The Zen Teaching of Huang Po on the Transmission of Mind

A short primer published by the Zen Studies Society explaining what Zen is, how Ch'an traveled from India through China to Japan, and why zazen sits at the heart of the practice. A clear gateway for anyone new to the tradition.

Zen Studies

Selected essays from Dogen Zenji's Shōbōgenzō (Treasury of the Eye of True Teaching), translated and introduced by Thomas Cleary. Includes Genjokoan, the founding text of Japanese Sōtō Zen written for both monastics and lay practitioners.

Dogen Zenji

An academic paper by Yong Zhi (Temple University) that unpacks the four classical Zen mottos: special transmission outside doctrine, not establishing language, direct pointing to the mind, and seeing one's nature to attain Buddhahood. Strong on the linguistic philosophy behind Zen expression.

Yong Zhi