Awakening to Zen: The Teachings of Roshi Philip Kapleau

Kapleau, Philip; Young-Eisendrath Ph.D., Polly [Editor]; Martin, Rafe [Editor];

ISBN 10: 1570628068 / ISBN 13: 9781570628061

Published by Shambhala, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Awakening to Zen: The Teachings of Roshi Philip Kapleau
• Publisher: Shambhala
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1570628068
• ISBN 13: 9781570628061
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 11 ounces

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Synopsis

This comprehensive volume of writings and lectures spans thirty-two years of this popular teacher's career, from 1964 to 1996. Topics include Zen training and practice; Buddhist ethics; illness, death, and dying; and Zen in America. Roshi Philip Kapleau underwent thirteen years of formal training in Japan with two of Japan's most noted Zen masters, Harada Roshi and Yasutani Roshi. Roshi Kapleau returned to the United States in 1966 and has made it his life's work to translate Zen Buddhism into an American idiom.

About the Author

Philip Kapleau's classic Three Pillars of Zen has sold an estimated five hundred thousand copies. He is the author of Awakening to Zen, Zen: Merging of East and West, The Wheel of Life and Death, and The Zen of Living and Dying. Kapleau was the first Westerner to be ordained a roshi. He established the Rochester Zen Center in 1966. He lives in Rochester, New York.