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The Five Ranks of Zen : Tozan's Path of Being, Nonbeing, and Compassion

Name: The Five Ranks of Zen : Tozan's Path of Being, Nonbeing, and Compassion
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ISBN: 9781645473220

Gerry Shishin Wick; Norman Fischer

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A comprehensive and accessible guide to the Five Ranks, the pinnacle teaching of Zen Buddhism pointing to the path to true freedom. The great Japanese Zen master Hakuin exclaimed, “How priceless is the merit gained through the step-by-step practice of the Five Ranks of Master Tozan!” Hakuin here refers to a teaching created by the Chinese Buddhist master Dongshan, known in Japanese as Zen Master Tozan, which is honored and studied in both Soto and Rinzai schools of Zen and is a gem of the classical Zen tradition. The ranks—pithy, provocative titles followed by Tozan’s brief poetic commentaries—serve as guides to a radical exploration of the experience of relative and absolute reality, the interpenetrating “Two Truths” of Mahayana Buddhism. In The Five Ranks of Zen, American Zen teacher Shishin Wick offers an accessible entry point to each of the ranks, which Tozan created in two formulations: the first and better-known...

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Year:

2024

Publisher:

Shambhala

Language:

English

ISBN 10:

2023052886

ISBN 13:

9781645473220