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.
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Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Book Title: TWO Zen Classics : Mumonkan and Hekiganroku
Item Length: 8.8in.
Item Height: 1.2in.
Item Width: 5.9in.
Author: Katsuki Sekida
Original Language: Chinese
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Buddhism / General (See Also Philosophy / Buddhist), Buddhism / Zen (See Also Philosophy / Zen)
Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
Publication Year: 1995
Genre: Religion
Item Weight: 21.7 Oz
Number of Pages: 418 Pages
