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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Bankei (1622–1693) was a contemporary of Hakuin and for some time roshi at the Myoshinji monastery in Kyoto. Translations of his informal talks on Zen, directed especially to lay people, may be found in D. T. Suzuki’s Living by Zen (Pasadena, Calif.: P. D. and Ione Perkins, 1949), and in Lucien Stryk, ed., World of the Buddha (New York: Doubleday &
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A portion of these relics were eventually brought to China during the seventh century and subsequently lost when the T’ang dynasty collapsed in the tenth century. They were rediscovered several decades ago during the excavation of the ruins of what was once Chingshan Temple northeast of Sian, and I had the good fortune to see them during a visit to
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Danning Chen
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However, hermits who can afford them use fired clay tiles. If there is one element of Chinese culture most Westerners find incomprehensible, if not exasperating, it’s the Chinese glorification of acceptance. But acceptance
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