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Zen Sourcebook: Traditional Documents from China, Korea, and Japan.
Zen Sourcebook: Traditional Documents from China, Korea, and Japan. Edited by STEPHEN ADDISS, with Stanley Lombardo and Judith Roitman. Indianapolis: HACKETT PUBLISHING COMPANY, 2008. Pp. xxxii + 275. $39.95 (cloth); $12.95 (paper).
Despite the plethora of popular and scholarly books on the Chan/Zen tradition(s) of East Asian Buddhism, there is a regrettable dearth of comprehensive and reliable readers or sourcebooks that introduce a broad range of classical texts in a manner that makes them accessible to a general audience of non-specialists. This book tries to address that gap in the available literature by presenting a reasonably comprehensive yet handy reader that contains selections from a broad range of texts composed...See the full content of this document
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