Background Reading and Works Cited
Asvaghosha, trans. Yashito S. Hakeda, The Awakening of Faith Attributed to Asvaghosha. Columbia University Press, New York: 1967.
Garma C. C. Chang, general editor, A Treasury of Mahayana Sutras: Selections from the Maharatnakuta Sutra. Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi: 1991.
Kenneth K. S. Ch'en, Buddhism in China. An historical Survey. Princeton University Press: Princeton, 1964.
J. C. Cleary, Zen Dawn: Early Zen Texts from Tun Huang. Shambhala, Boston:1991.
Thomas Cleary, Entry into the Inconceivable: An Introduction to Hua-yen Buddhism. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu: 1983.
Thomas Cleary, The Five Houses of Zen. Shambhala, Boston and London: 1997.
Thomas Cleary, The Flower Ornament Sutra: A Translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra. Vol. 1. Shambhala, Boulder and London: 1984.
Thomas Cleary, Timeless Spring. Weatherhill, Tokyo: 1980.
Francis H. Cook, Hua-Yen: The Jewel Net of Indra. Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park and London: 1977.
Dongshan Liangjie, trans. William F. Powell. The Record of Tung-shan. Kuroda Institute Classics in East Asian Buddhism. Univ. Hawaii Press, Honolulu: 1986.
Heinrich Dumoulin, Zen Buddhism: A History. Volume 1: India and China. Macmillan, New York: 1988.
Patricia Ebrey and Peter Gregory, editors. Religion and Society in T'ang and Sung China. University of Hawaii, Honolulu: 1986.
Marcea Eliade, editor-in-chief, The Encyclopedia of Religion. Macmillan, New York: 1987.
Bernard Faure, The Rhetoric of Immediacy: A Cultural Critique of Zen. Princeton University Press, Princeton: 1991.
Andrew Ferguson, Zen's Chinese Heritage: The Masters and Their Teachings. Wisdom Publications, Somerville MA: 2000.
Peter Gregory, Tsung-mi and the Sinification of Buddhism. Princeton University Press, Princeton: 1991.
Peter Gregory and Daniel Getz Jr., eds., Buddhism in the Sung. Kuruda Institute Studies in East Asian Buddhism 13. University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu: 1999.
Hongzhi Zhengjue, trans. Taigen Dan Leighton, Cultivating the Empty Field: The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi. North Point Press, San Francisco: 1991.
Huineng, trans. Philip B. Yampolsky, The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch. Columbia University Press, New York: 1967.
Keizan Jokin, trans. Francis Cook, The Record of Transmitting the Light. Center Press, Los Angeles: 1991.
Keizan Jokin, trans. Thomas Cleary, Transmission of Light: Zen in the Art of Enlightenment, by Zen Master Keizan. North Point Press, San Francisco: 1990.
Sallie B. King, Buddha Nature. State University of New York Press, Albany: 1991.
Lewis Lancaster and Whalen Lai, eds., Early Ch'an in China and Tibet. Berkeley Buddhist Studies Series 5. Asian Humanities Press, Berkeley: 1983.
Isshu Miura and Ruth Sasaki , Zen Dust. Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., New York: 1966.
Mazu, trans. Julian F. Pas, The Recorded Sayings of Ma-tsu. Studies in Asian Thought and Religion, Volume 6. The Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston and Queenston: 1987.
Red Pine, The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma. North Point Press, San Francisco: 1987.
Seng Chao, trans. Walter Liebenthal, Chao Lun: The Treatises of Seng-chao. Hong Kong University Press: 1968.
Benjamin I. Schwartz, The World of Thought in Ancient China. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts: 1985.
Shunryu Suzuki, Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai. University of California Press, Berkeley: 1999.
Robert A.F. Thurman, trans., The Holy Teaching of Vimalakirti. Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park and London: 1976.
Wansong Xingxiu, trans. Thomas Cleary, Book of Serenity. Lindisfarne Press, Hudson, New York: 1990.
Stanley Weinstein, Buddhism under the T'ang. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge: 1987.
Yi Wu, The Mind of Chinese Ch'an. Great Learning Publishing Company, San Francisco: 1989.
Tao Yuan, trans. Sohaku Ogata, The Transmission of the Lamp. Longwood Academic, Wolfeboro, New Hampshire: 1990.
Jan Yuen-Hua,
A Chronicle of Buddhism in China 581-960 A.D. – Translations from
Monk Chih-p'an's Fo-tsu T'ung-chi. Ranjit Ray, Calcutta:
1966.