Opening a mountain
Subtitle: kōans of the Zen Masters
By: Steven Heine
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Koan; Zen Buddhism
Other titles: Kōans of the Zen Masters
Description: The koans in this text tell of charismatic early Zen masters who sought to demonstrate their spiritual authority by establishing new temples - a process known in the tradition as Opening a Mountain.
Notes: Translation with commentary of sixty kōan cases selected from Zen Buddhist collections compiled in Sung China and Kamakura Japan