Title: Tsʻung jung lu
First published: 1983
Description: Book of Serenity is a translation of Shoyo Roku, a collection of one hundred Zen koans with commentaries that stands as a companion work to the other great Chinese koan collection, The Blue Cliff Record (Pi Yen Lu). Both works are classics of Chan (Chinese Zen) Buddhism - and both have now been rendered into English by the renowned translator Thomas Cleary.
Subjects: Koan, Early works to 1800, Zen buddhism
People: Cheng-chüeh (1091-1157)