xii, 283 pages : 25 cm; The concept of classic literature in Zen Buddhism /Dale S. Wright --Guishan jingce (Guishan's admonitions) and the ethical foundations of Chan practice /Mario Poceski --A Korean contribution to the Zen canon: the Oga hae seorui (Commentaries on five masters on the Diamond sūtra) /Charles Muller --Zen Buddhism as the ideology of the Japanese state: Eisai and the Kōzen gokokuron /Albert Welter --An analysis of Dōgen's Eihei goroku: distillation or distortion? /Steven Heine --"Rules of purity" in Japanese Zen /T. Griffith Foulk --Zen kōan capping phrase books: literary study and the insight "not founded on words or letters" /G. Victor Sōgen Hori --Imagining Indian Zen: Tōrei's commentary on the Ta-mo-to-lo ch'an ching and the rediscovery of early meditation techniques during the Tokugawa Era /Michel Mohr --Meditation for laymen and laywomen: the Buddha samādhi (Jijuyū zanmai) of Menzan Zuihō /David E. Riggs.; This volume focuses on the early history of Zen in China, providing overview assessments of many of the most important canonical texts that set the Zen tradition in motion throughout East Asia. Zen Classics will follow that historical movement, focusing primarily on texts from Korea and Japan that brought this Buddhist movement to fruition. Although enormously diverse in style and structure all of the texts and genres of texts considered here were fundamental to the unfolding of Zen in East Asia. The range of genres reveals the varieties of Zen practice, from rules of daily practice to sermons and meditation manuals.; 

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