Heine, Steven & Wright, Dale S. - Zen Classics: Formative Texts in the History of Zen Buddhism

Zen Classics is a sequel to The Zen Canon, published by 0xford University Press, in which we began to explore the variety of influential texts in the history of Zen Buddhism. In Zen Classics we continue that exploration by shifting our primary focus from the Chinese origins of Zen to the other East Asian cultures where the Zen tradition came to fruition in subsequent eras. Here we invite scholars doing original research on Chinese, Korean, and Japanese Zen literature to survey a single work or genre of works that, because of its power and influence, has helped shape the Zen tradition and cause it to be what it is today.