12th Century Master
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Anniversary
Author_Trevor Leggett
Buddha Hall
Buddha Tooth Relic
Buddhist monastic education
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chinese
Chinese Zen Master
class
consciousness expansion techniques
Diamond Realm
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Face To Face
Goma Rite
hammer
Head Monk
historical samurai spiritual discipline
IMAI
Japanese koan study
Kamakura period philosophy
master
masters
Muromachi Period
Odd
pupil
Pure Zen
Rinzai Line
Rinzai Sect
Rinzai Temples
Samurai
Samurai Zen
Scriptural Zen
St Master
teachers
training
Tsurugaoka Hachiman Shrine
under
warrior
warrior discipline training
Warrior Zen
Zen Master
Zen meditation practice
Zen Teachers
Zen Training
Product details
- ISBN 9780415284653
- Weight: 400g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 20 Mar 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Trevor Leggett was the former head of Japanese Service of the BBC in the UK
