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Gateless Barrier: Zen Comments on the Mumonkan
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| #444182 in Books | 2000-12-05 | 2000-12-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.81 x6.00l,1.14 | File type: PDF | 384 pages||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Only for the determined mountain climber...........|By Emon|An excellent anthology of Zen koans and it is titled 'gateless barrier' for a very good reason: for the non-Buddhist, or for casual students of Buddhism, the contents of this publication will present itself as utterly nonsensical & incomprehensible. It is not unreasonable to expect such individuals who purchase this|About the Author|Born in 1894 and ordained a Zen monk in 1908, Zenkei Shibayama was Zen Master of the important Nanzenji Zen Monastery in Kyoto for twenty-five years. He was a professor at Hanazono and Otani universities, the author of a number of works in Japan
For more than seven centuries the Mumonkan has been used in Zen monasteries to train monks and to encourage the religious development of lay Buddhists. It contains forty- eight koans, or spiritual riddles, that must be explored during the course of Zen training. Shibayama Zenkei (1894-1974), an influential Japanese Zen teacher and calligrapher who traveled and lectured throughout the United States in the 60s and 70s, offers his own commentary alongside the classic text. ...
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