedom by Phillip Olson

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon


Incident at Lukla by David Padwa

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon


The Heart Sutra by Red Pine

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon


Silence and Noise by Ivan Richmond

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon


Walking in Beauty by Harry Roberts

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon


Temple Walls, Photographs by Ryuten Paul Rosenblum

Paul Rosenblum photography site


Buddhism: A Way of Life and Thought by Nancy Wilson Ross

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon


 

Two Shores of Zen by Jiryu Mark Rutschman-Byler
Read the book at Jiryu's website

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon


Suzuki excerpt from New Gods in America by Peter Rowley

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon


Nanao or Never by Nanao Sakaki

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon



Ambivalent Zen by Lawrence Shainberg
excerpt about Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon




Zen Women by Grace Schireson

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon


Books by Gail Sher

Gail Sher

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon


Tai Sheridan dot com - with a list of books and quotes from reviews

Tai Sheridan

His books - at Amazon:

books

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:


Gary Snyder books

Gary Snyder

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon


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

Books by Kazuaki Tanahashi

Kazuaki Tanahashi

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon


Brian Unger editor

Zen Monster
at local indie bookstore
on Amazon

The Rincón Notebooks
cuke page for this book
at local indie bookstore
on Amazon


Brian Victoria

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon

 


Books by Brad Warner

Brad Warner

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon


All poetry books by Beclee Wilson

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon



A few key Influential Books from the Sixties

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

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon


1957, The Soto Approach to Zen - Masunaga lived and taught at the SFZC in the eighties


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
Alan Watts

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon


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

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon


1958, Buddhist Wisdom: The Diamond Sutra and The Heart Sutra by Edward Conze. Book all students studied at first Tassajara practice period

Edward Conze

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon


1958, Zen Flesh, Zen Bones by Paul Reps

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon


1958, The World's Religions by Huston Smith

Books by Huston Smith

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon

Huston Smith  


1959, What the Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon


1961, The Blue Cliff Record translated by Thomas Cleary
(Other translations available)
at local indie bookstore | on Amazon


1966, Zen Dust by Isshu Miura and Ruth Fuller Sasaki

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon


1967, The Three Pillars of Zen by Philip Kapleau

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon

 

1959, Zen Buddhism
Peter Pauper Press

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon

 


1968, Whole Earth Catalog

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon


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

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon

interview with Dana Fraser


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

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon


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