The Zen Experience
by Thomas Hoover
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Published on August 19, 2010. .
(New American Library,1980)
“The best history of Zen ever written.”
Library Journal
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, th