Zen's Chinese Heritage: The Masters and Their Teachings

About this book

Zens Chinese Heritage surveys twenty-five generations of enlightened Buddhist teachers through brief biographies and starkly beautiful prose and poetry from Chinese Zen sources. Andrew Ferguson moves chronologically through successive generations of Zen masters supplementing their core teachings with history biography and poetry. The result is an organic understanding of the traditions evolution as a religious literary and historical force. Capturing the austere beauty of the Zen masters manner of teaching their earthy style humor and humanity Zens Chinese Heritage is an intimate and profound human portrait of the enlightened Zen ancients and an unprecedented look into the depths of this rich cultural heritage. The book includes a deluxe fold-out lineage chart of the Zen ancestors.