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...
"Ko Un is a magnificent poet, a combination of Buddhist cognoscente, passionate political libertarian and natural historian. This little book of Zen poems gives a glimpse of the severe...
The life and teachings of one of the greatest Son (Zen) masters whose reform and innovation determined the development of the Korean monastic tradition. The present form of...
A seminal work by Korea's premier author, this is an epic tale of a young boy's search for enlightenment, based loosely on the Gandavyuha, the last book in the Avatamsaka, or Flower Ornament, Sutra....
An overview of Korean Buddhism and its major figures in the modern period. The essays focus on three key areas: Buddhist reform, Zen revival, and the...
The author came to South Korea not only to teach English, but also to pursue answers to life's difficult questions in the hopes of finding a sense of purpose...
A chronological anthology of Korean Zen poetry spanning the sixth through the twentieth centuries. In his introduction the translator distinguishes Zen from other...