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Books on Rinzai Zen Buddhism
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Zen Sand: The Book of Capping Phrases for Koan Practice (Nanzan Library of Asian Religion and Culture, 24)
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4.53 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Gateless Gate: The Classic Book of Zen Koans
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4.24 avg rating — 1,219 ratings
score: 254,
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The Zen Teachings of Rinzai
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4.28 avg rating — 279 ratings
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The Original Face: An Anthology of Rinzai Zen
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Thomas Cleary (Editor)
3.65 avg rating — 20 ratings
score: 196,
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The Book of Rinzai
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4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Discourse on the Inexhaustible Lamp of the Zen School
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4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Undying Lamp of Zen: The Testament of Zen Master Torei
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4.29 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Sitting with Koans: Essential Writings on Zen Koan Introspection
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John Daido Loori (Editor)
4.07 avg rating — 68 ratings
score: 174,
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The Path to Bodhidharma: Teachings of Shodo Harada Roshi
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4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings
score: 173,
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A Flower Does Not Talk: Zen Essays
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4.09 avg rating — 68 ratings
score: 160,
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The Zen Eye: A Collection of Zen Talks
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4.10 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Zen Teaching of Huang Po: On the Transmission of Mind
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4.44 avg rating — 1,036 ratings
score: 158,
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Unborn: The Life and Teachings of Zen Master Bankei, 1622-1693
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4.26 avg rating — 131 ratings
score: 157,
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The Gateless Barrier: The Wu-Men Kuan
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4.24 avg rating — 1,219 ratings
score: 151,
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The Record of Linji (Nanzan Library of Asian Religion and Culture, 13)
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4.28 avg rating — 279 ratings
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Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk
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3.73 avg rating — 778 ratings
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The Zen Teachings of Master Lin-Chi
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4.28 avg rating — 279 ratings
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Moon by the Window: The Calligraphy and Zen Insights of Shodo Harada
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4.89 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The Blue Cliff Record
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Yuanwu Keqin (Compiler)
4.41 avg rating — 332 ratings
score: 98,
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Not One Single Thing: A Commentary on the Platform Sutra
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4.30 avg rating — 23 ratings
score: 98,
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Rinzai: Master of the Irrational
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4.22 avg rating — 18 ratings
score: 97,
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Rinzai Zen: Rinzai Buddhists, Rinzai Temples, Thich Nhat Hanh, Linji, Sokei-An, Five Mountain System, Taizan Maezumi, Hakuin Ekaku
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it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating
score: 95,
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Wild Ivy: The Spiritual Autobiography of Zen Master Hakuin
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4.03 avg rating — 249 ratings
score: 91,
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The Essential Teachings of Zen Master Hakuin: A Translation of the Sokko-roku Kaien-fusetsu
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4.18 avg rating — 102 ratings
score: 90,
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Critical Sermons of the Zen Tradition: Hisamatsu's Talks on Linji
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3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
score: 89,
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Straight to the Heart of Zen: Eleven Classic Koans and Their Inner Meanings
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3.91 avg rating — 32 ratings
score: 88,
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Selections from The Embossed Tea Kettle
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3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
score: 86,
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Shifting Shape, Shaping Text: Philosophy and Folklore in Fox Koan
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score: 85,
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Zen Lessons: The Art of Leadership
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3.86 avg rating — 230 ratings
score: 84,
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Hakuin's Precious Mirror Cave: A Zen Miscellany
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Norman Waddell (editor)
3.44 avg rating — 16 ratings
score: 83,
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Obaku Zen: The Emergence of the Third Sect of Zen in Tokugawa Japan
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4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
score: 82,
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The Zen Master Hakuin
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Hakuin Ekaku (Translator)
3.94 avg rating — 34 ratings
score: 81,
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Samurai Zen
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3.93 avg rating — 27 ratings
score: 80,
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Novice to Master: An Ongoing Lesson in the Extent of My Own Stupidity
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4.24 avg rating — 450 ratings
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Hakuin on Kensho: The Four Ways of Knowing
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4.02 avg rating — 47 ratings
score: 77,
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Five Mountains: The Rinzai Zen Monastic Institution in Medieval Japan (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
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4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
score: 76,
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Japanese Rinzai Zen Buddhism: Myoshinji, a Living Religion (Numen Book Series, 119)
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score: 75,
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Zen Sanctuary of Purple Robes: Japan's Tokeiji Convent Since 1285
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The Zen Koan: Its History and Use in Rinzai Zen
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3.94 avg rating — 66 ratings
score: 72,
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The Wisdom of the Zen Masters
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3.61 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Daitokuji: The Visual Cultures of a Zen Monastery
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score: 70,
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Warrior of Zen: The Diamond-Hard Wisdom Mind of Suzuki Shosan
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4.08 avg rating — 39 ratings
score: 69,
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The 100th Year of Joshu Sasaki Roshi
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4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Laughing Buddha of Tofukuji: The Life of Zen Master Keido Fukushima
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3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
score: 67,
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Bankei Zen: Translations from the Record of Bankei
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4.37 avg rating — 120 ratings
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Lectures On The Ten Oxherding Pictures
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4.52 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Koan: Texts and Contexts in Zen Buddhism
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Steven Heine (Editor)
3.56 avg rating — 25 ratings
score: 63,
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Holding the Lotus to the Rock: The Autobiography of Sokei-an, America's First Zen Master
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Michael Hotz (Editor)
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Zen Pivots: Lectures on Buddhism and Zen
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Zen Pioneer: The Life and Works of Ruth Fuller Sasaki
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The Book of Equanimity: Illuminating Classic Zen Koans
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4.25 avg rating — 125 ratings
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Secrets of the Blue Cliff Record: Zen Comments by Hakuin and Tenkei
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Thomas Cleary (Translator)
4.38 avg rating — 79 ratings
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Morning Dewdrops of the Mind: Teachings of a Contemporary Zen Master
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Zen comments on the Mumonkan
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Eloquent Zen: Daito and Early Japanese Zen
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Opening a Mountain: Koans of the Zen Masters
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Zen No Sho: The Calligraphy of Fukushima Keido Roshi
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Isn't "The Book of Equanimity" a collection of Soto koans?
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Craig wrote: "Isn't "The Book of Equanimity" a collection of Soto koans?"No, while it was first translated by people within the Soto sect in Japan, it isn't particularly part of the Soto branch.
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