| Monks, Rulers, and Literati: The Political Ascendancy of Chan Buddhism A Welter Oxford University Press, 2006 | 156 | 2006 |
| The Linji lu and the creation of Chan orthodoxy: the development of Chan's records of sayings literature A Welter OUP USA, 2008 | 125 | 2008 |
| Yongming Yanshou's Conception of Chan in the Zongjing lu: A special transmission within the scriptures A Welter Oxford University Press, 2011 | 64 | 2011 |
| Mahākāśyapa’s Smile: Silent Transmission and the Kung-an (Kōan) Tradition A Welter The Kōan: Texts and Contexts in Zen Buddhism, 75-109, 2000 | 59 | 2000 |
| The Meaning of Myriad Good Deeds: A Study of Yung-ming Yen-shou and the Wan-shan t'ung-kuei chi A Welter P. Lang, 1992 | 38 | 1992 |
| A Buddhist Response to the Confucian Revival: Tsan-ning and the Debate over Wen in the Early Sung A Welter Buddhism in the Sung, 21-61, 1999 | 28 | 1999 |
| Lineage and Context in the Patriarch’s Hall Collection and the Transmission of the Lamp A Welter The Zen canon: Understanding the classic texts, 137-79, 2004 | 25 | 2004 |
| Inquiry into the Origin of Humanity: An Annotated Translation of Tsungmi's" Yüan-jen lun" with a Modern Commentary A Welter Philosophy East and West 48 (1), 174-176, 1998 | 17 | 1998 |
| The administration of Buddhism in China: a study and translation of Zanning and the topical compendium of the Buddhist clergy (Da Song Seng shilüe 大宋僧史 [略]) A Welter Cambria Press, 2018 | 16 | 2018 |
| Buddhist Rituals for Protecting the Country in Medieval Japan: Myoan Eisai’s ‘‘Regulations of the Zen School’’ A Welter Zen Ritual 113, 2008 | 15 | 2008 |
| The contextual study of Chinese Buddhist biographies: the example of Yung-ming Yen-shou (904-975) A Welter Monks and Magicians: Religious Biographies in Asia, 247-268, 1988 | 15 | 1988 |
| The problem with orthodoxy in Zen Buddhism: Yongming Yanshou's notion of zong in the Zongjin lu (Records of the Source Mirror) A Welter Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 31 (1), 3-18, 2002 | 12 | 2002 |
| Zanning and Chan: The Changing Nature of Buddhism in Early Song China A Welter Journal of Chinese Religions 23 (1), 105-140, 1995 | 12 | 1995 |
| Yongming Yanshou: Scholastic as Chan Master A Welter Zen Masters, 59-90, 2010 | 10 | 2010 |
| Zen Buddhism as the Ideology of the Japanese State: Eisai and the K zen gokokuron A Welter Zen Classics: Formative Texts in the History of Zen Buddhism, 65-112, 2006 | 10 | 2006 |
| Religion, Culture, and the Public Sphere in China and Japan A Welter, J Newmark Palgrave Macmillan, 2017 | 8 | 2017 |
| Confucian Monks and Buddhist Junzi: Zanning’s Topical Compendium of the Buddhist Clergy (Da Song seng shi lüe 大宋僧史略) and the Politics of Buddhist Accommodation at the Song … A Welter The Middle Kingdom and the Dharma Wheel, 222-277, 2016 | 6 | 2016 |
| Zen Syncretism: An Examination of Dǁgen’s Zen Thought in Light of Yongming Yanshou’s Chan Teaching in the Zongjing lu. In'ǁgen: Historical and Textual Studies, edited by Steven … A Welter New York: Oxford University Press, 2012 | 6 | 2012 |
| Mahakasyapa's Smile A Welter The koan: Texts and Contexts in Zen Buddhism, 75-109, 2000 | 6 | 2000 |
| Eisai’s Promotion of Zen for the Protection of the Country A Welter Religions of Japan in practice, 63-70, 1999 | 6 | 1999 |
