Hoofprint of the Ox
Subtitle: Principles of the Chan Buddhist Path as Taught by a Modern Chinese Master
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: June 7, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780195152487
First sentence: The word chan (Wade-Giles romanization: ch'an), from which Chan Buddhism, or Zen Buddhism, takes its name, is a Chinese transliteration of the Indian Buddhist term dhyana, meaning "meditative concentration" or "meditative practice."