Samurai Zen: The Warrior Koans / Edition 2

by Trevor Leggett

Overview

Samurai Zen brings together 100 of the rare riddles which represent the core spiritual discipline of Japan's ancient Samurai tradition. Dating from thirteenth-century records of Japan's Kamakura temples, and traditionally guarded with a reverent secrecy, they reflect the earliest manifestation of pure Zen in Japan. Created by Zen Masters for their warrior pupils, the Japanese Koans use incidents from everyday life - a broken tea-cup, a water-jar, a cloth - to bring the warrior pupils of the Samurai to the Zen realization. Their aim is to enable a widening of consciouness beyond the illusions of the limited self, and a joyful inspiration in life - a state that has been compared to being free under a blue sky after imprisonment.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415284653
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/20/2003
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	218
Sales rank:	665,862
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Trevor Leggett was the former head of Japanese Service of the BBC in the UK

Table of Contents

Introduction, Preface, Acknowledgments, Ima Fukuzan’s Introduction to Shonan-Katto-Roku, Extracts from Imai Fukuzan’s Introduction to Warrior Zen, Kamakura Koans, Index of Chinese Characters