Zen is said to have been introduced to China by the Indian master Bodhidharma in the 6th century CE. Known as Chan in Chinese, it spread to Korea and Japan. The legendary origins of Zen go right back to the Buddha and his teachings beyond words and concepts. Such a direct teaching outside of scripture took place when the Buddha simply held up a flower and the monk Kashyapa understood the meaning.
A warm, engaging, uniquely Western approach to using Zen to deal with the ordinary problems of daily living - love, relationships, work, fear, ambition, suffering. Charlotte Joko...
Zen masters of the past have said that the Truth is like the distant moon. Ideas, theories and explanations are merely fingers pointing at that far away...
Addressing issues relevant to the twentieth century practitioner, in the context of a tradition spanning 2500 years, Mountain Record of Zen Talks is a collection of...
This book is Korean Zen master Seung Sahn's distillation of the essential core of Zen teaching. Originally written as a tool for helping his students get their bearings in the midst of the American...
A profound and practical collection of articles introducing Buddhist teaching, incorporating a translation and commentary on the Hannya Sutra, expressing the...
New edition. Flower arranging as a form of meditation, its significance and symbolism is revealed in this classic book on the meaning of the Japanese...
This direct and sublime teaching of the Zen master Huang Po is from a translation of a ninth-century Chinese Buddhist text, the Huang Po Ch'uan Hsin Fa...
New edition. This groundbreaking new book offers a penetrating look at the ways in which some Zen teachers utilised Buddhism to foster a fanatical spirit in the Japanese military during World War...
Thich Nhat Hanh brings his warmth and clarity to this unique explication of Zen. Beginning with stories from his first years in a Zen monastery, he brings the Zen tradition in Vietnam...
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