This important book brings together three long-lost texts, the earliest known writings on Zen. "Records of the Teachers and Students of the Lanka" presents a complete set of biographies of the Zen patriarchs. "Bodhidharma's Treatise on Contemplating Mind-- "written in the form of a dialogue between the first Zen patriarch, Bodhidharma, and his successor, Huke-- views all the various practices of the Bodhisattva path from the perspective of cultivating...