Author: Hui-K'Ai; Author: Translator Cleary, Thomas
Edition #2; Paperback
213 pages
Published: December 1997
North Atlantic Books
ISBN: 155643247X

The acclaimed translator of such Eastern classics as The Art of War and the Dhammapada presents a new translation of 13th-century Zen stories. Regarded as the most accessible of classical koan (special stories used to remove barriers to spiritual perception) studies, this translation is distinguished in that it comes directly from the Chinese and not derivative Japanese paraphrases.This text provides a translation of Wumenguan, a classic collection of 48 Chinese Zen Koans, with commentaries by the 13th-century Zen Master Wumen Huikai, whose name is derived from the first Koan in the book, on the concept of no.