Zen is the transmission outside of words. But there sure are a lot of books about Zen. We look at some of the best books on Zen. Soto Zen, that is.

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Jundo Cohen: The Zen Master's Dance

Kosho Uchiyama Roshi: Opening the Hand of Thought: Foundations of Zen Buddhist Practice

Kosho Uchiyama Roshi: How to Cook Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment

Shunryu Suzuki: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings

Philip Kapleau Roshi: The Three Pillars of Zen: Teaching, Practice, and Enlightenment

Shohaku Okumura: Realizing Genjokoan: The Key to Dogen's Shobogenzo

Dogen's Genjo Koan: Three Commentaries

Shohaku Okumura: The Mountains and Waters Sutra: A Practitioner's Guide to Dogen's "Sansuikyo"

Steven Heine: Readings of Dōgen's "Treasury of the True Dharma Eye"

Steven Heine: Dogen: Japan's Original Zen Teacher

Taigen Dan Leighton: Visions of Awakening Space and Time: Dōgen and the Lotus Sutra

Kosho Uchiyama Roshi: Deepest Practice, Deepest Wisdom: Three Fascicles from Shobogenzo with Commentary

Kazuaki Tanahashi: Enlightenment Unfolds: the essential teachings of Dogen

Kazuaki Tanahashi: Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dogen

Will Johnson: The Posture of Meditation

Barbara Hoetsu O'Brien: The Circle of the Way - A Concise History of Zen from the Buddha to the Modern World

Jonathan Landaw & Stephan Bodian: Buddhism For Dummies

Diana St. Ruth: Simple Guide to Zen Buddhism

Sky Above, Great Wind: The Life and Poetry of Zen Master Ryokan, translated by Kazuaki Tanahashi

Kazuaki Tanahashi: The Complete Cold Mountain: Poems of the Legendary Hermit Hanshan

Red Pine: The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain

Norman Fischer & Susan Moon: What Is Zen?: Plain Talk for a Beginner's Mind

Stephen Batchelor: The Art of Solitude

Brian Daizen Victoria: Zen at War

Suggested BOOKS & MEDIA on Zen Practice (Treeleaf)

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