THE ZEN EXPERIENCE - Thomas Hoover. Publisher’s Weekly declared, “This is one of the few historical surveys of Zen available. Hoover reveals a culture of extraordinary richness and variety.” Library Journal called it, "The best history of Zen ever written. " Illumines Zen as it was created and shaped by the personalities, perceptions, and actions of its masters over the centuries. Reviewers called THE MOGHUL “the finest book on India since Kipling” , another “SHOGUN or THE FAR PAVILLIONS,” “rousing, romantic adventure” “high action” “a vividly told tale” “captivates the reader” with “mysteries of the harem to battles of massed elephants.” Optioned twice for a Miniseries. Publisher's Weekly said, "This action-crammed, historically factual novel . . . is a rousing read about the bad old marauding days, ably researched by Hoover.
" In the epic tradition of James Clavell and James A. Han Shan, The Cold Mountain Poems. HAN SHAN, THE COLD MOUNTAIN POEMS, tr. Gary Snyder Preface to the Poems of Han-shan by Lu Ch'iu-yin, Governor of T'ai Prefecture No one knows what sort of man Han-shan was. There are old people who knew him: they say he was a poor man, a crazy character. He lived alone seventy Li (23 miles) west of the T'ang-hsing district of T'ien-t'ai at a place called Cold Mountain. He looked like a tramp. I once received a position as a petty official at Tan-ch'iu.
I proceeded on my journey to my job at T'ai-chou, not forgetting this affair. I returned to my district and had two sets of clean clothes made, got some incense and such, and sent it to the temple - but the two men didn't return. I ordered Tao-ch'iao and the other monks to find out how they had lived, to hunt up the poems written on bamboo, wood, stones, and cliffs - and also to collect those written on the walls of people's houses.
I hold to the principle of the Buddha-mind. THE COLD MOUNTAIN POEMS, tr. A thousand grasses bend with dew, HanShan's Poetry. Buddahnet.net. J. Krishnamurti Online, the official repository of the authentic teachings of J. Krishnamurti. Unfettered Mind - Ken McLeod. Japanese Zen Buddhist Philosophy. 1. The Meaning of the Term Zen The designation of this school of the Buddha-Way as Zen, which means sitting meditation, is derived from a transliteration of the Chinese word Chán. Because the Chinese term is in turn a transliteration of the Sanskrit term dhyāna, however, Zen owes its historical origin to early Indian Buddhism, where a deepened state of meditation, called samādhi, was singled out as one of the three components of study a Buddhist was required to master, the other two being an observation of ethical precepts (sīla) and an embodiment of nondiscriminatory wisdom (prajñā).
Meditation was picked as the name for this school because the historical Buddha achieved enlightenment (nirvāna) through the practice of meditation. 2. According to Hakuin (1685–1768), who systematized kōans, there are formally seventeen hundred cases of kōans, and if sub-questions are added to them, a total number of cases comprising the system would be roughly three thousand. 3. 4. 5. 6. 6.3 Zen “Seeing” THE WEI WU WEI ARCHIVES. Lojong and Tonglen Community Site. Zen Guide: The Comprehensive Guide to Zen & Buddhism - Principles, Discussion, Practice, Community and Resources including RSS feeds. - ZENGUIDE.COM. Manual of Zen Buddhism Index. Confucius Publishing Home Page. The Book of Five Rings - The Classic Masterpiece by Miyamoto Musashi - go rin no sho.