num_pages: 302
description: Zen Flesh, Zen Bones is the best-selling collection of the most popular enlightenment stories, anecdotes, and koans of Zen literature, which introduced a generation of Americans to Zen. Included here are four Zen and pre-Zen 101 Zen Stories —anecdotes and enlightenment stories of the great masters The Gateless Gate —forty-eight Zen koans to awaken the enlightened mind The 10 Bulls, or "Ox-Herding Pictures," depicting the ten stages of awareness Centering —a four-thousand-year-old Sanskrit text that may well be one of the roots of Zen thought
language: English
title: Zen Flesh, Zen Bones
titlecomplete: Zen Flesh, Zen Bones
genres: Buddhism, Japan, Spirituality, Philosophy, Religion, Self Help, Zen, Eastern Philosophy, Nonfiction, Poetry
ratings_count: 8233
places: Japan
publisher: Shambhala Publications