{"product_id":"two-zen-classics-mumonkan-and-hekiganroku-0834801302","title":"Two Zen Classics: Mumonkan and Hekiganroku","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0834801302\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e A. V. Grimstone\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe strange verbal paradoxes called koans have been used in Zen training to help students attain a direct realization of truths inexpressible in words. The two works translated in this book, Mumonkan ( Gateless Gate ) and Hekiganroku ( Blue Cliff Record), both compiled during the Song dynasty in China, are the best known and most frequently studied koan collections, and are classics of Zen literature. In a completely new translation, together with original commentaries, Katsuki Sekida brings to these works the same fresh and pragmatic approach that made his Zen Training so successful. The insights of a lifetime of Zen practice and his familiarity with Western as well as Eastern ways of thinking make him an ideal interpreter of these texts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51876932256032,"sku":"NEW0834801302","price":69.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/91hxgwFFtAL.jpg?v=1781762766","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/two-zen-classics-mumonkan-and-hekiganroku-0834801302","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}