![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Hinton presents this original form of Zen with his trademark clarity and elegance, each chapter exploring in enlightening ways a core Ch’an concept-such as meditation, mind, Buddha, awakening-as it was originally understood and practiced in ancient China. Hinton describes Ch’an as a kind of anti-Buddhism, a radical and wild practice aspiring to a deeply ecological liberation: the integration of individual consciousness with landscape and with a Cosmos seen as harmonious and alive. In China Root, however, David Hinton reveals how Ch’an was in fact a Buddhist-influenced extension of Taoism, China’s native system of spiritual philosophy that was grounded in an earthy and empirically-based vision. This book is also included in our Reader's Guide on The Works of the Chan and Zen Patriarchs where you will find other important Zen classics.Ī beautifully compelling and liberating guide to the original nature of Zen in ancient China by renowned author and translator David Hinton.īuddhism migrated from India to China in the first century C.E., and Ch’an (Japanese: Zen) is generally seen as China’s most distinctive and enduring form of Buddhism. ![]()
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