THE PHILOSOPHICAL LIBRARY'S CONCISE DICTIONARY

SERIES HANDY GUIDES TO THE WISDOM OF THE AGES

Here is a comprehensive A to Z guide to all aspects of Zen practice and teachings, both Chinese and Japanese, Its more than 1,000 entries provide complete explanations of terms and concepts as well as historical information.

This fascinating compendium of Zen philosophy and culture also includes a selected bibliography.

Dharma-Self-nature

Dogen-(1200-1253) One of the great figures in the history of Zen who connected it with the national life of lapan

I-ching The Chinese Book of Changes, a work of divination

Kufu Naturalness in bodily action

Mayko Extra-sensory perceptions that may occur in the carly states of meditation

Nidanas In Buddhism, the chain of twelve causes in the course of a lifetime