Textes anglais ou français

• Deshimaru Taisen, Le livre du kesa, 1986, AZI

• Duncan Williams, The Purple Robe Incident and the Formation of the Early Modern Sôtô Zen Institution, 2009, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 36/1 27-43

• Faure Bernard, Quand l’habit fait le moine : The symbolism of the Kâsâya in Sôtô zen, 1995, Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie

• Filigenzi Anna, Gestures and Things, The Budha’s Robe in Gandharan Art, 2005, East and West, Instituto Italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente

• Griswold A.B., Prolegomena to the study of the Buddha’s dress in chinese sculpture, 1963

• Kenshu Sugawara, Kesa Kudoku: Les vertus du Kashaya, Centre pour les études zen Sôtô

• Katagiri Tomoe, Study of the Okesa, Minnesota Zen Meditation Center

• Kieschnick John, The Symbolism of the Monk’s Robe in China, 1999

• Kishigami Kôjun, Wrapped in the  Buddhas robe,  2016, Zen-Road 

• Transmitting Robes, Linking Mind, the World of Buddhist Kâsâya, 2010, Kyôto National Museum

• Laurent Kôzen Françoise, Coudre le Kesa,  2005, Entretien

• Mohr Michel, Zen Buddhism during the Tokugawa Pedriod the Challenge to Go beyond Sectarian Consciousness, Japanese Jornal of Religious Studies, 1994 21/4

• Okumura Shohaku, Cultivating the virtuous field: the robe chant, 2012,  in Living by vow, Wisdom Publications, Boston

• Riggs David E., The Practice of Precepts and the Rules of Realization — Ordination Ritual in Japanese and American Zen —

• Riggs Diane, The Buddhist Robe according to the Teaching   — Nyohôe, Nôe and Funzôe —

• Riggs Diane, The Cultural and Religious Significance of Japanese Bhuddist Vestments, 2010, University of California 

•  Riggs Diane, Robes of Rags (funzoe) and Silk in the Edo Period: Menzan Zuiho and Ueda Shohen Interpret the Practice of the Buddhist Robe ( Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies Vol.55, No3, March 2007
  

• Rommeluère Eric,  Le Kesa conforme au Dharma, 2014, Ed Les Nuages blancs

• Rutschman-Byle Jiryu Mark,  Sôtô Zen in Meiji Japan : The Life and Times of Nishiari Bokusan, December 2014,  UC Berkeley

• Silk Jonathan A. Dressed For Success The Monk Kasaya and Strategies of Legitimation in Earlier Mahâyâna Buddhist Scriptures, 2003 Journal Asiatique 291.1-2, pp. 173-219

•  Suzuki Shunryû, Sewing Sesshin, 20 june 1971, San Francisco Zendô

• Suzuki Shunryû, Sewing and Wearing the Bhuddhist Robes and How It Relates to Our Practice, 19 June 1971 , San Francisco Zendô (not verbatim)

• Till Barry and Swart Paula, KESA The Elegance of Japanese Monk’s Robes, 1996, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

• Tricycle.org, Tomoe Katagiri: Oneness With Every Stitch, https://tricyle.org/magazine/tomoe-katagiri-zen-sewing-stitching/

• Yijing , Buddhist monastic traditions of southern Asia, a record of the inner law sent home from the south seas, Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Reserch, 2000

• The Buddhist Kesa : Clothes of Enlightenment, 2010, Eugene Buddhist Priory