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Title

The world : a gateway : commentaries on the Mumonkan / by Albert Low.

Author

Low, Albert.

Publication

Boston : C.E. Tuttle Co., c1995.

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Additional Authors

• Hui-kʻai, 1183-1260.
• Huikai, 1183-1260.

Description

xiii, 312 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

• As director of the Montreal Zen Center for the past fifteen years, Albert Low has helped others work through these koans. In this book he provides contemporary and lively commentaries which serve to make the Mumonkan available to all readers and relevant to their everyday lives. He draws upon his own thirty years of practice, half of which has been spent as a teacher, to show how the Mumonkan can be a gateway to spiritual life.
• His commentaries are filled with anecdotes and new insights into the human condition. The book is structured in the traditional style, with translations of each koan followed by the author's comments. The translations are drawn from the author's own interpretation and from his work with Roshi Philip Kapleau. Excerpts from the Diamond Sutra and a translation of the Prajnaparamita Hridaya ("Heart of Perfect Wisdom" sutra) are included, as well as the author's story of his own path toward awakening.
• The Mumonkan, or "Gateless Barrier," is the most widely used collection of koans in Zen practice. For centuries, monks, nuns, and lay people have struggled with these koans as a means of attaining enlightenment.

Series Statement

Tuttle library of enlightenment

Uniform Title

Tuttle library of enlightenment.

Subject

• Huikai, 1183-1260
• Koan

Note

• Includes excerpts from Diamond sutra and Prajna paramita.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-312).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Joshu's Mu! -- 2. Hyakujo's Fox -- 3. Gutei's Finger -- 4. The Barbarian's Beard -- 5. Kyogen's Man Up a Tree -- 6. Buddha Holds Up a Flower -- 7. Joshu says, "Wash Your Bowl" -- 8. Keichu's Wheel -- 9. Daitsu Chisho Buddha -- 10. Poor Seizei -- 11. Joshu's Hermits -- 12. Zuigan Calls, "Master" -- 13. Tokusan Carries His Bowls -- 14. Nansen Cuts the Cat -- 15. Tozan's Sixty Blows -- 16. Ummon's "The World Is Vast and Wide" -- 17. The National Teacher Calls Three Times -- 18. Tozan's Three Pounds of Flax -- 19. Ordinary Mind Is the Way -- 20. The Man of Great Strength -- 21. Ummon's Shit Stick -- 22. Ananda and the Flagpole -- 23. Hui Neng -- Beyond Good and Evil -- 24. Fuketsu -- Beyond Speech and Silence -- 25. Kyozan's Dream -- 26. Two Monks Roll Up the Blinds -- 27. The Truth that No One Has Taught -- 28. Ryutan Blows Out the Candle -- 29. Hui Neng's Flag -- 30. Baso's "This Very Mind Is Buddha" -- 31. Joshu Investigates the Old Woman.

ISBN

0804830460

LCCN

^^^94046614^//r95

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library