Treasury of the True Dharma Eye
Zen Master Dogen's Shobo Genzo
Edited by Kazuaki Tanahashi
Format: Hardcover, 1280 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $100.00
This monumental work is considered to be one of the most profound expressions of Zen wisdom ever put on
paper, and also the outstanding literary and philosophical work of Japan. It is a collection of essays by Eihei Dogen (1200–1253), founder of Zen’s Soto school.
Kazuaki Tanahashi and a team of...
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Zen Confidential
Confessions of a Wayward Monk
Written by Shozan Jack Haubner
Foreword by Leonard Cohen
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $14.95
“This punk of a monk, who should be tending to his own affairs, has decided to infect the real world with his tall tales, and worse, to let the cat out of the bag. And what a sly, dangerous, beautiful, foul-smelling, heart-warming beast it is.”—Leonard Cohen, from the foreword
These hilarious essays...
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The Essential Dogen
Writings of the Great Zen Master
Edited by Kazuaki Tanahashi and Peter Levitt
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2013
Price: $14.00
Eihei Dogen (1200–1253), founder of the Soto School of Zen Buddhism, is one of the greatest religious, philosophical, and literary geniuses of Japan. His writings have been studied by Zen students for centuries, particularly his masterwork,
Shobo Genzo or
Treasury of the True Dharma Eye. This is the first book to...
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Cold Mountain Poems
Zen Poems of Han Shan, Shih Te, and Wang Fan-chih
Written by Han Shan
Translated by J.P. Seaton
Format: Trade Paperback, 136 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $14.95
Popularized in the West by Beat Generation writers Gary Snyder and Jack Kerouac, T’ang-era rebel poet Han Shan is an icon of Chinese poetry and Zen. He and his sidekick, Shih Te, are known as the laughing, ragged pair who left their poetry on stones, trees, farmhouses, and monastery walls, calling...
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The One Taste of Truth
Zen and the Art of Drinking Tea
Written by William Scott Wilson
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $14.95
Traditionally in China and Japan, drinking a cup of tea was an opportunity for contemplation, meditation, and an elevation of mind and spirit. Here, renowned translator William Scott Wilson distills what is singular and precious about this traditional tea culture, and he explores the fascinating connection between Zen and tea drinking...
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Training in Compassion
Zen Teachings on the Practice of Lojong
Written by Norman Fischer
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $16.95
Lojong is the Tibetan Buddhist practice that involves working with short phrases (called "slogans") as a way of generating bodhichitta, the heart and mind of enlightened compassion. Though the practice is more than a millennium old, it has become popular in the West only in the last twenty years or so—and...
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Sky Above, Great Wind
The Life and Poetry of Zen Master Ryokan
Written by Kazuaki Tanahashi
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2012
Price: $17.95
Ryokan (1758–1831) is, along with Dogen and Hakuin, one of the three giants of Zen in Japan. But unlike his two renowned colleagues, Ryokan was a societal dropout, living mostly as a hermit and a beggar. He was never head of a monastery or temple. He liked playing with children. He...
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The Best Buddhist Writing 2012
Edited by Melvin McLeod and editors of the Shambhala Sun
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: September 25, 2012
Price: $17.95
A treasury of the most notable, profound, and thought-provoking Buddhist-inspired writing published in the last year.
The Best Buddhist Writing 2012 includes:
• His Holiness the Dalai Lama on cultivating a universal ethic of kindness
• Sharon Salzberg on getting your meditation practice started
• Pema Chödrön on how...
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The Pocket Thich Nhat Hanh
Written by Thich Nhat Hanh
Edited by Melvin McLeod
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $7.95
This is a collection of powerful and inspiring teachings in an appealing, convenient pocket-size book from one of today's most important and beloved spiritual teachers, the Zen Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh. Next to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Thich Nhat Hanh is the best-known Buddhist teacher in the world, and...
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Nature, Man and Woman
Written by Alan W. Watts
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: July 11, 2012
Price: $11.99
A provocative and enduring work that reexamines humanity's place in the natural world -- and the spirit's relation to the flesh -- in the light of Chinese Taoism.
That human beings stand separate from a nature that must be controlled, that the mind is somehow superior to the body, and that all...
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Everything Is the Way
Ordinary Mind Zen
Written by Elihu Genmyo Smith
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2012
Price: $17.95
These days, when Zen has become a kind of shorthand for anything that’s enigmatic or aesthetically spare, it’s refreshing be reminded that Zen is at heart a practice for waking up from the dream we inhabit—in order to free ourselves from the suffering the dream imposes on us. Elihu Genmyo Smith’s...
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The Practice of Perfection
The Paramitas from a Zen Buddhist Perspective
Written by Robert Aitken
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: May 23, 2012
Price: $18.99
Robert Aiken, author of Encouraging Words and Taking the Path of Zen, is America’s most senior Zen Roshi. In this new book he presents the Ten Pãramitãs, of Transcendental Perfections—namely, giving, mortality, forbearance, zeal, focused meditation, wisdom, compassionate means, aspiration, spiritual power, and knowledge—two-thousand-year-old ideals that can serve us as both...
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Master of the Three Ways
Reflections of a Chinese Sage on Living a Satisfying Life
Written by Hung Ying-Ming
Translated by William Scott Wilson
Introduction by Bill Porter
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $18.95
At once profound, spiritual, and witty,
Master of the Three Ways is a remarkable work about human nature, the essence of life, and how to live simply and with awareness. In three hundred and fifty-seven verses, the author, Hung Ying-ming—a seventeenth-century Chinese sage—explores good and evil, honesty and deception, wisdom and...
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Beating the Cloth Drum
Letters of Zen Master Hakuin
Written by Haukin
Translated by Norman Waddell
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $17.95
Hakuin Ekaku (1685-1769) is one of the most influential figures in Zen Buddhism. He revitalized the Rinzai Zen tradition (which emphasizes the use of koans, or unanswerable questions, in meditation practice), and all masters of that school today trace their lineage back through him. He is responsible for the most famous...
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The Zen Reader
Edited by Thomas Cleary
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2012
Price: $14.00
Founded by Bodhidharma centuries ago in China, Zen and its teachings have since spread widely, exerting a tremendous cultural influence not only across Asia, but also the modern West. To this day, Zen inspires young and old, from all walks of life, to see the world with fresh eyes—beyond our usual...
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Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts Unknown
A Mountain Journal
Written by Alan W. Watts
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: October 19, 2011
Price: $13.99
These ruminations, assembled in the form of a journal and here published in paperback for the first time, were written at Alan Watts' retreat in the foothills of Mount Tamalpais, California. Many current themes are discussed, including meditation, nature, established religion, race relations, karma and reincarnation, astrology and tantric yoga, and...
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True Love
A Practice for Awakening the Heart
Written by Thich Nhat Hanh
Translated by Sherab Chodzin Kohn
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: October 11, 2011
Price: $11.00
Love might not be what we think it is. We all seek the happiness that comes from loving and being loved, yet we often find ourselves dissatisfied in our relationships and unable to grasp the cause. Thich Nhat Hanh here shows the way to overcome our recurrent obstacles to love—by learning...
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Beyond Happiness
The Zen Way to True Contentment
Written by Ezra Bayda
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2011
Price: $16.95
Many books have been published in recent years on happiness. Ezra Bayda, a remarkably down-to-earth Zen teacher, believes that the happiness "boom" has been largely a bust for readers. Why? Because it's precisely the pursuit of happiness that keeps us trapped in cycles of dissatisfaction and suffering.
In
Beyond Happiness, Bayda...
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Mind Body Zen
Waking Up to Your Life
Written by Jeffrey Maitland
Preface by Kendo Hal Roth
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: August 30, 2011
Price: $16.95
In
Mind Body Zen, long-time Zen student, world-renowned Rolfer, and former philosophy professor Jeffrey Maitland combines his expertise across the mind-body-zen spectrum to help bridge the East-West gap in spiritual practice.
Tackling the prevailing misconception that Zen is a philosophy, Maitland provides an in-depth explanation of why Zen is an eminently practical...
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Zen Buddhism - Simple Guides
Written by Diana St. Ruth
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 19, 2011
Price: $10.95
THIS BOOK WILL HELP YOU
• to appreciate the significance of this particular school of Buddhism,famous for its focus on meditation and self-awakening
• to understand the history of Zen and the ‘Ways of Zen’
• to discover how Zen is a way of life — not a belief system
• to avoid faux pas...
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How to Train a Wild Elephant
And Other Adventures in Mindfulness
Written by Jan Chozen Bays
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: July 12, 2011
Price: $14.00
A growing body of research is showing that mindfulness can reduce stress, improve physical health, and improve one’s overall quality of life. Jan Chozen Bays, MD—physician and Zen teacher—has developed a series of simple practices to help us cultivate mindfulness as we go about our ordinary, daily lives. Exercises include: taking...
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