Gateless Barrier: Zen Comments on the Mumonkan by Shibayama, Zenkai

Gateless Barrier: Zen Comments on the Mumonkan (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781570627262)

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Gateless Barrier: Zen Comments on the Mumonkan by Shibayama, Zenkai

Gateless Barrier: Zen Comments on the Mumonkan

$29.95
Gateless Barrier: Zen Comments on the Mumonkan by Shibayama, Zenkai

Gateless Barrier: Zen Comments on the Mumonkan

$29.95
Format: Paperback
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For more than seven centuries the Mumonkan has been used in Zen monasteries to train monks and to encourage the religious development of lay Buddhists. It contains forty- eight koans, or spiritual riddles, that must be explored during the course of Zen training. Shibayama Zenkei (1894-1974), an influential Japanese Zen teacher and calligrapher who traveled and lectured throughout the United States in the 60s and 70s, offers his own commentary alongside the classic text. The Gateless Barrier remains an essential text for all serious students of Buddhism.

Author: Zenkei Shibayama
ISBN-10: 1570627266
ISBN-13: 9781570627262
Publisher: Shambhala
Language: English
Published: 12/05/2000
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 8.99h x 5.96w x 0.99d
By Zenkei Shibayama
By Zenkei Shibayama
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Born in 1894 and ordained a Zen monk in 1908, Zenkei Shibayama was Zen Master of the important Nanzenji Zen Monastery in Kyoto for twenty-five years. He was a professor at Hanazono and Otani universities, the author of a number of works in Japanese, and the chief abbot of the Nanzenji Organization of some five hundred Rinzai Zen temples in Japan. Shibayama Roshi died in 1974.

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