The Way of Chuang Tzu - Softcover

Merton, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811218511 ISBN 13: 9780811218511

Verlag: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Merton Thomas

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Críticas

A most admirable introduction to this less known but important source book of Taoism.--Alan Watts

Thomas Merton is the saintly man who caused the Dalai Lama to come to admire Christianity as the equal of his beloved Buddhism.--Robert Thurman

Merton is an artist, a Zen.--Thich Nhat Hanh

Reseña del editor

Working from existing translations, Thomas Merton composed a series of his own versions of the classic sayings of Chuang Tzu, the most spiritual of Chinese philosophers. Chuang Tzu, who wrote in the fourth and third centuries B.C., is the chief authentic historical spokesperson for Taoism and its founder Lao Tzu (a legendary character known largely through Chuang Tzu’s writings). Indeed it was because of Chuang Tzu and the other Taoist sages that Indian Buddhism was transformed, in China, into the unique vehicle we now call by its Japanese name—Zen.The Chinese sage abounds in wit and paradox and shattering insights into the true ground of being. Thomas Merton, no stranger to Asian thought, brings a vivid, modern idiom to the timeless wisdom of Tao.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0811218511
• ISBN 13: 9780811218511
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160