Two Zen Classics: Mumonkan and Hekiganroku - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0834801302 ISBN 13: 9780834801301

Publisher: John Weatherhill, Inc., 1977

Synopsis

The strange verbal paradoxes called koans have been used in Zen training to help students attain a direct realization of truths inexpressible in words. The two works translated in this book, Mumonkan ( Gateless Gate ) and Hekiganroku ( 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. In a completely new translation, together with original commentaries, 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 Western as well as Eastern ways of thinking make him an ideal interpreter of these texts.

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Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Chinese

About this edition

• Publisher: John Weatherhill, Inc.
• Publication date: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0834801302
• ISBN 13: 9780834801301
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 418
• Editor: A. V. Grimstone