The Pocket Zen Reader (Shambhala Pocket Classics)

This miniature book presents a thousand years of Zen teaching for the modern reader in a way that preserves the dynamic flavor of these talks sayings and records of heart-to-heart encounters. From the earliest adepts to the last of the great masters The Pocket Zen Reader is a pocket-sized compendium of Zen at its best. This collection is edited by Thomas Cleary the translator of over fifty volumes of Buddhist Taoist Confucian and Islamic texts.