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Two Zen classics : the Gateless gate and the Blue cliff records / translated with commentaries by Katsuki Sekida ; edited and introduced by A. V. Grimstone.
- Title
- Two Zen classics : the Gateless gate and the Blue cliff records / translated with commentaries by Katsuki Sekida ; edited and introduced by A. V. Grimstone.
- Publication
- Boston, Mass. : Shambhala : Distributed by Random House, 2005.
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- Description
- 413 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "The strange verbal paradoxes called koans have long been used in Zen training to help students attain a direct realization of truths inexpressible in words. The two works translated in this book, Mumonkan (The Gateless Gate) and Hekiganroku (The Blue Cliff Records), both compiled during the Song dynasty in China, are the best known and most frequently studied koan collections, and are classics of Zen literature. In a completely new translation, together with original commentaries, Katsuki Sekida brings to these works the same fresh and pragmatic approach that made his Zen Training so successful. The insights of a lifetime of Zen practice and his familiarity with both Eastern and Western ways of thinking make him an ideal interpreter of these texts."--BOOK JACKET.
- Alternative Title
- Gateless gate
- Blue cliff records
- Subject
- Note
- Originally published: Weatherhill, 1995.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The gateless gate -- The blue cliff records.
- ISBN
- 1590302826 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2005048966
- OCLC
- 60245564
- SCSB-11230093
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library