Living And Dying In Zazen: Five Zen Masters Of Modern Japan Bloomsbury Continuum With photographs by Torben Rasmussen

With photographs by Torben Rasmussen

ISBN13: 9780865974951

Living in a time of great religious controversy

he leaves behind a series of fiendish puzzles

reference tables and standardized forms for reference and usage

Living And Dying In Zazen: Five Zen Masters Of Modern Japan Bloomsbury Continuum With photographs by Torben RasmussenLiving and Dying in Zazen combines the life stories and teaching of five teachers Kodo Sawaki, Sodo Yokoyama, Kozan Kato, Motoko Ikebe, and Uchiyama associated with Antaiji monastery and the story of Bravermen and other Western students coming to grips with Zen, Japanese culture, and themselves. The deification of Zen teachers by their followers has been a problematic issue in American Zen; this book provides a healthy antidote, presenting four men