"Yongming Yanshou ranks among the great thinkers of the Chinese and East Asian Buddhist traditions, one whose legacy has endured for more than a thousand years. Albert Welter offers new insight into the significance of Yanshou and his major work, the Zongjing lu, by showing thei…
Kyoto Gardens is a labor of love from master photographer Ben Simmons and Kyoto-based writer Judith Clancy. Simmons' photographs present a fresh and contemporary look at Kyoto's most important gardens. Their beauty is enhanced and humanized by gardeners tending the grounds using…
Kyoto Gardens is a labor of love from master photographer Ben Simmons and Kyoto-based writer Judith Clancy. Simmons' photographs present a fresh and contemporary look at Kyoto's most important gardens. Their beauty is enhanced and humanized by gardeners tending the grounds using…
Building on the success of "Zen and the Art of Stand-Up Comedy", Jay Sankey brings his approach to the art of the monologue. With a blend of calm, sound advice combined and anarchic humour, Sankey explores the dangers of the monologue for, as he puts it, "the vain and the inexpe…
"Bodhidharma, known as the "First Ancestor" of Zen (Chan) brought Zen Buddhism from South Asia to China around the year 500 CE, changing the country forever. His legendary life lies at the source of China and East Asian's cultural stream, underpinning the region's history, legen…
"This book is an annotated translation of Changuan cejin: Whip for Spurring Students Onward Through the Chan Barrier Checkpoints (commonly abbreviated to Chan Whip)."
"This book is an annotated translation of Changuan cejin: Whip for Spurring Students Onward Through the Chan Barrier Checkpoints (commonly abbreviated to Chan Whip)" "Jeffrey L. Broughton offers an annotated translation of the Whip for Spurring Students Onward Through the Chan …
"This book is an annotated translation of Changuan cejin: Whip for Spurring Students Onward Through the Chan Barrier Checkpoints (commonly abbreviated to Chan Whip)"-- "Jeffrey L. Broughton offers an annotated translation of the Whip for Spurring Students Onward Through the Cha…
"To many scholars in the world of religious studies, Zen is a world apart from the world of politics, and the philosophy of the Kyoto school is a politically neutral blend of intellectual traditions East and West, Buddhist and Christian. This volume challenges those assumptions …
