Books by WPA Teachers

• Collections

  • The Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women (Nov 5, 2013)
    
  • Receiving the Marrow Teachings on Dogen by Soto Zen Women Priests (Sep 29, 2012)
    
  • The Book of Mu: Essential Writings on Zen’s Most Important Koan (May 1, 2011)
    

• Gregory Hosho Abels

  • Never Something Else; Poems from the Eye of Zen

• Janet Jiryu Abels

  • Making Zen Your Own: Giving Life to Twelve Key Golden Age Ancestors

• Nancy Mujo Baker

  • Opening to Oneness: A Practical and Philosophical Guide to the Zen Precepts (Shambhala, 2023)
    

• Jan Chozen Bays

  • The Book of Mu: Essential Writings on Zen’s Most Important Koan (May 1, 2011)
    
  • How to Train a Wild Elephant: And Other Adventures in Mindfulness (Jul 12, 2011)
    
  • Jizo Bodhisattva: Guardian of Children, Travelers, and Other Voyagers (Nov 11, 2003)
    
  • Jizo Bodhisattva: Modern Healing and Traditional Buddhist Practice (Jan 1, 2002)
    
  • Mindful Eating: A Guide to Rediscovering a Healthy and Joyful Relationship with Food–includes CD (Feb 3, 2009)
    
  • Mindful Medicine (July 26, 2022)
    
  • Receiving the Marrow Teachings on Dogen by Soto Zen Women Priests (Sep 29, 2012)
    
  • The Vow Powered Life (Jan 19, 2026)
    

• Charles Shinkai Birx

  • Waking Up Together: Intimate Partnership on the Spiritual Path (Wisdom, 2005)
    

• Ellen Jikai Birx

  • Embracing the Inconceivable: Interspiritual Practice of Zen and Christianity (Orbis, 2020)
    
  • Selfless Love: Beyond the Boundaries of Self and Other (Wisdom, 2014)
    
  • Waking Up Together: Intimate Partnership on the Spiritual Path (Wisdom, 2005)
    
  • Healing Zen: Awakening to a LIfe of Wholeness and Compassion for Yourself and Others (Viking Compass, 2002)
    

• Niklaus Jinshu Brantschen

  • VIA INTEGRALIS. Wo Zen und christliche Mystik sich begegnen (Mar 1, 2011)
    

• John Daishin Buksbazen

  • The Hazy Moon of Enlightenment: Part of the On Zen Practice Series (Jan 10, 2007)
    
  • Zen Meditation in Plain English (Jun 15, 2002)
    
  • To forget the self: An illustrated guide to Zen meditation (The Zen writings series) (1977)
    

• Christopher Ryushin Collingwood

  • Zen Wisdom for Christians (2019)
    
  • The Role of Religion in Peacebuilding (2018)
    
  • Soul Pain (2013)
    
  • The Divine Dance of Love (1996 & 2012)
    

• Anton Tenkei Coppens

  • Timeless Calling, Timely Response: A Guide for Zen Buddhist Practice (Jan 6, 2021)
    
  • Teaching of the Great Mountain: Zen Talks by Taizan Maezumi (Sep 1, 2001)
    
  • Echoless Valley (Nov 28, 1998)
    

• Koshin Paley Ellison

  • Untangled: Walking the Eightfold Path to Clarity, Courage and Compassion (Nov 2022)
    
  • Wholehearted: SlowDown, Help Out, Wake Up (Wisdom, 2019)
    
  • Awake at the Bedside: Contemplative Teachings on Palliative and End-of-Life Care (Wisdom, 2016)
    

• Charles Tenshin Fletcher

  • The Way of Zen (April, 2002)
    

• Corinne Joie Partagée Frottier

  • So wie du bist. Der buddhistische Weg zur Selbstannahme (Kösel Verlag, München, 2016)
    

• Tamara Myoho Tenshin Gabrysch

  • Zen River Cookbook: Recipes from a Western Zen Temple: Volume 1 (2015)
    
  • Zen River Cookbook: Recipes from a Western Zen Temple Volume 2 (2022)
    
  • Zen River Cookbook: Essentials (2023)
    

• Bernie Tetsugen Glassman

  • The Dude and the Zen Master (Jan 8, 2013)
    
  • The Hazy Moon of Enlightenment: Part of the On Zen Practice Series (Jan 10, 2007)
    
  • Infinite Circle: Teachings in Zen (Nov 11, 2003)
    
  • On Zen Practice: Body, Breath, and Mind (Oct 2002)
    
  • Bearing Witness: A Zen Master’s Lessons in Making Peace (Jun 15, 1999)
    
  • Instructions to the Cook: A Zen Master’s Lessons in Living a Life That Matters (Apr 1, 1997)
    

• Pia Jinji Gyger

  • VIA INTEGRALIS. Wo Zen und christliche Mystik sich begegnen (Mar 1, 2011)
    
  • Maria – Tochter der Erde, Königin des Alls (Apr 30, 2005)
    
  • That We May Join Earth & Heaven: Lay Religious Community for the 21st Century (Aug 1, 1996)
    

• Joan Jiko Halifax

  • Lone Mallard (Jul 20, 2012)
    
  • Seeing Inside (Jul 6, 2012)
    
  • Leaves Falling Gently: Living Fully with Serious and Life-Limiting Illness through Mindfulness, Compassion, and Connectedness (Sep 1, 2011)
    
  • The Power of Compassion: Stories That Open the Heart, Heal the Soul, and Change the World (May 1, 2010)
    
  • Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death (Nov 17, 2009)
    
  • The Fruitful Darkness: A Journey Through Buddhist Practice and Tribal Wisdom (Mar 15, 2004)
    
  • Buddhist Acts of Compassion (Nov 12, 2000)
    
  • A Buddhist Life in America: Simplicity in the Complex (Wit Lectures) (Mar 1998)
    
  • Shaman: The Wounded Healer (Apr 1988)
    
  • The Human Encounter with Death (Mar 29, 1978)
    

• Diane Musho Hamilton

  • Compassionate Conversations: How to Speak and Listen from the Heart (Jul 21, 2020)
    
  • The Zen of You and Me: A Guide to Getting Along with Just About Anyone (Mar 21, 2017)
    
  • Everything Is Workable: A Zen Approach to Conflict Resolution (Dec 13, 2013)
    
  • The Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women (Nov 5, 2013)
    

• Kipp Ryodo Hawley

  • Three Steps to Mindfulness
  • Zen Mindfulness Cloudbook

• Al Genkai Kaszniak

  • Handbook for Clinical Memory Assessment of Older Adults (American Psychological Association. 419 pp.)
    
  • Communication and Cognition in Normal Aging and Dementia (College Hill/Little-Brown. 400 pp.)
    
  • Toward a Science of Consciousness, I, II, and III (MIT Press)
    
  • Cognitive Neuroscience of Emotion (Oxford University Press. 431 pp.)
    
  • Emotions, Qualia, and Consciousness (World Scientific. 554 pp.)
    
  • Awareness of Subtle Emotional Feelings: A Comparison of Long-term Meditators and Non-meditators (Emotion, 6, 392-405)
    
  • Enhancing Cognitive Fitness in Adults: A Guide to the Use and Development of Community-based Programs (pp. 85-106)
    
  • Meditation, Mindfulness, Cognition, and Emotion: Implications for Community-based Older Adult Programs (P. Hartman-Stein & A. LaRue [Eds.])
    
  • The Effects of Mindfulness Meditation Training on Multitasking in a High-stress Information Environment (Proceedings of Graphics Interface. pp. 45-52)
    
  • Contemplative Pedagogy: Perspectives From Cognitive and Affective Science (In O. Gunnlaugson, H. Bai, E. Sarath, & C. Scott [Eds.])
    
  • Contemplative Learning and Inquiry Across Disciplines (State University of New York Press)
    

• Robert Jinsen Kennedy

  • Los dones del Zen a la búsqueda cristiana (Nov 3, 2008)
    
  • Zen Gifts to Christians (Oct 8, 2004)
    
  • Zen Spirit, Christian Spirit: The Place of Zen in Christian Life (Jun 1, 1995)
    

• Linda Myoki Lehrhaupt

  • Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction: The MBSR Program for Enhancing Health and Vitality (Mar 7, 2017)
    Co-authored with Petra Meibert. This book is available also in French, German, Chinese, Arabic and Korean.
  • Die Wellen des Lebens reiten: Mit Achtsamkeit zu innerer Balance (May 21, 2012)
    
  • T’ai Chi as a Path of Wisdom (Oct 2, 2001)
    

• John Daido Loori

  • Amazon Book List (Close to 20 books)
    

• Taizan Maezumi

  • The Hazy Moon of Enlightenment: Part of the On Zen Practice Series (Jan 10, 2007)
    
  • On Zen Practice: Body, Breath, and Mind (Oct 2002)
    
  • Appreciate Your Life: The Essence of Zen Practice (Shambhala Classics) (Jun 11, 2002)
    
  • Teaching of the Great Mountain: Zen Talks by Taizan Maezumi (Sep 1, 2001)
    

• Konrad Ryushin Marchaj

  • Mountain Record – The Zen Practioner’s Guide – Summer 2004 (2004)
    

• Eve Myonen Marko

  • The Book of Householder Koans: Waking Up In the Land of Attachments (Feb 20, 2020)
    
  • Appreciate Your Life: The Essence of Zen Practice (Jun 11, 2002)
    

• Peter Muryo Matthiessen

  • Amazon Book List (more than 30 books)
    

• Barry Kaigen McMahon

  • Top Gun Zen (Nov 30, 2009)
    
  • Evolution of the White Plum (Available in PDF form from the White Plum Sanga website)
    

• Nicolee Jikyo McMahon

  • Arte of Now: Practice of Immediacy in the Arts (2017)
    
  • A Lamp Unto Ourselves (2006)
    
  • Student and Teacher: A Zen Perspective (Available in PDF form from the White Plum Sanga website)
    

• Heinz-Jürgen Metzger

  • Ungetrennte Verbundenheit – Eine buddhistische Auseinandersetzung mit dem Konzentrationslager Weimar-Buchenwald (Mar 18, 2020)
    
  • Versucht nicht, Buddha zu werden! – Kusen zum Fukanzazengi von Eihei Dogen Zenji (Sep 18, 2017)
    

• Wendy Egyoku Nakao

  • The Book of Householder Koans: Waking Up In the Land of Attachments (Feb 20, 2020)
    
  • Appreciate Your Life: The Essence of Zen Practice (Shambhala Classics) (Jun 11, 2002)
    

• Pat Enkyo O’Hara

  • A Little Bit of Zen; an introduction to Zen Buddhism (2020)
    
  • Most Intimate: A Zen Approach to Life’s Challenges Paperback (Mar 11, 2014)
    
  • A Winter’s Sesshin: Ten Talks on the Heart Sutra (2011)
    

• Ilia Shinko Perez

  • The Zen Priestess and the Snake: A Woman’s Path of Transformation and Healing Through Rediscovery of the Great Mother Tradition (Sumueru Press, 2020)
    
  • The Great Heart Way: How To Heal Your Life and Find Self-Fulfillment (Dec 15, 2006)
    

• Al Fusho Rapaport

  • Open Mind Zen a Guide to Meditation (2007)
    
  • Buddhism in America: The Official Record of the Landmark Conference on the Future of Buddhism Meditative Practices in the West

• Diane Eshin Rizzetto

  • Deep Hope: Zen Guidance for Staying Steadfast When the World Seems Hopeless (Jun 4, 2019)
    
  • Waking Up to What You Do: A Zen Practice for Meeting Every Situation with Intelligence and Compassion (Jun 13, 2006)
    
  • Despertando a La Vida/ Waking Up to What You Do: Una Practica Para Afrontar Cada Situacion Con Inteligencia Y Compasion (Feb 14, 2006)
    

• Anne Seisen Saunders

  • The Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women Paperback (Nov 5, 2013)
    
  • Receiving the Marrow Teachings on Dogen by Soto Zen Women Priests (Sep 29, 2012)
    

• David Keizan Shoji Scott

  • Simply Zen: Interiors Gardens (Mar 2003)
    
  • The Way of Zen (Apr 11, 2002)
    
  • Easy-to-Use Zen: Refresh and Calm Your Mind, Body and Spirit with the Wisdom of Zen (Apr 1, 2002)
    
  • Three Bowl Cookbook (Apr 15, 2000)
    
  • The Elements of Zen (1997)
    

• Daniel Doen Silberberg

  • Stalking Nirvana: The Native American (Red Path) Zen Way (Aug 22, 2013)
    
  • Wonderland: The Zen of Alice (Dec 28, 2012)
    
  • Zen und die Kunst, durch ein Loch zu fallen (Nov 1, 2010)
    
  • Sprinting Backwards to God (Mar 6, 2000)
    

• Elihu Genmyo Smith

  • Everything Is the Way: Ordinary Mind Zen (Jun 12, 2012)
    
  • The Book of Mu: Essential Writings on Zen’s Most Important Koan (May 1, 2011)
    
  • Ordinary Life, Wondrous Life: Talks on the Ten Bodhisattva Precepts (2002)
    

• Bonnie Myotai Treace

  • MOUNTAIN RECORD – Volume IX, No. 3 – Winter-Spring 1991 – “Zen and Humor” (1991)
    

• Sydney Musai Walter

  • OFF THE PATH, The Zen of Mountains and Deserts (Jan 1, 2014)
    

• Dieter Kushin Wartenweiler

  • Männer in den besten Jahren: Von der Midlife-Crisis zur gereiften Persönlichkeit (German Edition) (Oct 31, 2012)
    

• Gerry Shishin Wick

  • My American Zen Life (Scrivana Press, 2015)
    
  • The Great Heart Way: How To Heal Your Life and Find Self-Fulfillment (Dec 15, 2006)
    
  • The Book of Equanimity: Illuminating Classic Zen Koans (Mar 15, 2005)
    

• John Gendo Wolff

  • The Driftwood Shrine: Discovering Zen in American Poetry (Sumeru Press, 2016)