The Gateless Barrier: The Wu-Men Kuan (Mumonkan)
ISBN-13:
9780865474420
ISBN-10:
0865474427
Author:
Robert Aitken
Publication date:
1991
Publisher:
North Point Press
Format:
Paperback
332 pages
Category:
Hinduism
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ISBN-13:
9780865474420
ISBN-10:
0865474427
Author:
Robert Aitken
Publication date:
1991
Publisher:
North Point Press
Format:
Paperback
332 pages
Category:
Hinduism
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The Gateless Barrier: The Wu-Men Kuan (Mumonkan) (ISBN-13: 9780865474420 and ISBN-10: 0865474427), written by authors
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The Gateless Barrier is generally acknowledged to be the fundamental koan collection in the literature of Zen. Gathered together by Wu-men (Mumon), a thirteenth-century master of the Lin-chi (Rinzai) school, it is composed of forty-eight koans, or cases, each accompanied by a brief comment and poem by Wu-men.
Robert Aitken, one of the premier American Zen masters, has translated Wu-men's text, supplementing the original with his own commentary -- the first such commentary by a Western master -- making the profound truths of Zen Buddhism accessible to serious contemporary students and relevant to current social concerns.
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