ZEN Under the Gun: Four Zen Masters from Turbulent Times - Softcover

Cleary, J.C.

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ISBN 10: 0861715926 ISBN 13: 9780861715923

Verlag: Wisdom Publications,U.S., 2010

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"These four generations of Chinese masters indeed taught amid social turbulence. They persistently reinvigorated the ageless provocation to awaken, and thus "bring order to the world," including daring to admonish warlords to harmoniously care for the people. These luminous teachings, translated clearly for the first time, remain informative for our own troubled period."--Taigen Dan Leighton, translator of Dogen's Extensive Record

"Once again, Cleary's combined expertise in Chinese history and Zen literature shines through in this highly accessible volume. Among other things, he shows convincingly that the Zen message in these teachings are timeless and that "engaged Buddhism" has always been an integral part of the true teaching, not a creation of modern Buddhists."--Cuong Tu Nguyen, George Mason University

"When Mongol invaders conquered China over the thirteenth century, the Buddhists there had already had hundreds of years of experience developing interfaces among people of different nations, cultures, races, and religions; in responding to the world without bias. In this book, Buddhist masters of turbulent times give their greatest gift, from which all other gifts flow: their methods of mastering mind."--Thomas Cleary, translator of The Book of the Five Rings

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This book, from one of the pioneering and preeminent translators of Zen for the West, presents a selection of Zen lessons from four teachers in four successive generations. More than just a book on Zen philosophy, Zen Under the Gun spans the turbulent period in Chinese history from the last generation of the Song dynasty (overthrown by the Mongols in 1279) to the first generation of the Ming dynasty (which drove out the Mongols, and proclaimed its own reign in 1368). These four Zen masters were all eminent public teachers, and their teaching words reflect the state of China and the art of Zen in their time.

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• Verlag: Wisdom Publications,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0861715926
• ISBN 13: 9780861715923
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240