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 long awaited companion volume to the best selling Zen Mind Beginners Mind, these lectures are taken from the last three years of Suzuki`s life. Shunryuo Suzuki...
New edition. Chadwick, a Texas-raised wanderer, college dropout, bumbling social activist, and hobbyhorse musician, began his Zen study under Shunryu Suzuki...
A bestseller in Japan, this is a fascinating account of a man who gave up his comfortable job as a designer to undertake the harsh and strict ascetic...
Koans are pithy, enigmatic utterances used for religious training in the Zen Buddhist tradition. This important work explores the full range of historical...
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...
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...
A beautiful boxed gift set of forty beautiful reproductions of Zen art on cards for display, along with a 32 page booklet on the history of Zen art and how it expresses...
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...
Bodhidharma was the fifth century Indian Buddhist monk credited with bringing Zen to China. This is the only volume of the great teacher's work currently...
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...