The Bodhidharma Anthology: The Earliest Records of Zen

by Jeffrey L. Broughton

Book Overview

In the early part of this century, the discovery of a walled-up cave in northwest China led to the retrieval of a lost early Ch'an (Zen) literature of the T'ang dynasty (618-907). One of the recovered Zen texts was a seven-piece collection, the Bodhidharma Anthology . Of the numerous texts attributed to Bodhidharma, this anthology is the only one generally believed to contain authentic Bodhidharma material. Jeffrey L. Broughton provides a reliable...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520219724
• ISBN13: 9780520219724
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"