Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Palgrave Macmillan

Critical Sermons of the Zen Tradition

Hisamatsu’s Talks on Linji

  • Book
  • © 2002

Overview

Editors:
  1. Christopher Ives

    1. Stonehill College, Easton, USA

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  2. Tokiwa Gishin

    1. Hanazono University, Kyoto, Japan

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  • 996 Accesses

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-li
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Zen Talks on the Record of Linji

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
      Download chapter PDF

    2. I Simply Couldn’t Open My Mouth

      • Christopher Ives, Tokiwa Gishin
      Pages 3-6

    3. Who is Pure and Direct in His Behavior?

      • Christopher Ives, Tokiwa Gishin
      Pages 7-14

    4. There’s Nothing Special in the Buddha-Dharma

      • Christopher Ives, Tokiwa Gishin
      Pages 15-19

    5. After Realizing the Great Block of Awakening

      • Christopher Ives, Tokiwa Gishin
      Pages 20-24

    6. Leaving after the Summer Retreat

      • Christopher Ives, Tokiwa Gishin
      Pages 25-28

    7. The One True Person without Rank

      • Christopher Ives, Tokiwa Gishin
      Pages 29-33

    8. Speak, Speak!

      • Christopher Ives, Tokiwa Gishin
      Pages 34-37

    9. The Mind-Dharma is without Form and Pervades the Ten Directions

      • Christopher Ives, Tokiwa Gishin
      Pages 38-44

    10. You, the Follower of the Way Right Now before My Eyes Listening to the Dharma

      • Christopher Ives, Tokiwa Gishin
      Pages 45-52

    11. Independent of All Things

      • Christopher Ives, Tokiwa Gishin
      Pages 53-62

    12. Not at all Thus

      • Christopher Ives, Tokiwa Gishin
      Pages 63-68

    13. I Do Not Pay Homage to the Buddha or the Founding Teacher

      • Christopher Ives, Tokiwa Gishin
      Pages 69-74

    14. True Insight

      • Christopher Ives, Tokiwa Gishin
      Pages 75-81

    15. The Meaning of the Founder’s Coming from the West

      • Christopher Ives, Tokiwa Gishin
      Pages 82-88

    16. The Three Vehicles’ Twelve Divisions of Teachings

      • Christopher Ives, Tokiwa Gishin
      Pages 89-95

    17. The Instant You Open Your Mouth You’re Already Way Off

      • Christopher Ives, Tokiwa Gishin
      Pages 96-103

    18. No Dividing into Categories

      • Christopher Ives, Tokiwa Gishin
      Pages 104-110

    19. The Four Classifications: A General Outline

      • Christopher Ives, Tokiwa Gishin
      Pages 111-118
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

The Record of Linji stands as one of the great classics of the Zen tradition, and modern Zen master and reformer Hisamatsu Shin'ichi offers a lively and penetrating exploration of the religious essence of the text. The Record is a compilation of the sayings of Linji, the Chinese founder of Rinzai Zen. Several decades ago, Hisamatsu gave the twenty-two talks translated here. This book features a preface by renowned Zen philosopher ABE Masao and an introduction by Yanagida Seizan, the foremost scholar of classical Zen texts. The translators have added annotation for technical terms and textual references.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Stonehill College, Easton, USA

    Christopher Ives

  • Hanazono University, Kyoto, Japan

    Tokiwa Gishin

About the editors

ABE MASAO Professor Emeritus, Nara University of Education KITAHARA RYUTARÕ Senior Member of the F.A.S. Society YANAGIDA SEIZAN Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Critical Sermons of the Zen Tradition

  • Book Subtitle: Hisamatsu’s Talks on Linji

  • Editors: Christopher Ives, Tokiwa Gishin

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230554627

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2002

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-96271-8Published: 25 October 2002

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-55462-7Published: 25 October 2002

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: LI, 162

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Philosophy of Religion, Buddhism

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation