The Zen Canon: Understanding the Classic Texts - ISBN:0195150686

The Zen Canon: Understanding the Classic Texts

Date: 15 April 2011, 14:35

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All in all, this is an interesting and useful scholarly collection of articles. Most of the texts discussed in the articles originated in China (though their reception in Japan and to a lesser degree Korea is not neglected), so a more appropriate title may have been "The Chan Canon" but okay. The claim that the volume includes "learned yet accessible studies" is either deliberately misleading or else, as I suspect, the editors and contributors have been at this biz too long. Undoubtedly learned, yes, but these articles assume a great store of prior familiarity with the Chan/Zen tradition and its history and dive straight into the dry, nitty-gritty textual details; I suspect from personal experience that even the long-time Zen student/scholar will frequently find this book challenging and/or a strain on the attention span. The work is worth it, but don't tackle this little tome lightly.
My primary gripe with the book is this...Given the specialized, academic nature of the contents, it is utterly ridiculous that this book nowhere includes the Chinese characters for all the names, titles, and terms within--put them in parentheses after the transliterated version or put them at the end in a character glossary, I don't care, but put them somewhere. There were several spots where these would have been especially helpful.

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