New Bibliography

Links to sections below:
Shunryu Suzuki | Zen & Buddhism | Older Zen & Buddhism | Philosophy | History | Psychology & Medicine | Food, Culture, Biology & Architecture

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Links to other book pages:
Memoirs & Biography | Fiction, Poetry & Photography | DC Books | Cuke Press | Old Bibliography | In-house publications & limited printings

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Books by and about Shunryu Suzuki

ZMBM cuke page | ZMBM.net | ZMBM.net

Excerpts featuring Suzuki from various books | By and about him with more info | College Disertation

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Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen edited by Edward Brown

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon

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Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai
Mel Weitsman & Michael Wenger (Editors)

For more info go to Branching Streams.

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Crooked Cucumber  - 1st edition

2nd edition and audiobook page

DC home page

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Remembering the Dragon: Recollections of Suzuki Roshi by his Students
Gil Fronsdal - editor

Published by Sati Center and SFZC in 2004 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary.
Available for a donation: bookstore@sfzc.org (415) 354-0397
PDFs: High resolution  - low resolution

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Books on Zen and Buddhism ⤒ top of page

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Carl Bielefeldt
Dogen's Manuals of Zen Meditation

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Dogen's Genjo Koan: Three Commentaries
This unique edition of Dogen's Genjo Koan (Actualization of Reality) contains three separate translations and several commentaries by a wide variety of Zen masters. Nishiari Bokusan, Shohaku Okamura, Shunryu Suzuki, Kosho Uchiyama. Sojun Mel Weitsman, Kazuaki Tanahashi, and Dairyu Michael Wenger all have contributed to the presentation.

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Edward Brown
by all means

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Other books by Edward Brown

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The Trikaya - edited by Tim Buckley from Shunryu Suzuki lectures on the Lotus Sutra.

Vol. 8: 69-03, Complete Wind Bell

Read as text file

All SFZC Wind Bells

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Tim Burkett
nothing holy about It website
features Suzuki and Katagiri

at local indie bookstore | on Amazon

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The Path of Aliveness: A Contemporary Zen Approach to Awakening Body and Mind
by Zenki Christian Dillo (2022)
on Amazon

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Blanche Hartman
Seeds for a Boundless Life

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Richard Jaffe
Selected Works of D.T. Suzuki, Volume I

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Koshin Ogui
Zen Shin Talks with links to much on Suzuki and him

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Bill Porter (Red Pine)
Red Pine books
The Heart Sutra

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Nancy Wilson Ross
Buddhism: A Way of Life and Thought

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Zen Women by Grace Schireson

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Tai Sheridan
His website - with a list of books and quotes from reviews

His books on Amazon

Tai has kindly made these books available in the EPUB format which can be read with many freely available apps for computers, tablets and phones. He has requested that donations be given to Cuke Archives if you download the books from these links:

• Buddha in Blue Jeans Five Book Zen Anthology - Gift.epub
• Zen Heaven and Hell - Gift.epub
• Plum Blossom Zen - Contemplating Dogen - Gift .epub
• Buddhacarita - Gift.epub

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Kazuaki Tanahashi
Treasury of the True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen's Shobo Genzo

Books on his website
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Katherine Thanas
The Truth of This Life

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Brad Warner
Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality

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All Brad's books on Amazon

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Seeing One Thing Through: The Zen Life and Teachings of Sojun Mel Weitsman

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Wind Bell: Teachings from the San Francisco Zen Center - 1968-2001 edited by Michael Wenger & Erlich, Gretel

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Older Books on Zen and Buddhism ⤒ top of page

1958, The Zen Teaching of Huang Po translated by John Blofeld

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1961, The Blue Cliff Record translated by Thomas Cleary
(Other translations available)
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Edward Conze
1958, Buddhist Wisdom: The Diamond Sutra and The Heart Sutra
A book all students studied at first Tassajara practice period.

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1967, The Three Pillars of Zen by Philip Kapleau

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1957, The Soto Approach to Zen by Reiho Masunaga who lived and taught at the SFZC in the eighties

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1959, Zen Buddhism
Peter Pauper Press

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1959, What the Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula

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Paul Reps
1958, Zen Flesh, Zen Bones

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1934, The Training of the Zen Buddhist Monk by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
Along with Watts, most influential

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Alan Watts
1957, The Way of Zen
Most mentioned book (plus other books and Watt's TV and radio shows) as sparking their first interest in practice

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Books on Philosophy and Religion ⤒ top of page

Ram Dass
1971, Be Here Now
Included Tassajara schedule (PDF) which brought Ted Marshall to ZC. See text on Ram Dass page (thanks Ted Howell).

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Norman Fischer (cuke page with many other titles)
Experience: Thinking, Writing, Language, and Religion
Norman Fischer's website

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The New Religions by Jacob Needleman
A lot on the SFZC, Tassajara, and Shunryu Suzuki. Maybe the first to do so.

Read some of it

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The Discipline of Freedom by Phillip Olson

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Robert Pirsig and Wendy Pirsig
On Quality: An Inquiry into Excellence: Unpublished and Selected Writings

Harper Collins page for On Quality

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Harry Roberts
Walking in Beauty

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Suzuki excerpt from New Gods in America by Peter Rowley

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Gary Snyder
All his books on Amazon

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Huston Smith
1958, The World's Religions

Books by Huston Smith

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Histories ⤒ top of page

Margot Doss interview
San Francisco At Your Feet, must be first mention of Suzuki in a book - 1959 walk through Japantown.

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Rick Fields
How the Swans Came to the Lake  
with a section about Shunryu Suzuki

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Richard Jaffe
Neither Monk nor Layman

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Marilyn McDonald
A Brief History of Tassajara
from Cuke Press 2018

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John K. Nelson
Experimental Buddhism (not the one who lived at ZC)

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Rebecca Solnit website
Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas
with Footprints of Suzuki Shunryu & Zen groups
See Dharma Wheels and Fish Ladders

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Steve Tipton
Getting Saved from the Sixties: The Transformation of Moral Meaning in American Culture
(based on interviews with students in and around SFZC in the 1970s.)

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Books by Steve Tipton

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Brian Victoria
Zen at War

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Books on Psychology and Medicine ⤒ top of page

Edward Conze’s The Psychology of Mass Propaganda presents a commentary on the psychology of propaganda during the rise of fascism in Europe in the 1930s. It discusses the conditions which generate vulnerability to misinformation in human societies, and thus offers insight into how propaganda may be "withstood." Completed in 1939, during the period of Conze’s own inflection from Marxist philosophy to Buddhist studies, the original manuscript was never published and is now in print for the first time. Edited and with a new introduction by Richard N. Levine and Nathan H. Levine. Published by Routledge | on Amazon.

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Jack Elias
Finding True Magic

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Molly Jones
White Magic

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Food, Culture, Biology and Architecture ⤒ top of page

1968, Whole Earth Catalog, Stewart Brand (Editor)

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The Esselen Indians of the Big Sur Country by Gary S. Breschini and Trudy Haversat, Coyote Press

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Esselen Indians

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Edward Brown
Tomato Blessings (with Many Suzuki stories)

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All Edward's books on Amazon

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Tim Buckley
Standing Ground

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Paul Discoe
Zen Architecture

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"Paul Discoe was in on the ground floor of Zen architecture in the United States. In the 1960s he became a student of Zen Buddhism, studying and building at the Tassajara complex in northern California. His own wood-based Zen-Buddhism architectural structures and renovations in the United States and Europe are the focus of this book…." - from Amazon. Cover and sample pages from the publisher.

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Wendy Johnson
Gardening at the Dragon's Gate 

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Deborah Madison
The Greens Cookbook

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All Books by Deborah on Amazon

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Links to sections above:
Shunryu Suzuki | Zen & Buddhism | Older Zen & Buddhism | Philosophy | History | Psychology & Medicine | Food, Culture, Biology & Architecture

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Links to other book pages:
Memoirs & Biography | Fiction, Poetry & Photography | DC Books | Cuke Press | Old Bibliography | In-house publications & limited printings

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