Zen Books

New and Published Books

1. The Zen Impulse and the Psychoanalytic Encounter

   By Paul C. Cooper

   Although psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism derive from theoretical and philosophical assumptions worlds apart, both experientially-based traditions share at their heart a desire for the understanding, development, and growth of the human experience. Paul Cooper utilizes detailed clinical vignettes to...

   Published December 2nd 2009 by Routledge
2. Tibetan and Zen Buddhism in Britain

   Transplantation, Development and Adaptation

   By David N Kay

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism

   This book analyses the transplantation, development and adaptation of the two largest Tibetan and Zen Buddhist organizations currently active on the British religious landscape: the New Kadampa Tradition (NKT) and the Order of Buddhist Contemplatives (OBC). The key contributions of recent...

   Published December 10th 2003 by Routledge
3. Samurai Zen

   The Warrior Koans, 2nd Edition

   By Trevor Leggett

   Samurai Zen brings together 100 of the rare riddles which represent the core spiritual discipline of Japan's ancient Samurai tradition. Dating from thirteenth-century records of Japan's Kamakura temples, and traditionally guarded with a reverent secrecy, they reflect the earliest manifestation of...

   Published March 19th 2003 by Routledge
4. Zen War Stories

   By Brian Victoria

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism

   Following the critically acclaimed Zen at War (1997), Brian Victoria explores the intimate relationship between Japanese institutional Buddhism and militarism during the Second World War.Victoria reveals for the first time, through examination of the wartime writings of the Japanese military itself...

   Published December 18th 2002 by Routledge
5. Empty Vision

   Metaphor and Visionary Imagery in Mahayana Buddhism

   By David McMahan

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism

   Visual metaphors in a number of Mahayana sutras construct a discourse in which visual perception serves as a model for knowledge and enlightenment. In the Perfection of Wisdom (Prajnaparamita) and other Mahayana literature, immediate access to reality is symbolized by vision and set in opposition...

   Published June 12th 2002 by Routledge
6. Mysticism: Christian and Buddhist

   2nd Edition

   By D.T. Suzuki

   Series: Routledge Classics

   If the Western world knows anything about Zen Buddhism, it is down to the efforts of one remarkable man, D.T. Suzuki. The twenty-seven year-old Japanese scholar first visited the West in 1897, and over the course of the next seventy years became the world's leading authority on Zen. His radical and...

   Published May 8th 2002 by Routledge