1st Edition

A First Zen Reader

By Trevor Leggett Copyright 1960
238 Pages
by Routledge

When Zen Buddhism crossed from China to Japan in the twelfth century, it entered a phase of development that was not only to inspire a magnificent range of artistic achievement but also to exert a tremendous influence upon Japanese life itself and, eventually, to bring to the attention of the West a religious philosophy both unique and challenging in its power. ‘Yet’, as one of the contributors... Read more

1. The Original Face Daito Kokushi  2. A Tongue-Tip Taste of Zen Takashina Rosen  3. Hakuin’s ‘Song of Meditation’ Amakuki Sessan  4. The Two Poems Oka Kyugaku  5. Bodhidharma and the Emperor from the Rinzai and Soto Koan Anthologies  6. A Note on the Ways Trevor Leggett

Biography

Compiled and translated by Trevor Leggett.