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| Author(s) : Sasaki, Ruth Fuller and edited by Thomas Yuho Kirchner |
| Publishers Price : £49.99 |
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| ISBN : 0824828216 | | EAN : 9780824828219 | | Cover : Hardback | | Pages : 494 | | Size : 236 x 160mm | | Publisher : Hawaii Univ Press | | Published : 2008 |
Category : Zen: Rinzai
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Synopsis:
The Linji Lu, or Record of Linji, has been an essential text of Chinese and Japanese Zen Buddhism for nearly a thousand years. A compilation of sermons, statements, and acts attributed to the great Chinese master Linji Yixuan (d.866), it serves as both an authoritative work of Zen's basic standpoint and a central source of material for Zen koan practice.
One of the earliest attempts to translate this important work into English was by Sasakai Shigetsu, a pioneer of Zen in America. At the time of his death he entrusted the project to his wife, Ruth Fuller Sasaki. She assembled a team of talented scholars, both Japanese and Western to work on the text. An abbreviated version was published in 1975, but the materials brought together by Mrs Sasaki and her team are finally available in the present edition.
"This new edition will be the translation of choice for Western Zen communities, college courses, and all who want to know that the translation they are reading is faithful to the original. Professional scholars of Buddhism will revel in the sheer wealth of information packed into footnotes and bibliographical notes." Victor Sogen Hori.
"In the late 1950s, when I was a student in Chinese studies in Kyoto, I worked with Mrs Sasaki on her translation of the Record of Linji…In 1975 a version of the translation came out, but without the elaborate annotation she had envisioned. Now, thanks to the efforts of the meticulous and indefatigable Mr.Kirchner and his supporters, we have a new version of that earlier translation…Here is this important Zen classic with all the annotation one could desire, in what will doubtless be the definitive edition for many years to come." Burton Watson. |
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