Bone of Space: Poems by Zen Master Seung Sahn

by Sungsan, Sungsan Tae Sonsa, Seung Sahn

Book Overview

Zen Master Seung Sahn is the first Korean Zen Master to live and teach in the West. After becoming disenchanted with academics and then radical politics as ways to help people understand life, he turned to Buddhism. Given transmission at the age of 22 by the famous Zen Master Ko Bong, Seung Sahn became the youngest Zen Master in Korea. After three years of silence, he worked to revitalize Korean Buddhism and became the abbot of five temples in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0942795067
• ISBN13: 9780942795066
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Primary Point Press
• Length: 130 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Zen Poetry at it's best!

This collection of poetry is one of the best published by a living Master. Blending Zen, and the ancient style of teaching through prose, this book is about the 20th Century and not some distant place long ago. Zen Master Seung Sahn's simple style and the 'bone' of the poetry help the reader return to this very moment. For Zen practitioners as well as poetry enthusiasts this will be a tresured possesion as well as an insightful guide to living in this moment.