Zen Antics
One Hundred Stories of Enlightenment
$31.32
- Paperback
116 pages
- Release Date
27 May 1994
Summary
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 f…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780877739449 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0877739447 |
| Author: | Thomas Cleary |
| Publisher: | Shambhala Publications Inc |
| Imprint: | Shambhala Publications Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 116 |
| Release Date: | 27 May 1994 |
| Weight: | 145g |
| Dimensions: | 6mm x 140mm x 216mm |
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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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