Published periodically since 1979 until 1997, the Chan Newsletter contains a treasure trove of articles, of interest to the Chan practitioner. Chan Newsletter is available by subject and on a per issue basis. Just click one of the links below:
Index by Issue Index by Subject

Index by Subject
[A-C] [D-F] [G-K] [L-N] [O-R] [S-V] [W-Z]

A to C

• Absolute Truth
• Attitudes Toward Practice and The Fruits of Practice
• Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva's Method of Complete Penetration Through the Sense Organ of Hearing (Part 1)
• Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva's Method of Complete Penetration Through the Sense Organ of Hearing (Part 2)
• Awakening through the Sense Organ of Consciousness
• Biography of a Chinese Monk (with Q & A)
• The Bitter Practice
• A Brief History of the Ch'an Center
• Buddha, Sentient Beings, and Ignorance
• Buddha's Birthday Celebration
• Buddhism and Mental Health
• Ch'an and Daily Life
• Ch'an and Enlightenment
• Ch'an Meditation Center Opening Ceremony
• Ch'an Sickness (I)
• Ch'an Sickness (II)
• Ch'an: Thus Come, Thus Gone
• Ch'an Tradition: History, Theory, Practice
• The Ch'an View of Life
• Change and Changelessness
• Chinese Buddhism and the Ch'an Tradition
• Chinese Ch'an and Its Relevance in North America Today (Part 1)
• Chinese Ch'an and Its Relevance in North America Today (Part 2)
• Compassionate Contemplation
• Complete Penetration of the Ear Consciousness
• Creations of the Mind

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D to F

• Daily Practice and Intensive Practice
• The Dignity of Living and Dying
• Discovering Your Faults
• Don't Look for Suffering
• Dreaming and Waking
• Earth Element (Lecture on Surangama Sutra)
• Egotism and Altruism
• The Eighteen Realms (Lecture on Surangama Sutra)
• The Elements of Consciousness
• Emptiness and Existence
• Enlightenment and Buddhahood
• Enlightenment Through Eye Consciousness
• Entering the Gate
• Environmental Protection and Spiritual Environmental Protection
• Esoteric and Exoteric Buddhism
• Essentials of Ch'an Practice (Part I)
• Essentials of Ch'an Practice (Part II)
• Essentials of Ch'an Practice (Part III)
• False and True Self
• The Fate of Buddhists
• The First of the Six Sense Organs: The Eyes From Defilement to Purity
• The Five Eyes
• Five Skandhas: False and Unreal
• Food, Sex, and the Life of Practice
• Four Views of Ch'an
• The Four Elements (Lecture on Surangama Sutra)
• The Four Great Barriers

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G to K

• Generating Bodhi Mind
• The History of  Ch'an
• How to Untie the Six Knots
• The Hua-T'ou Merthod
• Human Consciousness in the Ch'an Perspective
• Human, Hinayana, and Mahayana
• The Importance of Buddhadharma in the Modern World
• Individual and Collective Karma
• Instructions For The Seven Day Retreat (1)
• Instructions for the Seven-day Meditation Retreat (2)
• Is Practice Necessary

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L to N

• Letting Go
• Life in a Buddhist Monastery
• Light and Quakes
• Love and Desire
• Meditation, Mysticism and Ch'an
• Mind and Dharma Dust
• Mind, Matter, and Emptiness
• Misconception in Buddhism
• Nature, or Spontaneity, and Causes and Conditions
• No Anger or Love between Master and Disciple
• No Thought of Gain or Loss is Freedom from Samsara

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O to R

• One and Ten Thousand
• Opening Up to Nature
• The Other Side
• The Peaceful and the Forceful Method
• Pilgrimage to India
• Polytheism, Monotheism, and Non-theism in Buddhist Teaching
• The Problem of Death
• The Reason I'm a Ch'an Monk
• Reading Sutras as a Spiritual Practice
• Right Attitude as an Aid to Practice

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S to V

• Samsara and Nirvana
• A Second Moon
• Selecting and Studying under a Master
• Selections from Chi-i's Great Calming and Contemplation
• The Self
• The Sense Organs of Hearing and Smelling
• The Sense Organ of the Ear, Nose and Their Sense Objects
• The Sense Organ of the Mind
• The Sense Organs of Tongue and Body
• The Sense Organs and Objects of Taste and Touch
• Shih-fu's Parting Words
• Shikantaza and Silent Illumination
• Silent Illumination Ch'an
• Stages of Emptiness in Meditation
• The Story of Vision
• Strictness and Laxity
• The Sun in the Buddha's Mind
• Supernormal Power
• Surangama Sutra
• A Talk Given During the January Retreat
• A Talk on Han Shan Teh-Ch'ing
• Tea Words
• The Ten Oxherding Pictures
• Thought with and without Purpose
• Three Kinds of Beauty
• The Three Levels of the Mind and the Six Sense Organs
• Three Weekend Seminars at the Ch'an Center
• Touch and Taste (Lectures on The Surangama Sutra)
• Tuning the Harp
• The Twelve Entries
• Two Perspectives of the Mind
• Upside Down
• Voidness and Loneliness

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W to Z

• WBAI Radio Interview of Master Sheng-yen with Lex Hixon - Ch'an Meditation
• WBAI Radio Interview of Master Sheng-yen with Lex Hixon - The Three Requirements of Ch'an
• WBAI Radio Interview between Lex Hixon and Shih-fu: June 11, 1983
• What is Dhyana - Part I of II
• What is Dhyana - Part II of II
• Where is My Master?
• Why Sentient Beings Are Sentient Beings

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Index by Issue

November 1979	December 1979	February 1980	April 1980
May 1980	June 1980	July 1980	September 1980
November 1980	December 1980	February 1981	March 1981
May 1981	June 1981	August 1981	September 1981
November 1981	December 1981	February 1982	March 1982
May 1982	June 1982	August 1982	September 1982
November 1982	December 1982	February 1983	March 1983
May 1983	June 1983	August 1983	September 1983
November 1983	December 1983	January 1984	April 1984
June 1984	July 1984	August 1984	September 1984
November 1984	December 1984	February 1985	March 1985
May 1985	June 1985	August 1985	September 1985
November-December 1985		January 1986	February 1986
May-June 1986	August 1986	September 1986	November 1986
December 1986	March 1987	May 1987	August 1987
October 1989	December 1987	February 1988	March 1988
June 1988	August 1988	October 1988	November 1988
February 1989	April 1989	June 1989	August 1989
September 198	December 1989	February 1990	March 1990
May 1990	June-July 1990	August 1990	September 1990
December 1990	January 1991	March 1991	May 1991
June 1991	August 1991	September 1991	November 1991
January 1992	March 1992	May 1992	July 1992
September 1992	December 1992	March 1993	May 1993
July 1993	December 1993	March 1994	June 1994
August 1994	September 1994	November 1994	December 1994
February 1995	March 1995	June 1995	August 1995
September 1995	October 1995	December 1995	February 1996
March 1996	May 1996	June 1996	August 1996
September 1996	November 1996	December 1996	February 1997
May 1997	June 1997	August 1997