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Zen Koans by Steven Heine 9780824839734
Booksplease Price: €48.06"What is the sound of one hand clapping?" "Does a dog have Buddha-nature?" These cryptic expressions are among the best-known examples of koans, the confusing, often contradictory sayings that form... -
Zen Masters by Steven Heine 9780195367645
Booksplease Price: €112.61Extending their successful series of collections on Zen Buddhism, Heine and Wright present a fifth volume, on what may be the most important topic of all - Zen Masters. Following two volumes on Zen... -
Zen Koans by Steven Heine 9780824839741
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.05"What is the sound of one hand clapping?" "Does a dog have Buddha-nature?" These cryptic expressions are among the best-known examples of koans, the confusing, often contradictory sayings that form... -
Dogen and Soto Zen by Steven Heine 9780199324866
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €37.95This volume continues the work of a recent collection published in 2012 by Oxford University Press, Dogen: Textual and Historical Studies. It features some of the same outstanding authors as well as... -
Between Two Worlds by Steven Heining 9781619848955
RRP: €6.53Booksplease Price: €6.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619848955Author Steven HeiningFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Gatekeeper PressPublisher... -
Dogen and Soto Zen by Steven Heine 9780199324859
RRP: €157.68Booksplease Price: €130.10This volume continues the work of a recent collection published in 2012 by Oxford University Press, Dogen: Textual and Historical Studies. It features some of the same outstanding authors as well as... -
Dogen: Textual and Historical Studies by Steven Heine 9780199754472
RRP: €56.51Booksplease Price: €34.58In this groundbreaking collection of essays edited by Steven Heine, leading scholars of Buddhism from both sides of the Pacific explore the life and thought of Zen Master Dogen (1200-1253), the... -
Dogen: Japan's Original Zen Teacher by Steven Heine
RRP: €32.13Booksplease Price: €22.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611809800Author Steven HeineFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Shambhala Publications... -
Readings of Dogen's Treasury of the True Dharma Eye by Steven Heine
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €30.00The Treasury of the True Dharma Eye (Shobogenzo) is the masterwork of Dogen (1200-1253), founder of the Soto Zen Buddhist sect in Kamakura-era Japan. It is one of the most important Zen Buddhist... -
The Koan: Texts and Contexts in Zen Buddhism by Steven Heine 9780195117493
RRP: €59.49Booksplease Price: €40.44Koans are enigmatic spiritual formulas used for religious training in the Zen Buddhist tradition. This innovative religious practice is one of the most distinctive elements of this tradition, which... -
Opening a Mountain: Koans of the Zen Masters by Steven Heine 9780195174342
RRP: €60.69Booksplease Price: €43.95With the growing popularity of Zen Buddhism in the West, virtually everyone knows, or thinks they know, what a koan is: a brief and baffling question or statement that cannot be solved by the logical... -
Bargainin' for Salvation: Bob Dylan, a Zen Master? by Steven Heine 9780826429506
Booksplease Price: €32.01This book argues that Dylan actually embraces two radically distinct world views at alternating periods. Throughout his various stages, Dylan's work reveals an affinity with the Zen world view, where... -
Buddhism in the Modern World: Adaptations of an Ancient Tradition by Steven Heine 9780195146981
RRP: €39.85Booksplease Price: €29.31The history of Buddhism has been characterized by an ongoing tension between attempts to preserve traditional ideals and modes of practice and the need to adapt to changing cultural conditions. Many... -
Readings of Dogen's Treasury of the True Dharma Eye by Steven Heine 9780231182287
RRP: €139.23Booksplease Price: €108.84The Treasury of the True Dharma Eye (Shobogenzo) is the masterwork of Dogen (1200-1253), founder of the Soto Zen Buddhist sect in Kamakura-era Japan. It is one of the most important Zen Buddhist... -
Existential and Ontological Dimensions of Time in Heidegger and Dogen by Steven Heine 9780887060014
Booksplease Price: €31.02In a landmark work, Steven Heine establishes the basis and framework for philosophical dialogue between Heidegger's approach to "Being and Time" and Dogen's doctrine of "being-time." Close... -
Zen Ritual: Studies of Zen Theory in Practice by Steven Heine 9780195304671
Booksplease Price: €134.05This volume covers rituals from the early Chan period to modern Japan and key developments that occurred in the Linji/Rinzai and Caodon/Soto schools. It describes how rituals mold the lives of its... -
Zen Classics: Formative Texts in the History of Zen Buddhism by Steven Heine 9780195175264
RRP: €79.73Booksplease Price: €62.32This is a companion volume to The Koan and The Zen Canon, by the same editors. The first volume collected original essays on koan collections, recorded sayings of individual masters, histories of... -
You Can Give an Answer: A Study in Christian Apologetics by Steven Hein 9781945500176
RRP: €5.89Booksplease Price: €4.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945500176Author Steven HeinFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint 1517 PublishingPublisher 1517... -
Zen Ritual: Studies of Zen Buddhist Theory in Practice by Steven Heine 9780195304688
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €36.34When books about Zen Buddhism began appearing in Western languages just over a half-century ago, there was no interest whatsoever in the role of ritual in Zen. Indeed, what attracted Western readers'... -
Xuedou's 100 Odes to Old Cases: A Translation with Commentary by Steven Heine 9780197676561
Booksplease Price: €133.70Xuedou's 100 Odes to Old Cases is recognized as the seminal discourse in Chan Buddhism, one that has exerted significant influence on the way stories of former teachers (guze) have been appreciated... -
Xuedou's 100 Odes to Old Cases: A Translation with Commentary by Steven Heine 9780197676998
Booksplease Price: €25.73Xuedou's 100 Odes to Old Cases is recognized as the seminal discourse in Chan Buddhism, one that has exerted significant influence on the way stories of former teachers (guze) have been appreciated... -
Tongxuan's 100 Chan Questions: To Speak Without Speaking Steven Heine 9780197843864
Booksplease Price: €81.29Tongxuan's 100 Chan Questions is a significant Zen Buddhist koan collection. It includes dialogues about philosophy and religious practice expressed through paradoxical sayings and puzzling poems... -
Like Cats and Dogs: Contesting the Mu Koan in Zen Buddhism by Steven Heine 9780199837281
RRP: €163.63Booksplease Price: €139.71A koan is a narrative or dialogue used to provoke the "great doubt" and test a student's progress in Zen practice. The Mu Koan consists of a brief conversation in which a monk asks master Zhaozhou... -
Like Cats and Dogs: Contesting the Mu Koan in Zen Buddhism by Steven Heine 9780199837304
RRP: €49.37Booksplease Price: €35.75A koan is a narrative or dialogue used to provoke the "great doubt" and test a student's progress in Zen practice. The Mu Koan consists of a brief conversation in which a monk asks master Zhaozhou... -
Wisdom within Words: An Annotated Translation of Dogen's Chinese-Style Poetry by Steven Heine
RRP: €116.62Booksplease Price: €104.27Wisdom within Words is the first complete bilingual edition and annotated translation of the poetry collection entitled Kuchugen, which features 150 Chinese-style verses (kanshi) written by Dogen... -
The Theory and Practice of Zen Buddhism: A Festschrift in Honor of Steven Heine by Charles S. Prebish 9789811682964
RRP: €154.69Booksplease Price: €133.42This book brings together an impressive group of scholars to critically engage with a wide-ranging and broad perspective on the historical and contemporary phenomenon of Zen. The structure of the... -
From Chinese Chan to Japanese Zen: A Remarkable Century of Transmission and Transformation by Steven Heine 9780190637491
RRP: €145.78Booksplease Price: €117.36This work provides a survey and critical investigation of the remarkable century that lasted from 1225 to 1325, during which the transformation of the Chinese Chan school of Buddhism into the... -
The Theory and Practice of Zen Buddhism: A Festschrift in honor of Steven Heine by Charles S. Prebish 9789811682858
RRP: €154.69Booksplease Price: €133.42This book brings together an impressive group of scholars to critically engage with a wide-ranging and broad perspective on the historical and contemporary phenomenon of Zen. The structure of the... -
From Chinese Chan to Japanese Zen: A Remarkable Century of Transmission and Transformation by Steven Heine 9780190637507
RRP: €54.13Booksplease Price: €39.27This work provides a survey and critical investigation of the remarkable century that lasted from 1225 to 1325, during which the transformation of the Chinese Chan school of Buddhism into the... -
Chan Rhetoric of Uncertainty in the Blue Cliff Record: Sharpening a Sword at the Dragon Gate by Steven Heine 9780199397778
RRP: €57.11Booksplease Price: €43.22This book provides an in-depth textual and literary analysis of the Blue Cliff Record (Chinese Biyanlu, Japanese Hekiganroku), a seminal Chan/Zen Buddhist collection of commentaries on one hundred... -
Zen Skin, Zen Marrow: Will the Real Zen Buddhism Please Stand Up? by Steven Heine 9780195326772
RRP: €44.61Booksplease Price: €34.00Since Zen Buddhism first captivated the attention of Western seekers the dominant discourse about this sect has been romantic, idealistic, and utopian. The essence of Zen has been described as... -
Did Dogen Go to China?: What He Wrote and When He Wrote It by Steven Heine 9780195305920
RRP: €91.63Booksplease Price: €73.53Dogen (1200-1253), the founder of the Soto Zen sect in Japan, is especially known for introducing to Japanese Buddhism many of the texts and practices that he discovered in China. Heine reconstructs... -
Chan Rhetoric of Uncertainty in the Blue Cliff Record: Sharpening a Sword at the Dragon Gate by Steven Heine 9780199397761
RRP: €160.65Booksplease Price: €130.10This book provides an in-depth textual and literary analysis of the Blue Cliff Record (Chinese Biyanlu, Japanese Hekiganroku), a seminal Chan/Zen Buddhist collection of commentaries on one hundred... -
Flowers Blooming on a Withered Tree: Giun's Verse Comments on Dogen's Treasury of the True Dharma Eye by Steven Heine
RRP: €121.98Booksplease Price: €87.06This book provides a translation and critical bilingual edition on the Verse Comments on the Treasury of the True Dharma Eye. The Verse Comments by Giun (1253-1333), the fifth abbot of Eiheiji... -
White Collar Zen: Using Zen Principles to Overcome Obstacles and Achieve Your Career Goals by Steven Heine 9780195160031
RRP: €26.76Booksplease Price: €23.47It is said that in traditional Japan the samurai embraced Zen because it helped them to be fearless in adversity, to act quickly and decisively, and to keep focused on their ultimate goal. In White... -
Sacred High City, Sacred Low City: A Tale of Religious Sites in Two Tokyo Neighborhoods by Steven Heine 9780199861446
RRP: €43.42Booksplease Price: €35.75In Sacred High City, Sacred Low City, Steven Heine argues that lived religion in Japan functions as an integral part of daily life; any apparent lack of interest masks a fundamental commitment to... -
Zen Masters by Dale Wright 9780195367652
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €36.34Extending their successful series of collections on Zen Buddhism, Heine and Wright present a fifth volume, on what may be the most important topic of all - Zen Masters. Following two volumes on Zen... -
The Zen Canon: Understanding the Classic Texts by Dale S. Wright 9780195150674
Booksplease Price: €65.40Bodhidharma, 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... -
Voyager from Xanadu: Rabban Sauma and the First Journey from China to the West by Morris Rossabi 9780520262379
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €25.47Toward the end of the thirteenth century, at about the time Marco Polo was being received by the great Khubilai Khan, a Nestorian Christian monk from China called Rabban Sauma was making the reverse... -
Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, 2002, Volume 49: Cross-Cultural Differences in Perspectives on the Self by Nebraska Symposium 9780803213333
Booksplease Price: €57.35Cross-Cultural Difference in Perspectives on the Self features the latest research in a dynamic area of inquiry and practice. Considered in these pages are cross-cultural differences in the idea of...