Book Recommendations*

 Beginners  

• The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma  trans. Red Pine

• Returning to Silence, Dainin Katagiri

• You Have Something to Say, Dainin Katagiri

• Not Always So, Shunryu Suzuki

• Zen Mind Beginner’s Mind, Shunryu Suzuki

• Branching Streams Flow in the Dark, Shunryu Suzuki

• The Diamond Sutra & Sutra of Hui-neng, A.F. Price & Wong Mou-lam 

• The Ox and His Herdsman, Trevor

• The Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo, Uchiyama

• Opening the Hand of Thought, Uchiyama

• Each Moment Is The Universe, Dainin Katagiri

• Dogen Zen Zumonki

• Bendowa, Dogen

• Shikatanza, Dogen,

• There is No Suffering, A Commentary on the Heart Sutra, Chan Master Sheng-Yen

• Mindfulness and Intimacy, Ben Connolly

• On Zen Practice, Taizan Maezumi & Bernie Glassman

• Zen Flesh, Zen Bones, compliled by Paul Reps

• The Issue at Hand, Gil Fronsdal

• Miracle of Mindfulness, Thich Nhat Hahn

• Mindfulness in Plain English, Ven. Henepola Gunaratana

• How to Train a Wild Elephant, Jan Chosen Bays 

Lay Ordination

• Each Moment Is the Universe, Danin Katagiri

• Treasury of the True Dharma Eye, Tanahashi

• Dogen on Meditation and Thinking, Hee-Jin Kim

• Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment, Uchiyama

• Bodhisattva Archetypes / Faces of Compassion, Taigen Dan Leighton

• Ch’an and Zen Teaching v. 1, 2, 3,  Lu K'uan Yu

• The Golden Age of Zen, John C.H. Wu

• Transformation at the Base, Thich Nhat Hahn

• The Zen Eye, Sokei-an

• Zen Pivots, Sokei-an

• Inside Vasubandhu’s Yogachara, Ben Connelly

• Training in Compassion, Zen Teachings on the Practice of Lojong, Norman

•  Fischer

• The Essential Teachings of Zen Master Hakuin, Norman Waddell

• The Zen Teachings of Master Lin-Chi, Burton Watson

• Nothing is Hidden, Taigen Dan Leighton

• Holy Teaching of Vimalikirti, Robert Thurman

• Living in Vow, Shohaku Okumura

*Please note that not all titles listed here are available in the library

Priest Ordination

• Being Upright, Reb Anderson

• Wisdom of Buddha, Samdhinirmocanna Sutra

• The Third Turning of the Wheel, Reb Anderson

• Just This is It, Dongshan & the Practice of Suchness, Dan Leighton

• Dongshan’s Five Ranks, Ross Bolleter

• The Record of Tung-shan, William Powell

• Flower Ornament Sutra

• The Threefold Lotus Sutra, Kosei

• Entry into the Inconceivable, Cleary

• Zen’s Chinese Heritage, Furgenson

• Emptiness of Emptiness,  Huntington

• Dogen’s Extensive Record, Okamura & Leighton

• A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life, Vesna Wallace

• Cultivating the Empty Field, Silent Illumination of Hongzhi, Taigen & Wu

• Realizing Genjokoan, Shohaku Okumura

 
Advanced Training

• Transmission of the Light, Zen Master Keizan

• Kensho, The Heart of Zen, Cleary

• Lankavatara Sutra, Red Pine

• Self-Realization of Noble Wisdom, The Lankavatara Sutra, Dwight Goddard

• Book of Serenity, Cleary

• Two Zen Classics, Katsuki Sekida

• Visions of Awakening Space and Time, Taigen Dan Leighton

 
Theravaden

• Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, Majjhima Nikaya

• The Longer Length Discourses of the Buddha

• The Noble Eightfold Path, Bhikkhu Bodhi

• The Origin of Buddhist Psychology, Beth Jacobs

• A Comprehensive Manual of Abhidharma, Bhikkhu Bodhi

• Heartwood of the Bodhi Tree, Buddhadasa Bhikkhu 

 
Tibetan

• The Precious Garland, Nagarjuna

• Three Principles of the Path, Lama Thong Khapa

• Emptiness Yoga, Jeffrey Hopkins

• Meditation on Emptiness, Jeffrey Hopkins

• Shambahla Warrior

• When Things Fall Apart, Pema Chodran