The Gateless Barrier: The Wu-Men Kuan (Mumonkan) by Robert Aitken

The Gateless Barrier: The Wu-Men Kuan (Mumonkan)

Robert Aitken

332 pages first pub 1990 (editions)

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The Gateless Barrier is generally acknowledged to be the fundamental koan collection in the literature of Zen. Gathered together by Wu-men (Mumon), a thirteenth-century master of the Lin-chi (Rinzai) school, it is composed of forty-eight koans, or...

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