English Translations of Works by Zen Masters

• Bankei Yōtaku, 2000, The Unborn: The Life and Teachings of Zen Master Bankei, 1622–1693, Norman Waddell (tr.), New York: North Point Press. (Scholar)
• –––. 1994, Bankei Zen: Translations from the Record of Bankei, Yoshito Hakeda (ed.), Peter Haskel (tr.), New York: Grove Press. (Scholar)
• Dōgen, 1975, A Primer of Sōtō Zen: A translation of Dōgen’s Shōbōgenzō Zuimonki, Matsunaga Reiho (tr.), Honolulu: University of Hawaiʽi Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2002, The Heart of Dōgen’s Shōbōgenzō, Abe Masao and Normal Waddell (tr)., Albany: SUNY Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2010, Treasury of the True Dharma Eye: Zen master Dogen’s “Shōbōgenzō,” Tanahashi Kazuaki, et al. (tr.), Boston: Shambhala Press, 2 vols. (Scholar)
• Hakuin Ekaku, 1971, The Zen Master Hakuin: Selected Writings. Philip B. Yampolsky (tr.) New York: Columbia University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1994, The Essential Teachings of Zen Master Hakuin, Norman Waddell (tr.) Boston: Shambala Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2010, Wild Ivy: The Spiritual Autobiography of Zen Master Hakuin, Norman Waddell (tr.), Boston: Shambala. (Scholar)
• Huineng, 1976, The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch, Yampolsky, Philip (tr.), New York: Columbia University Press. (Scholar)
• Musō Soseki, 2010, Dialogues in a Dream, Thomas Yūhō Kirchner (tr.). Kyoto: Tenryu-ji Institute for Philosophy and Religion. (Scholar)
• Rinzai [Linji Yixuan], 1989, Rinzai roku [The Records of Zen Master Rinzai], Tokyo: Iwanami shoten. (Scholar)
• –––, 2009, The Record of Linji, trans. and commentary by Ruth Fuller Sasaki, Thomas Yūhō Kirchner (ed.), Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. (Scholar)
• Takuan Sōhō, 1986, The Unfettered Mind: Writings of the Zen Master to the Sword Master, W. S. Wilson, (tr.), New York: Kodansha International. (Scholar)
• –––, 2012, Sword of Zen: Master Takuan and His Writings on Immovable Wisdom and the Sword Taie, Peter Haskel (tr.) Honolulu: University of Hawaiʽi Press. (Scholar)

English Translations of Classical Zen Anthologies

• Gateless Gate (Mumonkan) 1979, Yamada Kōūn (tr. and commentary), Los Angeles: Center Publications. (Scholar)
• The Blue Cliff Record, 1977, Thomas Clearly et al. (trs.), Boulder, CO: Shambala Press. (Scholar)

Secondary Works

• Abe, Masao, 1989, Zen and the Western Thought, Honolulu: the University of Hawai‘i Press. (Scholar)
• Austin, James H., 1998, Zen and the Brain, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (Scholar)
• Conze, Edward, 1972, Buddhist Wisdom Books: The Diamond Sutra/The Heart Sutra, London: George Allen & Unwin. (Scholar)
• Dumoulin, Heinrich, 1988, Zen Buddhism: A History—India and China, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company. (Scholar)
• –––, 1990, Zen Buddhism: A History—Japan, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company. (Scholar)
• Heine, Steve (ed.), 2014, Zen Kōans, Honolulu: University of Hawai’i. (Scholar)
• Heisig, James W., 2001, Philosophers of Nothingness, Honolulu: University of Hawai’i. (Scholar)
• Heisig, James W., Thomas P. Kasulis, and John C. Maraldo (eds.), 2011, “The Zen Tradition” in Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook, Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, pp. 135–232. (Scholar)
• Herrigel, Eugen, 1971, Zen in the Art of Archery, New York: Vintage Books. (Scholar)
• Hori, Victor S., 2003, Zen Sand: The Book of Capping Phrases for Kōan Practice, Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. (Scholar)
• Iriya, Yoshitaka (ed.), 1989, Rinzai roku [The Records of Zen Master Rinzai], Tokyo: Iwanami shoten. (Scholar)
• Izutsu, Toshihiko, 1977, Toward a Philosophy of Zen Buddhism, Boulder: Prajñā Press. (Scholar)
• Kasulis, Thomas P., 2018, Engaging Japanese Philosophy: A Short History, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʽi Press, Ch. 6 “Dōgen.” (Scholar)
• –––, 1981, Zen Action/Zen Person, Honolulu: the University of Hawai’i Press. (Scholar)
• Kim, Hee-Jin, 1987, Dōgen Kigen: Mystical Realist, Tuscon: University of Arizona. (Scholar)
• Nagatomo, Shigenori, 2000, “The Logic of the Diamond Sutra: A is not A, Therefore A” in the Journal of Asian Philosophy, 10 (3): 213–244. (Scholar)
• Nishitani, Keiji, 1982, Religion and Nothingness, Berkeley: University of California Press. (Scholar)
• Sasaki, Ruth Fuller, 1975, The Recorded Sayings of Ch’an Master Lin-chi Hui-chao of Chen Prefecture, Kyōto: Institute for Zen Studies. (Scholar)
• Stone, Jacqueline I, 1999, Original Enlightenment and the Transformation of Medieval Japanese Buddhism, Honolulu: University of Hawaiōi Press. (Scholar)
• Suzuki, D.T., 2010, Zen and Japanese Culture, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
• Suzuki, D.T., 1976, Essays in Zen Buddhism (2nd series), New York: Samuel Weiser Inc. (Scholar)
• –––, 1976, Essays in Zen Buddhism (3rd series), New York: Samuel Weiser Inc. (Scholar)
• –––, 1960, Manual of Zen Buddhism, New York: Grove Press. (Scholar)
• ––– (tr.), 1932, The Lankāvatā ra Sūtra, Boulder: Prajñā Press. (Scholar)
• Thurman, Robert (tr.), 1976, The Holy Teaching of Vimalakīrti, University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press. (Scholar)
• Ueda, Shizuteru (ed.), 1981, Zen no sekai [The World of Zen]. Tokyo: Risōsha. (Scholar)
• Yanagita, Seizan, 1974, Mu no tankyū; Chūgoku zenbukkyō [Inquiry into Nothing: Chinese Zen Buddhism], Tokyo: Kadokawa shoten. (Scholar)
• Yuasa, Yasuo, 2003, “Shinsōshinri no genshōgakunōto” [Phenomenological Notes on Depth-psychology], in Yuasa Yasuo Zenshū [Complete Works of Yuasa Yauso], Tokyo: Hakua shobō, 2003, vol. 4. (Scholar)
• –––, 1987, The Body: An Eastern Mind-Body Theory, Nagatomo Shigenori and Thomas P. Kasulis (tr.), Albany: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1993, The Body, Self-Cultivation and Ki-Energy, Shigenori Nagatomo and Monte S. Hull (trans.), Albany: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)