D?gen (1200-1253), the founder of the S?t? Zen sect in Japan, is especially known for introducing...

In Sacred High City, Sacred Low City, Steven Heine argues that lived religion in Japan functions ...

Koans are enigmatic spiritual formulas used for religious training in the Zen Buddhist tradition....

In this groundbreaking collection of essays edited by Steven Heine, leading scholars of Buddhism ...

The history of Buddhism has been characterized by an ongoing tension between attempts to preserve...

With the growing popularity of Zen Buddhism in the West, virtually everyone knows, or thinks they...

Extending their successful series of collections on Zen Buddhism, Heine and Wright present a fift...

This is a companion volume to The Koan and The Zen Canon, by the same editors. The first volume c...

When books about Zen Buddhism began appearing in Western languages just over a half-century ago, ...

Koans are dialogues that stand at the center of Zen Buddhist literature and are often used to pro...

Since Zen Buddhism first captivated the attention of Western seekers the dominant discourse about...

Zen's Chinese Heritage traces twenty-five generations of inlightened Buddhist teachers, supplemen...