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"Zen Lessons", "Zen Essence", "The Five Houses of Zen" (v.1) (Classics of Buddhism and Zen) - Hardcover

 
9781570628313: "Zen Lessons", "Zen Essence", "The Five Houses of Zen" (v.1) (Classics of Buddhism and Zen)

Synopsis

Presents instructions, meditation guides, quotations, letters, essays, dialogues, and other writings by Zen masters over the centuries that were translated and published over a period of thirty years.

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Synopsis

This volume contains teachings predominantly from the Chinese Zen (Chan) tradition, including the writings of revered Chinese masters such as Pai-chang, founder of the Chan monastic tradition; Huang-po, one of the forefathers of the Lin-chi or Rinzai school; Foyan, the great master of the twelfth-century Chinese Zen 'renaissance', and many others.

About the Author

Thomas Cleary holds a PhD in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University and a JD from the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law. He is the translator of over fifty volumes of Buddhist, Taoist, Confucian, and Islamic texts from Sanskrit, Chinese, Japanese, Pali, and Arabic.

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