The Spirit of Zen Audiobook (Free)

An interesting introduction to Zen Buddhism, featuring a brand-new English translation of 1 of the initial Zen texts

Leading Buddhist scholar Sam van Schaik explores the history and essence of Zen, predicated on a new translation of one of the initial surviving collections of teachings by Zen masters. These teachings, entitled The Masters and Students of the Lanka, were found out in a sealed cave for the aged Silk Street, in modern Gansu, China, in the first twentieth century. All greater than a thousand years old, the manuscripts have sometimes been called the Buddhist Deceased Sea Scrolls, and their translation provides opened a fresh window onto the history of Buddhism.

Both accessible and illuminating, this reserve explores the continuities between your ways in which Zen was practiced in ancient occasions, and how it is practiced today in East Asian countries such as Japan, China, Korea, and Vietnam, aswell as with the emerging Western Zen tradition.