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Author: Kusan Sŏnsa
Publisher: Weatherhill, Incorporated
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 196
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a collection of sermons from one of Korea's greatest Zen masters, with instruction in meditation techniques.
Author: Robert E. Buswell, Jr.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 1991-11-01
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 0824843673
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChinul (1158–1210) was the founder of the Korean tradition of Zen. He provides one of the most lucid and accessible accounts of Zen practice and meditation to be found anywhere in East Asian literature. Tracing Back the Radiance, an abridgment of Buswell’s Korean Approach to Zen: The Collected Works of Chinul, combines an extensive introduction to Chinul’s life and thought with translations of three of his most representative works.
Author: Martine Batchelor
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2006-03-09
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780815608424
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this engagingly written account, Martine Batchelor relays the challenges a new ordinand faces in adapting to Buddhist monastic life: the spicy food, the rigorous daily schedule, the distinctive clothes and undergarments, and the cultural misunderstandings inevitable between a French woman and her Korean colleagues. She reveals as well the genuine pleasures that derive from solitude, meditative training, and communion with the deeply religiouswhom the Buddhists call "good friends." Batchelor has also recorded the oral history/autobiography of her teacher, the eminent nun Son'gyong Sunim, leader of the Zen meditation hall at Naewonsa. It is a profoundly moving, often light-hearted story that offers insight into the challenges facing a woman on the path to enlightenment at the beginning of the twentieth century. Original English translations of eleven of Son'gyong Sunim's poems on Buddhist themes make a graceful and thought-provoking coda to the two women's narratives. Western readers only familiar with Buddhist ideas of female inferiority will be surprised by the degree of spiritual equality and authority enjoyed by nuns in Korea. While American writings on Buddhism increasingly emphasize the therapeutic, self-help, and comforting aspects of Buddhist thought, Batchelor's text offers a bracing and timely reminder of the strict discipline required in traditional Buddhism.
Author: Jin Y. Park
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 395
ISBN-13: 1438429231
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn overview of Korean Buddhism and its major figures in the modern period.
Author: Chinul
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 496
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Seung Sahn
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Published: 1997-10-28
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 0834823713
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA simple, exhaustive—and often hilarious—presentation of the essence of Zen by a modern Zen Master of considerable renown In his many years of teaching throughout the world, the Korean-born Zen Master Seung Sahn has become known for his ability to cut to the heart of Buddhist teaching in a way that is strikingly clear, yet free of esoteric and academic language. In this book, based largely on his talks, he presents the basic teachings of Buddhism and Zen in a way that is wonderfully accessible for beginners—yet so rich with stories, insights, and personal experiences that long-time meditation students will also find it a source of inspiration and a resource for study.
Author: Kusan Sunim
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Published: 2009-02-10
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 0834826933
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe power and simplicity of the Korean Zen tradition shine in this collection of teachings by a renowned modern master, translated by Martine Batchelor. Kusan Sunim provides a wealth of practical advice for students, particularly with regard to the uniquely Korean practice of hwadu, or sitting with questioning. An extensive introduction by Stephen Batchelor, author of Buddhism without Beliefs, provides both a biography of the author and a brief history of Korean Zen.
Author: Seung Sahn
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Published: 1999-04-06
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 1570624321
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere is the inimitable Zen Master Seung Sahn up close and personal—in selections from the correspondence that was one of his primary modes of teaching. Seung Sahn received hundreds of letters per month, each of which he answered personally, and some of the best of which are included here. His frank and funny style, familiar to readers of Dropping Ashes on the Buddha, is seen here in a most intimate form. The beloved Zen master not only answers questions on Zen teaching and practice, but applies an enlightened approach to problems with work, relationships, suffering, and the teacher-student relationship.
Author: Chae-ryong Sim
Publisher: 지문당
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 324
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert E. Buswell Jr.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2020-07-21
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 069121610X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRobert Buswell, a Buddhist scholar who spent five years as a Zen monk in Korea, draws on personal experience in this insightful account of day-to-day Zen monastic practice. In discussing the activities of the postulants, the meditation monks, the teachers and administrators, and the support monks of the monastery of Songgwang-sa, Buswell reveals a religious tradition that differs radically from the stereotype prevalent in the West. The author's treatment lucidly relates contemporary Zen practice to the historical development of the tradition and to Korean history more generally, and his portrayal of the life of modern Zen monks in Korea provides an innovative and provocative look at Zen from the inside.
