Critical Sermons of the Zen Tradition

Critical Sermons of the Zen Tradition

Author: Shin'ichi Hisamatsu

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 2002-11-30

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 9780824823849

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This book brings together two giants of the history of Zen: Linji (Japanese, Rinzai) and Hisamatsu Shin'ichi. Linji is looked upon as the founder of the Rinzai sect in Japan. Hisamatsu was a leading twentieth century master/thinker who lived in Kyoto and was a tremendous influence on the development of the Kyoto school of Japanese philosophy. The translators and editors have translated and annotated twenty-two of Hisamatsu's Zen teisho (Dharma talks, in effect, sermons for Zen practitioners) of a classical Zen text, the Record of Linji, the recorded sayings of the Chinese founder of Rinzai Zen.