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Language:EnglishPublisher:Scribner Book CompanyISBN-13:9781439155240ISBN-10:1439155240UPC:9781439155240Book Category:Philosophy, ReligionBook Subcategory:Zen, BuddhismBook Topic:Rituals & Practice, ZenSize:8.56 x 5.51 x 0.64 inchesWeight:0.7606Product ID:SC5JC82FYF
Awakening to Zen: The Teachings of Roshi Philip Kapleau
When Roshi Philip Kapleau returned to the United States in 1966, after thirteen years of training in Japan with two of the country's greatest masters of Zen, he "did not come home empty-handed -- he brought us a living word of Zen," Kenneth Kraft has said. The first Westerner fully and naturally at home with Zen, Roshi Kapleau has made it his life's work to translate Zen Buddhism into an American...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Scribner Book CompanyISBN-13:9781439155240ISBN-10:1439155240UPC:9781439155240Book Category:Philosophy, ReligionBook Subcategory:Zen, BuddhismBook Topic:Rituals & Practice, ZenSize:8.56 x 5.51 x 0.64 inchesWeight:0.7606Product ID:SC5JC82FYF
In 1953, recognizing the urgency of spiritual questions in his life, Philip Kapleau quit his successful career in court reporting at the age of forty-two sold his belongings, and bought a one-way ticket from Connecticut to Japan. He intended to pursue Zen practice at a Buddhist monastery, and attain enlightenment. A few years earlier he had been sent to Tokyo as a court reporter for the War...
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