📚 Zen Buddhism

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Books with zen buddhism on their catalogue record, first published between 1913 and 2012, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject zen buddhism in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 6,425 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance	Robert M. Pirsig	1974	78
The Religion of the Samurai	Kaiten Nukariya	1913	40
The Way of Zen	Alan Watts	1957	31
Zen	Heinrich Dumoulin	1959	24
Biografía del silencio	Pablo d'Ors	2012	22
Zen mind, beginner's mind	Shunryū Suzuki	1970	20
Zen in the art of writing	Ray Bradbury	1990	20
The Spirit of Zen	Alan Watts	1936	19
Zen Buddhism & psychoanalysis	Erich Fromm	1960	18
Essays in Zen Buddhism	Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki	1927	16
An introduction to Zen Buddhism	Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki	1934	15
Zen	Bhagwan Rajneesh	1978	14
The world of Zen	Nancy Wilson Ross	1960	13
Mystics & Zen masters	Thomas Merton	1967	13
A Buddhist Bible	Dwight Goddard	1938	12
Lege spiegel	Janwillem van de Wetering	1973	12
Zen in English literature and oriental classics	Reginald Horace Blyth	1942	11
Zen Sex	Philip T. Sudo	2000	10
Zen 24/7	Philip T. Sudo	2001	10
Zen in the art of archery	Eugen Herrigel	1953	8
The lotus and the robot	Arthur Koestler	1960	8
Zen flesh, Zen bones	Paul Reps	1957	7
Zen-Weg	Eugen Herrigel	1960	7
The three pillars of Zen	Philip Kapleau	1966	7
Zen and the birds of appetite	Thomas Merton	1968	7
--and the flowers showered	Bhagwan Rajneesh	1975	6
Zen	Christmas Humphreys	1992	6
Philosophie des Zen-Buddhismus	Byung-Chul Han	2002	6
Nothing Special	Charlotte J. Beck	2009	6
Zen and Zen classics	Reginald Horace Blyth	1960	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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