Hakuin Ekaku: “Song of Meditation” - Milestone Documents

Hakuin Ekaku: “Song of Meditation”

( ca. 1718 )

Further Reading

Books

  • Aitken, Robert. Taking the Path of Zen. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1982.
  • Aitken, Robert. Encouraging Words: Zen Buddhist Teachings for Western Students. New York: Pantheon Books, 1994.
  • Bielefeldt, Carl. Dogen’s Manuals of Zen Meditation. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.
  • Daoyuan, Shi. Original Teachings of Ch’an Buddhism, trans. Chang Chung-yuan. New York: Grove Press, 1982.
  • Hakuin. The Zen Master Hakuin: Selected Writings, trans. Philip Yampolsky. New York: Columbia University Press, 1971.
  • Hakuin. The Essential Teachings of Zen Master Hakuin, trans. Norman Waddell. Boston: Shambhala, 1994.
  • Hakuin. Zen Words for the Heart: Hakuin’s Commentary on the Heart Sutra, trans. Norman Waddell. Boston: Shambhala, 1996.
  • Hakuin. Wild Ivy: The Spiritual Autobiography of Zen Master Hakuin, trans. Norman Waddell. Boston: Shambhala, 2001.
  • Lai, Whalen, and Lewis R. Lancaster, eds. Early Ch’an in China and Tibet. Berkeley, Calif.: Asian Humanities Press, 1980.
  • Nhat Hanh, Thich. The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation. New York: Broadway Books, 1999.
  • Schloegl, Irmgard, trans. The Zen Teachings of Rinzai. Boulder, Colo.: Shambhala, 1976.
  • Suzuki, Daisetz T. The Zen Doctrine of No-Mind. London: Rider, 1983.
  • Suzuki, Daisetz T. An Introduction to Zen. New York: Grove Press, 2004.
  • Suzuki, Shunryu. Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
  • Suzuki, Shunryu. Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen. New York: HarperCollins, 2002.
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Yoritomo (left), the ruler under whom Zen was established in Japan (Library of Congress)

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