Ancient Dragon Zen Gate Library

by author or translator

Abe, M. and Waddell, N., trans.
  • The Heart of Dogen's Shobogenzo, by Dogen
Aitken, Robert
  • Dragon Who Never Sleeps: Verses for Zen Buddhist Practice
  • Encouraging Words
  • Morning Star: New and Selected Zen Writings
Ajahn Chah
  • Food for the Heart
Ajahn Sumano
  • Questions from the City, Answers from the Forest: Simple Lessons You can Use from a Western Buddhist Monk
Ajahn Sumedo
  • Mindfulness: The Path to the Deathless The Meditation Teaching of Venerable Ajahn Sumedo
Anderson, Reb
  • Being Upright: Zen Meditation and the Bodhisattva Precepts
  • Warm Smiles form Cold Mountains: A Collection of Talk on Zen Meditation
  • Audio tapes:
  • Sunday Morning at Green Gulch 1/19/03
  • Wisdom Teaching, GG, 1/21/03
  • Breathing, GG, 1/22/03                                       
  • Leaping into the Spiritual Light, GG, 1/23/03 
  • Impermanence and Other-dependence, GG, 1/24/03
  • Sunday Morning at Green Gulch 1/25/03
Aoki Shinmon
  • CoffinMan: The Journal of a Buddhist Mortician
Ash, Mel
  • The Zen of Recovery
Asma, Stephen
  • The Gods Drink Whiskey: Stumbling toward Enlightenment in the and of the Tattered Buddha
Ayya Khema
  • Being Nobody, Going Nowhere: Meditations on the Buddhist Path
Badiner , Allan Hunt, ed.
  • Dharma Gaia: A Harvest of Essays in Buddhism and Ecology
Batchelor, Martine
  • Walking on Lotus Flowers: Buddhist Women Living, Loving, and Meditating
Batchelor , Stephen
  • Buddhism Without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening
  • A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, by Shantideva
  • Living with the Devil: A Meditation on Good and Evil (two copies)
Bayda, Ezra
  • At Home in the Muddy Water: A Guide to Finding Peace within Everyday Chaos
Beck. Charlotte Joko
  • Everyday Zen: Love & Work
Berg, Stephen
  • Crow with No Mouth: Ikkyu, 15th Century Zen Master (poetry trans.)
Berzin, Alexaned
  • Taking the Kalachakra Initiation
Besserman, P., &  Steger. M.
  • Crazy Clouds: Zen Radicals, Rebels, and Reformers
Bodiford, William
  • Soto Zen in Medieval Japan
Braverman, Arthur, trans.
  • Mud and Water: The Teachings of Zen Master Bassui
Byrom, Thomas, trans.
  • Dhamapada: The Sayings of the Buddha
Buber, Martin
  • I and Thou
Buddhist Association of the United States, trans.
  • Sutra of Hui Neng
Chadwick, David
  • Crooked Cucumber: The Life and Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki
  • Zen Is Right Here: Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki
Chappell,  David W. (ed.)
  • Buddhist Peacework: Creating Cultures of Peace
Chan Khong
  • Learning True Love: How I Procticed Social Change in Viet Nam
Chang Chung-yuan
  • The Original Teachings of Ch'an Buddhism
Chang, Garma C. C.
  • The Practice of Zen
Chavis, Melody Ermachild
  • Altars in the Street: A Neighborhood Fights to Survive
Chogyal Namkai Norbu
  • Dzogchen: The Self-Perfected State
Cleary, T., trans.
  • Rational Zen: The Mind of Dogen Zenji
  • Secret of the Golden Flower
  • Timeless Spring: A Soto Zen Anthology
Cook, Francies
  • How to Raise an Ox : Zen Practice as Taught in Zen Master Dogen's Shobogenzo
  • The Record of Transmitting the Light: Zen Master Keizan's Denkoroku
Coreless, Roger      
  • The Vision of Buddhism, by Roger Corless (two copies)
Corey, C., & Holcomb, W.
  • Flowers of Space: Images and Reflections Inspired by the Teachings of Zen Master Dogen Zenji
Dalai Lama, Sakya Trizin, Robert Thurman, Tai Situ Rinpoche, Taigen Leighton et al.
  • Compassion and Wisdom: A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life
Davidson, R. J. and Harrington, Anne, eds.
  • Visions of Compassion: Western Scientists and Tibetan Buddhists Examine Human Nature, ed. Richard J. Davidson and Anne Harrington
Dau Chan Phat, Theo
  • Buddhism: Religion of Freedom: Buddha's Main Teachings for Beginners
De Bary, T., et al., eds.
  • Sources of the Japanese Tradition, Volume One: From Earliest Times to 1600
Eckel, Malcom David
  • Buddhism (24 lectures on audiotape)
Epstein, Mark
  • Open to Desire: Embracing a Lust for Life: Insights from Buddhism and Psychotherapy
Fields, Rick
  • How the Swans Came to the Lake: A Narrative History of Buddhism in America
Florida, Robert E.
  • Human Rights and the World's Major Religions, volume 5: The Buddhist Tradition
Ford, James Ishmael
  • Zen Master Who? A Guide to the People and Stories of Zen
Foster, N., & Shoemaker, J., eds.
  • The Roaring Stream: A New Zen Reader
Franck, Frederick
  • Supreme Koan: Confessions on a Journey Inward, with Two Chistian-Buddhist Miracle Plays
Friedman, Lenore
  • Meetings with Remarkable Women: Buddhist Teachers in America, by
Gach, Gary
  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Buddhism
Glassman, Bernard, and Fields, Rick
  • Instructions to the Cook: A Zen Master's Lessons in Living a Live that Matters
Goldberg, Natalie
  • The Great Failure: My Unexpected Path to Truth, by Natalie Goldberg
Goldstein, Joseph
  • The Experience of Insight: A Simple and Direct Guide to Buddhist Meditation
  • One Dharma
Griffin, David Ray
  • The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11
Guenther , Herbert V., trans.
  • Jewel Ornament of Liberation, by Sgam.po.pa
  • The Life and Teaching of Naropa (two copies)
  • Mind in Buddhist Psychology
Guy, David, Jake Fades
  • A Novel of Impermanence
Hagen, Steve
  • Buddhism Plain and Simple
Harrer, Heinrich
  • Seven Years in Tibet
Hershock , Peter D.
  • Reinventing the Wheel: A Buddhist Response to the Information Age
Hixon, Lex
  • Mother of the Buddhas Meditation on the Prajnaparamita Sutra
Hopkinson, Deborah, et al.
  • Not Mixing Up Buddhism: Essays on Women and Buddhist Practice
Huber, Cheri,
  • There is Nothing Wrong with You: Going Beyond Self-Hate
  • Trying to Be Human           
Jenkins, Sara, ed.
  • Buddha Facing the Wall: Interview with American Zen Monks
Jensen, Lin
  • Reflections on Mercy, Activism, & Doing "Nothing" for Peace
Kabat-Zinn, Jon
  • Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Bady and Mind to     Face Stress, Pain, and Illness
  • Wherever You Go, There You Are
Kamenetz , Rodger
  • The Jew in the Lotus : Poet's Re-Discovery of Jewish Identity in Buddhist India
Kapleau, Philip
  • Three Pillars of Zen: Practice, Teaching, Enlightenment
Katagiri Dainin
  • Returning to Silence
  • Each Moment Is the Unviverse: Zen and the Way of Being Time
Kaupahana , David, J.
  • Principles of Buddhist Psychology
Kornfield, Jack
  • After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: How the Heart Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path
  • Living Dharma: Teachings of Twelve Buddhist Masters         
Kim, Hee-Jin
  • Dogen Kigen: Mystical Realist
Kim, Jae Wong
  • Polishing the Diamond, Enlightening the Mind: Reflections of a Korean Buddhist Master
Kornfield , Jack
  • A Path with Heart : A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life
Kubose, Gyomay
  • The Center Within (autiotapes)
Leighton, Taigen
  • Bodhisattva Archetypes: Classic Buddhist Guides to Awakening and their Modern Expression
  • Cultivating the Empty Field: The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi
  • Faces of Compassion: Classic Bodhisattva Archetypes and Their Modern Expression   
  • Audio tapes:
  • Talk at Green Gulch, 2/3/02
  • Farmer's Day, Green Gulch, 6/16/02
  • Dogen: Practice, Realization, Expression, GG, 5/18/03
  • The Mind of the Way, Green Gulch 7/2003
  • Zen and Love, Bolinas, 2/14/04  
  • Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Green Gulch/9/19/04
Leighton , T., & Okumura, S. (trans.)
  • Dogen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community: A Translation of Eihei Shingi
Levine, Marivn,
  • The Positive Psychology of Buddhism and Yoga: Paths to a Mature Happiness, with a Special Application to Handling Anger
Loori, John Daido
  • Path of Enlightenment: Stages in a Spiritual Journey
Low, Albert
  • Zen and the Sutras
Maha Ghosananda
  • Step by Step: Meditations of Wisdom and Compassion
Manich Jumsai , M. L.
  • Understanding Thai Buddhism
Martin, Philip
  • The Zen Path through Depression
Merzel, Dennis Genpo
  • Eye Never Sleeps: Striking to the Heart of Zen
Mills, Laurence-Khantipalo
  • Buddhism Explained
  • Jewel Within the Heart: Verses of the Buddha's Teaching
Miura, Kiyohiro
  • He's Leaving Home: My Young Son becomes a Zen Monk
Miayamoto Musahi
  • The Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
Moore, Dinty
  • The Accidental Buddhist: Mindfulness, Enlightenment, and Sitting Still, American Style
Morreale , Don (ed.)
  • The Complete Guide to Buddhist America (radically out of date but still useful)
Muso Kokushi
  • Dream Conversations: On Buddhism and Zen
Myokyo-ni
  • The Zen Way
Nan Huai-Chin
  • To Realize Enlightenment
Naropa Institute
  • Conference on Christian and Buddhist Meditation (source essays)
Nichiren Buddhist Temple of San Jose, ed.
  • Lotus Seeds: The Essence of Nichiren Shu Buddhism
Norbu, Namkhai
  • Dzogchen: The Self-Perfected State
Nyanponika Thera
  • The Vision of Dhamma: The Buddhist Writing of Nyanponika Thera
  • The Worn Out Skin
Ophuls, Patrick
  • Buddha Takes No Prisoners: A Meditator's Survival Guide
O'Reilley, Mary Rose
  • The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd
Packer, Toni
  • The Work of this Moment
Paine, Jeffrey
  • Re-Enchantment: Tibetan Buddhism Comes to the West (advanced uncorrected proofs)
Patton, Kenneth
  • The Way for This Journey
Phra Sunthorn Plamintr
  • Basic Buddhism Course
Piaydassi Thera
  • Buddhist Meditation
Price, A. F.,  and Wong Mou-lam, trans.
  • The Diamond Sutra and the Sutra of Hui-Neng,
Revel, Jean-Francois, and Ricard, Mattieu
  • The Monk and the Philosopher
Richmond, Lewis
  • Work as a Spiritual Practice
Right View Quarterly (Spring, Winter, Summer, and Fall 2007 issues)
Riedelsheimer, Thomas
  • Andy Goldsworthy's Rivers & Tides (2001) (DVD)
Sakyong Mipham
  • Turning the Mind into an Allay
Sangharakshita
  • The Inconceivable Emancipation: Themes from the Vaimalakirti-Nirdesa
Schiller , David
  • The Little Zen Companion
Senzaki, Nyogen
  • Like a Drean, Like a Fantasy: Zen Writings and Translations
Senzaki, Nakagawa, & Shimano
  • Namu Dai Boas: A Transmission of Zen Buddhism to America
Seung Sahn
  • Dropping Ashes on the Buddha: The Teaching of Zen Master Seung Sahn
Shantideva
  • A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life (trans. Steven Batchelor)
Sidor, Ellen
  • Gathering of Spirit: Women Teaching in American Buddhism
Snyder, Gary,
  • Practice of the Wild: Essays
Spring Wind Cultural Forum
  • Buddhism in India Today (Spring Summer 1985)
  • Buddhism in the Performing Arts (Fall 1985)
  • Pure Land Buddhism in North America (Winter 1985-1986)
  • Women and Buddhism (1986)
  • Zen in North America (Fall 1984)
Stuart, Maurine
  • Subtle Sound: The Zen Teachings of Maurine Stuart
Surya Das
  • Awakening the Buddha Within: Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World
Sutin, Lawrence
  • All Is Change: The Two-Thousand-Year Journey of Buddhism to the West
Suzuki, D. T.
  • Outline of Mahayana Buddhism
Suzuki Shuryu
  • Nothing Special: Forty Selected Discourses 1965-71
  • Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation Practice
  • One Particle of Dust: A Suzuki Roshi Film Collection (DVD)
  • Lectures 1965-1969 (CD)
  • Lectures 1970 (CD)
  • Lectures 1971 (CD)
Tanahashi, Kazukaki
  • Enlightenment Unfolds: The Essential Teachins of Zen Master Dogen
Tratahang Tulku
  • Mastering Succesful Work
Tenzin Gyatso (current Dalai Lama)
  • The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living
  • A Flash of Lightning in the Dark: A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life
  • The Gelug/Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra
  • My Land and People
  • Transforming the Mind: Teachings on the Generation of Compassion
Terayama, Tanchu
  • Zen Brushwork: Focusing the Mind with Calligraphy and Painting
Thich Nhat Hanh
  • Breath! You are Alive. Sutra on the Full Awareness of Breathing
  • The Diamond That Cuts Through Illusion : Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Diamond Sutra
  • Heart of Understanding: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra      
Thorp, Gary
  • Caught in Fading Light: Mountain Lions, Zen Masters, and Wild Nature
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Thubten Zopa
  • The Door to Satisfaction: Heart Advice of a Tibetan Buddhist Master
Trungpa,  Chogyam
  • Crazy Wisdom
  • Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
  • Illusion's Game
  • The Heart of the Buddha
  • Transcending Madness
Tsele Natsok Rangdrol
  • Lamp of Mahamudra
Tsewang Dongyal
  • Praise of the Lotus Born: A Verse Garland of Waves of Devotion
Tworkov, Helen
  • Zen in America: Profiles of Five Teachers, by Helen Tworkov
Varley, Paul
  • Japanese Culture
Uchiyama Kosho
  • Opening the Hand of Thought: Foundations of Zen Buddhist Practice
  • The Wholehearted Way: A Translation of Eihei Dogen's Bendowa 
Walpola Piyananda Thera
  • Love in Buddhism
Watts, Allan
  • This Is It
  • The Way of Zen
Wood, Ernest
  • Zen Dictionary
Ywahoo, Dhyani
  • Voices of Our Ancestors: Cherokee Teaching from the Wisdom Fire
Zopa, Rinpoche
  • Transforming Problems into Happiness