ZEN-CIKLOPÉDIA / ZEN-CYCLOPEDIA

Introduction: Canon and Canonicity in the History of the Zen Literary Tradition
1 Tsung-mi's Zen Prolegomenon
2 Mazu yulu and the Creation of the Chan Records of Sayings
3 The Lidai fabao ji (Record of the Dharma-Jewel through the Ages)
4 The Huang-po Literature
5 Lineage and Context in the Patriarch's Hall Collection and the Transmission of the Lamp
6 The Record of Hongzhi and the Recorded Sayings Literature of Song-Dynasty Chan
7 The Wu-men kuan (J. Mumonkan)
8 The Eihei kōroku: The Record of Dōgen's Later Period at Eihei-ji Temple
9 Chanyuan qinggui and Other “Rules of Purity” in Chinese Buddhism

PDF: Zen Classics: Formative Texts in the History of Zen Buddhism (2006)

Introduction
1 Guishan jingce (Guishan's Admonitions) and the Ethical Foundations of Chan Practice
2 A Korean Contribution to the Zen Canon: The Oga Hae Seorui
3 Zen Buddhism as the Ideology of the Japanese State
4 An Analysis of Dōgen's Eihei Goroku
5 “Rules of Purity” in Japanese Zen
6 Zen Kōan Capping Phrase Books
7 Imagining Indian Zen
8 Meditation for Laymen and Laywomen

PDF: Zen Ritual: Studies of Zen Buddhist Theory in Practice (2008)

Introduction: Rethinking Ritual Practice in Zen Buddhism
1. Ritual in Japanese Zen Buddhism
2. Chan Rituals of the Abbots' Ascending the Dharma Hall to Preach
3. Buddhist Rituals for Protecting the Country in Medieval Japan: Myōan Eisai's “Regulations of the Zen School”
4. Is Dōgen's Eiheiji Temple “Mt. T'ien‐t'ung East”?: Geo‐Ritual Perspectives on the Transition from Chinese Ch'an to Japanese Zen
5. Zazen as an Enactment Ritual
6 . Women and Dōgen: Rituals Actualizing Empowerment and Healing
7. Invocation of the Sage: The Ritual to Glorify the Emperor
8 . Meditation in Motion: Textual Exegesis in the Creation of Ritual
9. Dharma Transmission in Theory and Practice

PDF: Chan Buddhism in Ritual Context (2003)

1. Chan and Zen studies: the state of the field(s) / Bernard Faure
2. Imagining the portrait of a Chan master / Wendi Adamek
3. On the ritual use of Chan portraiture in medieval China / T. Griffith Foulk and Robert H. Sharf
4. A Tang dynasty Chan mummy (roushen) and a modern case of furta sacra?: investigating the contested bones of Shitou Xiqian / James Robson
5. Filling the Zen shu: notes on the Jisshu Yodo Ki / Carl Bielefeldt
6. Quand l'habit fait le moine: the symbolism of the kasaya in Soto Zen / Bernard Faure
7. The enlightenment of kami and ghosts: spirit ordinations in Japanese Soto Zen / William M. Bodiford
8. How Dosho's medicine saved Dogen: medicine, Doshoan and Edo-period Dogen biographies / Duncan Ryuken Williams.

PDF: The Koan: Texts and Contexts in Zen Buddhism (2000)

Introduction: Koan Tradition - Self-Narrative and Contemporary Perspectives
1 The Form and Function of Koan Literature: A Historical Overview
2 The Antecedents of Encounter Dialogue in Chinese Ch'an Buddhism
3 Mahakasyapa's Smile: Silent Transmission and the Kung-an (Koan) Tradition
4 Kung-an Ch'an and the Tsung-men t'ung-yao chi
5 Visions, Divisions, Revisions: The Encounter between Iconoclasm and Supernaturalism in Koan Cases about Mount Wu-t'ai
6 "Before the Empty Eon" versus "A Dog Has No Buddha-Nature": Kung-an Use in the Ts'ao-tung Tradition and Ta-hui's Kung-an Introspection Ch'an
7 Koan History: Transformative Language in Chinese Buddhist Thought
8 Ikkyu and Koans
9 Transmission of Kirigami (Secret Initiation Documents): A Soto Practice in Medieval Japan
10 Emerging from Nonduality: Koan Practice in the Rinzai Tradition since Hakuin
11 Koan and Kensho in the Rinzai Zen Curriculum

PDF: Zen Masters (2010)

1 Monastic Innovator, Iconoclast, and Teacher of Doctrine
2 Dongshan and the Teaching of Suchness
3 Yongming Yanshou
4 Dahui Zonggao (1089–1163)
5 Dōgen, Zen Master, Zen Disciple
6 The Zen of Books and Practice
7 The Use of Traps and Snares
8 True Person, Formless Self
9 Humanizing the Image of a Zen Master
10 Seung Sahn

PDF: How Zen Became Zen by Morten Schlütter (2008)
The Dispute over Enlightenment and the Formation of Chan Buddhism in Song-Dynasty China

Introduction
1. Chan Buddhism in the Song: Some Background
2. The Chan School and the Song State
3. Procreation and Patronage in the Song Chan School
4. A New Chan Tradition: The Reinvention of the Caodong Lineage in the Song
5. A Dog Has No Buddha-Nature: Kanhua Chan and Dahui Zonggao's Attacks on Silent Illumination
6. The Caodong Tradition as the Target of Attacks by the Linji Tradition
7. Silent Illumination and the Caodong Tradition
Conclusion
Notes
Caodong Lineage
Linji Lineage
Glossary

PDF: The Buddha Eye: An Anthology of the Kyoto School and Its Contemporaries (2004)

PDF: Awakening and Insight: Zen Buddhism and Psychotherapy edited by Polly Young-Eisendrath and Shoji Muramoto

PDF: The signifier pointing at the Moon: psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism by Raul Moncayo

PDF: A Drifting Boat: An Anthology of Chinese Zen Poetry edited by Jerome P. Seaton & Dennis Maloney > 2nd version

PDF: Zen Poems edited by Peter Harris

PDF: Poems of the Five Mountains: An Introduction to the Literature of the Zen Monasteries by Marian Ury

PDF: Oláh Csaba: Kínai irodalom, kínai nyelv és a gozan-szerzetesek a középkori Japánban
In: Hamar Imre - Salát Gergely (szerk.): Kínai nyelv és irodalom. Tanulmányok Csongor Barnabás 80. születésnapjára - Sinológiai Műhely 4. (Budapest, 2003), pp. 292-312.

PDF: Realization through Hearing in Chan Literature by Guo-Jing (2014)

PDF: Buddhist Monasticism in East Asia (2010)

PDF: Living in This World: A Social History of Buddhist Monks and Nuns in Nineteenth-Century Western China (2019)
by Gilbert Zhe Chen

PDF: The Zen of Anarchy: Japanese Exceptionalism and the Anarchist Roots of the San Francisco Poetry Renaissance by James Brown
Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation, Vol. 19, Issue 2, pp. 207–242, © 2009 by The Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture.

Three Language-Related Methods In Early Chinese Chan Buddhism by Desheng Zong
Philosophy East and West 55/4 (Oct 2005): pp. 584-602 (19)

The Pragmatics of ‘Never Tell Too Plainly': indirect communication in Chan Buddhism
by Youru Wang, Asian Philosophy, Vol. 10, No.1, 2000.

PDF: Sensibility of the Insensible: The Genealogy of a Ch'an Aesthetic and the Passionate Dream of Poetic Creation by John A. Jorgensen
PhD Thesis, Australian National University, 1989

PDF: Zen's Four Mottos and the Poetic Language by Yong Zhi
Asian Culture and History; Vol. 5, No. 1; 2013

PDF: Imperial-Way Zen: Ichikawa Hakugen's (1902–1986) Critique and Lingering Questions for Buddhist Ethics, by Christopher Ives

PDF: Dharma Rain: Sources of Buddhist Environmentalism. Ed. by Stephanie Kaza & Kenneth Kraft

Koan Riddles of Zen Masters

Lieberman, Fredric. Zen Buddhism and Art

PDF: Zen painting & calligraphy by Fontein, Jan
Boston : Museum of Fine Arts, 1971

Foreword / Hidemi Kohn -- Preface / Perry Townsend Rathbone -- Acknowldegments / Jan Fontein and Money L. Hickman -- Chronology -- Introduction -- The beginnings of Ch'an Buddhism -- Chinese and Indian thought in Ch'an Buddhism -- The Northern and Southern Schools -- The earliest form of Ch'an art -- The consolidation and expansion of the Ch'an sect -- Juan-hsiu (832-912): the birth of Ch'an art -- Ch'an literature and koan -- Ch'an art during the Northern Sung Period (960-1126) -- Ch'an monks and literati -- The repertoire of Ch'an themes -- The Buddha and figures from the Buddhist pantheon -- Zenkiga -- The Ch'an Eccentrics in art -- Chinso: the portraits of Ch'an masters -- Landscapes, animals, and plants -- Ch'an monks and literati in the Southern Sung and Yuan Periods -- The end of Ch'an art in China -- Zen: its establishment in Japan -- Zen monks in China during Late Kamakura times -- Japanese Chinso -- Bokuseki: the calligraphy of Ch'an and Zen monks -- The Gozan monasteries and their literary school -- Zen Suiboku painting: origins and evolution -- Zen art in the Edo period -- Catalogue -- Glossary -- Index

PDF: Zen Texts, BDK Tripitaka Translation Series (2005)

Essentials of the Transmission of Mind tr. by John McRae
A Treatise on Letting Zen Flourish to Protect the State tr. by Gishin Tokiwa
A Universal Recommendation for True Zazen tr. by Osamu Yoshida
Advice on the Practice of Zazen tr. by Steven Heine

PDF: Traditions of Meditation in Chinese Buddhism edited by Peter N. Gregory

Introduction PETER N. GREGORY 1
Meditation in Fa-hsiang Buddhism ALAN SPONBERG 15
The Four Kinds of Samadhi in Early T'ien-t'ai Buddhism DANIEL B. STEVENSON 45
The Concept of One-Practice Samadhi in Early Ch'an BERNARD FAURE 99
Ch'ang-lu Tsung-tse's Tso-Ch'an I and the "Secret" of Zen Meditation CARL BIELEFELDT 129
From Dispute to Dual Cultivation: Pure Land Responses to Ch'an Critics DAVID W. CHAPPELL 163
Chinul's Systemization of Chinese Meditative Techniques in Korean Son Buddhism ROBERT E. BUSWELL, JR. 199

PDF: Inventing Chinese Buddhas: Identity, Authority, and Liberation in Song-dynasty Chan Buddhism
by Kevin Buckelew
Columbia University, 2018

PDF: Becoming Chinese Buddhas: Claims to Authority and the Making of Chan Buddhist Identity
by Kevin Buckelew
T’oung Pao 105 (2019) 357-400

PDF: Ch'an Buddhism in China
by Tsu-Kung Chuang

PDF: The roaring stream: a new Zen reader
edited by Nelson Foster and Jack Shoemaker, 1996

PDF: The Other Side of Zen: A Social History of Sōtō Zen Buddhism in Tokugawa Japan
by Duncan Ryūken Williams (1969-)
Princeton University Press, 2004

PDF: The poetry demon: Song-Dynasty monks on verse and the way
by Jason Protass
Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism, 40.

PDF: Enkakuji Temple leaflet 1960s, 8 p.

PDF: The Faces of Buddhism in America

PDF: Paths to Liberation: the Marga and its transformations in Buddhist thought edited by Robert E. Buswell, Robert M. Gimello

The Relation between Chinese Buddhist History and Soteriology 309
Yoshizu Yoshihide, translated and edited by Paul GronerEncounter Dialogue and the Transformation of the Spiritual Path in Chinese Ch'an 339
John R. McRaeMarga and Culture: Learning, Letters, and Liberation in Northern Sung Ch'an 371
Robert M. GimelloShortening the Path: Early Tendai Interpretations of the Realization of Buddhahood with This Very Body (Sokushinjiibutsu) 439
Paul Groner

No-Mind and Sudden Awakening: Thoughts on the Soteriology of a Kamakura Zen Text 475
Carl Bielefeldt

PDF: Sudden and Gradual: Approaches to Enlightenment in Chinese Thought edited by Peter N. Gregory

I - The Sudden and Gradual Debates 11

The Mirror of the Mind 13 Sudden Illumination or Simultaneous Comprehension: Remarks on Chinese and Tibetan Terminology 41

Purifying Gold: the Metaphor of Effort and Intuition in Buddhist Thought and Practice 67

II - Sudden and Gradual Enlightenment in Chinese Buddhism 167

Tao-sheng's Theory of Sudden Enlightenment Re-Examined 169 Sudden and Gradual Intimately Conjoined: Chih-i's T'ien-t'ai View 201 Shen-hui and the Teaching of Sudden Enlightenment in Early Ch'an Buddhism 227 Sudden Enlightenment Followed by Gradual Cultivation: Tsung-mi's Analysis of Mind 279

The "Short-Cut" Approach of K'an-hua Meditation: the Evolution of a Practical Subitism in Chinese Ch'an Buddhism 321

III - Analogies in the Cultural Sphere 379

The Sudden and the Gradual in Chinese Poetry Criticism: An Examination of the Ch'an-Poetry Analogy 381 Tung Ch'i-ch'ang's "Southern and Northern Schools" in the History and Theory of Painting: A Reconsideration 429

Afterword Thinking of "Enlightenment" Religiously 447

External links:

Chinese Buddhist Electronic Text Association (CBETA): http://cbetaonline.dila.edu.tw

Bibliography of Translations from the Chinese Buddhist Canon into Western Languages
by Marcus Bingenheimer

SAT Daizōkyō Text Database: http://21dzk.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/SAT/index_en.html

Takakusu Junjirō 高楠順次郞 and Watanabe Kaikyoku 渡邊海旭, eds.
Taishō shinshū daizōkyō 大正新修大藏經 [Revised Buddhist canon compiled during the Taishō reign-period].
100 vols. Tokyo: Daizōkyōkai, 1924–1935.

T2543-T2579 臨濟宗 Rinzai shū

T2543 興禪護國論 Kōzen-gokoku-ron – Allowing Zen to Flourish to Safeguard the State – 明菴栄西 Myōan Eisai (1141-1215)
T2544 聖一國師語錄 Shōichi Kokushi goroku – 圓爾辯圓・円爾弁円 Enni Ben'en (1202–1280)
T2547 大覺禪師語錄 Daikaku Zenji goroku – 蘭溪道隆 Lanxi Daolong (1213-1278)
T2548 圓通大應國師語錄 Enzu Daiō Kokushi goroku – The Record of the National Teacher Enzu Daiō – 南浦紹明 Nanpo Jōmyō (1235–1308)
T2555 夢窓國師語錄 Musō Kokushi goroku – 夢窓疎石 Musō Soseki (1275-1351)
T2564 永源寂室和尚語錄 Jakushitsu Genkō 寂室玄光 (1290-1367)
T2566 大燈國師語錄 Daitō Kokushi goroku – 宗峰妙超 Shūhō Myōchō (1282–1337)
T2574 槐安國語 Kaian kokugo – Tales from the Land of Locust-tree Tranquility – 白隠慧鶴 Hakuin Ekaku (1686-1769)
T2575 宗門無盡燈論 Shūmon mujintō ron – On the Inexhaustible Lamp of Zen – 東嶺圓慈 Tōrei Enji (1721–1792)
T2576 五家參祥要路門 Goke sanshō yōromon – An Examination of the Essential Teaching of the Five Houses – 東嶺圓慈 Tōrei Enji (1721–1792)
T2577 大鑑淸規 Daikan shingi – Great Mirror of Regulations – Qingzhuo Zhengcheng / Seisetsu Shōchō 清拙正澄 (1274–1339)

T2580-T2607 曹洞宗 Sōtō shū

T2580 普勸坐禪儀 (Fukanzazengi – The Universal Recommendation of Zazen – Eihei Dōgen 永平道元 1200-1253)
T2581 學道用心集 (Gakudō-yōjinshū – Eihei Dōgen 永平道元 1200-1253)
T2582 正法眼藏 (Shōbōgenzō (Treasury of True Dharma Eyes – Eihei Dōgen 永平道元 1200-1253)
T2583 永平元和尚頌古 (Classic Verses of Eihei Dōgen 永平道元 1200-1253)
T2584 永平淸規 (Eihei shingi (Dōgen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community – Eihei Dōgen 永平道元 1200-1253)
T2585 傳光錄 (Denkō roku – Record of Transmitting the Light – Keizan Jōkin 瑩山紹瑾 1268-1325)
T2586 坐禪用心記 (Zazen yōjinki – Advice on the Practice of Zazen – Keizan Jōkin 瑩山紹瑾 1268-1325)
T2587 信心銘拈提 (Shinjinmei nentei – Keizan Jōkin 瑩山紹瑾 1268-1325)
T2588 十種敕問奏對集 (Jisshu chokumon – Keizan Jōkin 瑩山紹瑾 1268-1325)
T2589 瑩山淸規 (Keizan shingi – Keizan's Pure Standards – Keizan Jōkin 瑩山紹瑾 1268-1325)
T2590 光明藏三昧 (Kōmyōzō zanmai – Absorbtion in the Treasury of Light – Koun Ejō 孤雲懷奘 1198-1280)
T2591 義雲和尚語錄 (Giun oshō goroku – Records Sayings of Master Giun 義雲 1253/54-1333)
T2592 通幻靈禪師漫錄 (Tsūgen Jakurei 通幻寂霊 1322-1391)
T2593 實峰禪師語錄 (Jippō Ryōshū 實峯良秀 1318-1405)
T2594 普濟和尚語錄 (Fusai Zenkyū 普濟善救 1347-1409)
T2595 月坡禪師語錄 (Geppa Dōin 月坡道印 1637-1716)
T2596 月舟和尚語錄 (Gesshū Sōko 月舟宗胡 1618-1696)
T2597 獨庵獨語 (Dokuan Genkō 獨庵玄光 1630-1698)
T2598 東林語錄 (Tōrin goroku – Record of the Eastern Forest – Manzan Dōhaku 卍山道白 1635-1715)
T2599 禪戒訣 (Zenkaiketsu – The Secrets of Zen and the Precepts – Manzan Dōhaku 卍山道白 1635-1715)
T2600 報恩編 (Tenkei Denson 天桂傳尊 1648-1735)
T2601 禪戒鈔 (Zenkaisho – Essence of Zen Precepts – Banjin Dōtan 萬仭道坦 1698-1775)
T2602 心學典論 (Muin Tōfutsu 無隱道費 1688-1756)
T2603 荒田隨筆 (Shigetsu E'in 指月慧印 1689-1764)
T2604 建康普說 (Menzan Zuihō 面山瑞芳 1683-1769)

T2605-T2607 黃檗宗 Ōbaku shū

T2605 普照國師語錄 Fushō Kokushi goroku – 隱元隆琦 Yinyuan Longqi (1592-1673)
T2606 普照國師法語 Fushō Kokushi hōgo – 隱元隆琦 Yinyuan Longqi (1592-1673)
T2607 黃檗淸規 Ōbaku shingi – Pure Standards of the Ōbaku School – 隱元隆琦 Yinyuan Longqi (1592-1673)

Chinese Buddhist Encyclopedia

Free Chinese & Japanese Online Dictionary

A Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary, by Akira Hirakawa
http://www.ahandfulofleaves.org/documents/A%20Buddhist%20Chinese_Sanskrit%20Dict_Hirakawa.pdf

Soto Zen Glossary

Digital Dictionary of Buddhism 電子佛教辭典

From prominence to obscurity : a study of the Darumashū : Japan's first Zen school by Vincent Breugem (2012)
https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/handle/1887/19051

Buddhist Philosophy and Meditation Practice
Academic Papers presented at the 2nd IABU Conference Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University, Main Campus
Wang Noi, Ayutthaya, Thailand, 2012, 488 p.
http://aebtheravada.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/buddhist_philosophy_and_meditation_practice.pdf

The Roots of Zen Buddhism by Hsueh-Li Cheng
Journal of Chinese Philosophy, V. 8. (1981), pp. 451-478.
http://buddhism.lib.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-JOCP/jc26720.htm

http://www.thezensite.com/ZenEssays/Nagarjuna/roots_of_zen.htm

Hanazono Concordance Series. Kyoto: International Research Institute for Zen Buddhism, Hanazono Unversity

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