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Zen Dawn

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Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1570627029
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Zen Dawn written by and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2001-11-13 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important book brings together three long-lost texts, the earliest known writings on Zen. • Records of the Teachers and Students of the Lanka presents a complete set of biographies of the Zen patriarchs. • Bodhidharma's Treatise on Contemplating Mind— written in the form of a dialogue between the first Zen patriarch, Bodhidharma, and his successor, Huke—views all the various practices of the Bodhisattva path from the perspective of cultivating mind. • Treatise on Sudden Enlightenment presents a series of questions and answers illuminating the true nature of "sudden enlightenment" as pure, undifferentiated mind. Dating from the first half of the eighth century, and only recently rediscovered in Tun Huang, China, these books offer the best information currently available on the early meditation techniques of the "northern school" of Zen Buddhism.

Zen

Author : Philip Kapleau
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780091406110
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Zen written by Philip Kapleau and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1980 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Stars at Dawn

Author : Wendy Garling
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1611802652
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (118 download)

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Download or read book Stars at Dawn written by Wendy Garling and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contemporary and provocative examination of the life of the Buddha highlighting the influence of women from his journey to awakening through his teaching career--based on overlooked or neglected stories from ancient source material. In this retelling of the ancient legends of the women in the Buddha’s intimate circle, lesser-known stories from Sanskrit and Pali sources are for the first time woven into an illuminating, coherent narrative that follows his life from his birth to his parinirvana or death. Interspersed with original insights, fresh interpretations, and bold challenges to the status quo, the stories are both entertaining and thought-provoking—some may even appear controversial. Focusing first on laywomen from the time before the Buddha’s enlightenment—his birth mother and stepmother, his co-wives, and members of his harem when he was known as Prince Siddhartha—then moving on to the Buddha’s first female disciples, early nuns, and to female patrons, Wendy Garling invites us to open our minds to a new understanding of their roles.

Readings of the Platform S?tra

Author : 惠能
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231158211
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Readings of the Platform S?tra written by 惠能 and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Essays that introduce the history and ideas of the sūtra to a general audience and interpret its practices." (book jacket).

The Power of Patriarchs

Author : Elizabeth A. Morrison
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004183019
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Power of Patriarchs written by Elizabeth A. Morrison and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the Northern Song Chan monk Qisong and his writings on Chan lineage, this book offers new arguments about Buddhist patriarchs, challenges assumptions about Chan masters, and provides insight into the interactions of Buddhists and the imperial court.

Health Education

Author : Marion C. Chafetz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780306407543
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Health Education written by Marion C. Chafetz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1981-06-30 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary: 1197 entries to books dealing with current topics of disease prevention and health promotion. Intended for layman and health personnel. Covers specific areas of aging, alcoholism and drug abuse, fitness and exercise, nutrition, women's health, health education, environment, industry, and mental health. Each entry gives bibliographic information and annotation. Author index

Encounter with Enlightenment

Author : Robert E. Carter
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791490300
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Encounter with Enlightenment written by Robert E. Carter and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Encounter with Enlightenment, Robert E. Carter puts forth the East, and specifically Japan, as a source of possible solutions to the world's social, economic, and environmental problems. Not only is the book a sustained scholarly analysis of both the religious and philosophical roots of Japan's distinctive ethical approach to life, but it also provides the Western reader with a context for understanding Eastern values—values that although familiar to the West tend to be deemphasized. Encounter with Enlightenment begins a horizontal fusion between East and West, and establishes a common ground for mutual understanding and for working toward an ethical approach that could resolve some of the earth's difficulties.

Swampland Flowers

Author : Zonggao
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1590303180
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Swampland Flowers written by Zonggao and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The translator provides the text and historical context of the writings of the twelfth-century Chinese Zen master Ta Hui Tsung Kao in the Chi Yeuh Lu. Included are letters, sermons, and lectures, which cover a variety of subjects ranging from concern over the illness of a friend's son to the tending of an ox. Ta Hui addresses his remarks mainly to people in lay life and not to his fellow monks, emphasizing ways in which those immersed in worldly occupations can nevertheless learn Zen and achieve the liberation promised by the Buddha.

The Original Frontier

Author : Michael Elliston
Publisher : Schiffer + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1507302177
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Original Frontier written by Michael Elliston and published by Schiffer + ORM. This book was released on 2021-02-28 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical and accessible manual for integrating Zen practice into everyday life without disrupting your routine. Throw open the gate to the original frontier of your creative mind discovered by Buddha, handed down to successive generations through India, China, and Japan, and now to America, in this age of increasing uncertainty. This always contemporary practice holds the key to surviving, and thriving, in trying times. Zen priest Michael Elliston’s refreshing approach lays out the irreducibly simple method of Zen meditation in easily accessible terms and digestible bites. He covers everything from how Zen differs from popular meditations to designing a contemporary Zen life, and effective workarounds for all your excuses. Based on sound principles of direct sensory immersion, simply sitting still enough for long enough, this user’s manual for Zen is presented step by step, encompassing personal dimensions of practice, as well as social implications for yourself and others. Zen enables you to embrace ambiguity in daily life, and to enjoy benefits to your health and happiness.

Halfway Up The Mountain

Author : Mariana Caplan
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1935387510
Total Pages : 583 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book Halfway Up The Mountain written by Mariana Caplan and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caplan (TO TOUCH IS TO LIVE) asserts that "the reality of the present condition of contemporary spirituality in the West is one of grave distortion, confusion, fraud, and a fundamental lack of education." She claims that, as positive as the tremendous rise in spirituality is, there is not any context for determining whether any particular teaching, or teacher, is truly enlightening. Caplan compiles interviews with such noted spiritual masters as Joan Halifax, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee and Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi on the nature of enlightenment. In the first section, Caplan examines the motivations people have for seeking enlightenment and contends that very often they seek this state as a means of gratifying the ego. This "presumption of enlightenment," she says, often afflicts teachers masquerading as spiritual leaders. These teachers sometimes look down on their students and gloat over how far they have come and how far the students have to go. A second section focuses on "The Dangers of Mystical Experience," in which Caplan claims that many seekers mistake the mystical experience itself for enlightenment; she and the teachers she interviews all assert that enlightenment always involves gaining some knowledge about self and others. The third section, "Corruption and Consequence," focuses on the nature of power and corruption; the fourth section, "Navigating the Mine Field: Preventing Dangers on the Path," provides a survey of the ways in which practitioners can avoid the "pitfalls of false enlightenment." A final section, "Disillusionment, Humility and the Beginning of Spiritual Life," concludes that "the Real spiritual life [is] the life of total annihilation and the return to just what is." Caplan's illuminating book calls into question the motives of the spiritual snake handlers of the modern age and urges seekers to pay the price of traveling the hard road to true enlightenment.

Visions of Awakening Space and Time

Author : Taigen Dan Leighton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019972427X
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Visions of Awakening Space and Time written by Taigen Dan Leighton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-12-31 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a religion concerned with universal liberation, Zen grew out of a Buddhist worldview very different from the currently prevalent scientific materialism. Indeed, says Taigen Dan Leighton, Zen cannot be fully understood outside of a worldview that sees reality itself as a vital, dynamic agent of awareness and healing. In this book, Leighton explicates that worldview through the writings of the Zen master Eihei Dōgen (1200-1253), considered the founder of the Japanese Sōtō Zen tradition, which currently enjoys increasing popularity in the West. The Lotus Sutra, arguably the most important Buddhist scripture in East Asia, contains a famous story about bodhisattvas (enlightening beings) who emerge from under the earth to preserve and expound the Lotus teaching in the distant future. The story reveals that the Buddha only appears to pass away, but actually has been practicing, and will continue to do so, over an inconceivably long life span. Leighton traces commentaries on the Lotus Sutra from a range of key East Asian Buddhist thinkers, including Daosheng, Zhiyi, Zhanran, Saigyo, Myōe, Nichiren, Hakuin, and Ryōkan. But his main focus is Eihei Dōgen, the 13th century Japanese Sōtō Zen founder who imported Zen from China, and whose profuse, provocative, and poetic writings are important to the modern expansion of Buddhism to the West. Dōgen's use of this sutra expresses the critical role of Mahayana vision and imagination as the context of Zen teaching, and his interpretations of this story furthermore reveal his dynamic worldview of the earth, space, and time themselves as vital agents of spiritual awakening. Leighton argues that Dōgen uses the images and metaphors in this story to express his own religious worldview, in which earth, space, and time are lively agents in the bodhisattva project. Broader awareness of Dōgen's worldview and its implications, says Leighton, can illuminate the possibilities for contemporary approaches to primary Mahayana concepts and practices.

Visions of Awakening Space and Time

Author : Taigen Dan Leighton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019532093X
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Visions of Awakening Space and Time written by Taigen Dan Leighton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-05-11 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

The Book of Mu

Author : James Ishmael Ford
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0861716434
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Mu written by James Ishmael Ford and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the Zen principle of mu and presents the writings of over forty teachers on the practice of mu.

Self, Attitudes, and Emotion Work

Author : Christopher Bradley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351491539
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Self, Attitudes, and Emotion Work written by Christopher Bradley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about how Western social psychology interfaces with an Eastern Zen Buddhist perspective. It is neither a purely Zen Buddhist critique of the former, nor is it merely a social psychological interpretation of Zen. Rather, it is an attempt to create common ground between each through the systematic comparison of certain shared fundamental concepts and ideas. Anglo-American social psychology is not much more than a century old despite having its roots in a broad philosophical tradition. Alternately, the Zen version of Buddhism can trace its historical origins to roughly 1,500 years ago in China. Even though the two arose at different times and at first glance appear stridently antithetical, the authors show that they share considerable areas of overlap. The logic of Zen contemplates the consequences of the taken-for-granted tyranny created by personal memories and culture. These traits, common to every culture, include hubris, greed, self-centeredness, distrust, prejudice, hatred, fear, anxiety, and violence. Social psychology leans more toward a "nurture" rather than "nature" explanation for behavior. Both areas of research are firmly rooted within the domain of sociological social psychology; the processes are also sometimes referred to as learning or conditioning. Zen challenges in radical terms key assumptions of both sociology and psychology concerning individual identity, human nature, and human motivation. This stimulating volume will provoke new thoughts about an old tradition and a newer area of scholarly work.

Sudden and Gradual

Author : Peter N. Gregory
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120808195
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Sudden and Gradual written by Peter N. Gregory and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1991 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the historical basis of the debate over sudden versus gradual approaches to enlightenment in Chinese Buddhism seeing it as part of a recurrent polarity in Chinese history and thought. Sudden and Gradual includes essays by Luis O. Gomez on the philosophical implications of the debate in China and Tibet, Whalen Lai on Taodheng`s theory of sudden enlightenment, Neal Donner on Chih-i`s system of T`ien-t`ai, John R. McRae on Shen-Hui`s sudden enlgihtenment` and its precedents in Northern Ch`an, Peter N. Gregory on Tsung-.i`s theory of sudden enlightenment .

Historical Dictionary of Chan Buddhism

Author : Youru Wang
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538105527
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Chan Buddhism written by Youru Wang and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popular name for Chan Buddhism, in the West, is Zen Buddhism, as it was Japanese scholars who first introduced Chan Buddhism to the West with this translation. Indeed, chan is a shortened form of the Chinese word channa, rendered from the Sanskrit word dhyāna, which denotes practices of the concentration of the mind through meditation or contemplation. Although rooted in the Indian tradition of yoga, which aims at the unification of the individual with the divine, meditative concentration became integrated into the Buddhist path to enlightenment as one of the three learnings (sanxue) of Buddhism. Early Buddhist (or the so-called Hinayana Buddhist) scriptures include the teachings on four stages of meditation, four divine abodes, four formless meditations, the tranquility (samatha) and insight (vipassanā) meditations, and so on. Early Buddhist communities commonly practiced these meditations, along with the moral disciplines and the study of the scriptures and doctrines. Mahayana Buddhism, in India and East Asia, continued the practice of meditation as one of the six perfections (or virtues) of the bodhisattva path. In this general context, some eminent monks might have composed scriptures/treatises for the training of meditation or have become more famed with meditation. However, the school of Chan is more than just a group of meditation practitioners. As one of the Chinese Buddhist schools, it involves its own ideology, its own community, and its own genealogical history, serving to establish its own identity. The Historical Dictionary of Chan Buddhism contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, schools, texts, vocabularies, doctrines, rituals, temples, events, and other practices. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Chan Buddhism.

Zen Evangelist

Author : John R. McRae
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824896467
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Zen Evangelist written by John R. McRae and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Huineng (638–713), author and hero of the Platform Sutra, is often credited with founding the Southern school of Chan Buddhism and its radical doctrine of “sudden enlightenment.” However, manuscripts discovered at Dunhuang at the beginning of the twentieth century reveal that the real architect of the Southern school was Huineng’s student Shenhui (684–758). An ardent evangelist for his master’s teaching and a sharp critic of rival meditation teachers of his day, Shenhui was responsible for Huineng’s recognition as the “sixth patriarch,” for the promotion and eventual triumph of the sudden teaching, and for a somewhat combative style of Chan discourse that came to be known as “encounter dialogue.” Shenhui’s historical importance in the rise and success of Chan is beyond dispute, yet until now there has been no complete translation of his corpus into English. This volume brings together John McRae’s lifetime of work on the Shenhui corpus, including extensively annotated translations of all five of Shenhui’s texts discovered at Dunhuang as well as McRae’s seminal studies of Shenhui’s life, teachings, and legacy. McRae’s research explores the degree to which the received view of the Northern school teachings is a fiction created by Shenhui to score rhetorical points and that Northern and Southern teachings may have been closer to one another than the canonical narrative depicts. McRae explains Shenhui’s critical role in shaping what would later emerge as “classical Chan,” while remaining skeptical about the glowing image of Shenhui as an effective mentor and inspired revolutionary. This posthumously published book is the fulfillment of McRae’s wish to make Shenhui’s surviving writings accessible through carefully annotated English translations, allowing readers to form their own opinions.