Zen Echoes: Classic Koans with Verse Commentaries by Three Female Chan Masters

The voices of three female Zen masters reverberate in this much-needed collection.

Too often the history of Zen seems to be written as an unbroken masculine line: male teacher to male student. In this timely volume, Beata Grant shows us that women masters do exist—and have always existed.

Zen Echoes is a collection of classic koans from Zen’s Chinese history that were first collected and commented on by Miaozong, a twelfth-century nun so adept that her teacher, the legendary Dahui Zonggao, ...