The Blue-Cliff Record

A once-in-a-generation translation of the definitive Ch’an (Zen) koan collection from preeminent translator David Hinton. Though it carries a reputation for impenetrable paradox, <The Blue-Cliff Record <was not meant to be a teaching tool understood only through long instruction from Zen masters. Rather, it is a finely crafted text intended to create a direct and immediate experience of awakening, a text that insists on the need to trust oneself rather than teachers for insight. Embracing this, Hinton’s translation presents only the original koans and poems, free of the commentaries that usually shroud it. In doing so, he rekindles the provocative and illuminating fire of these one hundred classic koans.

Auteur

David Hinton