📚 Zen Buddhism

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.

Cover	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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