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Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Religions of Indic & Oriental origin > Buddhism > Zen Buddhism

Dogen and Soto Zen (Hardcover): Steven Heine Dogen and Soto Zen (Hardcover)
Steven Heine
R3,653 Discovery Miles 36 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume continues the work of a recent collection published in 2012 by Oxford University Press, Dogen: Textual and Historical Studies. It features some of the same outstanding authors as well as some new experts who explore diverse aspects of the life and teachings of Zen master Dogen (1200-1253), the founder of the Soto Zen sect (or Sotoshu) in early Kamakura-era Japan. The contributors examine the ritual and institutional history of the Soto school, including the role of the Eiheji monastery established by Dogen as well as various kinds of rites and precepts performed there and at other temples. Dogen and Soto Zen builds upon and further refines a continuing wave of enthusiastic popular interest and scholarly developments in Western appropriations of Zen. In the last few decades, research in English and European languages on Dogen and Soto Zen has grown, aided by an increasing awareness on both sides of the Pacific of the important influence of the religious movement and its founder. The school has flourished throughout the medieval and early modern periods of Japanese history, and it is still spreading and reshaping itself in the current age of globalization.

Chan Rhetoric of Uncertainty in the Blue Cliff Record - Sharpening a Sword at the Dragon Gate (Hardcover): Steven Heine Chan Rhetoric of Uncertainty in the Blue Cliff Record - Sharpening a Sword at the Dragon Gate (Hardcover)
Steven Heine
R3,650 Discovery Miles 36 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book provides an in-depth textual and literary analysis of the Blue Cliff Record (Chinese Biyanlu, Japanese Hekiganroku), a seminal Chan/Zen Buddhist collection of commentaries on one hundred gongan/koan cases, considered in light of historical, cultural, and intellectual trends from the Song dynasty (960-1279). Compiled by Yuanwu Keqin in 1128, the Blue Cliff Record is considered a classic of East Asian literature for its creative integration of prose and verse as well as hybrid or capping-phrase interpretations of perplexing cases. The collection employs a variety of rhetorical devices culled from both classic and vernacular literary sources and styles and is particularly notable for its use of indirection, allusiveness, irony, paradox, and wordplay, all characteristic of the approach of literary or lettered Chan. However, as instrumental and influential as it is considered to be, the Blue Cliff Record has long been shrouded in controversy. The collection is probably best known today for having been destroyed in the 1130s at the dawn of the Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279) by Dahui Zonggao, Yuanwu's main disciple and harshest critic. It was out of circulation for nearly two centuries before being revived and partially reconstructed in the early 1300s. In this book, Steven Heine examines the diverse ideological connections and disconnections behind subsequent commentaries and translations of the Blue Cliff Record, thereby shedding light on the broad range of gongan literature produced in the eleventh to thirteenth centuries and beyond.

The Records of Mazu and the Making of Classical Chan Literature (Hardcover): Mario Poceski The Records of Mazu and the Making of Classical Chan Literature (Hardcover)
Mario Poceski
R4,856 Discovery Miles 48 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Records of Mazu and the Making of Classical Chan Literature explores the growth, makeup, and transformation of Chan (Zen) Buddhist literature in late medieval China. The volume analyzes the earliest extant records about the life, teachings, and legacy of Mazu Daoyi (709-788), the famous leader of the Hongzhou School and one of the principal figures in Chan history. While some of the texts covered are well-known and form a central part of classical Chan (or more broadly Buddhist) literature in China, others have been largely ignored, forgotten, or glossed over until recently. Poceski presents a range of primary materials important for the historical study of Chan Buddhism, some translated for the first time into English or other Western language. He surveys the distinctive features and contents of particular types of texts, and analyzes the forces, milieus, and concerns that shaped key processes of textual production during this period. Although his main focus is on written sources associated with a celebrated Chan tradition that developed and rose to prominence during the Tang era (618-907), Poceski also explores the Five Dynasties (907-960) and Song (960-1279) periods, when many of the best-known Chan collections were compiled. Exploring the Chan School's creative adaptation of classical literary forms and experimentation with novel narrative styles, The Records of Mazu and the Making of Classical Chan Literature traces the creation of several distinctive Chan genres that exerted notable influence on the subsequent development of Buddhism in China and the rest of East Asia.

Dogen - Textual and Historical Studies (Hardcover, New): Steven Heine Dogen - Textual and Historical Studies (Hardcover, New)
Steven Heine
R4,201 Discovery Miles 42 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this groundbreaking collection of essays edited by Steven Heine, leading scholars of Buddhism from both sides of the Pacific explore the life and thought of Zen Master Dogen (1200-1253), the founder of the Japanese Soto sect. Through both textual and historical analysis, the volume shows Dogen in context of the Chinese Chan tradition that influenced him and demonstrates the tremendous, lasting impact he had on Buddhist thought and culture in Japan. The essays provide critical new insight into Dogen's writings. Special attention is given to the Shobogenzo and several of its fascicles, which express Dogen's views on such practices and rituals as using supranormal powers (jinzu), reading the sutras (kankin), diligent training in zazen meditation (shikan taza), and the koan realized in everyday life (genjokoan). Dogen: Textual and Historical Studies also analyzes the historical significance of this seminal figure: for instance, Dogen's methods of appropriating Chan sources and his role relative to that of his Japanese Zen predecessor Eisai, considered the founder of the Rinzai sect, who preceded Dogen in traveling to China. This book is a crucial contribution to the advancement of specialized studies of Dogen, as well as to the Chan/Zen school in the context of East Asian religions and their social and historical trends.

The Record of Linji - A New Translation of the Linjilu in the Light of Ten Japanese Zen Commentaries (Hardcover): Jeffrey... The Record of Linji - A New Translation of the Linjilu in the Light of Ten Japanese Zen Commentaries (Hardcover)
Jeffrey Broughton; Elise Yoko Watanabe
R2,831 Discovery Miles 28 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Linjilu (Record of Linji or LJL) is one of the foundational texts of Chan/Zen Buddhist literature, and an accomplished work of baihua (vernacular) literature. Its indelibly memorable title character, the Master Linji-infamous for the shout, the whack of the rattan stick, and the declaration that sutras are toilet paper-is himself an embodiment of the very teachings he propounds to his students: he is a "true person," free of dithering; he exhibits the non-verbal, unconstrained spontaneity of the buddha-nature; he is always active, never passive; and he is aware that nothing is lacking at all, at any time, in his round of daily activities. This bracing new translation transmits the LJL's living expression of Zen's "personal realization of the meaning beyond words," as interpreted by ten commentaries produced by Japanese Zen monks, over a span of over four centuries, ranging from the late 1300s, when Five-Mountains Zen flourished in Kyoto and Kamakura, through the early 1700s, an age of thriving interest in the LJL. These Zen commentaries form a body of vital, in-house interpretive literature never before given full credit or center stage in previous translations of the LJL. Here, their insights are fully incorporated into the translation itself, allowing the reader unimpeded access throughout, with more extensive excerpts available in the notes. Also provided is a translation of the earliest extant material on Linji, including a neglected transmission-record entry relating to his associate Puhua, which indicate that the LJL is a fully-fledged work of literature that has undergone editorial changes over time to become the compelling work we know today.

Like Cats and Dogs - Contesting the Mu Koan in Zen Buddhism (Hardcover): Steven Heine Like Cats and Dogs - Contesting the Mu Koan in Zen Buddhism (Hardcover)
Steven Heine
R3,919 Discovery Miles 39 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A koan is a narrative or dialogue used to provoke the "great doubt" and test a student's progress in Zen practice. The Mu Koan consists of a brief conversation in which a monk asks master Zhaozhou Congshen whether or not a dog has Buddha-nature. The reply is Mu: literally, ''No.'' This case is widely considered to be the single best known and most widely circulated and transmitted koan record of the Zen school of Buddhism. The Mu Koan is especially well known for the intense personal experiences it offers those seeking an existential transformation from anxiety to spiritual illumination. Steven Heine demonstrates that the Gateless Gate version, preferred by Dahui and so many other key-phrase advocates, does not by any means constitute the final word concerning the meaning and significance of the Mu Koan. Another impact version has been the Dual Version, which is the ''Yes-No'' rendition to the Mu Koan. Like Cats and Dogs offers critical insight and a new historical perspective on ''the koan of koans.''

Leaving for the Rising Sun - Chinese Zen Master Yinyuan and the Authenticity Crisis in Early Modern East Asia (Hardcover):... Leaving for the Rising Sun - Chinese Zen Master Yinyuan and the Authenticity Crisis in Early Modern East Asia (Hardcover)
Jiang Wu
R3,934 Discovery Miles 39 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In 1654 Zen Master Yinyuan traveled from China to Japan. Seven years later his monastery, Manpukuji, was built and he had founded his own tradition called Obaku. The sequel to Jiang Wu's 2008 book Enlightenment in Dispute: The Reinvention of Chan Buddhism in Seventeenth-Century China, Leaving for the Rising Sun tells the story of the tremendous obstacles Yinyuan faced, drawing parallels between his experiences and the broader political and cultural context in which he lived. Yinyuan claimed to have inherited the "Authentic Transmission of the Linji Sect" and, after arriving in Japan, was able to persuade the Shogun to build a new Ming-style monastery for the establishment of his Obaku school. His arrival in Japan coincided with a series of historical developments including the Ming-Qing transition, the consolidation of early Tokugawa power, the growth of Nagasaki trade, and rising Japanese interest in Chinese learning and artistic pursuits. While Yinyuan's travel has been noted, the significance of his journey within East Asian history has not yet been fully explored. Jiang Wu's thorough study of Yinyuan provides a unique opportunity to reexamine the crisis in the continent and responses from other parts of East Asia. Using Yinyuan's story to bridge China and Japan, Wu demonstrates that the monk's significance is far greater than the temporary success of a religious sect. Rather, Yinyuan imported to Japan a new discourse of authenticity that gave rise to indigenous movements that challenged a China-centered world order. Such indigenous movements, however, although appearing independent from Chinese influence, in fact largely relied on redefining the traditional Chinese discourse of authenticity. Chinese monks such as Yinyuan, though situated at the edge of the political and social arenas, actively participated in the formation of a new discourse on authenticity, which eventually led to the breakup of a China-centered world order.

Eyes of Compassion - Living with Thich Nhat Hanh (Paperback): Jim Forest Eyes of Compassion - Living with Thich Nhat Hanh (Paperback)
Jim Forest
R473 R437 Discovery Miles 4 370 Save R36 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Mindfulness - Walking with Jesus and Buddha (Paperback): Anabel Laity Mindfulness - Walking with Jesus and Buddha (Paperback)
Anabel Laity
R385 R358 Discovery Miles 3 580 Save R27 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
An Introduction to Zen Buddhism (Hardcover): Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki An Introduction to Zen Buddhism (Hardcover)
Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
R539 Discovery Miles 5 390 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Religion of the Samurai - A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan (Hardcover): Kaiten Nukariya The Religion of the Samurai - A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan (Hardcover)
Kaiten Nukariya
R807 Discovery Miles 8 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Year of Zen Mindfulness - Daily Practices and Meditations to Find Focus and Peace (Paperback): Alex Kakuyo A Year of Zen Mindfulness - Daily Practices and Meditations to Find Focus and Peace (Paperback)
Alex Kakuyo
R491 R465 Discovery Miles 4 650 Save R26 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Stillpoint - Reflections From A Year On The Cliff (Hardcover): Barrett Martin Stillpoint - Reflections From A Year On The Cliff (Hardcover)
Barrett Martin
R802 Discovery Miles 8 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Tales of the Pen Master - Zen Stories for Editors, Proofreaders, and Other Publishing Professionals (Hardcover): Jack Lyon Tales of the Pen Master - Zen Stories for Editors, Proofreaders, and Other Publishing Professionals (Hardcover)
Jack Lyon
R564 Discovery Miles 5 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Wise Tales From the East - The Essential Collection (Hardcover): Uri Kaplan Wise Tales From the East - The Essential Collection (Hardcover)
Uri Kaplan
R596 R540 Discovery Miles 5 400 Save R56 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Buddhism for beginners - The Step-by-Step Guide to Overcome the Era of Anxiety and Stress Using Mindfulness Meditation and Zen... Buddhism for beginners - The Step-by-Step Guide to Overcome the Era of Anxiety and Stress Using Mindfulness Meditation and Zen Teachings (Hardcover)
Sarah Allen
R711 R627 Discovery Miles 6 270 Save R84 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Declutter Your Mind and Your Life - 3 Books in 1 - Stop Overthinking, Digital Minimalism in Everyday Life, and Beginning Zen... Declutter Your Mind and Your Life - 3 Books in 1 - Stop Overthinking, Digital Minimalism in Everyday Life, and Beginning Zen Buddhism (Hardcover)
Amy White, James W Williams
R916 R806 Discovery Miles 8 060 Save R110 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
In Search of Zzz's (Hardcover): Numinous Yecam In Search of Zzz's (Hardcover)
Numinous Yecam
R595 Discovery Miles 5 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Meditation Workbook - 160+ Meditation Techniques to Reduce Stress and Expand Your Mind (Hardcover): Aventuras De Viaje The Meditation Workbook - 160+ Meditation Techniques to Reduce Stress and Expand Your Mind (Hardcover)
Aventuras De Viaje; Illustrated by Louie Rodriguez
R631 Discovery Miles 6 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Chakras, Reiki Healing and Buddhism for Beginners - Balance Yourself and Learn Practical Teachings for Healing the Ailments of... Chakras, Reiki Healing and Buddhism for Beginners - Balance Yourself and Learn Practical Teachings for Healing the Ailments of the Soul to Awaken Your Body's Energies and Transform Anxiety & Stress (Hardcover)
Sarah Allen
R1,139 R962 Discovery Miles 9 620 Save R177 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Second Decade - Collected Poems (2011-2020) (Hardcover): Ivan Kireevskii Second Decade - Collected Poems (2011-2020) (Hardcover)
Ivan Kireevskii
R780 Discovery Miles 7 800 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Karma-Yoga Raja-Yoga (Hardcover): Swami Vivekananda Karma-Yoga Raja-Yoga (Hardcover)
Swami Vivekananda
R586 Discovery Miles 5 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Beginning Zen Buddhism - Timeless Teachings to Master Your Emotions, Reduce Stress and Anxiety, and Achieve Inner Peace... Beginning Zen Buddhism - Timeless Teachings to Master Your Emotions, Reduce Stress and Anxiety, and Achieve Inner Peace (Hardcover)
James W Williams
R712 R630 Discovery Miles 6 300 Save R82 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Book of Five Rings (Illustrated Edition) (Hardcover): Miyamoto Musashi The Book of Five Rings (Illustrated Edition) (Hardcover)
Miyamoto Musashi
R457 Discovery Miles 4 570 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Shobogenzo - Volume III of III - The Treasure House of the Eye of the True Teaching (Hardcover): Eihei Dogen Shobogenzo - Volume III of III - The Treasure House of the Eye of the True Teaching (Hardcover)
Eihei Dogen; Translated by Hubert Nearman
R1,039 Discovery Miles 10 390 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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