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  • Zen Skin, Zen Marrow

    Will the Real Zen Buddhism Please Stand Up?

    by Steven Heine ...
    Since Zen Buddhism first captivated the attention of Western seekers the dominant discourse about this sect has been romantic, idealistic, and utopian. The essence of Zen has been described as ineffable, holistic, and promoting social harmony. In recent years, however, some scholars have begun to examine Zen through the lenses of historical and cultural criticism, producing a sharp challenge to ... Read more

    $38.39 CAD

  • Dogen's Extensive Record

    A Translation of the Eihei Koroku

    by Eihei Dogen, John Daido Loori, Steven Heine ...
    Translated by Shohaku Okumura ...
    Eihei Dogen, the thirteenth-century Zen master who founded the Japanese Soto School of Zen, is renowned as one of the world's most remarkable religious thinkers. As Shakespeare does with English, Dogen utterly transforms the language of Zen, using it in novel and extraordinarily beautiful ways to point to everything important in the religious life.He is known for two major works. The first work, ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Wisdom within Words

    An Annotated Translation of Dōgen's Chinese-Style Poetry

    by Steven Heine ...
    Wisdom within Words is the first complete bilingual edition and annotated translation of the poetry collection entitled Kuchugen, which features 150 Chinese-style verses (kanshi) written by Dōgen Zenji (1200-1253), founder of the Soto Zen sect in early medieval Japan, and compiled in the eighteenth century by Menzan Zuiho. These poems are essential in highlighting several key aspects of Dōgen's ... Read more

    $110.39 CAD

  • Flowers Blooming on a Withered Tree

    Giun's Verse Comments on Dogen's Treasury of the True Dharma Eye

    by Steven Heine ...
    This book provides a translation and critical bilingual edition on the Verse Comments on the Treasury of the True Dharma Eye. The Verse Comments by Giun (1253-1333), the fifth abbot of Eiheiji temple, is an important early medieval Japanese commentary on the 60-chapter edition of the Treasury of the True Dharma Eye (Shobogenzo), one of the main versions of the masterwork written by Eihei Dogen ... Read more

    $102.39 CAD

  • Zen's Chinese Heritage

    The Masters and Their Teachings

    by Andy Ferguson ...
    Zen's Chinese Heritage traces twenty-five generations of inlightened Buddhist teachers, supplementing their core teachings with history, biography, and poetry. The result is an intimate and profound human portrait of the enlightened Zen ancients, and an unprecedented look into the depths of the rich cultural heritage.In this new edition with even more valuable material, Ferguson surveys ... Read more

    $32.00 CAD

  • Readings of Dōgen's "Treasury of the True Dharma Eye"

    by Steven Heine ...
    Series series Columbia Readings of Buddhist Literature
    The Treasury of the True Dharma Eye (Shōbōgenzō) is the masterwork of Dōgen (1200–1253), founder of the Sōtō Zen Buddhist sect in Kamakura-era Japan. It is one of the most important Zen Buddhist collections, composed during a period of remarkable religious diversity and experimentation. The text is complex and compelling, famed for its eloquent yet perplexing manner of expressing the core precepts ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Tongxuan's 100 Chan Questions

    To Speak Without Speaking

    by Steven Heine, Xiaohuan Cao ...
    Tongxuan's 100 Chan Questions is a significant Zen Buddhist koan collection. It includes dialogues about philosophy and religious practice expressed through paradoxical sayings and puzzling poems. This thirteenth-century text, included in the supplementary Buddhist canon, was composed by several leading figures of the Caodong Chan Buddhist school in China, who were part of an important sublineage ... Read more

    $63.59 CAD

  • Zen Ritual

    Studies of Zen Buddhist Theory in Practice

    Edited by Steven Heine, Dale S. Wright ...
    When books about Zen Buddhism began appearing in Western languages just over a half-century ago, there was no interest whatsoever in the role of ritual in Zen. Indeed, what attracted Western readers' interest was the Zen rejection of ritual. The famous 'Beat Zen' writers were delighted by the Zen emphasis on spontaneity as opposed to planned, repetitious action, and wrote inspirationally about the ... Read more

    $42.39 CAD

  • Dogen and Soto Zen

    Edited by Steven Heine ...
    Dogen and Soto Zen builds upon and further refines a continuing wave of enthusiastic popular interest and scholarly developments in Western appropriations of Zen. In the last few decades, research in English and European languages on Dogen and Soto Zen has grown, aided by an increasing awareness on both sides of the Pacific of the important influence of the religious movement and its founder. The ... Read more

    $38.39 CAD

  • Zen and Material Culture

    Edited by Steven Heine, Pamela D. Winfield ...
    The stereotype of Zen Buddhism as a minimalistic or even immaterial meditative tradition persists in the Euro-American cultural imagination. This volume calls attention to the vast range of "stuff" in Zen by highlighting the material abundance and iconic range of the Soto, Rinzai, and Obaku sects in Japan. Chapters on beads, bowls, buildings, staffs, statues, rags, robes, and even retail ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • From Chinese Chan to Japanese Zen

    A Remarkable Century of Transmission and Transformation

    by Steven Heine ...
    From Chinese Chan to Japanese Zen investigates the remarkable century that lasted from 1225 to 1325, during which the transformation of the Chinese Chan school of Buddhism into the Japanese Zen sect was successfully completed. Steven Heine reveals how this school of Buddhism, which started half a millennium earlier as a mystical utopian cult for reclusive monks, gained a broad following among ... Read more

    $42.39 CAD

  • Dogen

    Japan’s Original Zen Teacher

    by Steven Heine ...
    Series Book 8 - Lives of the Masters
    An essential introduction to the life, writings, and legacy of one of Japan's most prolific Buddhist masters.The founder of the Soto school of Zen in Japan, Eihei Dogen (1200–1253) is one of the most influential Buddhist teachers of all time. Although Dogen’s writings have reached wide prominence among contemporary Buddhists and philosophers, there is much that remains enigmatic about his life and ... Read more

    $24.79 CAD