The Training of the Zen Buddhist Monk 9781462901456

One Monk, Many Masters: The Wanderings of a Simple Buddhist Monk 9781945934223, 1945934220

In 1969, Paul Breiter was among the throngs of disaffected youth who traveled to the exotic East, seeking to escape the

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The Eminent Monk: Buddhist Ideals in Medieval Chinese Hagiography 9780824846015

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Reflections of a Zen Buddhist Nun 9780824840235

The life and work of Kim Iryŏp (1896–1971) bear witness to Korea’s encounter with modernity. A prolific writer, Iryŏp re

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The Eight Gates of Zen: A Program of Zen Training [Paperback ed.] 1570629528, 9781570629525

This accessible introduction to the philosophy and practice of Zen Buddhism includes a program of study that encompasses

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The Zen Monastic Experience: Buddhist Practice in Contemporary Korea 9780691216102

Robert Buswell, a Buddhist scholar who spent five years as a Zen monk in Korea, draws on personal experience in this ins

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Original dwelling place : Zen Buddhist essays 9781887178167

In this collection of twenty-three essays, Robert Aitken retraces the origins of American Zen Buddhism and provides read

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Training the Wisdom Body: Buddhist Yogic Exercise 9780834828995, 9781611800180

Sitting still in meditation may be the common image that comes to mind when one thinks of Buddhist practice—but just as

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The Way of the Monk 1846046254, 9781473573963

Change your outlook, change your life. Celebrated monk Gaur Gopal Das reveals how to tackle the feeling that life isn’t

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The Eminent Monk: Buddhist Ideals in Medieval Chinese Hagiography 0824818415, 9780824818418

In an attempt to reconstruct an elusive aspect of the medieval Chinese imagination, The Eminent Monk examines biographie

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Paul Ardenheim, the Monk of Wissahikon

Set nearly a century later than the community at Germantown, this gothic novel draws on the legends of the Society of Wo

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