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Pi-Yen-Lu. --- Buddhism China.

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The strange verbal paradoxes called koans have been used traditionally in Zen training to help students attain a direct realization of truths inexpressible in words. The two works translated in this book, 'Mumonkan '('The Gateless Gate ') and 'Hekiganroku (The Blue Cliff Record) ', both compiled during the Song dynasty in China, are the best known and most frequently studied koan collections, and are classics of Zen literature. They are still used today in a variety of practice lineages, from traditional zendos to modern Zen centers. In a completely new translation, together with original commentaries, the well-known Zen teacher Katsuki Sekida brings to these works the same fresh and pragmatic approach that made his 'Zen Training ' so successful. The insights of a lifetime of Zen practice and his familiarity with both Eastern and Western ways of thinking make him an ideal interpreter of these texts.

Koan. --- Huikai, --- Yuanwu,

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'The' 'Blue Cliff Record ' is a classic text of Zen Buddhism, designed to assist in the activation of dormant human potential. The core of this extraordinary work is a collection of one hundred traditional citations and stories (known as 'gongan' in Chinese and 'koan's in Japanese and English) that have been selected for their ability to bring about insight and enlightenment. Though 'The' 'Blue Cliff Record ' has been available in English for many years, authentic traditions of commentary on the text have been unavailable to the public, indeed unavailable even to most specialists in the field--until now. This new work by Thomas Cleary fills the gap in the East-West transmission of Zen lore with commentaries by two of the greatest Zen masters of early modern Japan, Hakuin Ekaku of the Rinzai sect of Zen (1685-1768) and Tenkei Denson of the Soto sect of Zen (1648-1735). Hakuin and Tenkei were two of the towering figures in Zen during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This new translation of 'The Blue Cliff Record ' featuring their newly translated commentary is sure to shed new light on the meaning of this central Zen text.

Koan --- Yuanwu, --- Yuanwu, - 1063-1135. - Bi yan lu