Wilson, Jeff:
Buddhism of the Heart
(Wisdom
Publications 2010)
Invites readers into the world of Shin stories and
metaphors, passed down, elaborated, and re-energized
generation after generation.
Akizuki, Ryomin: New
Mahayana: Buddhism for the Post-Modern
World,
Asian Humanities Press
(Berkeley, 1990)
Brazier, David: The
New Buddhism,
Palgrave (New York,
2002)
Brazier, David: The
Feeling Buddha,
Palgrave (New York, 2002)
Dumoulin, Heinrich:
Zen Buddhism in the 20th Century,
Weatherhill, Inc., (New
York, 1992)
Ling, Trevor: The
Buddha,
Penguin Books (Middlesex,
England, 1973)
Nishitani, Keiji: On
Buddhism,
State University of New
York (Albany, 2006)
Ogui, Koshin: Zen
Shin Talks,
Zen Shin Buddhist
Publications (Cleveland, 1998)
This one is written by the present Bishop of Buddhist
Churches of America
Suzuki, D.T.:
Mysticism: Christian and Buddhist,
Dover (Mineola, N.Y.,
1957)
Shigaraki, Takamaro:
The Life of Awakening: The Heart of the Shin
Buddhist Path,
Hozokan Publications
(Japan, 2005)
This is a very important book for Shin Buddhism.
However the most interesting part for many readers was
the last ½ of the book about the impact of the shinjin
experience on one’s life and mind state. This should
have been the first part of the book.
Ohtani,
Koshin: The Buddha's Wish for the World
(American
Buddhist Study Center Press, 2009)
Written
by the head of Jodo Shinshu, Monshu Koshin Ohtani, this
book is dedicated to the 750th memorial of Shinran
Shonin.
Haidt, Jonathan: The
Happiness Hypothesis,
(Basic Books NY)
A former Buddhist devotee criticizes Buddhism on the
point of detachment crippling Buddhism’s vitality to
relieve human suffering in the external world of action
and relationships. Also there arises as a result the
problem in Buddhist leaders of the arrogance of
detachment.
Hayes, Richard P.:
Land of No Buddha: Reflections of a Skeptical
Buddhist,
Windhorse Publications
(Birmingham, 1998)
This is an important book from a longtime practitioner
of Buddha Dharma in the West. Includes a very
informative chapter on Christianity and Buddhism that
should be read by any Buddhist not born in North
America and by anyone trying to promote Buddha Dharma
in the West.
Hershock, Peter D.:
Reinventing the Wheel: A Buddhist Response to the
Information Age, State University of New York
(Albany, 1999)
Hirota, Dennis, ed.:
Toward a Contemporary Understanding of Pure Land
Buddhism: Creating a Shin Buddhist Theology in a
Religiously Plural World, State of University of New York
Press (Albany, 2000)
Tanaka, Kenneth:
Ocean: An Introduction to Jodo-Shinshu in America,
Wisdom
Ocean Press (Berkeley, 1997)
Rev. Tanaka was one of my teachers. This
book was written as the result of extensive interviews
with layfolk and aspiring ministers.
Wilber, Ken, et al.:
Transformations of Consciousness,
Shambala (Boston,
1986)
Beyer, Stephan: The Religious Life of Man
Series: The Buddhist Experience: Sources and
Interpretations,
Wadsworth Publishing
(Belmont, Calif., 1974.)