Record of Things Heard
From the Treasury of the Eye of the True Teaching
$29.58
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
15 February 2013
Summary
This Zen classic is a collection of talks by the great Japanese Zen Master Dogen, the founder of the Soto School. They were recorded by Ejo, one of Dogen’s first disciples, and later his foremost successor. The talks and stories in this volume were written in the thirteenth-century Japan, a time when Buddhism was undergoing a “dark age” of misinterpretation and corruption. It was in this atmosphere that Dogen attempted to reassert the true essence of the Buddhist teachings and to affirm “the …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780877737438 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0877737436 |
| Author: | Thomas Cleary |
| Publisher: | Shambhala Publications Inc |
| Imprint: | Shambhala Publications Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 15 February 2013 |
| Weight: | 183g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm x 9mm |
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About The Author
Thomas Cleary
Thomas Cleary holds a PhD in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University and a JD from the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law. He is the translator of over fifty volumes of Buddhist, Taoist, Confucian, and Islamic texts from Sanskrit, Chinese, Japanese, Pali, and Arabic.
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