These essays were enormously influential when they came out, making Zen known in the West for the very first time: Essays in Zen Buddhism: First Series (1927), New York: Grove Press.
Његови есеји су били изузетно утицајни када су публиковани, учинивши Зен познатим на Западу по први пут: Essays in Zen Buddhism: First Series (1927), New York: Grove Press.