Gateless Barrier: Zen Comments on the Mumonkan
by Zenkei Shibayama
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For more than seven centuries the Mumonkan has been used in Zen monasteries to train monks and to encourage the religious development of lay Buddhists. It contains forty- eight koans, or spiritual riddles, that must be explored during the course of Zen training. Shibayama Zenkei (1894-1974), an influential Japanese Zen teacher and calligrapher who traveled and lectured throughout the United States in the 60s and 70s, offers his own commentary alongside the classic text. The Gateless Barrier show more remains an essential text for all serious students of Buddhism. show lessTags
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Shibayama provides us a pathway into a dense modus on the way to achieving a certain kind of abiding oneness in life. This book can be read and re-read.
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