Gateless Barrier: Zen Comments on the Mumonkan by Zenkei Shibayama

Gateless Barrier: Zen Comments on the Mumonkan

Zenkei Shibayama

384 pages first pub 1974 (view editions)

nonfiction religion informative reflective slow-paced
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For more than seven centuries the Mumonkan has been used in Zen monasteries to train monks and to encourage the religious development of lay Buddhists. It contains forty- eight koans, or spiritual riddles, that must be explored during the course o...

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