Two Zen Classics Two Zen Classics

Two Zen Classics

The Gateless Gate and The Blue Cliff Records

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Beschreibung des Verlags

A new translation of The Gateless Gate and The Blue Cliff Records, two classic collections of Zen koans—or guiding ‘riddles’—used in the study of Zen Buddhism

The strange verbal paradoxes called koans have been used traditionally in Zen training to help students attain a direct realization of truths inexpressible in words. The two works translated in this book, Mumonkan (The Gateless Gate) and Hekiganroku (The Blue Cliff Records), both compiled during the Song dynasty in China, are the best known and most frequently studied koan collections, and are classics of Zen literature. They are still used today in a variety of practice lineages, from traditional zendos to modern Zen centers.
 
In a completely new translation, together with original commentaries, the well-known Zen teacher 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 both Eastern and Western ways of thinking make him an ideal interpreter of these texts.

GENRE
Religion und Spiritualität
ERSCHIENEN
1995
1. Februar
SPRACHE
EN
Englisch
UMFANG
418
Seiten
VERLAG
Shambhala
GRÖSSE
2,5
 MB

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