Urs App

Biography

Books

• Zen Meister Yunmen. Leben und Lehre des letzten Giganten der Zen-Klassik. Wil: UniversityMedia, 2018
• Zen Master Yunmen. His Life and Essential Sayings. Boulder: Shambhala, 2018
• Michel-Jean-François Ozeray and Urs App.The First Western Book on Buddhism and Buddha. Wil: UniversityMedia, 2017
• Schopenhauer's Compass. An Introduction to Schopenhauer's Philosophy and its Origins. Wil: UniversityMedia, 2014
• The Cult of Emptiness. The Western Discovery of Buddhist Thought and the Invention of Oriental Philosophy. Rorschach / Kyoto: UniversityMedia, 2012.
• Schopenhauers Kompass. Die Geburt einer Philosophie. Rorschach / Kyoto: UniversityMedia, 2011
• Richard Wagner and Buddhism. Rorschach / Kyoto: UniversityMedia, 2011
• The Birth of Orientalism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010
• Over twenty volumes of concordances of Chinese Zen texts.
• Richard Wagner und der Buddhismus: Liebe – Tragik. Zürich: Museum Rietberg, 1997. New, enlarged edition: Rorschach / Kyoto: UniversityMedia, 2011
• Zen-Worte vom Wolkentor-Berg. Darlegungen und Gespräche des Zen-Meisters Yunmen Wenyan. Bern / München: Barth, 1994
• Master Yunmen. New York: Kodansha International, 1994. .
• . Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International, 342 pp.

  Documentary films

• Slow Photography: Koichiro Kurita. Documentary film for the exhibition of the Japanese photographer Koichiro Kurita at the Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland ME, USA.
• Sengai. Documentary for the exhibition of works by the Japanese Zen master and painter Sengai at the Rietberg Museum, Zürich, Switzerland.
• Der Teebesen. Documentary film for the Japanese Bamboo objects exhibition in the Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich, Switzerland, at the Ethnological Museum Munich, and at the Trinkkultur - Kultgetränk exhibition at the Völkerkundemuseum of Zurich University, 20 June 2014 - 21 June 2015.
• On the Way to Tōhaku's Pine Forest. Documentary film for the Hasegawa Tōhaku art exhibition at the Rietberg Museum, Zürich
• Dangki. Documentary shown in 2001 on France 2.
• Oracles in China. Documentary shown at the Oracle exhibition 2000 at the Rietberg Museum, Zürich.
• Oracles in Japan. Documentary shown at the Oracle exhibition 2000 at the Rietberg Museum, Zürich.
• Chinese Oracle Kids. Documentary shown at the Oracle exhibition 2000 at the Rietberg Museum, Zürich.

  CD-ROM

• ZenBase CD1. Kyoto: International Research Institute for Zen Buddhism, 1995.

  Selection of papers

• ". In: Die Wahrheit ist nackt am schönsten. Arthur Schopenhauers philosophische Provokation, ed. by Michael Fleiter. Frankfurt: Institut für Stadtgeschichte / Societätsverlag, 2010, pp. 200-208.
• ". In: Images of Tibet in the 19th and 20th Centuries, ed. by Monica Esposito. Paris: Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient, 2008, pp. 11–70.
• In Essays on East Asian Religion and Culture, ed. by Christian Wittern und Lishan Shi. Kyoto: Editorial Committee for the Festschrift in Honour of Nishiwaki Tsuneki, 2007, pp. 11–33.
• ". In: Das Tier, das du jetzt tötest, bist du selbst... Arthur Schopenhauer und Indien, ed. by Jochen Stollberg. Frankfurt: Vittorio Klostermann, 2006, pp. 36–50.
• ". In: Das Tier, das du jetzt tötest, bist du selbst... Arthur Schopenhauer und Indien, ed. by Jochen Stollberg. Frankfurt: Vittorio Klostermann, 2006, pp. 51–60.
• ". Schopenhauer-Jahrbuch 87, pp. 15–31.
• ". Schopenhauer-Jahrbuch 87, pp. 35–76.
• ". Schopenhauer-Jahrbuch 84, pp. 13–39.
• ". In Homo Medietas. Aufsätze zu Religiosität, Literatur und Denkformen des Menschen vom Mittelalter bis in die Neuzeit, ed. by Claudia Brinker-von der Heyde. Bern: Peter Lang, 1999, pp. 13–26.
• ". Schopenhauer-Jahrbuch 79, pp. 11–33.
• " Schopenhauer-Jahrbuch 79, pp. 35–58.
• ". Part 1: Before the Arrival in Japan, 1547-1549". Eastern Buddhist 30, no. 1, pp. 53–78. "Part 2: From Kagoshima to Yamaguchi, 1549-1551.” Eastern Buddhist 30, no. 2, pp. 214–44. "Part 3: From Yamaguchi to India, 1551-1552.” Eastern Buddhist 31, no. 1, pp. 40–71.
• "Wuxinlun -- The Treatise on No-Mind." Zenbunka kenkyūsho kiyō 21 : pp. 1–68.
• "Dun: A Chinese Concept as a Key to 'Mysticism' in East and West." The Eastern Buddhist Bd. XXVI No. 2, pp. 31–72.
• "Reference Works for Chan Research. A selective annotated survey." Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie 7, pp. 357–409.
• ". Zenbunka kenkyūjo kiyō No. 17 : 1–90.