Warm and ecumenical in tone, Koun uses the insights of Zen to bring a deeper understanding of faith. Through compelling stories and a systematic approach, he guides the reader through creating and sustaining a lifelong practice. Why practice Zen? What sets Zen apart from religion? What are its different practices? These questions, and more, are examined and answered by Zen Master Koun Yamada, whose Dharma heirs include Robert Aitken, Ruben Habito, and David Loy. Whether a beginner or at the highest level of practice, learn Zen from one of the greatest masters of the twentieth century. Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications, 2015. Both accessible and illuminating, this book explores the continuities between the ways in which Zen was practiced in ancient times, and how it is practiced today in East Asian countries such as Japan, China, Korea, and Vietnam, as well as in the emerging Western Zen tradition. All more than a thousand years old, the manuscripts have sometimes been called the Buddhist Dead Sea Scrolls, and their translation has opened a new window onto the history of Buddhism.
These teachings, titled The Masters and Students of the Lanka, were discovered in a sealed cave on the old Silk Road, in modern Gansu, China, in the early twentieth century. Leading Buddhist scholar Sam van Schaik explores the history and essence of Zen, based on a new translation of one of the earliest surviving collections of teachings by Zen masters. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019. As a result of this growing contact and interest, Zen Buddhism, particularly in its Japanese form, became one of the main pathways by means of which Buddhist cultural forms and philosophical themes - whether Zen in origin or not - have entered Western awareness and become synonymous with Buddhism as such.* Suzuki published between 19 contributed to this growing interest in Zen in the West, as did the interest on the part of beat poets such as Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder. The various books on Zen by Reginald Horace Blyth, Alan Watts, Philip Kapleau and D. It was during the late 1950s and the early 1960s that the number of Westerners without Asian ancestry and with a serious interest in Zen began to reach critical mass. The marked emergence of Zen in American consciousness at the middle of the 20th century resulted in part from increased contact between Americans and Japanese during and after the Second World War with the American occupation of Japan, as well as the development of particularly American forms of Buddhism and of Zen in the internment camps to which Japanese-Americans were sent during wartime. Although it is difficult to trace the precise moment when the West first became aware of Zen as a distinct form of Buddhism, the visit of Soyen Shaku, a Japanese Zen monk, to Chicago during the World Parliament of Religions in 1893 is often pointed to as an event that enhanced the profile of Zen in the Western world. The Prajñāpāramitā literature as well as Madhyamaka thought have also been influential in the shaping of the apophatic and sometimes iconoclastic nature of Zen rhetoric. The teachings of Zen derive from various sources of Mahayana thought, especially Yogachara, the Tathāgatagarbha sutras and the Huayan school, with their emphasis on Buddha-nature, totality, and the Bodhisattva-ideal. As such, it de-emphasizes mere knowledge of sutras and doctrines and favors direct understanding through spiritual practice and interaction with an accomplished teacher. Zen emphasizes rigorous self-control, meditation-practice, insight into the nature of things (Chinese: jianxing, Japanese: kensho, "perceiving the true nature"), and the personal expression of this insight in daily life, especially for the benefit of others.
The term Zen is derived from the Japanese pronunciation of the Middle Chinese word 禪 (Chán), which traces its roots to the Indian practice of dhyāna (Sanskrit: "meditation").
From China, Chan spread south to Vietnam and became Vietnamese Thien, northeast to Korea to become Korean Seon, and east to Japan, becoming Japanese Zen. It was strongly influenced by Taoist philosophy, especially Neo-Taoist thought. Zen Buddhism is a school of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China during the Tang dynasty, then known as the Chan School, and later developed into various schools both in China and abroad.
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