* tmc * in patientia vestra habetis animam vestram * tmc *

Dear Reader,

The ASIAN STUDIES WWW MONITOR
(including all its subsidiary (and/or sister) pages on "coombs.anu.edu.au" server) has permanently ceased its publishing operations on Friday 21st January 2011.

All of the online resources reported here have been thoroughly checked at the time of their listing. However, it is possible that, with the with the passage of time, many of the originally reported materials might have been removed from the Internet, or changed their online address, or varied the scope and quality of their contents.

Fortunately, in several cases it is possible to access many of the older versions of the resources listed in the MONITOR. This can be easily done via the free services of the "The Internet Archive" http://web.archive.org/, a remarkable brainchild of Brewster Kahle, San Francisco, CA.

- with warm regards -

Editor, Dr T. Matthew Ciolek.

Canberra, 21 January 2011.


16 January 2005

TheZensite [Zen essays, teachings and book reviews]

http://www.thezensite.com/

5star
www.thezensite.com, Sydney, Australia

Self-description:
"This is thezensite home page. Here you will find links to various materials about Zen. There are also some links and writings about non-Zen topics which may be of interest to Zennists.
The Zen essays page is heavily into academic essays about Zen. If you would like to read some non-academic texts, try the link to Zen teachings. I make no claim as to the worth of these Zen teachings."

Site contents:
ZEN ESSAYS (* Critical Zen [Essays by:] William Bodiford, John H. Crook, James Ishmael Ford, Nelson Foster, Sueki Fumihiko, Ralf Halfmann, Steven Heine, Namlin Hur, Christopher Ives, Ken W. Jones, Kirita Kiyohide, Ken Knabb, Stuart Lachs, Dan Lusthaus, Mike Port & Kyogen CarlsonSensei, Hirata Seko, Jiun Kubota, Robert H. Sharf, Yamada Shoji; * Miscellaneous Writings [Essays by:] Robert Aitken, Mark S. Ferrara, Jack Kornfeld, Andrew Rawlinson, Amy Samy, Matsumoto Shiro; *Historical Zen [Essays by:] Carl Bielefeldt, T. P. Kasulis, Douglas K. Mikkelson, Gudo Nishijima, Shohaku Okumura, David Putney, Kevin Schilbrack, Martin Baumann, Henry Cruise, Heinrich Dumoulin, Victor Soren Hori, Whalen Lai, Charles Luk (Upasaka Lu K' uan), John McRae, Eshin Nishimura, Kangnam Oh, Ven. Shengyen, Paul Swanson, Albert Weller, Robert B. Zeuschner; *Nagarjuna and Madhyamika [Essays by:] Anthony Birch, HsuehLi Cheng, William Edelglass, Alan Fox, Vladimir Keremidschieff, MingWood Liu, Frederivk J. Streng, C. W. Huntington Jr; * Dogen Studies [Essays by:] Carl Bielefeldt, Griffith Foulk, Zenkei Blanche Hartman, John Daido Loori, Yasuaki Nara, Shohaku Okumura, Otani Tetsuo, Hozan Alan Senauke, Sojun Mel Weitsman; * Philosophical Zen [Essays by:] ChungYing Cheng, Sungtaeik Cho, Edward Conze, Robert Ellis, Toby Avard Foshay, Philip Goodchild, Peter D. Hershock, Yunhun Jan, T. P. Kasulis, Stephen W. Laycock, Shiro Matsumoto, Stephen McCarthy, Fabio Rambelli, James D Sellman, Robert H. Sharf, Koun Yamada Roshi)

ZEN TEACHINGS ([several religious texts organised in the following categories:] Translations & Sutras; Commentaries & Teishos; Miscellaneous; Koan Collections)

ZEN BOOK REVIEWS [by Vladimir Keremidschieff and others] * Cave Of Tigers: Modern Zen Encounters - John Daido Loori, * Land of No Buddha: reflections of a sceptical Buddhist - Richard P. Hayes, * How the Swans Came to the Lake - Rick Fields, * Seeing Through Zen - John R. McRae, * Zen Pivots - Sokei-An, * Not Always So: practicing the true spirit of Zen - Shunryo Suzuki, * Secrets of the Blue Cliff Record: Zen Comments by Hakuin and Tenkei - Thomas Cleary, * Master Dogen' s Shinji Shobogenzo: 301 Koan Stories - Gudo Nishijima, * Zen Sand: The Book of Capping Phrases for Koan Practice - Victor Sogen Hori, * The Art of Just Sitting - John Daido Loori (ed), * The Eminent MonkBuddhist Ideals in Medieval Chinese Hagiography - John Kieschnick, * Philosophical Meditations on Zen Buddhism - Dale S. Wright, * The Zen Poetry of Dogen: verses from the mountain of eternal peace - Steven Heine, * Dogen' s Manuals of Zen Meditation - Carl Bielefeldt, * Instructions to the Cook - Bernard Glassman & Rick Fields, * Re-inventing the Wheel: A Buddhist Response to the Information Age - Peter D. Hershock, * The White Buddhist: The Asian Odyssey of Henry Steel Olcott - Stephen Prothero, * The Book of Enlightened Masters: Western Teachers in Eastern Traditions - Andrew Rawlinson, * Buddhism in a Foreign Land - Robert Mann * Buddhism Without Beliefs: a contempory guide to awakening - Stephen Batchelor, * Nagarjuna' s Twelve Gate Treatise. Translated by Hsueh-Li Cheng, * The Emptiness of Emptiness: An introduction to Early Indian Madhyamika - C. W. Huntington, Jr, * The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nagarjuna' s Mulamadhyamakakarika - Jay L. Garfield, * Emptiness Appraised: a critical study of Nagarjuna' s philosophy - David F. Burton, * Big Sky Mind: Buddhism and the Beat Generation. Edited by Carole Tonkinson, * American Buddhism. Edited by D.R. Williams and C.S.Queen; * Healing Deconstruction: Postmodern Thought in Buddhism and Christianity. Edited by David Loy, * Zen at War - Brian (Daizen) A. Victoria, * Zen War Stories - Brian (Daizen) A. Victoria, * Pruning the Bodhi Tree: The Storm Over Critical Buddhism - Jamie Hubbard & Paul L. Swanson, * Shoes Outside the Door: Desire, Devotion, and Excess at San Francisco Zen Center - Michael Downing, * Buddhism Without Beliefs - Steve Batchelor, * Miscellaneous (recommended reading lists).

ZEN LINKS; NON-ZEN TOPICS; SITE CHANGES

Note:
The www.thezensite.com is a sub-section of Zen Buddhism WWW Virtual Library (www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-Zen.html) - ed.

URL
http://www.thezensite.com/

Internet Archive (www.archive.org)
[the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]

Link reported by:
T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study/Online Guide/Documents

* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Other

* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Essential

* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]:
under 30

Please note that the above details were correct on 13 October 2005. To suggest an update, please email the site's editor at tmciolek@ciolek.com