Subtle Wisdom
Subtitle: Understanding Suffering, Cultivating Compassion Through Ch'an Buddhism
By: Master Sheng-yen
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: September 1999
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780385480451
Copyright date: 1999
Subjects: Zen Buddhism; Suffering -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism; Compassion -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism
First sentence: I would like to take this opportunity to describe the background and development of Ch'an, both for readers who are new to Ch'an and for those who have little or erroneous information.
Table of contents: title: Introduction
pagenum: ix; label: 1
title: Youthful Questioning
pagenum: 1; label: 2
title: Who Was Buddha? What Is Ch'an?
pagenum: 9; label: 3
title: Buddhism, Pain, and Suffering
pagenum: 37; label: 4
title: Ch'an Training
pagenum: 49; label: 5
title: Methods of Practice and Stages of Development in Ch'an
pagenum: 67; label: 6
title: Enlightenment? But What Is It?
pagenum: 99; label: 7
title: Compassion
pagenum: 111; title: Glossary
pagenum: 127; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 141