Reading Japanese philosophy

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In Praise of Shadows
In Praise of Shadows 4.01 avg rating — 28,549 ratings
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Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook (Nanzan Library of Asian Religion and Culture, 5)
Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook (Nanzan Library of Asian Religion and Culture, 5) 4.42 avg rating — 38 ratings
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An Introduction to Zen Buddhism
An Introduction to Zen Buddhism 3.95 avg rating — 5,247 ratings
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An Inquiry into the Good
An Inquiry into the Good 4.09 avg rating — 217 ratings
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Religion and Nothingness (Nanzan Studies in Religion and Culture) (Volume 1)
Religion and Nothingness (Nanzan Studies in Religion and Culture) (Volume 1) 4.26 avg rating — 270 ratings
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The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism
The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism 4.15 avg rating — 127 ratings
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Sufism and Taoism: A Comparative Study of Key Philosophical Concepts
Sufism and Taoism: A Comparative Study of Key Philosophical Concepts 4.41 avg rating — 155 ratings
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Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings
Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings
by: Paul Reps
4.17 avg rating — 8,466 ratings
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Last Writings: Nothingness and the Religious Worldview
Last Writings: Nothingness and the Religious Worldview really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Zen and Western Thought
Zen and Western Thought
by: Masao Abe
4.22 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Zen & Comparative Studies
Zen & Comparative Studies
by: Masao Abe
4.26 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Hojoki: Visions of a Torn World
Hojoki: Visions of a Torn World 3.99 avg rating — 1,594 ratings
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Essays in Zen Buddhism, First Series
Essays in Zen Buddhism, First Series 4.23 avg rating — 621 ratings
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Essays in Zen Buddhism, Second Series
Essays in Zen Buddhism, Second Series 4.36 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Essays in Zen Buddhism, Third Series
Essays in Zen Buddhism, Third Series 4.19 avg rating — 54 ratings
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The Buddha Eye: An Anthology of the Kyoto School and Its Contemporaries
The Buddha Eye: An Anthology of the Kyoto School and Its Contemporaries 4.25 avg rating — 55 ratings
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The Kyoto School: An Introduction
The Kyoto School: An Introduction 4.12 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Intelligibility and the Philosophy of Nothingness: Three Philosophical Essays
Intelligibility and the Philosophy of Nothingness: Three Philosophical Essays 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Reflections on Japanese Taste: The Structure of Iki
Reflections on Japanese Taste: The Structure of Iki 3.49 avg rating — 217 ratings
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The Body: Toward an Eastern Mind-Body Theory (Buddhist Studies
The Body: Toward an Eastern Mind-Body Theory (Buddhist Studies 4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings
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In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun: The Autobiography of a Japanese Feminist (Weatherhead Books on Asia)
In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun: The Autobiography of a Japanese Feminist (Weatherhead Books on Asia) 3.94 avg rating — 50 ratings
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The Unfettered Mind: Writings from a Zen Master to a Master Swordsman
The Unfettered Mind: Writings from a Zen Master to a Master Swordsman 4.05 avg rating — 3,535 ratings
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Evanescence and Form: An Introduction to Japanese Culture
Evanescence and Form: An Introduction to Japanese Culture 4.12 avg rating — 32 ratings
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The Weaving of Mantra: Kukai and the Construction of Esoteric Buddhist Discourse
The Weaving of Mantra: Kukai and the Construction of Esoteric Buddhist Discourse 4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Art and Morality
Art and Morality really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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God and Man in the Qur'an
God and Man in the Qur'an 3.97 avg rating — 274 ratings
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Intuition and Reflection in Self-Consciousness (Philosophy
Intuition and Reflection in Self-Consciousness (Philosophy 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Structure of Ethical Terms in the Quran
The Structure of Ethical Terms in the Quran 4.03 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16,482 ratings
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Place and Dialectic: Two Essays by Nishida Kitaro
Place and Dialectic: Two Essays by Nishida Kitaro 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Zen Buddhism
Zen Buddhism 3.98 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Ontology of Production: Three Essays
Ontology of Production: Three Essays 3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Creation and the Timeless Order of Things: Essays in Islamic Mystical Philosophy
Creation and the Timeless Order of Things: Essays in Islamic Mystical Philosophy 4.26 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Zen and Japanese Culture
Zen and Japanese Culture 4.08 avg rating — 1,020 ratings
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Ethico-Religious Concepts in the Qur'an
Ethico-Religious Concepts in the Qur'an 4.03 avg rating — 101 ratings
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The Tao of Zen
The Tao of Zen
by: Ray Grigg
3.98 avg rating — 89 ratings
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Philosophy as Metanoetics
Philosophy as Metanoetics 3.84 avg rating — 25 ratings
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A Japanese View of Nature
A Japanese View of Nature 3.68 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Way of Zen
The Way of Zen 4.16 avg rating — 22,862 ratings
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Nishida Kitaro
Nishida Kitaro 3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings
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An Outline of a Theory of Civilization
An Outline of a Theory of Civilization 4.12 avg rating — 177 ratings
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On Buddhism
On Buddhism 3.67 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery
The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery 4.10 avg rating — 1,599 ratings
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Unlocking Tannisho: Shinran's Words on the Pure Land
Unlocking Tannisho: Shinran's Words on the Pure Land 4.46 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Heart Of Buddhism: In Search of the Timeless Spirit of Primitive Buddhism
Heart Of Buddhism: In Search of the Timeless Spirit of Primitive Buddhism 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Method of Zen
The Method of Zen 3.63 avg rating — 251 ratings
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Zen and Japanese Culture
Zen and Japanese Culture 4.08 avg rating — 1,020 ratings
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Study of DĹŤgen: His Philosophy and Religion
Study of DĹŤgen: His Philosophy and Religion
by: Masao Abe
3.73 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Unborn: The Life and Teachings of Zen Master Bankei, 1622-1693
Unborn: The Life and Teachings of Zen Master Bankei, 1622-1693
by: Bankei
4.24 avg rating — 131 ratings
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Kukai: Major Works
Kukai: Major Works
by: Kukai
4.30 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Buddhism and Interfaith Dialogue, Part One of a Two-Volume Sequel to Zen and Western Thought
Buddhism and Interfaith Dialogue, Part One of a Two-Volume Sequel to Zen and Western Thought
by: Masao Abe
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Nishida and Western Philosophy
Nishida and Western Philosophy 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Zen and the Modern World: A Third Sequel to Zen and Western Thought
Zen and the Modern World: A Third Sequel to Zen and Western Thought
by: Masao Abe
4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Japanese Phenomenology: Phenomenology as the Trans-Cultural Philosophical Approach
Japanese Phenomenology: Phenomenology as the Trans-Cultural Philosophical Approach
by: Y. Nitta
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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A Discourse by Three Drunkards on Government
A Discourse by Three Drunkards on Government 3.68 avg rating — 288 ratings
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Gender Equality in Buddhism
Gender Equality in Buddhism liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Classics of Modern Japanese Thought and Culture, Vols 1-9
Classics of Modern Japanese Thought and Culture, Vols 1-9 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Critical Buddhism: Engaging with Modern Japanese Buddhist Thought
Critical Buddhism: Engaging with Modern Japanese Buddhist Thought really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Time and Eternity
Time and Eternity really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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New Mahayana: Buddhism for a Post-Modern World
New Mahayana: Buddhism for a Post-Modern World liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Structure of Detachment: The Aesthetic Vision of Kuki Shuzo: With a Translation of Iki no kozo
The Structure of Detachment: The Aesthetic Vision of Kuki Shuzo: With a Translation of Iki no kozo 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Philosophers of Nothingness: An Essay on the Kyoto School
Philosophers of Nothingness: An Essay on the Kyoto School 3.92 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Kuki Shuzo: A Philosopher's Poetry and Poetics
Kuki Shuzo: A Philosopher's Poetry and Poetics 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Buddha in the Machine: Art, Technology, and the Meeting of East and West
The Buddha in the Machine: Art, Technology, and the Meeting of East and West 3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings
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WatsujiĹŤ Tetsur's Rinrigaku: Ethics in Japan (Modern Japanese Philos
Watsujiō Tetsur's Rinrigaku: Ethics in Japan (Modern Japanese Philos really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Nothingness and Emptiness: A Buddhist Engagement with the Ontology of Jean-Paul Sartre
Nothingness and Emptiness: A Buddhist Engagement with the Ontology of Jean-Paul Sartre really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Purifying Zen: Watsuji TetsurĹŤ's Shamon Dogen
Purifying Zen: Watsuji Tetsurō's Shamon Dogen 3.42 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Book of Tea
The Book of Tea 3.85 avg rating — 16,843 ratings
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Climate and Culture: A Philosophical Study
Climate and Culture: A Philosophical Study 3.52 avg rating — 46 ratings
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The Unfettered Mind: Writings of the Zen Master to the Sword Master (The ^AWay of the Warrior Series)
The Unfettered Mind: Writings of the Zen Master to the Sword Master (The ^AWay of the Warrior Series) 4.05 avg rating — 3,535 ratings
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Toward a Philosophy of Zen Buddhism
Toward a Philosophy of Zen Buddhism 4.28 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Concept and Reality of Existence
Concept and Reality of Existence 4.68 avg rating — 28 ratings
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On Images: Far Eastern Ways of Thinking (Eranos Lectures Series, No 7)
On Images: Far Eastern Ways of Thinking (Eranos Lectures Series, No 7) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Interior and Exterior in Zen Buddhism
The Interior and Exterior in Zen Buddhism 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Body, Self-Cultivation, and Ki-Energy (Body in Culture Hist Rel
The Body, Self-Cultivation, and Ki-Energy (Body in Culture Hist Rel 3.88 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Overcoming Modernity: Synchronicity and Image-Thinking
Overcoming Modernity: Synchronicity and Image-Thinking 3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Attunement Through the Body (Body in Culture Hist Rel
Attunement Through the Body (Body in Culture Hist Rel really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Translation and Subjectivity: On Japan and Cultural Nationalism
Translation and Subjectivity: On Japan and Cultural Nationalism 4.23 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Voices of the Past: The Status of Language in Eighteenth-Century Japanese Discourse
Voices of the Past: The Status of Language in Eighteenth-Century Japanese Discourse it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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History and Repetition (Weatherhead Books on Asia)
History and Repetition (Weatherhead Books on Asia) 4.18 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Transcritique: On Kant and Marx
Transcritique: On Kant and Marx 4.06 avg rating — 102 ratings
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Architecture as Metaphor: Language, Number, Money
Architecture as Metaphor: Language, Number, Money 3.94 avg rating — 79 ratings
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Origins of Modern Japanese Literature
Origins of Modern Japanese Literature 4.29 avg rating — 145 ratings
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What Is Modernity?: Writings of Takeuchi Yoshimi (Weatherhead Books on Asia)
What Is Modernity?: Writings of Takeuchi Yoshimi (Weatherhead Books on Asia) 3.95 avg rating — 20 ratings
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A Bridge to Buddhist-Christian Dialogue
A Bridge to Buddhist-Christian Dialogue 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Kojiki-den
Kojiki-den really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Poetics of Motoori Norinaga: A Hermeneutical Journey
The Poetics of Motoori Norinaga: A Hermeneutical Journey 3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Literature of the Lost Home: Kobayashi Hideo-Literary Criticism, 1924-1939
Literature of the Lost Home: Kobayashi Hideo-Literary Criticism, 1924-1939 4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Conversations with Shotetsu (Shotetsu Monogatari) (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, Number 7)
Conversations with Shotetsu (Shotetsu Monogatari) (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, Number 7)
by: Shotetsu
3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Zen and the Fine Arts
Zen and the Fine Arts 4.33 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Critical Sermons of the Zen Tradition: Hisamatsu's Talks on Linji
Critical Sermons of the Zen Tradition: Hisamatsu's Talks on Linji 3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Master Dogen's Shobogenzo (Book 1)
Master Dogen's Shobogenzo (Book 1) 4.43 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Master Dogen's Shobogenzo (Book 2)
Master Dogen's Shobogenzo (Book 2) 4.58 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Master Dogen's Shobogenzo (Book 3)
Master Dogen's Shobogenzo (Book 3) 4.62 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Master Dogen's Shobogenzo (Book 4)
Master Dogen's Shobogenzo (Book 4) 4.44 avg rating — 245 ratings
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Sun At Midnight: Poems and Letters
Sun At Midnight: Poems and Letters 4.09 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Warrior of Zen: The Diamond-Hard Wisdom Mind of Suzuki Shosan
Warrior of Zen: The Diamond-Hard Wisdom Mind of Suzuki Shosan 4.08 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Bankei Zen: Translations from the Record of Bankei
Bankei Zen: Translations from the Record of Bankei 4.36 avg rating — 119 ratings
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The Essential Teachings of Zen Master Hakuin: A Translation of the Sokko-roku Kaien-fusetsu
The Essential Teachings of Zen Master Hakuin: A Translation of the Sokko-roku Kaien-fusetsu 4.18 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Beating the Cloth Drum: Letters of Zen Master Hakuin
Beating the Cloth Drum: Letters of Zen Master Hakuin 4.48 avg rating — 21 ratings
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