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This started with the bibliography as presented in the book (or close to it--it's dated 11/4/1998.) I've moved the publications to the end. In addition to listing my major published sources (and my sources were overwhelmingly unpublished) I included books by writers in Suzuki's lineage and some important relevant books--some unpublished at the time of compiling the bibliography. I will expand the list, including other sources that mention Shunryu Suzuki, texts he lectured on, and background publications. Suggestions welcomed. I just put a bunch of work on this page today (11/25/99) and added lots of subtitles that weren't in the book's bibliography. And I can see some that should be added like Katagiri's books. It'll take time. A number of these books are out of print.--DC Still lots to do. - 4-07 Bibliography as it appeared in Crooked Cucumber Books by Shunryu Suzuki, sort of - his words. Go to Suzuki book page. Books by but also about, with Shunryu Suzuki Articles pertaining to Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Center, etc. Other books - by Zennies, friends, whatever Go to New and newly mentioned books - 2002 Books by Dainin Katagiri - compilations of his lectures Check out the Writing department of cuke-The-arts
Books By, About, or at least Mentioning Shunryu Suzuki Anderson, Reb. Being Upright: Zen Meditation and the Bodhisattva Precepts. Rodmell Press, 2000.
Badiner, Allan Hunt (Editor), Alex Grey (Editor). Zig Zag Zen: Buddhism and Psychedelics - Huston Smith (Preface) [and I've got a chapter in there, that's why it's in this list - DC], Chronicle Books, 2002. The much longer unedited version of my contribution to this book, Psychoactivism.
Behr, Edward. Hirohito: Behind the Myth. Villard, 1989.
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See Zen Is Right Here by Shunryu Suzuki, edited by David Chadwick (formerly To Shine One Corner of the World: Moments with Shunryu Suzuki). To Find the Girl from Perth - - a little project I've been doing in my spare time, mainly back in 2005 and 6. There are several parts and one is ready now. The rest soon but it's out of my hands so I can't say for sure. - dc, 11-28-08 Doss, Margot Patterson. San Francisco at Your Feet. Grove Press, 1964. Revised updated editions available. [An old Suzuki friend and advisor who met him in '59.] Fields, Rick. How the Swans Came to the Lake: a narrative history of Buddhism in America (third edition, revised and updated). Shambhala, 1992. [A great and significant book from a dear departed dharma brother who knew Suzuki and did a terrific job in describing him and his teaching. See a few Suzuki stories from Rick and Rick Fields] Fronsdal, Gil-editor. Remembering the Dragon: Recollections of Suzuki Roshi by his Students. Published in 2004 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth. Includes many photos. . $10 paper. order only from SFZC Bookstore
Kato, Kozo. Soufuku (Running and Resting). Tomokichisha, 1994. [Memoirs of one of Suzuki's best friends. Will put translation of chapter on Suzuki on the site.]
Leighton, Taigen Dan.
Faces of Compassion: Classic Bodhisattva
Archetypes and Their Modern Expression . Revised Edition.
Formerly published as Bodhisattva Archetypes:Classic Buddhist Guides to
Awakening and Their Modern Expression.
More on Books by Taigen Dan Leighton
Visions of Awakening Space and Time:
Mitchell, Elsie. Sun Buddhas, Moon
Buddhas: a Zen Quest. Weatherhill, 1973. [Some great stuff on Shunryu Suzuki's visit
to Cambridge. Read the
excerpt
Mountain, Marian. The Zen Environment: the Impact of Zen Meditation. William Morrow, 1982. [Marian ran the Los Altos Zendo where she recorded the Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind lectures. A free spirit. Suzuki and beyond.]
Olson, Philip. The Discipline of Freedom: a Kantian View of the Role of Moral Precepts in Zen Practice. SUNY, 1993. [A Suzuki student brings his Eastern and Western studies together.] Reischauer, Edwin O. Japan Past and Present (Third Edition). Knopf, 1964. Richmond, Ivan. Silence
and Noise: Growing Up Zen in America. Atria Books, 2003. See Amazon link.
_________.A Whole Life's Work: Living Passionately, Growing Spiritually. Atria Books, February 24, 2004. See Amazon.com. _________.Zen Basics. Available only by mail order. See Books by Lew Richmond Music by Lew Richmond Ross, Nancy Wilson. Buddhism: a Way of Life and Thought. Knopf, 1980. Schneider, David. Street Zen: the Life and Work of Issan Dorsey. Marlow and Company, (2nd Edition, June 2000) originally Shambhala, 1993. Here's the Amazon.com link.
Storlie, Erik. Nothing on My Mind: Berkeley, LSD, Two Zen Masters, and Life on the Dharma Trail. Shambhala, 1997. [A good picture of the sixties Zen Center, Suzuki, Katagiri, and students.] Storry, Richard. A History of Modern Japan. Penguin, 1960.
Books by and about Shunryu Suzuki
See more on Steve Tipton's books books here. Trungpa, Chogyam. Born in Tibet (third edition). Shambhala, 1985. [Hard to get classic.] Click here for excerpt See letter from co-editor, David Schneider.
[Read it and weep. An eye-opening expose of Zen gone crazy.] Go to Victoria Page for more on this book. Victoria, Brian. Zen War Stories, Routledge/Curzon, February 1, 2003. Go to Victoria Page for more info and cover. Wenger, Michael. Thirty-three Fingers: a Collection of Modern American Koans. Clear Glass, 1994. [Small, fun, refreshing--by a priest in Suzuki's lineage, dean of the studies center at SFZC.] ---- Click here for excerpt on SFZC web site.
Articles and Papers
pertaining to Shunryu Suzuki, the Zen
Center, Crooked Cucumber, or something relevant. Barry, Ernie. "The Way of the Gateless Gate." Berkeley Barb, September 29, 1967. [An article about Tassajara on opening week.] Jeschke, Matthew Paul. "The Interpretation of Zen in the West." Thesis, Division of Philosophy, Religion, and Psychology, Reed College, May 1995. Kawashiri, Rumi. "Sokoji and Zen Center." Unpublished paper, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, June 6, 1969. Kozuki, Shigeo. "Kokoro no Furusato" (Hometown of the Heart), Nikkei, Tokyo, 1994. [A eulogy to Shunryu Suzuki from one of his wartime students.] Lahey, Denis Myo. "Climbing the Mountain Seat," a paper for the Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, 1972. [A description of Suzuki's final, emotional public appearance. Reprinted in the Wind Bell.] Trungpa, Chogyam. "Suzuki-roshi: A recollection of Buddha, Dharma, Sangha." Garuda.. Tail of the Tiger and Karma Dzong Communities, Spring 1972. Wise, David Thomas. "Dharma West: A Social-Psychological Inquiry into Zen in San Francisco." PhD Dissertation, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, September 1971. Other Books by friends of cuke.com, Suzuki students, and/or folks we admire or stuff that was relevant or not: Books by Bill Porter (Red Pine) - and links to interviews and articles. Books by Dainin Katagiri - compilations of his lectures 11-11-08 - Wisdom Books - Elequent Silence - Nyogen Senzaki - that's the English site but you'll get the idea if you're somewhere else.
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by Stephan Bodian - his website featuring a blurb by dc: Remove the Seeker, Remove the Sought - article herein by Bodian on Zen Advaita - with a bit of bio. Bay, Jane - Love and Loss: a Story about Live, Death, and Rebirth and Precious Jewels of Tibet: a Journey to the Roof of the World. Clear Light Press - See Jane Bay's web site for more.
Cohen, Darlene Finding a Joyful Life in the Heart of Pain Coyote, Peter Sleeping Where I Fall, Counterpoint Press, 1999. Go to excerpt about the Human Be-in. Downing, Michael (Amazon link) Shoes Outside the Door: Desire, Devotion, and Excess at San Francisco Zen Center Counterpoint Press; ISBN: 1582431132; (October 16, 2001) Comments on this book in cuke.com - and related matter. Deep Fool by BS Eisenberg, Hara Publishing, 2001. Shocking, disturbing, deeply personal account by a Suzuki student. If you hit the link on the name of the book you can go to my comments on Amazon.com. More comments on this book to come on cuke.com It's an important story that revolves around a rape at Tassajara and how none of us, including Suzuki, responded to it well enough or thoughtfully enough to say the least. - DC. Elias, Jack (Amazon Link) Finding True Magic. See Jack's interview on this site with a link there to his interview on the Chronicle Project site for students of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Go to Jack's site, also called Finding True Magic.
Opening to You: Zen Inspired Translation of the Psalms by Norman Fischer, Penguin Putnam 2002. Check out Zokestu Norman Fischer's Everyday Zen Foundation. Don't miss the page on books which includes not only a few suggested core Zen books but Norman's books of poetry, Buddhism, Judaism, and working with youth. Don't miss the poetry and teachings links. Go to Books by Norman Fischer on cuke for more.
Harada, Shodo Morning Dewdrops of the Mind : Teachings of a Contemporary Zen Master and The Path to Bodhidharma: Teachings of Shodo Harada Roshi. More
Neither Monk nor Layman, Clerical Marriage in Modern Japanese Buddhism, Richard M. Jaffe, Princeton University Press 2001. Jones, Molly White Magic: Vibrational Medicine in Action 144
pages ISBN: 1583485198 Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life, Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell (contributor), Harmony Books 2002 - Here's a blurb I wrote for it that's on the back of the book. - DC She's got more books than that. Here's her Amazon.com page.
Marshall, Dr. George R. From a World of Madness to a World of Sanity: Guides for Action. Check out Dr. Marshall's web site which has lots of info on this book. Here's what he wrote to cuke.com: "My book uses Shambhala as an organizing framework for presenting a discussion of ways to create a Sane World. I reference the high esteem Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche, the founder of Shambhala Training had for Suzuki Roshi." 
Nisker, Wes. Buddha's Nature: Evolution As a Practical Guide to
Enlightenment. Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1998.
Nisker, Wes. If You Don't Like the News...Go Out and Make Some of Your Own, Ten Speed, 1994. Nisker, Wes. Crazy Wisdom: New Millennial Edition, Ten Speed, February 1999.
Sakaki, Nanao has three poetry books listed on Amazon.com (his page there including other books he's in) : Let's Eat Stars, Break the Mirror: the Poems of Nanao Sakaki (with illustrations by Gary Snyder)- out of print, and Real Play: Poetry and Drama (Tooth of Times) - out of print. He translated poems by Issa Kobayashi and that book is called Inch by Inch: 45 Poems by Issa (La Alameda). There's a book by Gary Lawless with many contributions from various people on Nanao called Nanao or Never: Nanao Sakaki Walks Earth A. I don't understand the "Earth A" part but the title gave me the idea for the title of this piece. These books are published by Blackberry except the two otherwise noted. See Interview with Nanao Sakaki, godfather of Japanese Hippies.
Go to a page on this Rhino book I ripped off from The Pacific Zen Institute and see the blurbs. Tarrant, John. The Light Inside the Dark : Zen, Soul, and the Spiritual Life. Perennial, 1999. Amazon link.
Check out Amazon's page on De Wetering's other books on his Zen Experience - The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery and A Glimpse of Nothingness; Experiences in an American Zen Community, and more. He's written a lot. Here's more books, film, info on him on his Wikipedia page.
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Chadwick,
David. Crooked Cucumber: the Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu
Suzuki.
Broadway books, 1999. The biography of Shogaku Shunryu Suzuki
Roshi, Soto Zen master, author of 
Mukpo,
Diana. Dragon Thunder: My Life with Chogyam Trungpa. Shambhala,
2006.
Sher,
Gail. The Moon of the Swaying
Buds: A Spiritual Autobiography. Edgework Books,
Feb., 2002.
Tipton, Steve. Getting Saved from the Sixties. University of
California Press, Berkeley, 1982. [A
Suzuki student sociologist takes a thorough and informative look at Suzuki
students, EST, and a fundamentalist Christian Church.]
Trungpa,
Chogyam, The Teacup and the Skullcup:
Chögyam Trungpa on Zen and Tantra, Vajradhatu Publications,
2007. 
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Goldberg,
Natalie. Two books featuring Dainin Katagiri: The Long Quiet
Highway and The Great Failure. See
Tarrant,
John.
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