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This five-volume collection of essential Zen and early Buddhist texts from esteemed translator Thomas Cleary offers a window into the heart of the tradition. Each volume contains pivotal teachings drawn from centuries of Zen writing in China, Japan, and beyond.
Volume one includes:
Zen Lessons: The Art of Leadership, a guide to enlightened conduct for people in positions of authority
Zen Essence: The Science of Freedom, open and direct instruction on the Zen canon from Chinese masters of the Tang and Song dynasties
The Five Houses of Zen, wide-ranging teachings from the early Chinese masters
Minding Mind: A Course in Basic Meditation, on attaining a state of true objectivity in meditation
Instant Zen, the teachings of Foyan
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Classics of Buddhism and Zen, Volume 1: The Collected Translations of Thomas Cleary (Classics of Buddhism and Zen)
April 12, 2005, Shambhala
Paperback
in English
- New Ed edition
1590302184 9781590302187
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Classics of Buddhism and Zen, Volume 1: The Collected Translations of Thomas Cleary (Classics of Buddhism and Zen)
December 11, 2001, Shambhala
Hardcover
in English
- 1st edition
1570628319 9781570628313
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Classics of Buddhism and Zen: the collected translations of Thomas Cleary.
2001, Shambhala
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"Zen Lessons is a collection of political, social, and psychological teachings of Chinese Zen (Chan) adepts of the Song dynasty, from the tenth to the thirteenth centuries."
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