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The Gateless Barrier : The Wu-Men Kuan

by Aitken, Robert

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The Gateless Barrier is generally acknowledged to be the fundamental koan collection in the literature of Zen. Gathered together by Wu-men (Mumon), a thirteenth-century master of the Lin-chi (Rinzai) school, it is composed of forty-eight koans, or cases, each accompanied by a brief comment and poem by Wu-men. Robert Aitken, one of the premier American Zen masters, has translated Wu-men's text, supplementing the original with his own commentary - the first such commentary by a Western master - making the profound truths of Zen Buddhism accessible to serious contemporary students and relevant to current social concerns.
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