Zen masters
By: edited by Steven Heine and Dale S. Wright.
Contributors: Heine, Steven, 1950-; Wright, Dale Stuart.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780195367645; 9780195367652
Subjects: Zen priests -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Monastic innovator, iconoclast, and teacher of doctrine: the varied images of Chan Master Baizhang / Mario Poceski; title: Dongshan and the teaching of suchness / Taigen Dan Leighton; title: Yongming Yanshou: scholastic as Chan master / Albert Welter; title: Dahui Zonggao (1089-1163): the image created by his stories about himself and his teaching style / Miriam L. Levering; title: Dogen, Zen master, Zen disciple: transmitter or transgressor? / Steven Heine; title: The Zen of books and practice: the life of Menzan Zuiho and his reformation of Soto Zen / David Riggs; title: The use of traps and snares: Shaku Soen revisited / Michel Mohr; title: True person, formless self: lay Zen master Hisamatsu Shinʼichi / Christopher Ives; title: Humanizing the image of a Zen master: Taizan Maezumi Roshi / Dale S. Wright; title: Seung Sahn: the makeover of a modern Zen patriarch / Sorching Low.