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Zen Sourcebook: Traditional Documents from China, Korea, and Japan

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"Featuring a carefully selected collection of source documents, this tome includes traditional teaching tools from the Zen Buddhist traditions of China , Korea , and Japan , including texts created by women. The selections provide both a good feel for the varieties of Zen and an experience of its common core. . . . The texts are experiential teachings and include storytelling, poetry, autobiographies, catechisms, calligraphy, paintings, and koans . Contextual commentary prefaces each text. Wade-Giles transliteration is used, although Pinyin, Korean, Japanese, and Sanskrit terms are linked in appendixes. An insightful introduction by Arai contributes a religious studies perspective. The bibliography references full translations of the selections. A thought-provoking discussion about the problems of translation is included. . . . Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels." --Choice

Language: English

Pages: 312

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.

Release: February 15, 2008

ISBN: 0872209091

ISBN 13: 9780872209091

Zen Sourcebook: Traditional Documents from China, Korea, and Japan

4.3/5 ( ratings)

"Featuring a carefully selected collection of source documents, this tome includes traditional teaching tools from the Zen Buddhist traditions of China , Korea , and Japan , including texts created by women. The selections provide both a good feel for the varieties of Zen and an experience of its common core. . . . The texts are experiential teachings and include storytelling, poetry, autobiographies, catechisms, calligraphy, paintings, and koans . Contextual commentary prefaces each text. Wade-Giles transliteration is used, although Pinyin, Korean, Japanese, and Sanskrit terms are linked in appendixes. An insightful introduction by Arai contributes a religious studies perspective. The bibliography references full translations of the selections. A thought-provoking discussion about the problems of translation is included. . . . Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels." --Choice

Language: English

Pages: 312

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.

Release: February 15, 2008

ISBN: 0872209091

ISBN 13: 9780872209091

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