Stage I

Records of Ancient Masters

Yampolsky, Philip B., trans., The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch: The text of the TunHuang
Manuscript. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.
Records of Modern Masters

Aitken, Robert.Taking the Path of Zen. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1982.

Beck, Charlotte Joko. Everyday Zen: Love & Work. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1989.

Chdrn, Pema.Start Where You Are. Boston: Shambhala, 1994.

Kapleau, Roshi Philip, ed.The Three Pillars of Zen: Teaching, Practice, and Enlightenment. New York:

Anchor Books, 2000.

Loori, John Daido.Mountain Record of Zen Talks. Mt. Tremper, N.Y.: Dharma Communications, 1988.

Loori, John Daido.Path of Enlightenment: Stages in a Spiritual Journey. Mt. Tremper, N.Y.: Dharma
Communications, 1999.

Loori, John Daido.The Still Point: A Beginners Guide to Zen Meditation. Mt. Tremper, N.Y.: Dharma
Communications, 1996.

Master Sheng-yen.Getting the Buddha Mind. Edited by Ernest Heau. Elmhurst, N.Y.: Dharma Drum
Publications, 1982.

Suzuki, Shunryu.Zen Mind, Beginners Mind. Trumbull, Conn.: Weatherhill, 2001.
History

Armstrong, Karen.Buddha. New York: Penguin, 2001.

Fields, Rick.How the Swans Came to the Lake: A Narrative History of Buddhism in America. Boston:
Shambhala, 1992.
Philosophy and Theology

Maguire, Jack.Essential Buddhism: A Complete Guide to Beliefs and Practices. New York: Pocket Books,
2001.

Rahula, Walpola.What the Buddha Taught. New York: Grove Press, 1989.

Stage II
Sutras

Price, A. F. and Wong Mou-lam, trans. The Diamond Sutra. InThe Diamond Sutra and the Sutra of
Hui-neng. Boston: Shambhala, 1990.
Records of Ancient Masters

Okumura, Shokahu, trans.Shobogenzo Zuimonki: Sayings of Eihei Dogen Zengi. Recorded by Koun Ejo.

Tokyo: Soto-shu Shumucho, 1998.

Red Pine,trans.The Zen Teachings of Bodhidharma. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1987.
Records of Modern Masters

Aitken, Robert.The Mind of Clover: Essays in Zen Buddhist Ethics. San Francisco: North Point Press,
2000.

Katagiri, Dainin.Returning to Silence: Zen Practice in Daily Life. Boston: Shambhala, 1988.

Loori, John Daido.Cave of Tigers: Modern Zen Encounters. Trumbull, Conn.: Weatherhill, 2000.
.Celebrating Everyday Life: Zen Home Liturgy. Mt. Tremper, N.Y.: Dharma Communications, 1999.
.Invoking Reality: Moral and Ethical Teachings of Zen. Mt. Tremper, N.Y.: Dharma

 Communications, 1998.

Maezumi, Hakuyu Taizan.The Echoless Valley. Mt. Tremper, N.Y.: Dharma Communications, 1998.

Master Sheng-yen.Faith in Mind: A Guide to Chan Practice. Elmhurst, N.Y.: Dharma Drum Publications,
1993.

Trungpa, Chgyam.Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism. Boston: Shambhala, 1973.

U Pandita, Sayadaw. In This Very Life: The Liberation Teachings of the Buddha. Boston: Wisdom
Publications, 1993.
History

Chen, Kenneth.Buddhism in China: A Historical Survey. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974.

Dumoulin, Heinrich.Zen Buddhism: A HistoryIndia and China. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice
Hall, 1994.

Matthiessen, Peter.Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals. Boston: Shambhala, 1998.

Prebish, Charles S., ed.Buddhism: A Modern Perspective. University Park, Pennsylvania: The

Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994.

Stage III
Sutras

Thurman, Robert A. F., trans.The Holy Teaching of Vimalakirti: A Mahayana Scripture. University Park,

Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1976.
Records of Ancient Masters

Cook, Francis Dojun.How to Raise an Ox: Zen Practice as Taught in Zen Master Dogens Shobogenzo.

Los Angeles: Center Publications, 1993.

Leighton, Taigen Dan with Yi Wu, trans.Cultivating the Empty Field: The Silent Illumination of Zen
Master Hongzhi. Boston: Tuttle, 2000.

Okumura, Shohaku and Taigen Daniel Leighton.The Wholehearted Way: A Translation of Eihei Dogens
Bendowa.Boston: Tuttle, 1997.

Yampolsky, Philip B., trans.The Zen Master Hakuin: Selected Writings. New York: Columbia University
Press, 1985.
Records of Modern Masters

Kornfield, Jack.A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life. Tuttle

Library of Enlightenment. New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1993.

Loori, John Daido.Heart of Being: Moral and Ethical Teachings of Zen Buddhism. Boston: Tuttle, 1996.
.Teachings of the Insentient: Zen and the Environment. Mt. Tremper, N.Y.: Dharma
Communications, 1999.
.Two Arrows Meeting in Mid-Air: The Zen Koan. Boston: Tuttle, 1994.

Miura, Issh and Ruth Fuller Sasaki.The Zen Koan. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1966.

Sogyal Rinpoche. The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1993.

Trungpa, Chgyam.The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation. Boston: Shambhala, 1988.

Dogen and Kosho Uchiyama.From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment: Refining Your Life. Translated by

Thomas Wright. Trumbull, Conn.: Weatherhill, 1998.

Yasutani, Hakuun.Flowers Fall: A Commentary on Zen Master Dogens Genjokoan. Boston: Shambhala,
1996.
History

Prebish, Charles S.Luminous Passage: The Practice and Study of Buddhism in America. Berkeley,:

University of California Press, 1999.

Suzuki, Daisetz T.Zen and Japanese Culture. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.

Philosophy and Theology

Chittister, Joan.The Rule of the Benedict: Insights for the Ages. New York: Crossroad, 1999.

Maguire, Jack.Waking Up: A Week Inside a Zen Monastery. Woodstock, Vermont: Skylight Paths, 2000.

Stage IV
Sutras

Watson, Burton, trans.TheLotus Sutra. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.
Records of Ancient Masters

Leighton, Taigen Daniel and Shohaku Okumura, trans.Dogens Pure Standards for the Zen Community: A

Translation of Eihei Shingi.Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995.

Powell, William F., trans. The Record of Tung-shan. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1986.

Sasaki, Ruth Fuller, Yoshitaka Iriya, and Dana R. Fraser, trans.A Man of Zen: The Recorded Sayings of
Layman Pang. Trumbull, Conn.: Weatherhill, 1992.

Tanahashi, Kazuaki, ed.Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dogen. San Francisco: North Point
Press, 1995.

Watson, Burton.The Zen Teachings of Master Lin-Chi. Boston: Shambhala, 1993.
Koan Collection

Shibayama, Zenkei.The Gateless Barrier: Zen Comments on the Mumonkan. Boston: Shambhala, 2000.
Records of Modern Masters

Aitken, Robert.Practice of Perfection: The Paramitas from a Zen Buddhist Perspective. Washington, D.C.:
Counterpoint, 1997.

Chdrn, Pema.ThePlaces that Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times. Boston: Shambhala,
2001.

Loori, John Daido.Making Love with Light: Contemplating Nature with Words and Photographs. Mt.

Tremper, N.Y.: Dharma Communications, 2000.

Maezumi Roshi, Taizan.Appreciate Your Life: The Essence of Zen Practice. Botson: Shambhala, 2001.

Seung Sahn.Only Dont Know: Selected Teaching Letters of Zen Master Seung Sahn. Boston: Shambhala,
1999.
History

Ferguson, Andy.Zens Chinese Heritage: The Masters and their Teachings. Boston: Wisdom, 2000.

Foster, Nelson and Jack Shoemaker, eds.TheRoaring Stream: A New Zen Reader. New York: Ecco Press,
1996.

Queen, Christopher S., ed.Engaged Buddhism in the West. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2000.
Philosophy and Theology

Epstein, Mark.Thoughts Without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective. New York:
HarperCollins, 1996.

Suzuki, Daisetz T.Essays in Zen Buddhism. New York: Grove/Atlantic Press, 1989.
. Essays in Zen Buddhism. 2d series. York Beach, Maine: Samuel Weiser, 1970.
.Essays in Zen Buddhism. 3d series. York Beach, Maine: Samuel Weiser, 1976.

Stage V
Sutras

Conze, Edward.Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines and Its Verse Summary. Columbia, Mo.: S.
Asia, 1994.

Suzuki, D. T. and Dwight Goddard, trans. The Lankavatara Sutra. InA Buddhist Bible, edited by Dwight

Goddard, 277-356. Boston: Beacon Press, 1994.
Records of Ancient Masters

Blofeld, John, trans.The Zen Teachings of Huang Po (Obaku):On the Transmission of Mind. New York:

Grove Press, 1958.

Cleary, Thomas, trans.Secrets of the Blue Cliff Record: Zen Comments by Hakuin and Tenkei. Boston:
Shambhala, 2000.

Cook, Francis H.Sounds of Valley Streams: Enlightenment in Dogens Zen: Translation of Nine Essays from
Shobogenzo. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988.
Shantideva.The Way of the Bodhisattva: A Translation of the Bodhicharyavatara. New York: Random
House, 1997.

Tanahashi, Kazuaki, ed.Enlightenment Unfolds: The Essential Teachings of Zen Master Dogen. Boston:
Shambhala, 2000.

Waddell, Norman, trans.The Unborn: The Life and Teaching of Zen Master Bankei. San Francisco: North

Point Press, 1982.

, trans.Wild Ivy: The Spiritual Autobiography of Zen Master Hakuin. Boston: Shambhala, 1999.
Koan Collection

Cleary, Thomas and J. C. Cleary, trans.The Blue Cliff Record. Boston: Shambhala, 1977.
Records of Modern Masters

Jiyu-Kennett Roshi, P.Zen is Eternal Life. Mt. Shasta, Calif.: Shasta Abbey, 1987.

Trungpa, Chgyam.Dharma Art. Boston: Shambhala, 1996.
History

Bielfeldt, Carl.Dogens Manual of Zen Meditation. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.

Conze, Edward.Buddhism: Its Essence and Development. Eagle Point: Coronet Books, 1994.

Kaza, Stephanie and Kraft, Kenneth, eds.Dharma Rain: Sources of Buddhist Environmentalism. Boston:
Shambhala, 2000.

Lopez, Donald S.The Heart Sutra Explained: Indian and Tibetan Commentaries. Albany: State University

of New York Press, 1988.

Stage VI
Sutras

Wai-tao. Surangama Sutra. InA Buddhist Bible,edited by Dwight Goddard, 108-276. Boston: Beacon
Press, 1994.
Records of Ancient Masters

App, Urs, trans.Master Yunmen: From the record of the Chan Teacher Gate of the Clouds. Tokyo:

Kodansha International, 1994.

Cleary, Thomas, trans.Stopping and Seeing: A Comprehensive Course in Buddhist Meditationby Chih-i.

Boston: Shambhala, 1997.


Nishijima, Gudo and Chodo Cross, trans.Master Dogens ShobogenzoBook 1. Woods Hill, Mass.:
Windbell, 1998.
Koan Collection

Cleary, Thomas, trans.Book of Serenity: One Hundred Zen Dialogues. Boston: Shambhala, 1998.
Records of Modern Masters

Trungpa, Chgyam.Transcending Madness: The Experience of the Six Bardos. Boston: Shambhala, 1992.
Philosophy and Theology

Heine, Steven.Dogen and the Koan Tradition: A Tale of Two Shobogenzo Texts. Albany: State University of

New York Press, 1994.

Thurman, Robert A. F.Essential Tibetan Buddhism. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1995.

Wolters, Clifton, trans.The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works. New York: Penguin Books, 1978.

Stage VII
Sutras

Nanamoli, Bhikkhu and Bhikkhu Bodhi, trans.TheMiddle Length Discourses of the Buddha: A New

Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya. Boston: Wisdom, 1995.
Records of Ancient Masters

Buswell, Jr., Robert E., ed.Tracing Back the Radiance: Chinuls Korean Way of Zen. Honolulu: University

of Hawaii Press, 1991.

Chung-Yuan, Chang, trans.Original Teachings of Chan Buddhism: Selected from the Transmission of the
Lamp. New York: Pantheon Books, 1969.

Nishijima, Gudo and Chodo Cross, trans.Master Dogens ShobogenzoBook 2. Woods Hill, Mass.:
Windbell, 1996.
Koan Collections

Cleary, Thomas, trans.Transmission of Light: Zen in the Art of Enlightenmentby Zen Master Kaizan.

Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2002.

Cook, Francis H., trans. The Record of Transmitting the Light: Zen Master Keizans Denkoroku. Los

Angeles: Center Publications, 1991.
History

Downing, Michael.Shoes Outside the Door: Desire, Devotion, and Excess at San Francisco Zen Center.

Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 2001.
Philosophy and Theology

Abe, Masao.Zen and Western Thought. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1984.

Thurman, Robert A. F., trans.TheTibetan Book of the Dead: Liberation through Understanding in the
Between. New York: Bantam Books, 1994.

Underhill, Evelyn.Practical Mysticism. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover, 2000.
.The Spiritual Life: Great Spiritual Truths for Everyday Life.Oxford: One World, 1999

Stage VIII
Sutras

Walshe, Maurice, trans.TheLong Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Digha Nikaya. Boston:
Wisdom, 1995.
Records of Ancient Masters

Green, James, trans. The Recorded Sayings of Master Joshu. Boston: Shambhala, 2000.

Nishijima, Gudo and Chodo Cross, trans.Master Dogens ShobogenzoBook 3. Woods Hills, Mass.:
Windbell, 1997.
Philosophy and Theology

Gregory, Peter N., ed.Traditions of Meditation in Chinese Buddhism. Kuroda Institute, Studies in East

Asian Buddhism, no. 4. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1986.

Kim, Hee-Jin, ed.Dogen Kigen: Mystical Realist.Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1987.

LaFleur, William R., ed.Dogen Studies. Kuroda Institute, Studies in East Asian Buddhism, no. 2.

Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1985.

Lopez, Jr., Donald S., ed.Buddhist Hermeneutics. Kuroda Institute, Studies in East Asian Buddhism, no. 6.

Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1988.

McRea, John R. The Northern School and the Formation of Early Chan Buddhism. Kuroda Institute,

Studies in East Asian Buddhism, no. 3. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1987.

Underhill, Evelyn.Mysticism: The Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness. Oxford: One
World, 2000.

Stage IX
Sutras

Cleary, Thomas, trans.The Flower Ornament Scripture: A Translation of The Avatamsaka Sutra. Boston:
Shambhala, 1993.
Records of Ancient Masters

Nishijima, Gudo and Chodo Cross, trans.Master Dogens ShobogenzoBook 4.Woods Hill, Mass.:
Windbell, 1999.

Yokoi, Yuho, trans.Eihei-Koroku. Tokyo: Sankibo, 1987.
Philosophy and Theology

Cook, Francis Dojun.Hua-yen Buddhism: The Jewel Net of Indra. University Park, Pa.: The Pennsylvania

State University Press, 1997.

Gimello, Robert M. and Peter N. Gregory, eds. Kuroda Institute, Studies in East Asian Buddhism,

no. 1.Studies in Chan and Hua-yen. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1984.