Shifting Shape, Shaping Text

Shifting Shape, Shaping Text
Author :
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages : 316
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0824821971
ISBN-13 : 9780824821975
Rating : 4/5 (975 Downloads)
GET BOOK
Book Synopsis Shifting Shape, Shaping Text by : Steven Heine

Download or read book Shifting Shape, Shaping Text written by Steven Heine and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Shifting Shape, Shaping Text examines the fox koan in relation to philosophical and institutional issues facing the Ch'an/Zen tradition in both Sung China and medieval and contemporary Japan.

Shifting Shape, Shaping Text Related Books

Shifting Shape, Shaping Text
Language: en
Pages: 316

Shifting Shape, Shaping Text

Authors: Steven Heine
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-01-01 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

GET EBOOK

Annotation Shifting Shape, Shaping Text examines the fox koan in relation to philosophical and institutional issues facing the Ch'an/Zen tradition in both Sung
Shifting Shape, Shaping Text
Language: en
Pages: 313

Shifting Shape, Shaping Text

Authors: Steven Heine
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-12-01 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

GET EBOOK

According to the fox koan, the second case in the Wu-men kuan koan collection, Zen master Pai-chang encounters a fox who claims to be a former abbot punished th
The Zen Canon
Language: en
Pages: 337

The Zen Canon

Authors: Dale S. Wright
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-03-25 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

GET EBOOK

Bodhidharma, its first patriarch, reputedly said that Zen Buddhism represents "a special transmission outside the teaching/Without reliance on words and letters
Opening a Mountain
Language: en
Pages: 216

Opening a Mountain

Authors: Steven Heine
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-02-26 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

GET EBOOK

With the growing popularity of Zen Buddhism in the West, virtually everyone knows, or thinks they know, what a koan is: a brief and baffling question or stateme
Did Dōgen Go to China?
Language: en
Pages: 298

Did Dōgen Go to China?

Authors: Steven Heine
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-05-25 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

GET EBOOK

Dōgen (1200-1253), the founder of the Sōtō Zen sect in Japan, is especially known for introducing to Japanese Buddhism many of the texts and practices that h