Mountain Rain Zen 2017 Practice Period The Gateless Gate (Mumonkan) Readings and Resources (*recommended)

Translations of the Mumonkan with Commentary *Aitken, Robert, The Gateless Barrier: The Wu-men Kuan (Mumonkan), North Point Press, 1991. Cleary, Thomas, Tr. and commentary, No Barrier: Unlocking the Zen Koan, Bantam Books, 1993. Sekida, Katsuki, Two Zen Classics: The Gateless Gate and the Blue Cliff Records), Weatherhill, 1977. Senzaki, Nyogen, Eloquent Silence, Wisdom, 2008 (Commentary on the Mumonkan plus other teachings) Shibayama Zenkei, The Gateless Barrier: Zen Comments on the Mumonkan, Shambhala, 1974. Yamada, Koun, The Gateless Gate, Center Publications, 1979. Translations available online Shimonomisse, Eiichi, The Gateless Gate, 1998 http://info.stiltij.nl/publiek/meditatie/koan/mumonkan-shimomisse.pdf Sekida, Katsuki, Two Zen Classics: The Gateless Gate and the Blue Cliff Records) with the Chinese text http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/zen/mumonkan.htm About Koans and Koan Practice *Loori, John Daido, ed., Sitting with Koans: essential writings on the practice of zen koan introspection, Wisdom, 2006. Heine, Steven, Dogen and the Koan tradition: A Tale of Two Shobogenzo Texts, SUNY Press, 1994. *Hori, Victor Sogen, Tr. Zen Sand: The Book of Capping Phrases for Koan Practice, University of Hawaii Press, 2003. Excellent introduction. Miura, Isshu and Sasaki, Ruth Fuller, Zen Dust: The History of the Koan and Koan Study in Rinzai Zen. Harcourt Brace & World, 1966. Suzuki, Taisetz Teitaro, The Zen Koan as a means of Attaining Enlightenment, Tuttle, 1994. Commmentaries by Modern Western Teachers (including koans from various collections) *Caplow, Florence and Moon, Susan, Eds. The Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty-five Centuries of Awakened Women, Wisdom, 2013. One hundred koans and stories of Buddhist and Zen women with commentaries by one hundred contemporary women Buddhist teachers. *Fischer, Zoketsu Norman, Online dharma talks on koans www.everydayzen.org. Ford, James Ismael & Blacker, Melissa Myozen, Eds. The Book of Mu: Essential Writings on Zen’s Most Important Koan, Wisdom, 2011. Loori, John Daido, Two Arrows Meeting in Mid-air: The Zen Koan, Tuttle, 1994. Tarrant, John, Bring Me the Rhinoceros, and Other Zen Koans to Bring You Joy, Harmony Books, 2004. Other Classical Koan Collections Kirchner, Thomas Yuho, Tr., Entangling Vines: A Classic Collection of Zen Koans, Wisdom, 2013. A seventeenth century Japanese collection of 273 Chinese koans, with annotations. Cleary, Thomas & Cleary, J. C., Tr., The Blue Cliff Record, Shambhala, 1977. Cleary, Thomas, Tr., Book of Serenity: One Hundred Zen Dialogues, Shambhala, 1988. Cleary, Thomas, Tr., Secrets of the Blue Cliff Record: Zen Comments by Hakuin and Tenkei, Shambhala, 2000. Grant, Beata, Tr., Zen Echoes: Classic Koans with Verse Commentaries by three Female Zen Masters, Wisdom, 2017 Loori, John Daido, The True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen’s Three Hundred Koans, Nishijima, Gudo, Tr. and commentary, Master Dogen’s Shinji Shobogenzo, Windbell, 2003. Senzaki, Nyogen and McCandless, Ruth Strout, The Iron Flute: 100 Koans, Tuttle, 1964. Translation of an eighteenth century Japanese collection of Chinese koans, with commentary by Genro, Fugai and Nyogen. Wick, Gerry Shishin, Tr. and commentary, The Book of Equanimity: Illuminating Classic Zen Koans, Wisdom, 2005. Modern Koans from the West *Caplow, Florence and Moon, Susan, Eds. The Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty-five Centuries of Awakened Women, Wisdom, 2013. Murphy, Sean, One Bird, One Stone: 108 American Zen Stories, Renaissance Books, 2002. Wenger, Michael, 49 Fingers: A Collection of Modern American Koans, Dragons Leap Press, 2011.