Zen Center of Spokane - Links/Bibliography

Links & Bibliography

Links to Related Zen Sites

Three Treasures Sangha of the Pacific Northwest: www.three-treasures-sangha.org

Robert Aitken Roshi: www.robertaitken.net

The Diamond Sangha: www.ciolek.com/WWWVLPages/ZenPages/DiamondSangha.html

Links to Other Buddhist Friends in Eastern Washington

Benefaction Sangha of Spokane: Ordinary Mind Zen lineage of Joko Beck http://www.nwdharma.org/

Palouse Zen Community: Palouse Zen Community is a Buddhist lay group practicing in the Zen and Mindfulness traditions in Moscow, Idaho.
http://palousezen.org

Spokane Buddhist Temple:In the Japanese Jodo Shinshu Pure Land tradition, this temple offers a Sunday morning or afternoon service format with occasional visiting priests.
www.spokanebuddhisttemple.org

Spokane Vipassana Community: Vipassana (Recollective Awareness) is a way to cultivate greater awareness of one's inner world. It is a gentle approach to meditation, which allows one's meditative experience to unfold naturally.
http://www.spokanevipassana.com/events.html

Sravasti Abbey: New Tibetan Buddhist monastic community established an hour's drive north of Spokane, near Newport. Ven. Thubten Chodron founded Sravasti Abbey and resides there.
http://www.thubtenchodron.org

Links to Community Building Organizations

Community Building
Bringing together non-profit organizations working in a variety of fields to form a nexus of inter-related community support services, serve as a model of a dynamic civil society, and provide a space for community discussion, action and entertainment. The Community Building is based on an ideal of connected community, which maximizes the accessibility of resources and effectively utilizes the particular strengths of individual members.
http://www.communitybuildingllc.org/

Peace and Justice Action League of Spokane: The Peace and Justice Action League of Spokane (PJALS) is a local, membership organization committed to involving individuals and local communities in building foundations for a just and nonviolent world.
www.pjals.org

Futurewise: Futurewise (formerly 1000 Friends of Washington) works to protect Washington's farms,forests and open space while keeping our communities great places to live.
www.futurewise.org

Thin Air Community Radio: 95.3 FM KYRS. Thin Air Radio fills needs that other media do not, providing programming to diverse communities and unserved or underserved groups.
www.kyrs.org.

Books by Robert Aitken Roshi

The Dragon Who Never Sleeps. Berkeley, CA: Parallax Press, 1992.

Encouraging Words. New York, NY & San Francisco, CA: Pantheon Books, 1993.

The Gateless Barrier: The Wu-Men Kuan (Mumonkan). Berkeley, CA: North Point Press, 1991.

The Ground We Share. Boston, MA & London, England: Shambhala, 1996. (With David Steindl-Rast).

The Mind of Clover. New York, NY: North Point Press, 1984.

Original Dwelling Place. Washington, DC: Counterpoint, 1997.

Taking the Path of Zen. New York, NY: North Point Press, 1982.

The Practice of Perfection. Washington, DC: Counterpoint, 1997.

Zen Master Raven. Boston, MA, Rutland, VT & Tokyo, Japan: Tuttle Publishing, 2002.

A Zen Wave: Basho's Haiku & Zen. New York, NY & Tokyo, Japan: Weatherhill, 1978.

Other Helpful Books

Foster, Nelson & Jack Shoemaker. The Roaring Stream: A New Zen Reader. Hopewell, NJ: The Ecco Press, 1996.

Kapleau, Philip. The Three Pillars of Zen: Teaching, Practice, Enlightenment. New York, NY: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1989.

Suzuki, Shunryu. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. New York, NY & Tokyo, Japan: Weatherhill, 1998.

For more reading suggestions, visit www.three-treasures-sangha.org/orientation.html and click on the Bibliography of Suggested Readings.