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Public Zen, personal Zen : a Buddhist introduction / Peter D. Hershock.

By: Series: Critical issues in world and international historyPublisher: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014]Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 271 pages .)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 144221614X
  • 9781442216143
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Public Zen, personal Zen.DDC classification:
  • 294.3/927 23
LOC classification:
  • BQ9262.3 .H47 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
Zen Origins -- Public Zen -- Personal Zen.
Summary: This deeply informed book introduces the basic teachings and practices of Buddhism and their spread across Asia. Peter D. Hershock explores the history of the enduring Japanese tradition of Zen-from its beginnings as a form of Buddhist thought and practice imported from China to its reinvention in medieval Japan as a force for religious, political, and cultural change to its role in Japan's embrace of modernity. He deftly blends historical detail with the felt experiences of Zen practitioners grappling with the meanings of human suffering, personal freedom, and the integration of s.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Zen Origins -- Public Zen -- Personal Zen.

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This deeply informed book introduces the basic teachings and practices of Buddhism and their spread across Asia. Peter D. Hershock explores the history of the enduring Japanese tradition of Zen-from its beginnings as a form of Buddhist thought and practice imported from China to its reinvention in medieval Japan as a force for religious, political, and cultural change to its role in Japan's embrace of modernity. He deftly blends historical detail with the felt experiences of Zen practitioners grappling with the meanings of human suffering, personal freedom, and the integration of s.

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