The Zen Reader - (Shambhala Pocket Library) by Thomas Cleary (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"This book was previously published as The Pocket Zen reader."--Title page verso<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>A stunning translation of classic Zen teachings conveyed by great Zen Masters.</b> <p/>This book, translated by renowned and respected translator Thomas Cleary, presents a thousand years of Zen teachings for the modern reader in a way that preserves the dynamic flavor of these talks, sayings, and records of heart-to-heart encounters. From the earliest adepts to the last of the great masters, <i>The Zen Reader</i> is a compendium of Zen at its best. Cleary's translation makes these teachings succinct and accessible, allowing the gift of Zen Buddhism to be received by anyone, anywhere.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>One of the foremost contemporary translators of classical Buddhist and Taoist literature.--<i>Library Journal</i> <p/>There is no doubt in my mind that Thomas Cleary is the greatest translator of Buddhist texts from Chinese or Japanese into English of our generation, and that he will be so known by grateful Buddhist practitioners and scholars in future centuries. Single-handedly he has gone a long way toward building the beginnings of a Buddhist canon in English.--Robert A. F. Thurman, <i>Tricycle</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Thomas Cleary holds a PhD in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University and a JD from the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law. He is the translator of over fifty volumes of Buddhist, Taoist, Confucian, and Islamic texts from Sanskrit, Chinese, Japanese, Pali, and Arabic.
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