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Overview
The Roaring, Stream: A New Zen Reader is a groundbreaking, immensely readable anthology drawn From the vast corpus of Ch'an and Zen Buddhist literature. It offers readers a tour through more than a millennium of writing, presenting one masterpiece after another in chronological progression. "You can dip into the waters of this stream, again and again, at any point Finding refreshment and perspective, " notes Robert Aitken in his introduction. "A year From now you can dip in again and find treasures that were not at all evident the First time." From lectures to letters, brief poems to extended disquisitions, this collection is an ideal point of entry For newcomers to the Zen tradition, and an essential sourcebook For those who are already " on the way."
"Now the masterpieces of Zen Buddhist writing are availa6le in a single volume," applauds Library Journal. "[This] will be the standard introduction to Zen Buddhism For years to come."
Synopsis
The Roaring, Stream: A New Zen Reader is a groundbreaking, immensely readable anthology drawn From the vast corpus of Ch'an and Zen Buddhist literature. It offers readers a tour through more than a millennium of writing, presenting one masterpiece after another in chronological progression. "You can dip into the waters of this stream, again and again, at any point Finding refreshment and perspective, " notes Robert Aitken in his introduction. "A year From now you can dip in again and find treasures that were not at all evident the First time." From lectures to letters, brief poems to extended disquisitions, this collection is an ideal point of entry For newcomers to the Zen tradition, and an essential sourcebook For those who are already " on the way."
"Now the masterpieces of Zen Buddhist writing are availa6le in a single volume," applauds Library Journal. "[This] will be the standard introduction to Zen Buddhism For years to come."
Publishers Weekly
The popularity of Zen Buddhism in the West has produced a variety of manuals from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance to The Zen of Bowel Movements: A Spiritual Approach to Constipation that explain ways to incorporate the practice of Zen into everyday life. Now, in this single volume, Foster and Shoemaker have gathered the great masterpieces of Zen Buddhist writing from China and Japan. The first section of this marvelous anthology focuses on the writings of Chinese Ch'an Buddhism, out of which the Zen Buddhism of Japan grew, and the second section gathers the writings of students and teachers of Zen Buddhism. Included in this wide-ranging collection are poems, lectures and essays from figures as diverse as Bodhidharma, the Indian Buddhist monk responsible for introducing Buddhism, tea and meditation into China; the great Japanese roshi Dogen; and Basho, the Japanese poet whose style reflects the traditional principles of Zen. A helpful introductory essay placing individual writers in historical context accompanies each selection, and the editors have provided graceful new translations of the primary texts. Because of its scope and beauty, this collection should become the standard against which all other collections of Zen Buddhist writings are measured (Aug.)