Gateless Barrier - by Zenkai Shibayama (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>For more than seven centuries the <i>Mumonkan</i> has been used in Zen monasteries to train monks and to encourage the religious development of lay Buddhists. It contains forty- eight <i>koans</i>, or spiritual riddles, that must be explored during the course of Zen training. Shibayama Zenkei <i> </i>(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. <i>The Gateless Barrier </i> remains an essential text for all serious students of Buddhism.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Born in 1894 and ordained a Zen monk in 1908, Zenkei Shibayama was Zen Master of the important Nanzenji Zen Monastery in Kyoto for twenty-five years. He was a professor at Hanazono and Otani universities, the author of a number of works in Japanese, and the chief abbot of the Nanzenji Organization of some five hundred Rinzai Zen temples in Japan. Shibayama Roshi died in 1974.
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