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Zen Letters: Teachings of Yuanwu

Zen Letters: Teachings of Yuanwu

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Zen Letters presents the teachings of the great Chinese master Yuanwu (1063–1135) in direct person-to-person lessons, intimately revealing the inner workings of the psychology of enlightenment. These teachings are drawn from letters written by Yuanwu to various fellow teachers, disciples, and lay students—to women as well as men, to people with families and worldly careers as well as monks and nuns, to advanced adepts as well as beginning students. A key figure of Zen history, Yuanwu is best known as the author of The Blue Cliff Record. His letters, here in English for the first time, are among the treasures of Zen literature.

Yuanwu

Author Bio

Yuanwu (Yuan Wu K'e Ch'in, 1063–1135) was a Ch'an Buddhist monk of the Lin-chi (Jp. Rinzai) school whose work led to the completion of the Blue Cliff Record (Pi Yen Lu) following prior efforts by Hsueh Tou Ch'ung Hsien.

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J. C. Cleary, Translator

Author Bio

J. C. Cleary (1947–2023) held a Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University. He translated several books of Zen literature, including Zen Dawn.

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Thomas Cleary

Thomas Cleary, Translator

Author Bio

Dr. Thomas Cleary (1949–2021), one of the most celebrated translators of spiritual classics into English, earned a PhD in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University and a JD from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. He is the translator of over seventy volumes of Buddhist, Taoist, Confucian, and Islamic texts from Sanskrit, Chinese, Japanese, Pali, and Arabic.

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Zen Letters: Teachings of Yuanwu

Yuanwu

Zen Letters: Teachings of Yuanwu

$17.95 USD