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Loading... The Three Pillars of Zen: Teaching, Practice, and Enlightenmentby Philip Kapleau
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  iayork | Aug 9, 2009 |  This is classic and worth of reading, but can be confusing if you haven't experienced rigorous zen training. (  ) beeswax | Sep 13, 2008 | Moved to the Rochester area & first learned about roshi Kapleau when I read his obit in the local paper. My brother picked up this older edition for me before it was reprinted, and also signed us up for a day-long meditation session at the Rochester Zen Center. This is by far the most useful book I've yet read about zen. katefear | Aug 31, 2007 | I first read Roshi Philip Kapleau book on the summer of 1980. I feel it is still one of the most informative books wriiten on Zen Buddhism. I am sure it must be considered a classic by now. I find myself pulling this book off my shelf every few years and re-reading it. I feel that it is one of the few books written that introduce westerner's to the journey along the road of zen. (  ) hermit | Aug 22, 2007 | This is a tad dated. It was written on the front end of the buddhist emergence in America, and Kapleau seems scared to try to place it in an American or Western context. But still a good book. (  ) Arctic-Stranger | Mar 23, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0385260938, Paperback)Through explorations of the three pillars of Zen--teaching, practice, and enlightenment--Roshi Philip Kapleau presents a comprehensive overview of the history and discipline of Zen Buddhism. An established classic, this 35th anniversary edition features new illustrations and photographs, as well as a new afterword by Sensei Bodhin Kjolhede, who has succeeded Philip Kapleau as spiritual director of the Rochester Zen Center, one of the oldest and most influential Zen centers in the United States.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:01 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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convincing in its easily readable exposition of Zen BR> Buddhism, it's methods and goals. Practices of Japanese
Zen masters, both modern and historic,
are set forth as they were actually spoken to Zen classes
in Japanese temples. It is easily the best book I have read on meditation generally or Zen specifically