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Adolphson: The Teeth and Claws of the Buddha: Monastic Warriors and Sohei in Japanese History. Paperback 
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  • Teeth and Claws of the Buddha: Monastic Warriors and Sohei in Japanese History. Paperback
  • by Mikael S. Adolphson
  • xvi, 212 pages. 2007


9780824831233 24
Bagot: Zen Judo: A Way of Life. Hardback 
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  • Zen Judo: A Way of Life. Hardback
  • Brian N. Bagot
  • 128 pages, many illustrations, appendices, glossary, index. 1990


978071372052520
Chiba: Sesshu's Long Scroll: A Zen Landscape Journey. Harmonica-folded booklet 
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  • Sesshu's Long Scroll: A Zen Landscape Journey. Harmonica-folded book
  • introduction and commentary by Reiko Chiba
  • 39, harmonica folded, pages, 32 of them illustrated with one long picture
  • 1959, 1989


0804806772
Heine, Wright: The Zen Canon: Understanding the Classic Texts. Paperback 
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  • Zen Canon: Understanding the Classic Texts. Paperback
  • edited by Heine, Steven / Wright, Dale S.
  • xx, 315 pages. 2004
  • Bodhidharma, its first patriarch, reputedly said that Zen Buddhism represents "a special transmission outside the teaching/Without reliance on words and letters." This saying, along with the often perplexing use of language (and silence) by Zen masters, gave rise to the notion that Zen is a "lived religion," based strictly on non-linguistic practice and lacking a substantial canon of sacred texts.


9780195150681935
Holmes, Horioka: Zen Art for Meditation. Paperback 
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  • Zen Art for Meditation. Paperback
  • Stewart W. Holmes & Chimyo Horioka
  • 116 pages. 1979


978080481255910
Kraft: Eloquent Zen. Dalto and Early Japanese Zen. Cloth 
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  • Eloquent Zen. Dalto and Early Japanese Zen. Cloth
  • by Kenneth Kraft
  • i, 268 pages, with 6 illustrations, notes, glossary, bibliography and index. 1992


978082481383334
McCallum: Zenkoji and Its Icon: A Study in Medieval Japanese Religious Art. Cloth 
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  • Zenkoji and Its Icon: A Study in Medieval Japanese Religious Art. Cloth
  • Donald F. McCallum
  • 352 pages. With 1 color illustration, 88 halftones, 5 maps. 1994
  • One of the most significant traditions of image-making in medieval Japanese Buddhist art is based on a large group of gilt-bronze icons representing the Buddha Amida and his two attendant Bodhisattvas. ...


978069103203057a

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Pirsig: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values. Paperback 
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  • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values, Paperback
  • Robert M. Pirsig
  • xiv, 449 pages. 2000
  • A republication of the New Age classic blends ancient and Eastern philosophy and follows a man's cross-country motorcycle trip with his adolescent son during which they explore the pain, joy, and possibilities of life in the modern world


9780060958329
Soho: The Unfettered Mind. Writings of the Zen Master to the Sword Master. Paperback 
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  • Unfettered Mind. Writings of the Zen Master to the Sword Master. Paperback
  • Takuan Soho. Translated by William Scott Wilson
  • 104 pages. 1987. The history of the sword in Japan goes back to antiquity. Zen and its meditative practices also have a long history, but it was not until the rule of the Tokugawa shoguns that the techniques of swordsmanship fused with the spirit of Zen. And if one man can be said to have been the prime mover in this phenomenon, it was none other than Takuan Soho, confidant and religious instructor to an emperor, to a great sword master, and to the heads of the most important sword schools of the time.


9780870118517
Suzuki: Zen Buddhism: Selected Writings of D. T. Suzuki. Paperback 
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  • Zen Buddhism: Selected Writings of D. T. Suzuki. Paperback
  • by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
  • 1996, 2006


978038548349015
Watson: Ryokan: Zen Monk-Poet of Japan. Paperback 
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  • Ryokan: Zen Monk-Poet of Japan. Paperback
  • Burton Watson
  • 127 pages
  • translations of his Japanese poems (waka), with japanese text in Romanized form, plus kanshi, his poems in Chinese


978023104415823
Yiengpruksawan: Hiraizumi. Buddhist Art and Regional Politics in Twelfth-Century Japan. Hardcover 
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  • Hiraizumi. Buddhist Art and Regional Politics in Twelfth-Century Japan. Hardcover.
  • Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan
  • xiv, 263 pages. 1999
  • In 12th-century Japan, the Hiraizumi Fujiwara's filled their city with art in an attempt to claim a religious and political mandate. This study examines the rise of the Hiraizumi Fujiwara, analyzes their construction programme, and traces the strategies by which they tried to legitimate their rule


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