Introduction to Zen Meditation: The Classic Rinzai Zen Meditation Techniques: A Beginner's Guide to Zen Training and Mindfulness: A Physical Approach ... Training (The Classic Rinzai Zen Manual) - Softcover

Omori Sogen; Meido Moore

 
9780804852036: Introduction to Zen Meditation: The Classic Rinzai Zen Meditation Techniques: A Beginner's Guide to Zen Training and Mindfulness: A Physical Approach ... Training (The Classic Rinzai Zen Manual)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0804852030 ISBN 13: 9780804852036
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing, 2020

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About the Author

Omori Sogen (1904-1994) began his formal training in Zen, Kenjutsu (swordsmanship), and calligraphy in his early twenties, and was a widely respected sword teacher and advisor to the Japanese Cabinet. After WWII, he entered the priesthood in the Tenryu-ji Rinzai lineage. For the next forty years he continued to teach swordsmanship, calligraphy and Zen meditation, while writing 20 books and serving as a court magistrate eventually becoming president of the principle Rinzai University in Japan, Hanazono Daigaku. He established the International Zen Dojo in Hawaii and founded Daihonzan Chozen-ji in Honolulu the first headquarters temple in Rinzai Zen established under canon law outside Japan. Translated by: Hosokawa Dogen Roshi was Abbot of Daihonzan Chozen-ji and a dharma successor of Omori Sogen Rotaishi and Roy Yoshimoto. New Foreword by: Meido Moore Roshi is Abbot of Korinji Rinzai Zen Monastery in Reedsburg, Wisconsin, and author of The Rinzai Zen Way: A Guide to Practice. Introduction by: Trevor Leggett is author of A First Zen Reader, Zen and the Ways and many other books on Zen, Taoism and Asian philosophy.

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Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0804852030
ISBN 13 
9780804852036
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
288