Opening a Mountain: Koans of the Zen Masters.(Book Review)

From: Philosophy East and West | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Opening a Mountain: Koans of the Zen Masters. By Steven Heine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv+200. Hardcover $25.00. Paper $17.95.

On the beautifully designed cover of Steven Heine's Opening a Mountain: Koans of the Zen Masters, we gaze at one of the masterworks of Chinese painting, Kuo Hsi's Early Spring, painted in the late eleventh century at what may have been the pinnacle of the Chinese Zen monastic tradition. Allowing our eyes to wander up, down, and across this truly great work, we spot the curved roof of a Buddhist monastery gorgeously nestled in a ...

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