- Arai, Toshikazu: Grasped by the Buddha’s Vow
(Center for Buddhist Education 2008) - Batchelor, Stephen: Confession of a Buddhist Atheist
(Spiegel & Grau 2010) - Batchelor, Stephen: Living with the Devil
(Riverhead 2005) - Fukuma, Seikan: Monshin: Hearing/Faith
(The Nembutsu Press, LA) - Ikeyama, Eikichi: Buddha & Man
(Buddhist Study Center Press 1989) - Kanamatsu, Kenryo: Naturalness
(World Wisdom) - Kakehashi, Jitsuen: Bearer of the Light: The Life and Thought of Rennyo
(Pure Land Publications) - Kazantzakis, Nikos: Zorba the Greek
- Maida, Shuichi: The Evil Person
(Higashi Honganji 1989) - Okumura, Shohaku: Realizing Genjokoan
(Wisdom 2010) - Park, Sung-bae: One Korean’s approach to Buddhism
(SUNY Press) - Port, Dosho: Keep Me in Your Heart a While: The Haunting Zen of Dainin Katagiri
(Wisdom 2008) - Ram-Prasad, Chakravarthi Eastern Philosophy
(Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 2005) - Uchiyama, Kosho: The Wholehearted Way: A Translation of Eihei Dogen’s “Bendowa”
(Tuttle 1997) - Review of the film ‘Departures (Okuribito)‘
Notes on Devotional Reading:
- Notes on introspective reading – Jishin
- How the sūtra reads us – Jon
- Buddhist Terminology, Comments on … by Kosho Uchiyama
Resources:
- List of books on Shin Buddhism
- Helping Western Readers Understand Japanese Philosophy (.pdf) – Thomas P. Kasulis

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