Known as Lin Chi in China, this was one of the major schools of Ch'an Buddhism. It was transmitted to Japan by Myoan Eisei and although it teaches Zazen sitting meditation it also employs the use of the koan, paradoxically illogical mind problems.
This book brings together one hundred of the rare koans representing the core spiritual discipline of Japan's ancient Samurai tradition. Dating from the thirteenth-century records of...
Hakuin (1686-1769) was the reviver of Rinzai Zen Buddhism in Japan, and Hakuin's teachings, as organised by him and his disciples form the basis for all Rinzai Zen...
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...
The life and teachings of Zen master Daito (1282-1337), who played a leading role in the transmission of Zen Buddhism from China to Japan and founded the influential...
Revised edition. Bankei Yotaku's Unborn Zen has been acclaimed as the first truly original thought since the time Bodhidharma arrived in China in the sixth Century....
Forthcoming due April 2013. Never before widely available in English, Entangling Vines (Shumon Kattoshu) is one of the four major koan texts used in...
New paperback edition. A renowned translation of the Pi Yen Lu, a collection of one hundred koans with commentaries by Chinese masters, that has been regarded as one of the...
Kensho is the Zen experience of waking up to one's own true nature - of understanding the Buddha nature that pervades all existence. The great Zen master Hakuin considered...
The Book of Equanimity contains the first-ever comprehensive English commentaries on one of the most classic collections of Zen teaching stories, or...
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