No-Gate Gateway

No-Gate Gateway
Authors
Hinton, David
Publisher
Shambhala
Tags
philosophy
Date
2018-02-27T00:00:00+00:00
Size
3.89 MB
Lang
en
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A new translation of one of the great koan collectionsby the premier translator of the Chinese classicsthat reveals it to be a literary and philosophical masterwork beyond its association with Chan/Zen.A monk asked: "A dog too has Buddha-nature, no?" And with the master's enigmatic one-word response begins the great No-Gate Gateway (Wu-Men Kuan), ancient China's classic foray into the inexpressible nature of mind and reality. For nearly eight hundred years, this text (also known by its Japanese name, Mumonkan) has been the most widely used koan collection in Zen Buddhismand with its comic storytelling and wild poetry, it is also a remarkably compelling literary masterwork. In his radical new translation, David Hinton places this classic for the first time in the philosophical framework of its native China, in doing so revealing a new way of understanding Zenin which generic "Zen perplexity" is transformed...