The Eight Gates of Zen: Spiritual Training an American Zen Monastery - Softcover

Loori, John Daido

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1882795008 ISBN 13: 9781882795000

Publisher: Dharma Communications, 1992

Synopsis

The Eight Gates of Zen offers a matrix of opportunity for returning to intimate contact with our stillness and clarity, and to reclaim our lives.

The eight gates are zazen, direct study with the teacher, liturgy, ethical and moral precepts, art practice, body practice, academic study, and work practice.

This book emerges out of fourteen years of disciplined and vigorous Zen training at one of the most actice Zen Buddhist monasteries in this country. It reaches back to the enlightenment experience of Shakyamuni Buddha, and can be vital and relevant at this moment in time, amidst our global and personal challenges, if we engage it.

About this title

About the Author:

John Daido Loori is the spiritual leader and abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery in Mt. Tremper, New York, and the founder and director of the "Mountains and Rivers Order," an organization of associated Zen Buddhist temples, practice centers, and sitting groups in the United States and abroad. He is an authenticated lineage holder, trained in the rigorous school of koan Zen and in the subtle teachings of Master Dogen's Zen.

Language Notes:

Text: Japanese

About this edition

• Publisher: Dharma Communications
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 1882795008
• ISBN 13: 9781882795000
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 273