The Blue Cliff Records: The Hekigan Roku ~R.D.M Shaw ~100 stories of Zen masters of ancient China ~Chan Buddhism in Japan

Title: The Blue Cliff Records: The Hekigan Roku: containing one hundred stories of Zen masters of ancient China

Author: Translated and Edited with Commentary by R. D. M Shaw. [Foreword by Christmas Humphreys]

Description: First Edition. Forest-green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Spine ends lightly pushed, else fine. Light toning to pages. Interior is clean and unmarked, pages crisp. Dust jacket price clipped; showing some light edgewear, mostly to top edge of the front panel; in an archival mylar sleeve. 299 pages.

This collection of typically difficult Zen stories was compiled about A.D. 1000 by the abbot of a Chinese temple of the Chan (Japanese Zen) School of Buddhism. To each numbered story he added his own equally enigmatic Appreciatory Word. About a century later, a succeeding abbot added his own Introductory Words. To these the translator, who spent fifteen years at the task, added his won interpretation, based, however, on the commentary and writings of well-known Japanese scholars of Buddhism.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Very Good+

Publisher: Michael Jsoeph
Place: London
Year: 1961

Keywords: Zen stories, Chan Buddhism, Zen, Zen Buddhism,