The five ranks of Zen : Tozan's path of being, nonbeing, and compassion / Gerry Shishin Wick ; foreword by Norman Fischer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wick, Gerry Shishin, author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spiritual life--Zen Buddhism.

Spiritual life.

Truth--Religious aspects--Buddhism.

Truth.

Zen Buddhism--Doctrines.

Zen Buddhism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Boulder : Shambhala Publications, 2024.

Contents:

Foreword / by Norman Fischer

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part I. The Five Ranks of Zen: 1. Aspects of the Five Ranks

2. What Is the Absolute? What Is the Relative?

Part II. The Five Ranks of the Absolute and the Relative: 3. First Hensho Goi: The Relative in the Midst of the Absolute

4. Second Hensho Goi: The Absolute in the Midst of the Relative

5. Third Hensho Goi: Coming in the Midst of the Absolute

6. Fourth Hensho Goi: Reaching in the Midst of the Relative

7. Fifth Hensho Goi: Arriving in the Midst of Absolute/Relative

8. Summary of the Hensho Goi

Part III. The Five Ranks of the Sequence of Merit: 9. First Kokun Goi: Shift

10. Second Kokun Goi: Submission

11. Third Kokun Goi: Achievement or Awakening

12. Fourth Kokun Goi: Collective Achievement or Collective Awakening

13. Fifth Kokun Goi: Absolute Achievement or Absolute Awakening

Appendix A: Comparison of Hensho Goi with the Hexagrams of the I Ching

Appendix B: Comparison of Hensho Goi with the Five Buddha Wisdoms and the Five Buddha Energies

Appendix C: The Song of the Jewel Mirror Samadhi

Appendix D: The Kokun Goi and the Ten Ox Herding Pictures of Zen

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780834845909 (electronic bk.)

0834845903 (electronic bk.)

Publisher Number:

40032568334

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