The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma (English and Chinese Edition)
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A fifth-century Indian Buddhist monk, Bodhidharma is credited with bringing Zen to China. Although the tradition that traces its ancestry back to him did not flourish until nearly two hundred years after his death, today millions of Zen Buddhists and students of kung fu claim him as their spiritual father. While others viewed Zen practice as a purification of the mind or a stage on the way to perfect enlightenment, Bodhidharma equated Zen with buddhahood and believed that it had a place in everyday life. Instead of telling his disciples to purify their minds, he pointed them to rock walls, to the movements of tigers and cranes,
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Manufacturer: North Point Press
Release date: 1 November 1989
ISBN-10 : 0865473994 | ISBN-13: 9780865473997
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Release date: 1 November 1989
ISBN-10 : 0865473994 | ISBN-13: 9780865473997
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