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Volume Four of 'Classics of Buddhism and Zen ' features several essential works on the practice of Zen koans, including a complete translation of 'Gateless Barrier ,' a classic collection of Zen parables, paradoxes, and teaching stories. Also included is a collection of poetry from the Chinese Buddhist poet Wen-Siang.


The volume includes:
'Transmission of Light: Zen in the Art of Enlightenment '
This first complete modern translation of the classic 'Denkoroku' illustrates how to attain satori.
'Unlocking the Zen Koan '
This translation of the koan classic 'Wumenguan' also includes Cleary's selection of comments by great Chinese Zen masters.
'Original Face: An Anthology of Rinzai Zen '
An anthology of Japanese Rinzai Zen from the thirteenth to the eighteenth centuries.
'Timeless Spring: A Soto Zen Anthology '
Contains sayings, informal talks, and public cases of important Soto Zen masters.
'Zen Antics: 100 Stories of Enlightenment '
Unlike many of the baffling dialogues between Zen masters preserved in koan literature, the stories retold here are pointedly simple but with a richness and subtlety that make them worth reading again and again.
'Record of Things Heard: From the Treasury of the Eye of the True Teaching '
This Zen classic is a collection of talks by the great Japanese Zen Master Dogen, founder of the Soto school.
'Sleepless Nights: Verses for the Wakeful '
Among the greatest masterpieces of the secular Buddhist poetry, these verses mock the folly of tyrants and celebrate the indomitability of life.