Timeless Spring

Soto Zen has sometimes been called "the other Zen" because it was Rinzai Zen that first came to the attention of the West. The present anthology, then, is important not only in its own right, but... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0834801485
• ISBN13: 9780834801486
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: Weatherhill
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A superb collection of translations from the essential texts of Soto Zen

Thomas Cleary's, Timeless Spring, is a superb collection of translations from the essential texts of Soto Zen. The Soto Zen teachings offered in these pages combine the eloquence of gifted speech and the force unlearned authority. The records of the Soto masters forego any pretense to watered down guidance and deliver their message of Zen message in profound, unmediated terms from the very cliff edge of the limitations of language. Thomas Cleary's translations here, like all his translations, are exceptional. Without sacrificing either the letter or the spirit, Mr. Cleary makes the records of these seminal Zen masters accessible to English readers with all the clarity and force of the original. Demonstrating his usual high standard of scholarship, Thomas Cleary's provides an in-depth introduction and extensive notes for each section.