Zen texts

A '''''' ( ; ; ; ; ) is a story, dialogue, question, or statement from Chinese Chan Buddhist lore, supplemented with commentaries, that is used in Chan, Zen, Seon and Thiền Buddhist practice in different ways. The main goal of practice in Zen is to achieve (Chinese: ), to see or observe one's buddha-nature.

Mahayana Buddhist sutra, probably of non-Indic origin

recorded collection of dialogues between a pupil and a rōshi

is a kōan collection written in 1300 by Keizan Jokin Zenji, the Great Patriarch of Sōtō Zen Buddhism, based on approximately a year of his Dharma talks. This text is not to be confused with "The Jingde Record of the Transmission of the Lamp", while there is considerable overlap of the individuals referenced, the content of these records does not exactly match.

Buddhist treatise by Takuan Sōhō

Principal Zen

poem by Shitou Xiqian (Sekito Kisen) and a fundamental text of the Sōtō school of Zen