Books

Much, if not all, of Master Dogen's work is freely available online in multiple formats. Some of these resources can be found on the Downloads page. However, books still have their place and this list will help get you started.

English Translations of Master Dogen's Shobogenzo

• Gudo Nishijima and Chodo Cross translation: Book 1, Book 2, Book 3, Book 4
• Kazuaki Tanahashi translation: Treasury of the True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen's Shobo Genzo

Various Works by Master Dogen

• Moon In a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dogen - Kazuaki Tanahashi (and others)
• Enlightenment Unfolds: The Essential Teachings of Zen Master Dogen - Kazuaki Tanahashi (and others)
• The Essential Dogen: Writings of the Great Zen Master - Kazuaki Tanahashi & Peter Levitt
• Beyond Thinking: A Guide to Zen Meditation - Kazuaki Tanahashi
• Dogen's Pure Standards for the Zen Community: A Translation of Eihei Shingi - Taigen Daniel Leighton, Shohaku Okumura
• Master Dogen's Zazen Meditation Handbook: A Translation of Eihei Dogen's Bendowa: A Discourse on the Practice of Zazen - Shohaku Okumura, Taigen Daniel Leighton, Kosho Uchiyama Roshi
• Dogen's Extensive Record: A Translation of the Eihei Koroku - Taigen Dan Leighton, Shohaku Okumura, Tenshin Reb Anderson, John Daido Loori, Steven Heine
• Master Dogen's Shinji Shobogenzo - Gudo Nishijima

Analysis / Teachings Based on Master Dogen's Work

• The Zen Master's Dance: A Guide to Understanding Dogen and Who You Are in the Universe - Jundo Cohen
• Did Dogen Go to China?: What He Wrote and When He Wrote It - Dr. Steven Heine
• Readings of Dogen's "Treasury of the True Dharma Eye" - Dr. Steven Heine
• The Zen Poetry of Dogen: Verses from the Mountain of Eternal Peace - Dr. Steven Heine
• Dogen on Meditation And Thinking: A Reflection on His View of Zen - Hee-Jin Kim
• Being-Time: A Practitioner's Guide to Dogen's Shobogenzo Uji - Shinshu Roberts
• The Heart of Dogen's Shobogenzo - Norman Waddell, Masao Abe
• The Mountains and Waters Sutra: A Practitioner's Guide to Dogen's "Sansuikyo" - Shohaku Okumura
• Realizing Genjokoan: The Key to Dogen's Shobogenzo - Shohaku Okumura
• Nothing Is Hidden : Essays on Zen Master Dogen's Instructions for the Cook - Shohaku Okumura & Jisho Warner
• The True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen's Three Hundred Koans - John Daido Loori & Kazuaki Tanahashi
• Meeting The True Dragon: Zen Master Dogen's Fukanzazengi - Daniel Gallagher
• Don't Be a Jerk: And Other Practical Advice from Dogen, Japan's Greatest Zen Master - Brad Warner
• It Came from Beyond Zen!: More Practical Advice from Dogen, Japan's Greatest Zen Master - Brad Warner
• Dogen's Genjo Koan: Three Commentaries - Nishiari Bokusan, Shohaku Okamura, Shunryu Suzuki
• A Blueprint of Enlightenment: A Contemporary Commentary on Dōgen Zenji's Gakudō Yōjinshū "Guidelines for Studying the Way" - by Gien Inoue, Daigaku Rummé, Keiko Ohmae
• How to Cook Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment - Kosho Uchiyama Roshi
• Dogen's Manuals of Zen Meditation - Carl Bielefeldt
• Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time - Dainin Katagiri

Biographies

• Dogen: Japan's Original Zen Teacher - Dr. Steven Heine
• Eihei Dogen: Mystical Realist - Hee-Jin Kim