A new translation with critical commentary of 60 Zen koans--the first book to place the koan in its tradition of supernatural narratives. Illustrations. 1 map.
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A new translation with critical commentary of 60 Zen koans--the first book to place the koan in its tradition of supernatural narratives. Illustrations. 1 map.
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Add this copy of Opening a Mountain: Koans of the Zen Masters to cart. $19.98, good condition, Sold by BookHolders rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gambrills, MD, UNITED STATES, published 2002 by Oxford University Press, USA.
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Very Good in Fine jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Goldenrod 1/4 cloth, turquoise paper covered boards, lettered in red. Scattered highlighting and a few minor ink marks through the first 40 pages, otherwise unmarked and as issued. Illus. dust jacket essentially as issued. 1st ptg.
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Minor rubbing. VG. 23x15cm, xiv, 200 pp, PAPERBACK. Translation with commentary of sixty koan cases selected from Zen Buddhist collections compiled in Sung China and Kamakura Japan. ["With the growing popularity of Zen Buddhism in the West, virtually everyone knows, or thinks they know, what a koan is: a brief and baffling question or statement that cannot be solved by the logical mind and which, after sustained concentration, can lead to sudden enlightenment. But the truth about koans is both simpler--and more complicated--than this. In Opening a Mountain, Steven Heine shows that koans, and the questions we associate with them--such as "What is the sound of one hand clapping? "--are embedded in larger narratives and belong to an ancient Buddhist tradition of " encounter dialogues. " These dialogues feature dramatic and often inscrutable contests between masters and disciples, or between masters and an array of natural and supernatural forces: rouge priests, "wild foxes, " hermits, wizards, shapeshifters, magical animals, and dangerous women. To establish a new monastery, "to open a mountain, " the Zen master had to tame these wild forces in regions most remote from civilization. In these extraordinary encounters, fingers and arms are cut off, pitchers are kicked over, masters appear in and interpret each other's dreams, and seemingly absurd statements are shown to reveal the deepest insights. Heine restores these koans to their original traditions, allowing readers to see both the complex elements of Chinese culture and religion that they reflect and the role they played in Zen's transformation of local.
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