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Katsuki Sekida

Two Zen Classics

The Gateless Gate and The Blue Cliff Records

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The strange verbal paradoxes called koans have been used traditionally 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 Record), both compiled during the Song dynasty in China, are the best known and most frequently studied koan collections, and are classics of Zen literature. They are still used today in a variety of practice lineages, from traditional zendos to modern Zen centers. In a completely new translation, together with original commentaries, the well-known Zen teacher Katsuki Sekida bring… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-59030-282-8
  • EAN: 9781590302828
  • Produktnummer: 1658007
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
  • Seitenangabe: 418 S.
  • Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.1 cm x D2.8 cm 554 g
  • Gewicht: 554

Über den Autor


Katsuki Sekida (1893–1987) was by profession a high school teacher of English until his retirement in 1945. Zen, nevertheless, was his lifelong preoccupation. He began his Zen practice in 1915 and trained at Empuku-ji in Kyoto and Ryutaki-ji in Mishima, Shizuoka Prefecture. He taught at the Honolulu Zendo and Maui Zendo from 1963 to 1970 and at the London Zen Society from 1970 to 1972.

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