Public Zen, personal Zen: a Buddhist introduction

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This deeply informed book introduces the basic teachings and practices of Buddhism and their spread across Asia. Peter D. Hershock explores the history of the enduring Japanese tradition of Zen-from its beginnings as a form of Buddhist thought and practice imported from China to its reinvention in medieval Japan as a force for religious, political, and cultural change to its role in Japan's embrace of modernity. He deftly blends historical detail with the felt experiences of Zen practitioners g…

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Full title :Public Zen, personal Zen : a Buddhist introduction / Peter D. Hershock.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Rowman and Littlefield
Place of Publication:Lanham
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014

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Description:1 online resource (xvii, 271 pages).

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781442216143, 144221614X
oclc:on1253442776
LC Classification:BQ9262.3
Dewey Decimal:294.3/927

Zen Origins. Buddha, Dharma and Sangha from India to China -- The Japanese Transformation of Buddhism -- From Chinese Chan to Japanese Zen -- Public Zen. Rinzai Zen -- Sōtō Zen -- Ōbaku Zen -- Zen in a Modernizing Japan -- Personal Zen. Practicing Zen -- Zen Exemplars: Dōgen, Ikkyū, Hakuin and Ryōkan -- Zen Here and Now.