Steven Heine

About The Author

Steven Heine is an authority on Japanese religion and society, especially the history of Zen Buddhism and the life and works of Dogen. He has published two dozen books, including Did Dogen Go to China? and Zen Skin, Zen Marrow.

Books by Steven Heine

Zen's Chinese Heritage

The Masters and Their Teachings

By Andy Ferguson
Foreword by Tenshin Reb Anderson and Steven Heine
Zen's Chinese Heritage traces twenty-five generations of inlightened Buddhist teachers, supplementing their core teachings with history, biography, and poetry. The result is an intimate and profound human portrait of the enlightened Zen ancients, and an unprecedented look into the depths of the r...
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Dogen's Extensive Record

A Translation of the Eihei Koroku

By Eihei Dogen
Contributions by John Daido Loori and Steven Heine / Edited by Taigen Dan Leighton / Foreword by Tenshin Reb Anderson / Translated by Shohaku Okumura
Eihei Dogen, the thirteenth-century Zen master who founded the Japanese Soto School of Zen, is renowned as one of the world's most remarkable religious thinkers. As Shakespeare does with English, Dogen utterly transforms the language of Zen, using it in novel and extraordinarily beautiful ways to...
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