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Language: en
Pages: 313
Pages: 313
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-12-01 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
According to the fox koan, the second case in the Wu-men kuan koan collection, Zen master Pai-chang encounters a fox who claims to be a former abbot punished th
Language: en
Pages: 216
Pages: 216
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-02-26 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
With the growing popularity of Zen Buddhism in the West, virtually everyone knows, or thinks they know, what a koan is: a brief and baffling question or stateme
Language: en
Pages: 496
Pages: 496
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-05-11 - Publisher: BRILL
A groundbreaking monograph on Yuan dynasty Buddhism, Illusory Abiding offers a cultural history of Buddhism through a case study of the eminent Chan master Zhon
Language: en
Pages: 279
Pages: 279
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
Steven Heine offers a compelling examination of the Mu Koan, widely considered to be the single best known and most widely circulated and transmitted koan recor
Language: en
Pages: 210
Pages: 210
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-03 - Publisher: Routledge
For more than a millennium, the fox has been a ubiquitous figure at the margins of the Japanese collective imagination. In the writings of the nobility and the