Writings on Zen

General

• Charlotte Joko Beck, Everyday Zen: Love and Work

• Bret Davis, Zen Pathways

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

• Koun Yamada, Zen: The Authentic Gate

Poetry

• Jane Hirschfield, ed., Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women (1995)

• Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems. 2 vols (2005)

• Gary Snyder, Mountains and Rivers Without End (2008)

• Gary Snyder, This Present Moment (2016)

• Thich Nhat Hanh, Call Me by My True Names: The Collected Poems of Thich Nhat Hanh (1999)

• David Whyte, Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words (2018), and Consolations II (2024)

• Han-shan, Cold Mountain: 100 Poems by the T’ang Poet Han-shan, trans. by Burton Watson (1970)

• James Green, The Sayings of Layman Pang: A Zen Classic of China

Nature

• Brother Phap Luu and Brother Phap Xa, Hiking Zen: Train Your Mind in Nature (2025)

• Gary Snyder, The Practice of the Wild (2010)

Autobiographical

• Norman Fischer, When You Greet Me I Bow: Notes and Reflections From a Life in Zen (2021)

• Soko Morinaga, Novice to Master: An Ongoing Lesson in the Extent of My Own Stupidity

Further training, anthologies, and history

• Nancy Mujo Baker, Opening to Oneness: A Practical and Philosophical Guide to the Zen Precepts

• Bernie Glassman, Infinite Circle: Teachings in Zen

• Norman Fischer, Training in Compassion: Zen Teachings on the Practice of Lojong (2013)

• John Daido Loori, The Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza

• Nelson Foster and Jack Shoemaker, The Roaring Stream: A New Zen Reader (an anthology containing a broad selection of key Zen sources with short biographies of their authors or, for some ancient texts, their presumed authors)

• Barbara O’Brien, The Circle of the Way: A Concise History of Zen from the Buddha to the Modern World

Eihei Dogen

• Hee-Jin Kim, Eihei Dogen: Mystical Realist

• David Brazier, The Dark Side of the Mirror: Forgetting the Self in Dōgen’s Genjō Kōan (2019)

• Shohaku Okumaura, Realizing Genjokoan: The Key to Dogen’s Shobogenzo (2010)

• Shinshu Roberts, Being-Time: A Practitioner’s Guide to Dōgen’s Shōbōgenzō Uji (2018)

• Eihei Dōgen, Treasury of the True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dōgen’s Shobo Genzo, ed. by Kazuaki Tanahashi (2012)

• Eihei Dōgen, Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dōgen, ed. by Kazuaki Tanahashi (1985)