Samurai Zen: The Warrior Koans

by Trevor Leggett

Overview

Samurai Zen brings together 100 of the rare riddles which represent the core spiritual discipline of Japan's ancient Samurai tradition. Dating from thirteenth-century records of Japan's Kamakura temples, and traditionally guarded with a reverent secrecy, they reflect the earliest manifestation of pure Zen in Japan. Created by Zen Masters for their warrior pupils, the Japanese Koans use incidents from everyday life - a broken tea-cup, a water-jar, a cloth - to bring the warrior pupils of the Samurai to the Zen realization. Their aim is to enable a widening of consciouness beyond the illusions of the limited self, and a joyful inspiration in life - a state that has been compared to being free under a blue sky after imprisonment.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134452798
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/02/2003
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	216
File size:	865 KB

About the Author

Trevor Leggett was the former head of Japanese Service of the BBC in the UK

Table of Contents

Introduction, Preface, Acknowledgments, Ima Fukuzan’s Introduction to Shonan-Katto-Roku, Extracts from Imai Fukuzan’s Introduction to Warrior Zen, Kamakura Koans, Index of Chinese Characters