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By: Bernie Glassman
ISBN: 9781590300794
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2004
Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc
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Bernie Glassman is a unique and popular figure in the Zen world. He is well known for integrating Zen practice with social, economic and educational initiatives. In "Infinite Circle", Glassman takes a back-to-basics approach to Zen.
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By: Robert Aitken
ISBN: 9781582435367
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2009
Publisher: Counterpoint
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By: Tim Burkett
ISBN: 9781611801941
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc
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By: Erik Fraser Storlie
ISBN: 9781570621833
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1997
Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc
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This work is Storlie's memoir of growing up during the upheavals of the 1960s, When chemical enlightenment failed to ignite, he moved onto meditation practice. It provides intimate portraits of Shunryu Suzuki and Dainin Katagiri, both Zen masters, combined with accounts on the Dharma trail.
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By: Thomas Cleary
ISBN: 9781570626340
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2013
Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc
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By: James H. Austin
ISBN: 9780262516655
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2011
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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Attention, self-consciousness, insight, wisdom, emotional maturity: how Zen teachings can illuminate the way our brains function and vice-versa.
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By: Dr Saeko Yazaki
ISBN: 9781838602352
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Dennis Genpo Merzel
ISBN: 9780877735694
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 1991
Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc
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The author brings a new life to Zen Buddhism through his commentaries on the classic Chinese Zen scripture, "Verses on Faith-Mind", by Sosan Zenji.
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By: Robert E. Buswell
ISBN: 9780691654164
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Robert E. Buswell
ISBN: 9780691609089
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Arthur Braverman
ISBN: 9781619029132
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2017
Publisher: Counterpoint
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By: Boep Joeng
ISBN: 9781590303849
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2007
Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc
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By: Duncan Ryken Williams
ISBN: 9780691144290
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2010
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Popular understanding of Zen Buddhism typically involves a stereotyped image of isolated individuals in meditation, contemplating nothingness. This book presents the 'other side of Zen', by examining the movement's growth during the Tokugawa period (1600-1867) in Japan and by shedding light on the Japanese religious landscape during the era.
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By: Dennis Genpo Merzel
ISBN: 9781590301739
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2005
Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc
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In this book, Dennis Merzel brings a friendly and inviting flavour to Zen Buddhist wisdom. Merzel (also known as Genpo Roshi) explains how meditation can gradually lead us to becoming more and more familiar with our own minds, allowing us to better understand ourselves and the nature of human life.
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By: Bernard Faure
ISBN: 9780691029634
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 1995
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Exploring key concepts and metaphors, Bernard Faure guides readers to an appreciation of some of the more elusive aspects of the Chinese traditions of Chan Buddhism and Japanese Zen. Faure focuses on Chan's insistence on "immediacy"--its denial of all traditional meditations, including scripture, ritual, good works--and yet shows how these mediations have always been present in Chan.
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By: James Green
ISBN: 9781590306307
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2009
Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc
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Layman P'ang (740-808) was a Chan/Zen Buddhist who serves as a model for Buddhist practice for all those who choose to lead the spiritual life outside the bounds of institutionalized monasticism. This title contains the sayings of and stories about Layman P'ang that provide an inspiration to spiritual practice for anyone.
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By: Torei Enji
ISBN: 9781590307922
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2013
Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc
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Translated from the Japanese Shumon mujintoron.
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By: Robert E. Buswell
ISBN: 9780691034775
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 1994
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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An account of day-to-day Zen monastic practice. In discussing the activities of the postulants, the meditation monks, the teachers and administrators, and the support monks of the monastery of Songgwang-sa, it reveals a religious tradition that differs radically from the stereotype prevalent in the West.
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By: Alan Watts
ISBN: 9780394719047
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1973
UK Publication Date: 12th March 1973
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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Attempts to penetrate the core of spirituality and consciousness by employing a psychological approach to the understanding of religious experience.
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By: Elizabeth Hamilton
ISBN: 9781590303634
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2007
Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc
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Offers a variety of practical tools for Zen training. In addition to helpful techniques for learning Zen practice, this book also presents what's at the heart of Zen - waking up to one's daily experience.
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By: Bernard Faure
ISBN: 9780691029412
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2000
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Looks at Chan/Zen with an array of postmodernist critical techniques. This book probes the imaginaire, or mental universe, of the Buddhist Soto Zen master Keizan Jokin (1268-1325). It draws on texts particularly the "Record of Tokoku" and the kirigami, or secret initiation documents.
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By: J. C. Cleary
ISBN: 9781570627026
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2001
Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc
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By: David Brazier
ISBN: 9781841193526
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2001
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A Buddhist approach to psychotherapy
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By: Norman Waddell
ISBN: 9781570621659
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 1996
Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc
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A collection of commentary and meditations by the eighteenth-century Japanese Zen master on one of Buddhism's most famous scriptures.
