Englanninkieliset Zen-kirjat

Englanninkielisiä Zen-buddhismistä kertovia kirjoja myydään yksitellen tai ydessä paketissa (lisää tietoa joka kirjasta alempana):

• 1) Nan Huai-Chin: The story of Chinese Zen
• 2) Philip Kapleau: The Three Pillars of Zen
• 3) Thomas Merton: Mystics and Zen Masters
• 4) Masao Abe: Zen and Western Thought
• 5) Unocking The Zen Koan (Wumenguan)
• 6) Zen and the Art of Insight
• 7) Janwillem van de Wetering: Aftersen. Experiences of a Zen student out on his ear
• 8) Zenkei Shibayama; The gateless barrier. Zen comments on the Mumonkan
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• HINTA: 5 euroa per kirja + toimituskulut. Kirjakohtaiset toimituskulut 6 euroa PIKKUPAKETTINA kotiin postilattikkoon Suomessa. Kahden tai useamman kirjan yhteiset toimituskulut postipakettina 7 euroa Suomessa. KAIKKI 8 kirjaa yhteishintaan 33 euroa + toimituskulut postipakettina Suomessa 7 euroa = 40 euroa (HUOMIO: Samaan pakettiin mahtuu halutessa vielä muitakin saman myyjän kohteita yhteisillä toimituskuluilla)
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1) Nan Huai-Chin: The story of Chinese Zen. Translated by Thomas Cleary

• Charles E. Tuttle, 1995; paperback; englanninkielinen pehmeäkantinen kirja, 258 sivua
• hyväkuntoinen käytetty kirja; Esinimiölehden yläkulmassa pieni vaurio, muuten ok
• HINTA YKSITTÄIN OSTETTUNA 5 euroa + toimituskulut pikkupakettina kotiin postilaatikkoon 6 euroa = 11 euroa

The Story of Chinese Zen begins with the premise that the climate during Shakyamuni's founding of Buddhism in India ultimately influenced the differences behind Hinayana and Mahayana thought, practice, and methods of seeking realization. From there - beginning with its transmission to China - Master Nan outlines the Zen School, exploring influences on the development of Zen before the early T'ang dynasty, different means of studying Zen and pursuing "the heart and goal of Zen." He explores the relationship between Zen and neo-Confucianism and the inseparability of religion and Zen from Chinese literature and philosophy, especially Taoism.

2) Philip Kapleau: The Three Pillars of Zen

• Anchor Books; paperback ed. 2000; englanninkielinen pehmeäkantinen kirja; 441 sivua
• Kannen reunoissa pientä kulumaa. Selkämyksessä ja ydessä kulmassa ryppyjä.
• HINTA YKSITTÄIN OSTETTUNA 5 euroa + toimituskulut pikkupakettina kotiin postilaatikkoon 6 euroa = 11 euroa

In this classic work of spiritual guidance, the founder of the Rochester Zen Center presents a comprehensive overview of Zen Buddhism. Exploring the three pillars of Zen—teaching, practice, and enlightenment—Roshi Philip Kapleau, the man who founded one of the oldest and most influential Zen centers in the United States, presents a personal account of his own experiences as a student and teacher, and in so doing gives readers invaluable advice on how to develop their own practices. Revised and updated, this 35th anniversary edition features new illustrations and photographs, as well as a new afterword by Sensei Bodhin Kjolhede, who succeeded Kapleau as spiritual director of the Rochester Zen Center. A moving, eye-opening work, The Three Pillars of Zen is the definitive introduction to the history and discipline of Zen.

3) Thomas Merton: Mystics and Zen Masters

• The Noonday Press, 13. printing 1997; englanninkielinen pehmeäkantinen kirja, 303 sivua
• Lukuryppyjä selkämyksessä, muuten hyväkuntoinen
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Thomas Merton was recognized as one of those rare Western minds that are entirely at home with the Zen experience. In this collection, he discusses diverse religious concepts-early monasticism, Russian Orthodox spirituality, the Shakers, and Zen Buddhism-with characteristic Western directness. Merton not only studied these religions from the outside but grasped them by empathy and living participation from within. "All these studies," wrote Merton, "are united by one central concern: to understand various ways in which men of different traditions have conceived the meaning and method of the 'way' which leads to the highest levels of religious or of metaphysical awareness."

4) Masao Abe: Zen and Western Thought. Edited by William R. LaFleur

• University of Hawaii Press; paperback 1985; englanninkielinen pehmeäkantinen kirja,308 sivua
• Hyväkuntoinen. Selkämyksessä ryppy keskellä.
• HINTA YKSITTÄIN OSTETTUNA 5 euroa + toimituskulut pikkupakettina kotiin postilaatikkoon 6 euroa = 11 euroa

This collection of sixteen essays represents the achievement of perhaps the best known philosophical interpreter of Zen in the West since D. T. Suzuki. Like Suzuki's presentation of Zen, Masao Abe's approach is ahistorical in its core, treating the Zen tradition as a rather monolithic body of texts that give expression to a timeless experience. Abe goes beyond Suzuki, however, in the sophistication of his philosophical analysis and the depth of his knowledge of Western philosophy and theology. Several essays point out the relevance of Zen, or of a Buddhist standpoint, to major contemporary problems: the place of religion in a scientific or nihilistic age, the prospect of mankind in an age beyond competitive and sovereign nation-states, and the mutual transformation of Christianity and Buddhism.

5) Unlocking The Zen Koan. A new translation of the Zen Classic Wumenguan. Translated by Thomas Cleary

• North Atlantic Books paperback 1997; englanninkielinen pehmeäkantinen kirja; 214 sivua
• kannessa tarramuovia, muuten hyväkuntoinen kirja
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Elusive and enigmatic, zen koans have long puzzled people with their surprise meanings hidden in simple tales. Now one of America's finest translators of Asian philosophy provides a brillian new translation of the 12th century Wumenguan, the most popular of Chinese Zen koans. In Unlocking the Zen Koan (originally published as No Boundary), Thomas Cleary translates directly from the Chinese and interprets Zen Master Wumen's text and commentaries in verse and prose on the inner meaning of the koans. Cleary then gives us other great Chinese Zen masters' comments in prose or verse on the same koan. Cleary's probing, analytic commentaries wrestle with meaning and shading, explaining principles and practices. Five different steps to follow in reading the koan being with its use as a single abrupt perception, and lead progressively to more intellectual readings, illustrating the fixations which stand in the way of a true Zen understanding.

6) Zen and the Art of Insight. Selected and translated by Thomas Cleary

• Shambhala, 3. paperback edition 1999; enlanninkielinen pehmeäkantinen kirja; 159 sivua
• hyväkuntoinen käytetty kirja
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The Prajnaparamita ("perfection of wisdom") sutras are one of the great legacies of Mahayana Buddhism, giving eloquent expression to some of that school's central concerns: the perception of shunyata, the essential emptiness of all phenomena; and the ideal of the bodhisattva, one who postpones his or her own enlightenment in order to work for the salvation of all beings.    

     The Prajnaparamita literature consists of a number of texts composed in Buddhist India between 100 BCE and 100 CE. Originally written in Sanskrit, but surviving today mostly in their Chinese versions, the texts are concerned with the experience of profound insight that cannot be conveyed by concepts or in intellectual terms. The material remains important today in Mahayana Buddhism and Zen. 

     Key selections from the Prajnaparamita literature are presented here, along with Thomas Cleary's illuminating commentary, as a means of demonstrating the intrinsic limitations of discursive thought, and of pointing to the profound wisdom that lies beyond it. 

     Included selections from:
   •  The Scripture on Perfect Insight Awakening to Essence
   •  The Essentials of the Great Scripture on Perfect Insight
   •  Treatise on the Great Scripture on Perfect Insight
   •  The Scripture on Perfect Insight for Benevolent Rulers
   •  Key Teachings on the Great Scripture of Perfect Insight
   •  The Questions of Suvikrantavikramin

7) Janwillem van de Wetering: Afterzen. Experiences of a Zen student out on his ear

• St Martins Griffin edition paperback/pehmeäkantinen englanninkielinen kirja; 194 sivua
• Pientä kulumaa kannen kulmissa, muuten hyväkuntoinen kirja
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In Afterzen, van de Wetering provides unorthodox solutions to a collection of classical koans found in Walter Nowick's The Wisteria Triangle. Van de Wetering gives them his own distinctive touch of humor, down to earth reality, and tough spirituality in the context of meeting and adventures with personalities "collaged from bits and pieces of teachers and fellow students who kindly came my way."

In this third book of the trilogy, van de Wetering is at his accessible, honest, funny, and genuinely spiritual best.

8) Zenkei Shibayama; The gateless barrier. Zen comments on the Mumonkan

• Shambhala, Boston 2000; paperback/pehmeäkantinen englanninkielinen kirja, 361 sivua
• Kannessa tarramuovia, muuten todella hyväkuntoinen kirja
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For more than seven centuries the Mumonkan has been used in Zen monasteries to train monks and to encourage the religious development of lay Buddhists. It contains forty- eight koans, or spiritual riddles, that must be explored during the course of Zen training. Shibayama Zenkei (1894-1974), an influential Japanese Zen teacher and calligrapher who traveled and lectured throughout the United States in the 60s and 70s, offers his own commentary alongside the classic text. The Gateless Barrier remains an essential text for all serious students of Buddhism.

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