1st Edition
The Tiger's Cave Translations of Japanese Zen Texts (Second Zen Reader)
By Trevor Leggett
Copyright 1964
198 Pages
by
Routledge
The Japanese texts translated here give a fascinating picture of actual Zen life – the life of the traditional temple training, with many stories and a number of historical incidents connected with Zen masters. The main text is the important commentary by a contemporary Soto Zen abbot on the Heart Sutra – the shortest and most difficult sutra in Mahayana Buddhism. Then comes a translation of the... Read more
1. On the Heart Suta by Abbot Obora of the Soto Zen Sect (Contemporary) 2. Yasenkanna, An Autobiographical Narrative by Zen Master Hakuin (Eighteenth Century) 3. The Tiger’s Cave and other Pieces 4. Zen by Rosen Takashina, Primate of the Soto Zen Sect
Biography
Compiled and translated by Trevor Leggett.
