Opening a Mountain: Koans of the Zen Masters

by Steven Heine

Book Overview

With the growing popularity of Zen Buddhism in the West, virtually everyone knows, or thinks they know, what a koan is: a brief and baffling question or statement that cannot be solved by the logical mind and which, after sustained concentration, can lead to sudden enlightenment. But the truth about koans is both simpler--and more complicated--than this.
In Opening a Mountain, Steven Heine shows that koans, and the questions we associate with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B000OK9IFE
• ISBN13: 9780195174342
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.9"