Infinite Circle: Teachings in Zen

Bernie Glassman

ISBN 10: 1570625913 / ISBN 13: 9781570625916

Published by Shambhala, Boston, London, 2002

About this Item

142pp. First Printing, complete number line. White boards, black cloth spine, gold stamp lettering on spine. Light wear. Clean text. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall U6.

Seller Inventory # 007118

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Infinite Circle: Teachings in Zen
• Publisher: Shambhala, Boston, London
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1570625913
• ISBN 13: 9781570625916
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Religion / Spiritual
  • Self Help

About this title

Synopsis

In Infinite Circle, one of America's most distinctive Zen teachers takes a back-to-basics approach to Zen. Glassman illuminates three key teachings of Zen Buddhism, offering line-by-line commentary in clear, direct language: The Heart Sutra: the Buddha's essential discourse on emptiness, a central sutra of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition. "The Identity of Relative and Absolute": an eighth-century poem by Shih-t'ou His-ch'ien, a key text of the Soto Zen school. The Zen precepts: the rules of conduct for laypeople and monks. His commentaries are based on workshops he gave as Abbot of the Zen Community of New York, and they contain within them the principles that became the foundation for the Greyston Mandala of community development organizations and the Zen Peacemaker Order.

About the Author

Bernie Glassman is a Zen master and the first dharma successor to Taizan Maezumi Roshi, founder of the Zen Center of Los Angeles. He is well known for integrating Zen practice with social, economic, and educational initiatives. He is also the author of Instructions to the Cook and Bearing Witness: A Zen Master's Lessons in Making Peace.