Ebook: Zen's Chinese Heritage : the Masters and Their Teachings
Author: Ferguson Andrew, Ferguson Andy
- Tags: Zen priests -- China -- Biography., Zen Buddhism -- Doctrines., Religion., RELIGION -- Buddhism -- Zen (see also PHILOSOPHY -- Zen), Zen priests., China.
- Year: 2011
- Publisher: Perseus Books Group
- City: New York, China
- Language: English
- epub
Zen's Chinese Heritage surveys twenty-five generations of enlightened Buddhist teachers through brief biographies and starkly beautiful prose and poetry from Chinese Zen sources. Andrew Ferguson moves chronologically through successive generations of Zen masters, supplementing their core teachings with history, biography, and poetry. The result is an organic understanding of the tradition's evolution as a religious, Read more...
Abstract: Zen's Chinese Heritage surveys twenty-five generations of enlightened Buddhist teachers through brief biographies and starkly beautiful prose and poetry from Chinese Zen sources. Andrew Ferguson moves chronologically through successive generations of Zen masters, supplementing their core teachings with history, biography, and poetry. The result is an organic understanding of the tradition's evolution as a religious, literary, and historical force. Capturing the austere beauty of the Zen masters' manner of teaching--their earthy style, humor, and humanity - Zen's Chinese Heritage is an intimate