Books

Complete Enlightenment is the first authoritative translation and commentary on The Sutra of Complete Enlightenment, a central text that shaped the development of East Asian Buddhism and Ch'an (Chinese Zen). The text…  Read More

Huatou is a skillful method for breaking through the prison of mental habits into the spacious mind of enlightenment. The huatou is a confounding question much like a Zen koan. Typical ones are "What is wu [nothingness]?" or "What was…  Read More

The writings of the twelfth-century Chinese Zen master Ta Hui are as immediately accessible as those of any contemporary teacher, and this book, which introduced them to the English-speaking world in the 1970s, has become a modern classic—a regular feature…  Read More

This important book brings together three long-lost texts, the earliest known writings on Zen.

• Records of the Teachers and Students of the Lanka presents a complete set of biographies of the Zen patriarchs.
• Bodhidharma's Treatise on Contemplating…  Read More