of kōan literature as well as meditation (zazen) on a kōan is a major feature of modern Rinzai Zen. They are also studied in the Sōtō school of Zen to...
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Transmission and the Kung-an (Koan) Tradition", in Steven Heine; Dale S. Wright (eds.), The Koan: Texts and Contexts in Zen Buddhism, Oxford: Oxford University...
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sayings of Zen-masters, and the koan-literature. Contrary to the popular image, literature does play a role in the Zen-training. Unsui, Zen-monks, "are...
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Hakuin Ekaku (category Zen Buddhist monks)
(2005b), The Steps of Koan Practice. In: John Daido Loori,Thomas Yuho Kirchner (eds), Sitting With Koans: Essential Writings on Zen Koan Introspection, Wisdom...
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101 Zen Stories is a 1919 compilation of Zen koans including 19th and early 20th century anecdotes compiled by Nyogen Senzaki, and a translation of Shasekishū...
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The wild fox kōan, also known as "Pai-chang's fox" and "Hyakujō and a Fox", is an influential kōan story in the Zen tradition dating back as early as 1036...
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Established in 1999, Pacific Zen's stated mission is to "create a culture of transformation through meditation, koans, conversation, and the arts." Its...
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The Gateless Barrier (category Zen koan collections)
Gateless Gate, is a collection of 48 Chan (Zen) koans compiled in the early 13th century by the Chinese Zen master Wumen Huikai (無門慧開; Japanese: Mumon...
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Look up koan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A kōan is a type of text or utterance in Zen Buddhism. Koan may also refer to: Kōan (Kamakura period)...
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Mu (negative) (redirect from Mu (zen))
a 13th-century collection of Zen kōan, uses the word wu or mu in its title (Wumenguan or Mumonkan 無門關) and first kōan case ("Zhao Zhou's Dog" 趙州狗子)....
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(Mumonkan) Ten Bulls Centering (Vigyan Bhairav Tantra) 101 Zen Stories is a 1919 compilation of Zen koans including 19th and early 20th century anecdotes compiled...
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Rinzai school (redirect from Rinzai Zen)
(2006). Koan practice. In: "Sitting with Koans". Ed. John Daido Loori. Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications, p. 94. Lachs, Stuart (2006), The Zen Master...
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Genjōkōan (redirect from Genjō Kōan)
Dogen's Genjo Koan: Three Commentaries. Counterpoint. p. 1. ISBN 9781582437439. Thomas Cleary. "The Issue at Hand by Eihei Dogen". The Zen Site. Retrieved...
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Zen for an overview of Zen, Chan Buddhism for the Chinese origins, and Sōtō, Rinzai and Ōbaku for the three main schools of Zen in Japan Japanese Zen...
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The following is a list of kōans attributed to the Zen master Yunmen Wenyan. Ummon inquired of his monks, "This world is such a wide world! Why then do...
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Who is the master that sees and hears? (redirect from Nembutsu kōan)
and hears?" is a kōan-like form of self-inquiry practiced in the Zen tradition. It is best known from the 14th-century Japanese Zen Master Bassui Tokushō...
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Goodbye Lover Rev. Finlayson 1998 Celebrity John Papadakis 2003 Judge Koan Zen Master (Voice) Also Executive Producer 2008 Phyllis and Harold N/A Executive...
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Philip Kapleau (redirect from Three pillars of zen)
American teacher of Zen Buddhism in the Sanbo Kyodan tradition, which is rooted in Japanese Sōtō and incorporates Rinzai-school koan-study. He also strongly...
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("associate zen master"), and shōshike ("authentic zen master"). Junshikes can give dokusan, authorize kensho, and supervise part of the koan-study. Shoshikes...
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Taizan Maezumi (category Soto Zen Buddhists)
Western students early in the 1960s, founding the Zen Center of Los Angeles in 1967. After studying koans with Hakuun Yasutani and lay-teacher Koryū Osaka...
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Chan Buddhism (redirect from Chinese Zen)
(1999), The Ta of Zen, Edison, NJ: Alva Press Heine, Steven (2008), Zen Skin, Zen Marrow Isshū, Miura; Sasaki, Ruth F. (1993), The Zen Koan, New York: Harcourt...
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Satori (redirect from Zen Buddhist Enlightenment)
classic collections of koans such as The Gateless Barrier. The Gateless Barrier was assembled by the early 13th-century Chinese Zen master Wumen Huikai....
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"Sitting Quietly, Doing Nothing," "Za-zen and the Koan," and "Zen and the Arts." Watts traces the origin of Zen Buddhism as a synthesis of Chinese Taoism...
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Kenshō (category Zen Buddhist philosophical concepts)
ontmoeting van Zen met het Westen, Asoka: Asoka Samy, Ama (2014). "Kapitel 12: Koan, Hua-t'ou und Kensho". ZEN – Der große Weg ist ohne Tor [ZEN – The Great...
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Eigen-ji, a Zen Buddhist temple located in modern-day Shiga prefecture, was founded by Sasaki Ujiyori. Its first Abbot was Jakushitsu Genko. 1362 (Kōan 2): Hosokawa...
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Hakuun Yasutani (category Zen Buddhist priests)
100 Precept Koans. According to Ichikawa Hakugen, Yasutani was "a fanatical militarist and anti-communist". Brian Victoria, in his book Zen at War, places...
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seated meditation, which is the core of most Japanese traditions of Zen, but rather on Koans. It was through the urging of some of his first students, some...
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