Two Zen Classics The Gateless Gate and the Blue Cliff Records

Name: Two Zen Classics The Gateless Gate and the Blue Cliff Records
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ISBN: 9781590302828

ISBN-10: 1590302826

ISBN-13: 9781590302828

Edition: 2005

Authors: Katsuki Sekida

List price: $35.00

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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) andHekiganroku (The Blue Cliff Record), 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…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/13/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.06" wide x 8.94" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English