THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHINESE ZEN AFTER THE SIXTH PARIARCH IN THE LIGHT OF MUMONKON [PRESENTATION COPY]

Heinrich Dumoulin and Ruth Fuller Sasaki

Verlag: The First Zen Institute of America, New York, 1953

Beschreibung

1of 300 PRESENTATION COPIES. This copy is number 76 presented to Edmund Borden. Original gray cloth covered boards with gilt lettered spine and blind embossed stamp on the rear cover. In a brown printed dustjacket with new mylar cover. The jacket is persimmon-juice coated handmade Japanese paper known as Shibugami. It was popular in Japan in feudal times but is rare today. 146 pages with a tipped-in color frontispiece of Daikan Eno Daishi. Bound in at the rear are three large fold-out tables: The Zen Masters of the T'ang Era; The Origins of the Soto, Ummon, and Hogen Sects; and The Rinzi Sect. Ruth Fuller Sasaki was abbess of the Zen temple of Ryosen-an, Daitoku-ji, Kyoto, where she served as director of the First Zen Institute of America. This important text was one of the early books Sasaki saw to completion at The First Zen Institute with the help of Philip Yampolsky, Burton Watson, and the poet Gary Snyder. A clean, very good copy with the usual tan offsetting from the jacket flaps to the flyleaves. The dustjacket has shallow chipping along the top edge, small dampstain on the spine bottom, closed diagonal tear on front flap and two short edge tears with old tape mends on the verso. Still quite presentable in a new mylar cover. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 17049

Bibliografische Details

Titel: THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHINESE ZEN AFTER THE ...

Verlag: The First Zen Institute of America, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1953

Einband: Hard Cover

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good

Auflage: First Edition.