Bodhidharma - The Zen Teachings - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: A fifth - century Indian Buddhist monk Bodhidharma is credited with bringing Zen to China. Although the tradition that traces its ancestry back to him did not flourish until nearly two hundred years after his death today millions of Zen Buddhists and students of kung fu claim him as their spiritual father. While others viewed Zen practice as a purification of the mind or a stage on the way to perfect enlightenment Bodhidharma equated Zen with buddhahood and believed that it had a place in everyday life. Instead of telling his disciples to purify their minds he pointed them to rock walls to the movements of tigers and cranes to a hollow reed floating across the Yangtze. This bilingual edition the only volume of the great teacher's work currently available in English presents four teachings in their entirety. " Outline of Practice" describes the four all - inclusive habits that lead to enlightenment the " Bloodstream Sermon" exhorts students to seek the Buddha by seeing their own nature the " Wake - up Sermon" defends his premise that the most essential method for reaching enlightenment is beholding the mind. The original Chinese text presented on facing pages is taken from a Ch'ing dynasty woodblock edition.
Title: The Zen Teachings
Author(s): Bodhidharma
Publisher: North Point Press
Barcode: 9780865473997
Pages: 144 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 11/1/1989
Category: Zen Buddhism