The Path to Bodhidharma - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Path to Bodhidharma write by Shodo Harada. This book was released on 2000. The Path to Bodhidharma available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Harada Roshi guides us along The Path to Bodhidharma, skillfully clarifying our understanding of what Bodhidharma called the four all-encompassing practices: requiting animosity, accepting circumstance, craving nothing, and living in accord with the Dharma."--BOOK JACKET.
The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma write by Bodhidharma. This book was released on 2009-11-01. The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A fifth-century Indian Buddhist monk, Bodhidharma is credited with bringing Zen to China. Although the tradition that traces its ancestry back to him did not flourish until nearly two hundred years after his death, today millions of Zen Buddhists and students of kung fu claim him as their spiritual father. While others viewed Zen practice as a purification of the mind or a stage on the way to perfect enlightenment, Bodhidharma equated Zen with buddhahood and believed that it had a place in everyday life. Instead of telling his disciples to purify their minds, he pointed them to rock walls, to the movements of tigers and cranes, to a hollow reed floating across the Yangtze. This bilingual edition, the only volume of the great teacher's work currently available in English, presents four teachings in their entirety. "Outline of Practice" describes the four all-inclusive habits that lead to enlightenment, the "Bloodstream Sermon" exhorts students to seek the Buddha by seeing their own nature, the "Wake-up Sermon" defends his premise that the most essential method for reaching enlightenment is beholding the mind. The original Chinese text, presented on facing pages, is taken from a Ch'ing dynasty woodblock edition.
Tracking Bodhidharma
Tracking Bodhidharma - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tracking Bodhidharma write by Andy Ferguson. This book was released on 2012-04-12. Tracking Bodhidharma available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The life of Bodhidharma, the founder of Zen Buddhism, has, with the passing of time, been magnified to the scale of myth, turning history into the stuff of legend. Known as the First Patriarch, Bodhidharma brought Zen from South India into China in 500 CE, changing the country forever. In Tracking Bodhidharma, Andrew Ferguson recreates the path of Bodhidharma, traveling through China to the places where the First Patriarch lived and taught. This sacred trail takes Ferguson deep into ancient China, and allows him to explore the origins of Chan [Zen] Buddhism, the cultural aftermath that Bodhidharma left in his wake, and the stories of a man who shaped a civilization. Tracking Bodhidharma offers a previously unheard perspective on the life of Zen's most important religious leader, while simultaneously showing how that history is relevant to the rapidly developing super–power that is present–day China. By placing Zen Buddhism within the country's political landscape, Ferguson presents the religion as a counterpoint to other Buddhist sects, a catalyst for some of the most revolutionary moments in China's history, and as the ancient spiritual core of a country that is every day becoming more an emblem of the modern era.
Morning Dewdrops of the Mind
Morning Dewdrops of the Mind - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Morning Dewdrops of the Mind write by Shodo H. Roshi. This book was released on 1993. Morning Dewdrops of the Mind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this concise collection of essays, Shodo Harada Roshi brings zen to life. Reflecting on current events and the state of society, he applies zen's direct and simple teachings to the benefit of the reader.
The Bodhidharma Anthology
The Bodhidharma Anthology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Bodhidharma Anthology write by Jeffrey L. Broughton. This book was released on 2023-09-01. The Bodhidharma Anthology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the early part of this century, the discovery of a walled-up cave in northwest China led to the retrieval of a lost early Ch'an (Zen) literature of the T'ang dynasty (618-907). One of the recovered Zen texts was a seven-piece collection, the Bodhidharma Anthology. Of the numerous texts attributed to Bodhidharma, this anthology is the only one generally believed to contain authentic Bodhidharma material. Jeffrey L. Broughton provides a reliable annotated translation of the Bodhidharma Anthology along with a detailed study of its nature, content, and background. His work is especially important for its rendering of the three Records, which contain some of the earliest Zen dialogues and constitute the real beginnings of Zen literature. The vivid dialogues and sayings of Master Yuan, a long-forgotten member of the Bodhidharma circle, are the hallmark of the Records. Master Yuan consistently criticizes reliance on the Dharma, on teachers, on meditative practice, and on scripture, all of which lead to self-deception and confusion, he says. According to Master Yuan, if one has spirit and does not seek anything, including the teachings of Buddhism, then one will attain the quietude of liberation. The boldness in Yuan's utterances prefigures much of the full-blown Zen tradition we recognize today. Broughton utilizes a Tibetan translation of the Bodhidharma Anthology as an informative gloss on the Chinese original. Placing the anthology within the context of the Tun-huang Zen manuscripts as a whole, he proposes a new approach to the study of Zen, one that concentrates on literary history, a genealogy of texts rather than the usual genealogy of masters.
