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The gateless barrier: the wu-men kuan (mumonkan)

By Robert , Recorded Books , Inc.;Aitken

Book information

Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Year
2016
ISBN
9781466895461, 1466895462
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (3452030 bytes)
Pages
\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Philosophy;PHILOSOPHY--Zen;PHILOSOPHY -- Zen

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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