The Collected Translations of Thomas Cleary This volume of Classics of Buddhism and Zen contains: "Transmissions of Light: Zen in the Art of Enlightenment" This is the first complete modern translation of the classic Denkoroku illustrates how to attain satori. "Unlocking the Zen Koan" This translation of the koan classic Wumenguan also includes Cleary's selections of comments by great Chinese Zen masters. "Original Face: An Anthology of Rinzai Zen" An anthology of Japanese Rinzai zen from the thirteenth to eighteenth centuries. "Timeless Spring: A Soto Zen Anthology" This anthology contains sayings, informal talks and public cases of important Soto Zen masters. "Zen Antics: 100 Stories of Enlightenment" Unlike many of the baffling dialogues between Zen masters preserved in Koan literature, the stories retold here are pointedly simple but with a richness and subtlety that makes them worth reading again and again. "Record of Things Heard" This Zen classic is a collection of talks by the great Japanese Zen Master Dogen, founder of the Soto school. "Sleepless Nights: Verses for the Wakeful" Among the greatest masterpieces of secular Buddhist poetry, these verses mock the folly of tyrants and celebrate the indomitability of life. Classics of Buddhism, Volume Four, Thomas Cleary, Shambhala Publications, 903 pages, $49.95
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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