Zen Master Tales
Stories from the Lives of Taigu, Sengai, Hakuin, and Ryokan
$36.67
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
31 May 2022
Summary
A lively collection of folk tales and Buddhist teaching stories from four noted premodern Japanese Zen masters: Taigu Shiku (1584-1669), Sengai Gibon (1750-1831), Hakuin Ekaku (1686-1769), and Taigu Ryokan (1758-1831).
Zen Master Tales collects never before translated stories of four prominent Zen masters from the Edo period of Japanese history (1603-1868). Drawn from an era that saw the “democratization” of Japanese Zen, these stories paint a picture of robust, funny, and poignant en…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781611809602 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1611809606 |
| Author: | Peter Haskel |
| Publisher: | Shambhala Publications Inc |
| Imprint: | Shambhala Publications Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 31 May 2022 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 140mm x 216mm |
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Critics Review
“In his first-rate translation of the tales of Zen masters Taigu, Sengai, Hakuin, and Ryokan, Haskel captures the spirit and the humor of these unique teachers. Like Haskel’s previous books on Zen masters Bankei, Ryokan, and Tosui, he brings these eccentric Zen men to life. In the introduction he reminds us how these tales or myths, though not exact factual histories of these men and woman, may be what the spirit of Zen is all about.”—Arthur Braverman, author of Mud and Water: The Zen Teaching of Master Bassui
“In Zen Master Tales, Peter Haskel offers us an everyday view of four of the greatest and quirkiest Zen masters of Japan. Most of these tales are appearing here in English for the first time and ring true like folk stories rather than formal encounter dialogues. So the book goes down like a hot chocolate on a wintry night.”—Dosho Port, author of The Record of Empty Hall: One Hundred Classic Koans
“Zen Master Tales opens the world of Zen through its stories and reveals who and what we really are. It tells the truths of Zen in a manner I think best for our age, both skeptical and seeking.”—James Ishmael Ford, author of Introduction to Zen Koans
“Well-researched [and] presented in a cool, relaxed, and easy-to-read manner.”—Buddhistdoor Global
Peter Haskel
Peter Haskel
Peter Haskel holds a PhD in East Asian Studies from Columbia University. He is the translator of several significant works on Zen Buddhism, including:
- Bankei Zen: Translations from the Record of Bankei
- Great Fool: Zen Master Ryōkan—Letters and Other Writings
- Letting Go: The Story of Zen Master Tōzan
- Sword of Zen: Master Takuan and His Writings on Immovable Wisdom and the Sword Taiia
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