Zen classics : formative texts in the history of Zen Buddhism / edited by Steven Heine and Dale S. Wright.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The concept of classic literature in Zen Buddhism / Dale S. Wright -- Guishan jingce (Guishan's admonitions) and the ethical foundations of Chan practice / Mario Poceski -- A Korean contribution to the Zen canon: the Oga hae seorui (Commentaries on five masters on the Diamond suÌtra) / Charles Muller -- Zen Buddhism as the ideology of the Japanese state: Eisai and the KoÌzen gokokuron / Albert Welter -- An analysis of DoÌgen's Eihei goroku: distillation or distortion? / Steven Heine -- "Rules of purity" in Japanese Zen / T. Griffith Foulk -- Zen koÌan capping phrase books: literary study and the insight "not founded on words or letters" / G. Victor SoÌgen Hori -- Imagining Indian Zen: ToÌrei's commentary on the Ta-mo-to-lo ch'an ching and the rediscovery of early meditation techniques during the Tokugawa Era / Michel Mohr -- Meditation for laymen and laywomen: the Buddha samaÌdhi (JijuyuÌ zanmai) of Menzan ZuihoÌ / David E. Riggs.