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Books by and about Shunryu Suzuki
By and about him with more info | College Disertation | Excerpts featuring Suzuki from various books
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind edited by Trudy Dixon and Richard Baker (uncredited)
back cover of original ZMBM
50th Anniversary Edition of ZMBM
ZMBM at 50 with notes (the afterword to the 50th anniversary edition 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
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
(
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
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
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Books on Zen and Buddhism ⤒ top of page
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
Wind Bell: Teachings from the San Francisco Zen Center - 1968-2001 edited by Michael Wenger & Erlich, Gretel
at local indie bookstore |
on Amazon
The Trikaya - edited by Tim Buckley from Shunryu Suzuki lectures on the Lotus Sutra.
Vol. 8: 69-03, Complete Wind Bell
Read 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
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
Reb Anderson
Warm Smiles
at local indie bookstore
on Amazon
Being Upright
at local indie bookstore
on Amazon
by all means by Edward Brown
at local indie bookstore
on Amazon
nothing holy about It website
features Suzuki and Katagiri
Tim Burkett
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
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
Michael Wenger
Thirty-Three Fingers
at local indie bookstore
on Amazon
49 Fingers
at local indie bookstore
on Amazon
The 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
Andy Ferguson
Zen's Chinese Heritage
at local indie bookstore
on Amazon
Tracking Bodhidharma
at local indie bookstore
on Amazon
Richard Jaffe
Selected Works of D.T. Suzuki, Volume I
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 Heart Sutra by Red Pine
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
Zen Women by Grace Schireson
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:
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
Treasury of the True Dharma Eye: Zen Master
Dogen's Shobo Genzo
Books by Kazuaki Tanahashi
Kazuaki Tanahashi
at local indie bookstore | on Amazon
Buddhism: A Way of Life and Thought by
Nancy Wilson Ross
at local indie bookstore | on Amazon
Books by Brad Warner
Brad Warner
at local indie bookstore | on Amazon
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
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
1971, The Recorded Sayings of Layman P'ang, Ruth Fuller Sasaki (Translator)
at local indie bookstore | on Amazon
interview with Dana Fraser
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
Books on Philosophy and Religion ⤒ top of page
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
Experience: Thinking, Writing, Language, and Religion
Norman Fischer
website
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 Discipline of Freedom by Phillip Olson
at local indie bookstore | on Amazon
Walking in Beauty by
Harry Roberts
at local indie bookstore | on Amazon
Suzuki
excerpt from New Gods in America
by Peter Rowley
at local indie bookstore | on Amazon
Gary Snyder books
Gary Snyder
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
1958, The World's Religions by Huston Smith
Books by Huston Smith
at local indie bookstore | on Amazon
Huston Smith
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
Histories ⤒ top of page
New
2018!
A Brief History of Tassajara by Marilyn McDonald
from Cuke Press
at local indie bookstore |
on Amazon
How the Swans Came to the Lake
by
Rick Fields
with excerpt about Shunryu Suzuki
at local indie bookstore | on Amazon
Richard Jaffe
Neither Monk nor Layman
at local indie bookstore
on Amazon
Brian Victoria
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
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
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
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
Books on Psychology and Medicine ⤒ top of page
Finding True Magic by
Jack Elias
at local indie bookstore | on Amazon
White Magic by
Molly Jones
at local indie bookstore | on Amazon
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.
Food, Culture, Biology and Architecture ⤒ top of page
Tomato Blessings by Edward Brown (with Many Suzuki stories)
at local indie bookstore | on Amazon
Other books by Edward Brown
The Greens Cookbook
at local indie bookstore | on Amazon
All Books by Deborah Madison
Deborah Madison
Standing Ground by
Tim Buckley
at local indie bookstore | on Amazon
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
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)
Gardening at the Dragon's Gate
by Wendy Johnson
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.
1968, Whole Earth Catalog
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