Two Zen Classics : "Mumonkan" and "Hekiganroku"

Sekida, Katsuki

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.

Kustantaja: UKBooks
Sidosasu: Pehmeäkantinen
ean: 9780834801301
Ilmestymisvuosi: 1977