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A comprehensive, accessible guide to the fascinating history of Zen Buddhism--including important figures, schools, foundational texts, practices, and politics. Zen Buddhism has a storied history--Bodhidharma sitting in meditation in a cave for nine years; a would-be disciple cutting off his own arm to get the masters attention; the proliferating schools and intense Dharma combat of the Tang and Song Dynasties; Zen nuns and laypeople holding their own against patriarchal lineages; the appearance of new masters in the Zen schools of Korea, Japan, Vietnam, and later the Western world. In The Circle of the Way, Zen practitioner and popular religion writer Barbara OBrien brings clarity to this huge swath of history by charting a middle way between Zens traditional lore and the findings of modern historical scholarship. In a clear and often funny style, OBrien parses fact from fiction while always attending to the greatest interest of contemporary practitioners--the development of Zen doctrine and practice
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