Two Zen Classics: Mumonkan and Hekiganroku
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Book
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ISBN 10
0834801302
ISBN 13
9780834801301
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Publication Year
1977
Publisher
Pages
418
Subject
Huikai, 1183-1260. -- Yuanwu, 1063-1135. -- Bi yan lu (Yuanwu). -- Wumen guan (Huikai). -- Koan. -- Koans.
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Description
The strange verbal paradoxes called koans have been used in Zen training to help students attain a direct realization of truths inexpressible in words. The two works translated in this book, Mumonkan ( Gateless Gate ) and Hekiganroku ( Blue Cliff Record), both compiled during the Song dynasty in China, are the best known and most frequently studied koan collections, and are classics of Zen literature. In a completely new translation, together with original commentaries, Katsuki Sekida brings to these works the same fresh and pragmatic approach that made his Zen Training so successful. The insights of a lifetime of Zen practice and his familiarity with Western as well as Eastern ways of thinking make him an ideal interpreter of these texts. - from Amzon
Biblio Notes
2818787
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1
