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SAMURAI ZEN: The Warrior Koans
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SAMURAI ZEN: The Warrior Koans Paperback - 2003 - 2nd Edition

by Leggett, Trevor

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United Kingdom: Routledge, 2003. Paperback. Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. All the previously unknown Koan riddles presented here were gathered and translated from the secret temple records of thirteenth-century Japan. Routledge, London, UK 2003. 216pp pb fine
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  • Title SAMURAI ZEN: The Warrior Koans
  • Author Leggett, Trevor
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 2nd
  • Edition 2
  • Condition Used - Fine
  • Pages 218
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge, United Kingdom
  • Date 2003
  • Features Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 14592
  • ISBN 9780415284653 / 0415284651
  • Weight 0.56 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.78 x 6.36 x 0.67 in (19.76 x 16.15 x 1.70 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Buddhist
  • Library of Congress subjects Koan
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002036938
  • Dewey Decimal Code 294.344

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Samurai Zen brings together 100 of the rare riddles which represent the core spiritual discipline of Japan's ancient Samurai tradition. Dating from thirteenth-century records of Japan's Kamakura temples, and traditionally guarded with a reverent secrecy, they reflect the earliest manifestation of pure Zen in Japan. Created by Zen Masters for their warrior pupils, the Japanese Koans use incidents from everyday life - a broken tea-cup, a water-jar, a cloth - to bring the warrior pupils of the Samurai to the Zen realization. Their aim is to enable a widening of consciouness beyond the illusions of the limited self, and a joyful inspiration in life - a state that has been compared to being free under a blue sky after imprisonment.

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Regent Tokiyori founded the great temple of Kenchoji for the teaching of Buddhism, but the temple soon could not accommodate all the many warriors who became students (nyudo) in order to enter the Buddhist path and give all their free time to it.

About the author

Trevor Leggett was the former head of Japanese Service of the BBC in the UK

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