Essential Zen

The best collection of Zen wisdom and wit since Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: koans, sayings, poems, and stories by Eastern and American Zen teachers and students capture the delightful, challenging, mystifying, mind-stopping, outrageous, and scandalous heart of Zen.

Religion & Spirituality

Tanahashi, Kazuaki

Buddhism

HarperSanFrancisco

Gathers a selection from the teachings of ancient Zen masters, and includes stories, poems, and lessons on meditation

Harpercollins

Enku: Sculptor of a Hundred Thousand Buddhas

Shambhala

Yet the teachings of ancient Chinese masters were recorded by their students, discussed, sometimes chanted, and given out as objects of meditation or koans. And, as Kazuaki Tanahashi points out, "However weird or enigmatic they are, or perhaps because of those very qualities

Schneider, Tensho David

Castle Pub.

Enku: Sculptr Buddhas

Biographies & Memoirs

Gathers drawings and poems by an eighteenth-century Japanese Zen Buddhist master and discusses the meaning of his work

Penetrating Laughter

Arts & Photography

Decorative Arts & Design

Abrams Press

Brush Mind

Parallax Pr

"Artist, calligrapher, and peace activist Kazuaki Tanahashi responds to the seemingly continuous threat of war and environmental devastation by daring to envision that a Great Peace can still sweep across the world as a brushstroke that expresses humanity's true heart. With the understanding that for there to be peace, peace must first possess the imagination of ordinary women and men, his life's work has cultivated and expressed that imagination, and encouraged others to find ways in their personal lives to do so as well. This extraordinary collection of his paintings is a true testimony to that vision and spirit. They mirror for us what we have been, what we are, and what we can be." -- Peter Levitt, author of One Hundred Butterflies

Peace or War: Artworks by Kazuaki Tanahashi

History & Criticism

Independently published

A humorous book on Zen brushwork and calligraphy. Brush Mind provides insights into the philosophy of art with a collection of writings with only a few simple words. Every other page in the main section of this book shows an imaginative one-stroke painting created in monochrome.

BookSurge Publishing

Enlightenment Unfolds is a sequel to Kaz Tanahashi's previous collection, Moon in a Dewdrop, which has become a primary source on Dogen for Western Zen students. Dogen Zenji (1200-1253) is unquestionably the most significant religious figure in Japanese history. Founder of the Soto school of Zen (which emphasizes the practice of zazen or sitting meditation), he was a prolific writer whose works have remained popular for six hundred years. Enlightenment Unfolds presents even more of the incisive and inspiring writings of this seminal figure, focusing on essays from his great life work, Treasury of the True Dharma Eye , as well as poems, talks, and correspondence, much of which appears here in English for the first time. Tanahashi has brought together his own translations of Dogen with those of some of the most respected Zen teachers and writers of our own day, including Reb Anderson, Edward Espe Brown, Norman Fisher, Gil Fronsdal, Blanche Hartman, Jane Hirschfield, Daniel Leighton, Alan Senauke, Katherine Thanas, Mel Weitzman, and Michael Wenger.

Enlightenment Unfolds: The Essential Teachings of Zen Master Dogen

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

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Essential Zen

Essential Zen

Enku: Sculptor of a Hundred Thousand Buddhas

Essential Zen

Enku: Sculptr Buddhas

Penetrating Laughter

Brush Mind

Peace or War: Artworks by Kazuaki Tanahashi

Brush Mind

Enlightenment Unfolds: The Essential Teachings of Zen Master Dogen