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The Zen Experience by Thomas Hoover

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The Zen Experience
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Publisher: Project Gutenberg
ISBN/ASIN: B0042X99TY

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Beginning with Indian Buddhism and Chinese Taoism it shows Zen as it was created by the personalities, perceptions, and actions of its masters over the centuries. Gradual and sudden enlightenment, shock enlightenment, the koan, the migration of Zen to Japan. With anecdote and memorable quotation, this long-needed work restores Zen to its living, human form.

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