[PDF.05ba] Zen Sand: The Book of Capping Phrases for Koan Practice (Nanzan Library of Asian Religion and Culture)

Zen Sand: The Book of Capping Phrases for Koan Practice (Nanzan Library of Asian Religion and Culture)

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 | #364498 in Books |  2010-07-06 |  2010-07-06 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.20 x1.70 x6.10l,2.45 | File type: PDF | 784 pages

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| One method for validating one's understanding......|By Emon|I never really understood what a capping phrase was until I got this book; that's when I realized that a capping phrase, the appropriate capping phrase, is one vehicle for illustrating one's personal understanding of a koan and, by extension, the teachings of the "Western Heaven". But finding the appropriate capping p| |Zen Sand is a thorough and excellent piece of scholarship that will, I suspect, be the standard English-language work on jakugo for many decades to come. No serious student or practitioner of Zen will want to be without a copy.-- "Religious Studies "

Zen Sand is a classic collection of verses aimed at aiding practitioners of kôan meditation to negotiate the difficult relationship between insight and language. As such it represents a major contribution to both Western Zen practice and English-language Zen scholarship.

In Japan the traditional Rinzai Zen kôan curriculum includes the use of jakugo, or "capping phrases." Once a monk has successfully replied to a kôan, the Zen mast...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Zen Sand: The Book of Capping Phrases for Koan Practice (Nanzan Library of Asian Religion and Culture)   |  Victor Sogen Hori. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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