Original Nature: Zen Comments on the Sixth Patriarch's Platform Sutra

Original Nature is the historic translation and commentary on the Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch of Chinese Zen by America's first Zen Master, Sokei-an Sasaki (1882-1945). Finally available, 75 years after its completion, Sokei-an considered the Sixth Patriach's message an essential foundation for the transmission of Zen to America

"I think the Sixth Patriarch never dreamed that his record... would be explained to Westerners in New York... I feel that I am in a valley between huge mountains, and that the ancient simple minded woodcutters, fisherman, monks and nuns who are living in the mountains have come to the place where they always make their gatherings, and that I am one of them now..."

Author: Sokei-An Sasaki
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 04/18/2012
Pages: 444
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.67lbs
Size: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781462053179

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