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The Gateless Barrier: The Wu-Men Kuan (Mumonkan)

By Robert Aitken

Book information

Publisher
North Point Press
Year
1990
ISBN
0865474419, 0865474427, 9780865474413
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
30 MB (31959281 bytes)
Pages
332\350
Library
SoftArchive
Time added
2023-11-08 21:15:50

Description

The Gateless Barrier is generally acknowledged to be the fundamental koan collection in the literature of Zen. Gathered together by Wu-men (Mumon), a thirteenth-century master of the Lin-chi (Rinzai) school, it is composed of forty-eight koans, or cases, each accompanied by a brief comment and poem by Wu-men.Robert Aitken, one of the premier American Zen masters, has translated Wu-men's text, supplementing the original with his own commentary -- the first such commentary by a Western master -- making the profound truths of Zen Buddhism accessible to serious contemporary students and relevant to current social concerns.

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