204 pp. November 2002
paper, ISBN 978-0-8248-2384-9, $26.00
cloth, ISBN 978-0-8248-2383-2, $44.00
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Critical Sermons of the Zen Tradition: Hisamatsu's Talks on Linji
by Hisamatsu Shin'ichi
ed. by Tokiwa Gishin; Christopher Ives
trans. by Tokiwa Gishin; Christopher Ives
"Linji lu is the epitome of the irreverent, iconoclastic, tables-turning discourse of the Hungzhou branch of the Chan Southern school ... Hisamatsu's rhetoric is soaring and at times inspiring" --Monumenta Nipponica 58 (2003)
This book brings together two giants of the history of Zen: Linji (Japanese, Rinzai) and Hisamatsu Shin'ichi. Linji is looked upon as the founder of the Rinzai sect in Japan. Hisamatsu was a leading twentieth century master/thinker who lived in Kyoto and was a tremendous influence on the development of the Kyoto school of Japanese philosophy. The translators and editors have translated and annotated twenty-two of Hisamatsu's Zen teisho (Dharma talks, in effect, sermons for Zen practitioners) of a classical Zen text, the Record of Linji, the recorded sayings of the Chinese founder of Rinzai Zen. For sale only in the U.S., its dependencies, Canada, and Mexico
Christopher Ives is professor of religious studies at Stonehill College in Massachusetts. Tokiwa Gishin is professor emeritus at Hanazono University in Kyoto.
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