Zen sourcebook : traditional documents from China, Korea, and Japan
This is the first collection to offer selections from the foundational texts of the Chinese, Korean, and Japanese Zen traditions in a single volume. Through representative selections from their poetry, letters, sermons, and visual arts, the most important Zen Masters provide students with an engaging, cohesive introduction to the first 1.200 years of this rich and often misunderstood tradition. A general Introduction provides historical, biographical, and cultural context; notes on translation and a glossary are also included
Early works
xxxii, 275 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
9780872209091, 9780872209107, 0872209091, 0872209105
173243878
Chinese Zen
The Heart sutra and the Kanzeon sutra
The two paths / Bodhidharma
Hsin-hsin-ming / Seng-tsan
Autobiography from the Platform sutra / Hui-neng
Harmony of difference and equality (Sandkai) / Shih-t'ou
Transmission of mind (excerpts) / Huang-po
Lin-chi record (excerpts) / Lin-chi
The P'ang family, anecdotes and poems (excerpts)
Selected poems by Chinese nuns
Recorded sayings (excerpts) / Chao-chou
The oxherding poems / K'uo-an
Wu-men-kuan / Wu-men, compiler
The blue cliff record (excerpts)
Swampland flowers (excerpts) / Ta-hui
The biography of Miao-tsung
Korean and Japanese Zen
On cultivating the mind (excerpts) / Chinul
Selected writings / Dōgen
The awakening of Mugai Nyodai
Selected poems / Musō Soseki
Collected sayings (excerpts) / T'aego
Poems in Chinese and Japanese / Ikkyū Sōjun
The mirror of Zen (excerpts) / So sahn (1520/1604)
The ryūmonji sermons (excerpts) / Bankei Yōtaku
Autobiographical writings and Song of meditation / Hakuin Ekaku
Selected poems in Chinese and Japanese / Daigu Ryōkan
The great matter of life and death / Kyong ho
Translated from more than one language
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