Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai

Suzuki, Shunryu [1904- 19??]

Published by Univ. of California Press, Berkeley [CA], 1999

About this Item

22x14cm, viii,191 pp., Edited by Mel Weitsman and Michael Wenger. "The 'Sandokai' - a poem by the 8th-century Zen master Sekito Kisen (Ch. Shitou Xiqian) - is the subject of these lectures. Given in 1970 at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, the lectures are an example of a Zen teacher in his prime elucidating a venerated, ancient, and difficult work to his Western students. The poem addresses the question of how the oneness of things and the multiplicity of things coexist (or, as Suzuki Roshi expresses it, "things-as-it-is"). Included with the lectures are his students' questions and his direct answers to them, along with a meditations instruction" - Publisher's description.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai
• Publisher: Univ. of California Press, Berkeley [CA]
• Publication Date: 1999
• Binding: orig. cloth
• Condition: Minor rubbing. VG.
• Seller catalogs:
  • History of Religion