Index of Zen & Chan Buddhist eBooks

Index of Zen and Chan Buddhist Books This is an index of Zen & Chan Buddhist materials in our local digital library — and wherever copyrights permit, titles will be processed for searching and download in multiple formats. If you have files we don't have in the index yet – please get in touch and help us fill in the blanks!

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Alphabetical Listing by Title (73 Texts)

  • A First Zen Reader
    by Trevor Leggett — PDF (3.94 MB)
  • A Guide to Japanese Buddhism
    by Japan Buddhist Federation — PDF (3.76 MB)
  • Advaita Vedanta and Zen Buddhism - Deconstructive Modes of Spiritual Inquiry
    by Leesa S. Davis — PDF (3.18 MB)
  • An Introduction to Zen Buddhism
    by D.T. Suzuki — PDF (2.81 MB)
  • An Introduction to Zen Buddhism
    by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki — PDF (10.54 MB)
  • Bodhidharma Antholgy - The Earliest Records of Zen
    by Jeffrey L. Broughton — PDF (2.68 MB)
  • Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness : Zen Talks on the Sandokai
    by Shunryu Suzuki — EPUB (0.15 MB)
  • Buddha in Blue Jeans - An Extremely Short Simple Zen Guide to Sitting Quietly
    by Tai Sheridan — PDF (0.34 MB)
  • Buddhist Art in Its Relation to Buddhist Ideals - With Special Reference to Buddhism in Japan
    by M. Anesaki — PDF (3.7 MB)
  • Bushido - The Soul of Japan
    by Inazo Nitobe — PDF (0.38 MB)
  • Cloud and Water
    by Master Hsing Yun — PDF (1.39 MB)
  • Death and the Afterlife in Japanese Buddhism
    by Jacqueline I. Stone & Mariko Namba Walter — PDF (8.83 MB)
  • Different Sets of Light-Channels in the Instruction Series of Rdzogs Chen
    by Daniel Scheidegger — PDF (0.44 MB)
  • Discourse and Ideology in Medieval Japanese Buddhism
    by Richard K. Payne & Taigen Dan Leighton — PDF (3.4 MB)
  • Empty Cloud - The Teachings of Xu (Hsu) Yun
    by Jy Din Shakya — PDF (0.89 MB)
  • Empty Selves: A Zen Buddhist Analysis of the Dissociative Self
    by Michael P. Goldsmith — PDF (0.16 MB)
  • Enlightenment in Dispute - The Reinvention of Chan Buddhism in Seventeenth-Century China
    by Jiang Wu — PDF (4.74 MB)
  • Five Ways to Know Yourself - An Introduction to Basic Mindfulness
    by Shinzen Young — PDF (9.57 MB)
  • Grass Mountain - A Seven Day Intensive in Ch'an Training
    by Nan Huai Chin — PDF (5.67 MB)
  • How Zen Became Zen - The Dispute over Enlightenment and the Formation of Chan Buddhism in Song-Dynasty China
    by Morten Schlütter — PDF (1.62 MB)
  • Hsin Hsin Ming - Verses on the Perfect Mind
    by Eric Putkonen & Seng-ts’an — PDF (2.82 MB)
  • Hyakujo - The Everest of Zen with Bashos Haikus
    by Osho Rajneesh — PDF (0.42 MB)
  • In the Spirit of Ch’an - Entering the Gate of Ch’an
    by D.D.M.B.A. — PDF (0.11 MB)
  • Introduction to Buddhism & Practice of Zazen - The Teachings of Gudo Nishijima Roshi
    by Eido Michael Luetchford — PDF (0.65 MB)
  • Introduction to Buddhism and the Practice of Zazen
    by Eido Michael Luetchford — PDF (0.65 MB)
  • Japanese Rinzai Zen Buddhism - Myoshinji, a Living Religion
    by Jorn Borup — PDF (1.65 MB)
  • Lankavatara Sutra
    by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki — PDF (1.44 MB)
  • Lankavatara Sutra
    by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki — PDF (18.77 MB) & ZIP (0.26 MB)
  • Mahayana Buddhism
    by Beatrice Lane Suzuki — PDF (8.57 MB)
  • Manual Of Zen Buddhism
    by D.T. Suzuki — PDF (0.6 MB)
  • Manual of Zen Buddhism
    by D.T. Suzuki — PDF (2.05 MB)
  • Manual of Zen Buddhism
    by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki — PDF (0.92 MB)
  • Nietzsche and Zen - Self-Overcoming Without a Self
    by Andre van der Braak — PDF (3.2 MB)
  • Opening a Mountain - Koans of the Zen Masters
    by Steven Heine — PDF (10.02 MB)
  • Outlines of Mahayana Buddhism
    by D.T. Suzuki — PDF (5.79 MB)
  • Psycho-Spiritual Development in Zen Buddhism - A Study of Resistance in Meditation
    by Greg Dubs — PDF (0.47 MB)
  • Pure-Land Zen, Zen Pure-land
    by Patriarch Yin Kuang — PDF (0.77 MB)
  • Rice Eyes - Enlightenmet in Dogen's Kitchen
    by Tai Sheridan — PDF (0.12 MB)
  • Samurai Zen - The Warrior Koans
    by Trevor Leggett — PDF (0.95 MB)
  • Sand and Pebbles (Shasekishu) - The Tales of Muju Ichien, a Voice for Pluralism in Kamakura Buddhism
    by Muju Ichien & Robert E. Morrell — PDF (4.83 MB)
  • Shingon - Japanese Esoteric Buddhism
    by Taiko Yamasaki — PDF (7.67 MB)
  • Shobogenzo
    by Eihei Dogen — PDF (8.47 MB)
  • Studies in the Lankavatara Sutra
    by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki — PDF (11.33 MB)
  • Sun-Face Buddha - The Teachings of Ma-tsu and the Hung-chou School of Ch'an
    by Cheng Chien Bhikshu — PDF (3.87 MB)
  • The Autobiography & Maxims of Chan Master Han Shan (1546-1623)
    by Rev. Chuan Yuan (Ming Zhen) Shakya, OHY & Upasaka Richard Cheung — PDF (0.41 MB)
  • The Buddha Eye - An Anthology of the Kyoto School and Its Contemporaries
    by Frederick Franck — PDF (3.79 MB)
  • The Essence of Chan
    by Unknown — PDF (1.33 MB)
  • The Fundamentals of Meditation Practice (Chan)
    by Ting Chen — PDF (0.6 MB)
  • The Fundamentals of Meditation Practice
    by Master Lok To & Ting Chen — PDF (0.6 MB)
  • The Gates of Chan Buddhism
    by Venerable Jing Hui — PDF (0.46 MB)
  • The Gospel According to Zen - Beyond the Death of God
    by Audrey Carr & Robert Sohl — PDF (1.38 MB)
  • The Hongzhou School of Chan Buddhism in Eighth- Through Tenth-century China
    by Jinhua Jia — PDF (3.87 MB)
  • The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Zen Buddhism
    by Helen Josephine Baroni — PDF (10.27 MB)
  • The Instruction of Gampopa, A Precious Garland of the Supreme Path
    by Konchok Rigzen — PDF (8.42 MB)
  • The Instructions of Gampopa - A Precious Garland of the Supreme Path
    by Gampopa & Konchok Rigzen — PDF (8.47 MB)
  • The Koan - Texts and Contexts in Zen Buddhism
    by Dale S. Wright & Steven Heine — PDF (7.07 MB)
  • The Lankavatara Sutra - A Mahayana Text
    by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki — PDF (1.11 MB)
  • The Matter of Zen - A Brief Account of Zazen
    by Paul Wienpahl — PDF (2.24 MB)
  • The Religion of the Samurai - A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan
    by Iain A. Macdonald — PDF (0.89 MB)
  • The Seventh World of Chan Buddhism
    by Ming Zhen Shakya — PDF (0.77 MB)
  • The Sweet Dews of Ch'an
    by Reverend Cheng Kuan — PDF (1.55 MB)
  • The Way of Zen
    by Alan W. Watts — MOBI (5.8 MB)
  • The World of Zen - An East-West Anthology
    by Nancy Wilson Ross — PDF (7.4 MB)
  • The Zen Experience - The Historical Evolution of Zen Through the Lives and Teachings of Its Great Masters Illustrated
    by Thomas Hoover — PDF (2.61 MB)
  • The Zen Koan as a Means of Attaining Enlightenment
    by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki — EPUB (0.36 MB)
  • The Zen Teaching of Rinzai
    by Irmgard Schloegl — PDF (0.93 MB)
  • The Zen of Advaita - The Zen Koan Course - Part 2
    by Stephen H. Wolinsky — PDF (11.61 MB)
  • The Zen of Advaita-Vedanta - The Teaching Mastery of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
    by Stephen H. Wolinsky, Phd — PDF (2.4 MB)
  • Transmission and Enlightenment in Chan Buddhism Seen Through the Platform Sūtra (Transmission and Enlightenment in Chan Buddhism Seen Through the Platform Sūtra (Liuzu Tanjing)
    by Morten Schlutter — PDF (0.55 MB)
  • Zen - A Way of Life
    by Christmas Humphreys — PDF (3.21 MB)
  • Zen Classics - Formative Texts in the History of Zen Buddhism
    by Dale S. Wright & Steven Heine — PDF (3.05 MB)
  • Zen Culture - How Zen Has Influenced Art, Architecture, Literature, Sports, Ceramics and Theatre
    by Thomas Hoover — PDF (2.31 MB)
  • Zen Master Ejo - Absorption in the Treasury of Light
    by Unknown — PDF (0.04 MB)
  • Zen Stories to Tell Your Neighbors
    by Unknown — PDF (0.89 MB)
  • Zen's Chinese Heritage - The Masters and Their Teachings
    by Andrew Ferguson — PDF (3.22 MB)
  • Zen: A Cognition to the Mind | by Pho Nguyet | PDF (0.14 MB)