Zen classics
Subtitle: formative texts in the history of Zen Buddhism
By: edited by Steven Heine and Dale S. Wright
Contributors: Heine, Steven, 1950-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
Subjects: Zen literature -- History and criticism; Zen Buddhism
Description: A companion volume to 'The Koan' and 'The Zen Canon' this text concentrates primarily on texts from Korea and Japan that brought the Zen tradition to fruition.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index

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Table of contents: title: The concept of classic literature in Zen Buddhism / Dale S. Wright; title: Guishan jingce (Guishan's admonitions) and the ethical foundations of Chan practice / Mario Poceski; title: A Korean contribution to the Zen canon: the Oga hae seorui (Commentaries on five masters on the Diamond sūtra) / Charles Muller; title: Zen Buddhism as the ideology of the Japanese state: Eisai and the Kōzen gokokuron / Albert Welter; title: An analysis of Dōgen's Eihei goroku: distillation or distortion? / Steven Heine; title: "Rules of purity" in Japanese Zen / T. Griffith Foulk; title: Zen kōan capping phrase books: literary study and the insight "not founded on words or letters" / G. Victor Sōgen Hori; title: Imagining Indian Zen: Tōrei's commentary on the Ta-mo-to-lo ch'an ching and the rediscovery of early meditation techniques during the Tokugawa Era / Michel Mohr; title: Meditation for laymen and laywomen: the Buddha samādhi (Jijuyū zanmai) of Menzan Zuihō / David E. Riggs