[PDF.94dl] Two Zen Classics: The Gateless Gate and The Blue Cliff Records

Two Zen Classics: The Gateless Gate and The Blue Cliff Records

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 | #393438 in Books |  2005-09-13 |  2005-09-13 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.97 x5.95l,1.24 | File type: PDF | 418 pages

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||37 of 37 people found the following review helpful.| Essential to Koan Study|By C. D. White|I use The Blue Cliff Record by Thomas Cleary and J.C. Cleary for koan study encounters with my zen teacher. But, when I had special difficulty understanding one of the cases, he recommended Sekida's translation of the case and verse. He was right, Sekida's translation was far clearer, easier to understand. I now refer to both translation| |"Katsuki Sekida brings to these works the same fresh and pragmatic approach that made his Zen Training so popular. The insights of a lifetime of Zen practice and his familiarity with Western as well as Eastern ways of thinking make him an ideal interpre

The strange verbal paradoxes called koans have been used traditionally in Zen training to help students attain a direct realization of truths inexpressible in words. The two works translated in this book, Mumonkan (The Gateless Gate ) and Hekiganroku (The Blue Cliff Record), both compiled during the Song dynasty in China, are the best known and most frequently studied koan collections, and are classics of Zen literature. They are still used today i...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Two Zen Classics: The Gateless Gate and The Blue Cliff Records   |  From Shambhala. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.

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