Books recommended on r/zen

The most-mentioned books on r/zen.

The Zen Teaching of Huang Po
36 users
Instant Zen
28 users
The Blue Cliff Record
18 users
The Recorded Sayings of Zen Master Joshu
17 users
The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
16 users
The Record of Linji
12 users
Zen Essence
12 users
The Way of Zen
11 users
Three Pillars of Zen Teaching Practice and Enlightenment
11 users
Zen Training
10 users
The Bodhidharma Anthology
9 users
An Introduction to Zen Buddhism
9 users
Zen Letters
9 users
The recorded sayings of Zen Master Joshu = Chao-chou chan-shih yu-lu
8 users
Cultivating the Empty Field
8 users
Opening the Hand of Thought
8 users
Zen's Chinese Heritage
8 users
Book of Serenity
8 users
Zen Master Yunmen
8 users
The Zen Teachings of Master Lin-Chi
7 users
Zen Flesh Zen Bones
7 users
Hardcore Zen
7 users
Zen Teaching of Instantaneous Awakening
7 users
Not Zen
7 users
Unlocking the Zen Koan
7 users
Master Yunmen
7 users
The true dharma eye
7 users
Two Zen Classics
7 users
Swampland Flowers
7 users
Dogen's Manuals of Zen Meditation
6 users
Seeing through Zen
6 users
Bankei Zen
6 users
The Record of Tung-Shan
6 users
Unborn
6 users
Sun-Face Buddha
6 users
Sayings and Doings of Pai-chang
6 users
The Golden Age of Zen
6 users
The Sutra of Hui-neng, Grand Master of Zen
6 users
Zen Dawn
6 users
Zen Mind, Beginners Mind
6 users
Everyday Zen
5 users
The Letters of Chan Master Dahui Pujue
5 users
Radical Zen
5 users
The Tao of Zen
5 users
The Gateless Gate
5 users
The Authorized Dark Zen Meditation Manual of Buddhism
5 users
Zen Echoes
5 users
A bird in flight leaves no trace
5 users
The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch
4 users
Zongmi on Chan
4 users
Lao Tzu
4 users
Gödel, Escher, Bach
4 users
The Hongzhou School of Chan Buddhism in Eighth- through Tenth-Centu...
4 users
The Northern School and the Formation of Early Ch'an Buddhism
4 users
Pruning the Bodhi Tree
4 users
Teachings Of Zen
4 users
The Zen Doctrine of No Mind
4 users
The Roaring Stream
4 users
Zen Buddhism - a history
4 users
The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain
4 users
Ikkyu
4 users
Kensho
4 users
Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
4 users
The Diamond Sutra
4 users
Entangling vines
4 users
The Sound of the One Hand
4 users
Three Chan classics
4 users
The Book of Chuang Tzu
3 users
The Dude and the Zen Master
3 users
Chan Rhetoric of Uncertainty in the Blue Cliff Record
3 users
Yongming Yanshou's conception of Chan in the Zongjing lu
3 users
Enlightenment in dispute
3 users
The Zen of Creativity
3 users
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Zen Buddhism
3 users
How Zen Became Zen
3 users
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
3 users
Gateless Gate
3 users
Meditating With Koans
3 users
Ch'an and Zen teaching
3 users
Returning to Silence
3 users
The Transmission of the Lamp
3 users
Zen Buddhism
3 users
Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism
3 users
Master Dogen's Shobogenzo, Book 1
3 users
Zen masters of China
3 users
Historical Dictionary of Chan Buddhism
3 users
The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse
3 users
Tibetan Zen
3 users
Anger
3 users
Classics of Buddhism and Zen, Volume 1
3 users
Each Moment Is the Universe
3 users
The Sayings of Layman P'ang
3 users
Minding Mind
3 users
Sky Above, Great Wind
3 users
The Heart Sutra
3 users
The Platform Sutra
3 users
Living Buddha, Living Christ
3 users
Just This Is It
3 users
The Ceasing of Notions
3 users
Treasury of the eye of true teaching
3 users