Cypress trees in the garden : the second generation of Zen teaching in North America
Sumeru Press, Richmond Hill, ON, 2015. 1st edition. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #428308
ISBN: 9781896559261
Physical Description; 498 pages ; 23 cm. Summary; Between March 2013 and September 2014, McDaniel traveled from San Francisco to Portland, Maine, from Montreal to Albuquerque, interviewing 75 prominent Zen teachers and their senior students. The result is a book which describes the way in which, like the Chinese and Japanese before them, North Americans have taken an Indian tradition which pre-dates Christianity and reformed it into something uniquely their own. Chapters on teachers in the Rinzai, Soto, and Sanbo Zen traditions provide a strikingly honest portrait of contemporary Zen teaching, practice, and social engagement in the United States and Canada. Contents; Author's note - Prologue - Three Abbots - Three Oshos - Shinge Roko Sherry Chayat - Genjo Marinello - eshu Martin - Shodo Harada and Enso House - Three Sanbo Zen teachers - John Tarrant - Joan Sutherland - James Ford - Three boundless way teachers - Bernie Glassman - John Daido Loori - Jan Chozen Bays - Gerry Shishin Wick - Two Catholic priests - Bodhin Kjolhede - Sunyana Graef - Taigen Henderson - Mitra Bishop - Three at the Springwater Center for Meditative Inquiry - Dosho Port - Two teachers in the Kwan Um School of Zen - Three at Blue Cliff - Epilogue - Postscript - Acknowledgments - Notes - Glossary - About the author.Subjects ; Biographies. Buddhist monks. Buddhist monks United States Biography. History. United States. Zen Buddhism. Zen Buddhism United States History. Zen Buddhists. Zen Buddhists United States Biography.
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