Tibetan Zen: Discovering a Lost Tradition

by Sam Van Schaik

A groundbreaking study of the lost tradition of Tibetan Zen containing the first translations of key texts from one thousand years ago. Banned in Tibet, forgotten in China, the Tibetan tradition of Zen was almost completely lost to us. According to Tibetan histories, Zen teachers were invited to Tibet from China in the 8th century, at the height of the Tibetan Empire. When doctrinal disagreements developed between Indian and Chinese Buddhists at the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1559394463
• ISBN13: 9781559394468
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Snow Lion Publications
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"