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Dropping Ashes on the Buddha The Teachings of Zen Master Seung Sahn

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ISBN-10: 0802130526

ISBN-13: 9780802130525

Edition: 1976

Authors: Stephen Mitchell, Stephen Mitchell

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"Somebody comes into the Zen center with a lighted cigarette, walks up to the Buddha statue, blows smoke in its face, and drops ashes on its lap. You are standing there. What can you do?" This is a problem that Zen Master Seung Sahn is fond of posing to his American students who attend his Zen centers. Dropping Ashes on the Buddha is a delightful, irreverent, and often hilariously funny living record of the dialogue between Korean Zen Master Seung Sahn and his American students. Consisting of dialogues, stories, formal Zen interviews, Dharma speeches, and letters using the Zen Master's actual words in spontaneous, living interaction with his students, this book is a fresh presentation of…    
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Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 1976
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/18/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.68" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English