- Book Review: Americanized Buddhism
- Book Review: Americanized Buddhism By JOSEPH S. O'LEARY ZEN QUESTIONS: Zazen, Dogen, and the Spirit of Creative Inquiry, by Taigen Dan Leighton. Wisdom Publications, 2011, 312 pp., $17.95 (paperback) These essays and Dharma talks are meant to guide practitioners of Soto Zen meditation. The author is in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, author of "Zen Min...
- Korean Temple Motifs: Beautiful Symbols of the Buddhist Faith
translator : Timothy V. Atkinson
Publisher : Dolbegae Publishers ( 19, December, 2005 )
At large temple sites, there are usually small and large gatehouses from the main entrance to the temple building, with bells, pagodas, temples, images of Buddha and various decorative emblems seen here and there. Their purpose is not just limited to decorating the temple but they aspire to praise the virtuous deeds of Buddha and realize his ideal world filled with goodness an...
- Empty house : Zen masters and temples of Korea
Publisher : Eastward Publication ( December, 2003 )
Empty House explores the origins of Korean Zen and traces its history as a living tradition up to the present day. Whilst Chinese Zen was effectively wiped out by the Cultural Revolution, the Korean tradition maintains the original vigorous teaching style of the Lin Chi school...
- Korean Temples & Food
Publisher : Yeinart Co. Ltd. ( 2002 )
Buddhism in its original form was a highly disciplined philosophic formula for personal liberation through reunification of worldly desires, thus preventing rebirth in the endless cycle of existences, and bringing about calmness and release into Nirvana, or ultimate reality. Temple Food is a cultural method of teaching Buddhism. The most enjoyable way to meet another culture i...
- Smiles of the Baby Buddha
translator : Charles M. Mueller
Publisher : Changbi Publishers, inc ( December 1, 1999 )
The Smiles of the Baby Buddha has been published with the idea that it might serve as a guide to both the beauty and the faults of Kyŏngju, and by extension, an introduction to Korean culture. This book also serves as a good guidebook for foreigners visiting Kyŏngju, and foreigners who come to understand Korean culture and the innate spirit of the People.Whereas many works on ...
- The Zen Monastic Experience
Publisher : Princeton University Press ( November 29, 1993 )
From Kirkus ReviewsA myth-shattering foray behind the walls of a Korean Zen Buddhist monastery. The common Western image of Zen as a religion that features unpredictable, iconoclastic teachers ``bullying their students into enlightenment'' is, says Buswell (East Asian Languages and Cultures/UCLA), grossly inaccurate. And he should know, having spent five years as a monk at Son...
