ENGLISH

Zen antics: a hundred stories of enlightenment

By Cleary , Thomas F

Book information

Publisher
Shambhala Publications
Year
1993
ISBN
9780834830141, 0877739447, 0834830140
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
881 kB (901784 bytes)
Edition
First edition
Pages
xiii, 99 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Enlightenment (Zen Buddhism);PHILOSOPHY / Zen;Zen

Description

Throughout Zen history, stories and anecdotes of Zen masters and their students have been used as teaching devices to exemplify the enlightened spirit. Unlike many of the baffling dialogues between Zen masters preserved in the koan literature, the stories retold here are penetratingly simple but with a richness and subtlety that make them worth reading again and again. This collection includes more than one hundred such stories-many appearing here in English for the first time-drawn from a wide variety of sources and involving some of the best-known Zen masters, such as Hakuin, Bankei, and Shosan. Also presented are stories and anecdotes involving famous Zen artists and poets, such as Sengai and Basho.

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