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Zen Koans

Hardcover • 2014 • 1. edition

Zen Koans

By Steven Heine

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About the book

"What is the sound of one hand clapping?" "Does a dog have Buddha-nature?" These cryptic expressions are among the best-known examples of koans, the confusing, often contradictory sayings that form the centrepiece of Zen Buddhist learning and training. Viewed as an ideal method for attaining and transmitting an unimpeded experience of enlightenment, they became the main object of study in Zen meditation, where their contemplation was meant to exhaust the capacity of the rational mind and the exp...Show more

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9780824839734

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University of Hawai'i Press

Published year

2014

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1

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Zen Koans

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