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Secrets of the Blue Cliff Record

Thomas Cleary
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Author : Thomas Cleary
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002-12-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780834828834

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The Blue Cliff Record is a classic text of Zen Buddhism, designed to assist in the activation of dormant human potential. The core of this extraordinary work is a collection of one hundred traditional citations and stories, selected for their ability to bring about insight and enlightenment. These vignettes are known as gongan in Chinese and koan in Japanese. Secrets of the Blue Cliff Record is a fresh translation featuring newly translated commentary from two of the greatest Zen masters of early modern Japan, Hakuin Ekaku (1685–1768) of the Rinzai sect of Zen and Tenkei Denson (1648–1735) of the Soto sect of Zen. This translation and commentary on The Blue Cliff Record sheds new light on the meaning of this central Zen text.

The Garden of Flowers and Weeds

Matthew Juksan Sullivan
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Author : Matthew Juksan Sullivan
Publisher : Monkfish Book Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1948626497

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The Garden of Flowers and Weeds by Matthew Juksan Sullivan Pdf

Groundbreaking new translation of key Zen Buddhist text whose intention is to awaken dormant human potential.

Sun-Face Buddha

Ma-tsu
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Author : Ma-tsu
Publisher : Jain Publishing Company
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780875730226

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Sun-Face Buddha by Ma-tsu Pdf

A translation of the primary materials on the life and teachings of Ma-Tsu (709-788), the successor to the great sixth patriarch and the greatest Ch'an master in history, Hui-Neng (638-713). The book should be invaluable to all who wish to study the development of the Zen thought and philosophy over the course of history.

Blue Cliff Record

David Rothenberg
Blue Cliff Record Book PDF

Author : David Rothenberg
Publisher : Distribution Partners
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110271017

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“Revisiting these 100 classic case studies, Rothenberg enlivens the process, and if he returns one to translations from the original, if his practice deepens another’s practice, so much the better.” –from the foreword by Sam Hamill, editor and translator of the Essential Chuang Tzu “It is astonishing how thousand year old riddles are brought here to evocative poetic life. David Rothenberg converts them into contemporary verbal music, and arcanum, a profound secret, a mystery without intellectual solution.” –Frederick Franck, author of The Zen of Seeing and The Buddha Eye This vividly poetic version of the classic 12th century Zen treasurehouse, the Blue Cliff Record, breathes new life into its extraordinary collection of one hundred koans, ingeniously devised from contemplations, insight, and enlightenment. “Rothenberg’s adaptation of the Blue Cliff Record is that rare thing, a work of art that is also useful. It is a bracing as a dive into a cold spring.” –Mark Rudman, winner of the National Book Critics’ Circle Award for Poetry. Poet, writer, philosopher, and musician, David Rothenberg is a contributing editor at Parabola magazine and founding editor of Terra Nova, the award-winning journal of deep ecology. The author of Hand’s End and Sudden Music, his writing is featured in the anthologies The Best Spiritual Writing 1999 and The Soul of Nature.

Elegant Failure

Richard Shrobe
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Author : Richard Shrobe
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781930485518

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Zen koans are stories of exchanges between Zen masters and their disciples at the moment of enlightenment or near-enlightenment. These stories have long fascinated Western readers because of their wisdom, humor, and enigmatic quality. Drawing on over thirty years of practice and teaching, Richard Shrobe (himself a recognized Zen Master) has selected twenty-two cases from The Blue Cliff Record, Book of Serenity, and Wu-men-kuan that he has found to be deeply meaningful and helpful for meditation practice. In Elegant Failure, he provides a wealth of background information and personal anecdotes for each koan that help to illuminate its meaning without detracting from its paradoxical nature. As Shrobe reminds us, "The main core of Zen teaching is the bare bones of what is there. In a certain sense, embellishing a story takes away from the central teaching: Don’t embellish anything, just be with it as it is."

Zen Letters

Yuanwu
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Author : Yuanwu
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001-11-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781570627033

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Zen Letters by Yuanwu Pdf

Zen Letters presents the teachings of the great Chinese master Yuanwu (1063–1135) in direct person-to-person lessons, intimately revealing the inner workings of the psychology of enlightenment. These teachings are drawn from letters written by Yuanwu to various fellow teachers, disciples, and lay students—to women as well as men, to people with families and worldly careers as well as monks and nuns, to advanced adepts as well as beginning students. A key figure of Zen history, Yuanwu is best known as the author of The Blue Cliff Record. His letters, here in English for the first time, are among the treasures of Zen literature.

The Book of Equanimity

Gerry Shishin Wick
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Author : Gerry Shishin Wick
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005-03-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780861713875

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The Book of Equanimity by Gerry Shishin Wick Pdf

A thought-provoking collection of Zen koans culls the wisdom of thisnfluencial brand of Buddhism to present a series of "teaching stories" thatresent spiritual wisdom in interesting ways. Original.

Chan Rhetoric of Uncertainty in the Blue Cliff Record

Steven Heine
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Author : Steven Heine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199397785

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Chan Rhetoric of Uncertainty in the Blue Cliff Record by Steven Heine Pdf

This book provides an in-depth textual and literary analysis of the Blue Cliff Record (Chinese Biyanlu, Japanese Hekiganroku), a seminal Chan/Zen Buddhist collection of commentaries on one hundred gongan/koan cases, considered in light of historical, cultural, and intellectual trends from the Song dynasty (960-1279). Compiled by the disciples of Yuanwu Keqin in 1128, the Blue Cliff Record is considered a classic of East Asian literature for its creative integration of prose and verse as well as hybrid or capping-phrase interpretations of perplexing cases.The collection employs a variety of rhetorical devices culled from both classic and vernacular literary sources and styles and is particularly notable for its use of indirection, allusiveness, irony, paradox, and wordplay, all characteristic of the approach of literary or lettered Chan. However, as instrumental and influential as it is considered to be, the Blue Cliff Record has long been shrouded in controversy. The collection is probably best known today for having been destroyed in the 1130s at the dawn of the Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279) by Dahui Zonggao, Yuanwu's main disciple and harshest critic. It was out of circulation for nearly two centuries before being revived and partially reconstructed in the early 1300s. In this book, Steven Heine examines the diverse ideological connections and disconnections behind subsequent commentaries and translations of the Blue Cliff Record, thereby shedding light on the broad range of gongan literature produced in the eleventh to thirteenth centuries and beyond.

The Gateless Barrier

Anonim
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Author : Anonim
Publisher : North Point Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781466895461

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The Gateless Barrier by Anonim Pdf

The Gateless Barrier is generally acknowledged to be the fundamental koan collection in the literature of Zen. Gathered together by Wu-men (Mumon), a thirteenth-century master of the Lin-chi (Rinzai) school, it is composed of forty-eight koans, or cases, each accompanied by a brief comment and poem by Wu-men. Robert Aitken, one of the premier American Zen masters, has translated Wu-men's text, supplementing the original with his own commentary -- the first such commentary by a Western master -- making the profound truths of Zen Buddhism accessible to serious contemporary students and relevant to current social concerns.

The Blue Cliff Record

Anonim
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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005-04-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780834828209

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The Blue Cliff Record by Anonim Pdf

The Blue Cliff Record is a translation of the Pi Yen Lu, a collection of one hundred famous Zen koans accompanied by commentaries and verses from the teachings of Chinese Zen masters. Compiled in the twelfth century, it is considered one of the great treasures of Zen literature and an essential study manual for students of Zen.

The True Dharma Eye

John Daido Loori
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Author : John Daido Loori
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 083482311X

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The True Dharma Eye by John Daido Loori Pdf

A collection of three hundred koans compiled by Eihei Dogen, the thirteenth-century founder of Soto Zen in Japan, this book presents readers with a uniquely contemporary perspective on his profound teachings and their relevance for modern Western practitioners of Zen. Following the traditional format for koan collections, John Daido Loori Roshi, an American Zen master, has added his own commentary and accompanying verse for each of Dogen’s koans. Zen students and scholars will find The True Dharma Eye to be a source of deep insight into the mind of one of the world’s greatest religious thinkers, as well as the practice of koan study itself.

Zen Antics

Thomas Cleary
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Author : Thomas Cleary
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1993-11-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780834830141

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Throughout Zen history, stories and anecdotes of Zen masters and their students have been used as teaching devices to exemplify the enlightened spirit. Unlike many of the baffling dialogues between Zen masters preserved in the koan literature, the stories retold here are penetratingly simple but with a richness and subtlety that make them worth reading again and again. This collection includes more than one hundred such stories—many appearing here in English for the first time—drawn from a wide variety of sources and involving some of the best-known Zen masters, such as Hakuin, Bankei, and Shosan. Also presented are stories and anecdotes involving famous Zen artists and poets, such as Sengai and Basho.

The Blue Cliff Record

Anonim
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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UVA:X030119997

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The Blue Cliff Record by Anonim Pdf

"The Blue Cliff Record" is a translation of the "Pi Yen Lu," a collection of one hundred famous Zen koans accompanied by commentaries and verses from the teachings of Chinese Zen masters. Compiled in the twelfth century, it is considered one of the great treasures of Zen literature and an essential study manual for students of Zen.

Entangling Vines

Thomas Yuho Kirchner
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Author : Thomas Yuho Kirchner
Publisher : Wisdom Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1614296154

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Entangling Vines by Thomas Yuho Kirchner Pdf

The most contemporary of the the classic koan collections—representing centuries of practical refinement by Zen masters working with their students. Entangling Vines is a translation of the Shumon Kattoshu, the only major koan text to have been compiled in Japan rather than China. Most of the central koans of the contemporary Rinzai koan curriculum are contained in this work. Indeed, Kajitani Sonin (1914–1995)—former chief abbot of Shokoku-ji and author of an annotated, modern-Japanese translation of the Kattoshu—commented that “herein are compiled the basic Dharma materials of the koan system.” A distinctive feature of Entangling Vines is that, unlike the Gateless Gate and Blue Cliff Record, it presents the koans “bare,” with no introductions, commentaries, or verses. The straightforward structure of its presentation lends the koans added force and immediacy, emphasizing the Great Matter, the essential point to be interrogated, while providing ample material for the rigors of examining and refining Zen experience. Containing 272 cases and extensive annotation, the collection is not only indispensable for serious koan training but also forms an excellent introduction to Buddhist philosophy.

Zen Under the Gun

Anonim
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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780861715923

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Zen Under the Gun by Anonim Pdf

This book, from one of the pioneering and preeminent translators of Zen for the West, presents a selection of Zen lessons from four teachers in four successive generations. More than just a book on Zen philosophy, "Zen Under the Gun" spans the turbulent period in Chinese history from the last generation of the Song dynasty (overthrown by the Mongols in 1279) to the first generation of the Ming dynasty (which drove out the Mongols, and proclaimed its own reign in 1368). These four Zen masters were all eminent public teachers, and their teaching words reflect the state of China and the art of Zen in their time.