Public Zen, personal Zen : a Buddhist introduction

Public Zen, personal Zen : a Buddhist introduction / Peter D. Hershock.

This book introduces the basic teachings and practices of Buddhism and their spread across Asia. Peter D. Hershock explores the history of the enduring Japanese tradition of Zen-from its beginnings as a form of Buddhist thought and practice imported from China to its reinvention in medieval Japan as...

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Main Author: Hershock, Peter D.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
Series:Critical issues in world and international history.
Subjects:
Zen Buddhism > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Zen Origins. Buddha, Dharma and Sangha from India to China
  • The Japanese Transformation of Buddhism
  • From Chinese Chan to Japanese Zen
  • Public Zen. Rinzai Zen
  • Sōtō Zen
  • Ōbaku Zen
  • Zen in a Modernizing Japan
  • Personal Zen. Practicing Zen
  • Zen Exemplars: Dōgen, Ikkyū, Hakuin and Ryōkan
  • Zen Here and Now.

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