 | Zen Action: Zen Person by T. P. Kasulis
Buy new: $8.34 / Used from: $4.55 One of the best living authors on Japanese Philosophy
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 | Zen and the Way of the Sword: Arming the Samurai Psyche by Winston L. King
Buy new: $17.05 / Used from: $3.98 Martial arts, Zen history, Japanese cultural history, the art of sword making, and kamikaze pilots, among other topics, in terms of the thread of Japanese spirituality
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 | Living the Martial Way : A Manual for the Way a Modern Warrior Should Think by Forrest E. Morgan
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $2.00 The influence of traditional martial arts philosophy on modern thought.
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 | Aikido and the Dynamic Sphere: An Illustrated Introduction by Adele Westbrook
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $9.99 Aikido, from Ueshiba, is a variation on samurai aikijutsu.
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 | Mahayana Buddhism: The Doctrinal Foundations (Library of Religious Beliefs and Practices Series) by Paul Williams
Buy used from: $3.59 Zen springs out of the Mahayana Tradition.
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 | The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika by Nagarjuna
Buy new: $12.87 / Used from: $9.00 Learn the contributions of Nagarjuna's sunyata to Zen thought.
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 | Shinkendo Japanese Swordsmanship by Toshishiro Obata
Buy new: $24.99 / Used from: $46.86 Toshishiro Obata comes from a samurai lineage.
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 | Shinkendo Tameshigiri by Toshishiro Obata
Buy new: $24.99 / Used from: $21.00 Practical insight into working with a live sword.
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 | The Book of Five Rings (Shambhala Library) by Miyamoto Musashi
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $5.00 Classic reading in samurai philosophy in practice.
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 | Buddhist Philosophy: A Historical Analysis (National Foreign Language Center Technical Reports) by David Kalupahana
Buy new: $22.00 / Used from: $2.35 A great introduction into the evolution of Buddhist thought.
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 | What the Buddha Taught: Revised and Expanded Edition with Texts from Suttas and Dhammapada by Walpola Rahula
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $2.40 This is a staple in the Buddhist readers collection.
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 | Tao Te Ching, 25th-Anniversary Edition (English and Mandarin Chinese Edition) by Lao Tsu
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $4.91 Learn the contributions of non-Being to Zen thought.
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 | Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dogen by Eihei Dogen
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $6.23 Dogen articulates what cannot be articulated in Zen; listen between the lines.
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 | Giving Up the Gun: Japan's Reversion to the Sword, 1543-1879 by Noel Perrin
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 | The Japanese Mind (East West Center Book)
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| Chu Hsi and Neo-Confucianism
Buy used from: $20.92 The importance of Neo-Confucianism on Tokugawa Japan.
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 | The Other Side of Zen: A Social History of Soto Zen Buddhism in Tokugawa Japan by Duncan Ryuken Williams
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