There is a legend the Buddha was once handed a flower and asked to preach on the law
by Thomas Hoover
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About this eBook
- Author
- Hoover, Thomas, 1941-
- Title
- The Zen Experience
- Credits
- Produced by Al Haines
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- BQ: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Buddhism
- Subject
- Zen priests -- Biography
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 34325
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34325
- Release Date
- November 14, 2010
- Copyright
- Copyrighted. Read the copyright notice inside this book for details.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.THE ZEN EXPERIENCE — The truth of Zen has always resided in individual experience rather than in theoretical writings. To give the modern reader access to understanding of this truth, THE ZEN EXPERIENCE illumines Zen as it was created and shaped by the personalities, perceptions, and actions of its masters over the centuries. Beginning with the twin roots of Zen in Indian Buddhism and Chinese Taoism, we follow it through its initial flowering in China under the First Patriarch Bodhidharma; its division into schools of “gradual” and “sudden” enlightenment under Shen-hsui and Shen-hui; the ushering in of its golden age by Hui-neng; the development of “shock” enlightenment by Ma-tsu; its poetic greatness in the person of Han-shan; the perfection of the use of the koan by Ta-hui; the migration of Zen to Japan and its extraordinary growth there under a succession of towering Japanese spiritual leaders. Rich in historical background, vivid in revealing anecdote and memorable quotation, this long-needed work succeeds admirably in taking Zen from the library shelves and restoring its living, human form. — BOOKS BY THOMAS HOOVER — Nonfiction — Fiction
- 3.PERMISSIONS
- 4.ACKNOWLEDGMENTS — PART I. THE EARLY MASTERS — PART II. THE GOLDEN AGE OF ZEN — PART III. SECTARIANISM AND THE KOAN — PART IV. ZEN IN JAPAN — Bibliography — PREFACE TO ZEN — TAOISM: THE WAY TO ZEN — LAO TZU — — — — CHUANG TZU — KUO HSIANG: A NEO-TAOIST — THE BUDDHIST ROOTS OF ZEN — KUMARAJIVA — SENG-CHAO — TAO-SHENG — THE SYNTHESIS — Chapter Two — — — — — — — — — — — — — — Chapter Four — SHEN-HSIU (605-706), THE FIRST "SIXTH PATRIARCH" — SHEN-HUI (670-762), THE "MARTIN LUTHER" OF CH'AN — Nan-ch’uan P’u-yuan — Chao-chou Ts’ung-shen — Layman P’ang — Han Shan — Chapter Ten — — THE YUN-MEN SECT — THE FA-YEN SECT — Chapter Fifteen — Chapter Sixteen — Chapter Seventeen — Chapter Nineteen — SOCIAL CONSCIENCE IN ZEN — ZEN AND CREATIVITY — ZEN AND MIND RESEARCH — ZEN AND THE ARTS — ZEN AND PERCEPTION — THE ZEN LIFE — NOTES — PREFACE TO ZEN
- 5.Untitled
- 6.BIBLIOGRAPHY — BOOKS BY THOMAS HOOVER — Nonfiction — Fiction
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